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The Korean practice is similar, according to some essay research I did a few years ago: work dangerously hard to get into a good school, then slack off. It har
by jammygit 7y ago
The Korean practice is similar, according to some essay research I did a few years ago: work dangerously hard to get into a good school, then slack off.
It harkens back to the old Chinese system of civil service examinations (copied somewhat in Korea at least), which were extremely intense and basically the gateway to your future prospects
- lasagnaphil 7y agoKorean grad student here. That was actually true for Korean college students when things were prosperous, but since the recessions (one in 1997 and another one in 2008) things have gone worse. There was a time where if you entered the top universities you almost automatically had a decent job, but nowadays students know this isn’t the case anymore. Nowadays even the students in the top universities take pressure with maintaining their GPAs and English exam scores, so I think the situation is a bit different than Japan (although I still think US colleges have more intense workloads, from what I’ve heard...)