The studying is featured a lot in K-dramas, but never the test day. It's kind of sweet how the whole country pulls together for the students. But I like our system in the US better.
That's not even a comparison. Despite its flaws, the American college admission system is far better than the Korean one. The growing problem with everything else as well in Korea is that the country is too Seoul-centric. Can you imagine what it would be like --not a fair comparison, I know -- if 45 of the top 50 universities were all in Boston?
The thing I remember about MIT back in 2000 when I took my daughter to see the school is that their buildings instead of having names were numbered. I then knew in what language MIT students thought.
The studying is featured a lot in K-dramas, but never the test day. It's kind of sweet how the whole country pulls together for the students. But I like our system in the US better.
That's not even a comparison. Despite its flaws, the American college admission system is far better than the Korean one. The growing problem with everything else as well in Korea is that the country is too Seoul-centric. Can you imagine what it would be like --not a fair comparison, I know -- if 45 of the top 50 universities were all in Boston?
Korea isn't the only country with this system. I have a friend from India who still has PTSD from that country's college entrance exams.
I've briefly read about it somewhere -- about a STEM university (forgot the name) that makes getting into MIT a piece of cake.
The thing I remember about MIT back in 2000 when I took my daughter to see the school is that their buildings instead of having names were numbered. I then knew in what language MIT students thought.
Oh yeah, and even their majors were numbers!