>High schools in South Korea teach students for three years, from first grade (age 15–17) to third grade (age 17–19), and students commonly graduate at age 18 or 19. High school students are commonly expected to study increasingly long hours each year moving toward graduation, to become competitive and be able to enter attractive universities in Korea that almost all parents and teachers want students to enter. Many high school students wake and leave home in the morning at 5 am. When the school is over at 4 pm, they go to a studying room in the school or to a library to study instead of going home. This is called 'Yaja', which literally means 'evening self-study'. They don't need to go home to eat dinner since most schools provide paid dinner for students. After finishing yaja (usually ends at 10 pm, but later than 11 pm at some schools), they return home after studying, then return to specialty study schools (which are called Hagwon) often till 2 am, from Monday to Friday. In addition, they often study on weekends.
They're not studying the way we study in Aus. When we study, or when I study, I get stressed and tired. I couldn't study effectively for more than a few hours. I can barely study effectively for 2 hours to be totally honest. All they're doing is spending time at one desk, moving to another desk, etc. and calling it studying.
John Ortiz
I can't remember studying in high school for more than about 2 hours a week and I got into the best uni in the country All I remember about high school is wagging to go for a surf and doing the HSC
>It is a commonly known saying in Korea that 'If you sleep three hours a night, you may get into a top 'SKY university;' If you sleep four hours each night, you may get into another university; if you sleep five or more hours each night, especially in your last year of high school, forget about getting into any university.'. Accordingly, many high school students in their final year do not have any free time for holidays, birthdays or vacations before the NCATs (National College Scholastic Aptitude Test, Korean: 수능), which are university entrance exams held by the Ministry of Education.
wtf
Liam Sanders
Do these people sleep?
Jacob Sanders
Ridiculous culture, would rather spent 6 hours in a library seeming productive than get the same work done in 1-2 hours then go to the pub/kick back with a film/sleep.
Eli Walker
I’ve never understood why Asian countries make their future workers burn the lifetime gas tank before they’re ever even in the work force. You want these kids peaking in productivity and workload as they’re coming out of college not before they ever even enter.
Evan Morgan
ah yes because studying while being sleep deprived and exhausted is totally effective.
east asian culture was a mistake
Jackson Thompson
So I think you guys need to understand that whenever you read about ridiculous hours at work or school or whatever it’s not like you’re actually doing the thing that whole time. I learned this working at a job where 75+ hour even 100 hour work weeks are pretty much the norm. You’re always sitting there being passively attentive to what you’re doing but most of the time you’re more or less just sitting around and passively absorbing things like a sponge because that’s what you’re supposed. Day after day it eventually adds up even though you don’t do much. I bet it’s the same with this.
Camden Roberts
Call me paranoid but I see society as everyone stepping on each other to get to the top and that sleep advice is probably maliciously trying to stop the retards from ever achieving success. I mean you'd have to be really retarded to think 3 hours of sleep is acceptable.
Gavin Sullivan
How is that an excuse? You're just making it sound even more retarded. And yes, I know what you mean, but I'll never work more than 9-5 in my life unless there's a gun held to my head
Xavier Carter
Gf is korean and literally all she does is study
These people are insects
David Clark
these insects sleep for 3h no wonder theyre shorter than a gnome haha
Chase Lewis
Not making an excuse just taking a stab at the reality for the sake of clarity. I never even minded working so much desu. Best job I ever had.
Benjamin Barnes
RARE
Benjamin Hernandez
>Gf is korean and literally all she does is study >These people are insects >t. Incel
Can't they revolt or something? I mean it's probably why their iq tests are a few points higher than europeans, never ending education and ruthless competition can raise your iq. Who even planned this out? China, japan, korea, Singapore etc. All adopted this insectism a few decades ago or were they always like this? Does it even work? For national unity or well being of the citizens isn't it required free time and good amount of sleep? Crazy
Brayden Ward
It's derived from studying for imperial examinations in China that subsequently spread to other countries in the sinosphere
Hudson Lewis
the chinese and their confucian civil examinations were the basis
Ayden Sullivan
You're not supposed to (you) the person when you do that
Eli Hughes
> my girlfriend is an insect Geez.
Jacob Lewis
They're just obsessed with getting a paper. Been to China and did some training for customer. Most exciting thing for them was giving them 'diplomas' I printed out in my hotel room night before, on a special paper though, they were so excited about that. I think it's cultural for chinks to like titles, degrees, diplomas, certificates etc., an external confirmation you know something. It's more western to value knowledge for knowledge itself, to be in some pursuit of abstract knowledge, Asian 'philosophers' were more into social order and shit, this is why they're 3rd world shitholes now, because they didn't do real science and now are trying to catch up by using same techniques they used 500 years ago.
Lucas Moore
niggas be fucking white girls gook kids be solving math problems simple as
David Walker
I would say this is bullshit but once I met a Korean exchange student and told me her schedule was something like that. She did a presentation on one-member families and how that was becoming popular in SK Truly distopic shit. I rather live poor in my shithole.
Ryder Martin
i feel for them
William Robinson
why spent an entire year in a 5 feet tall room, to go to a technical school you most certainlly will not like? the answer: peer pressure trip confirms
