Suneung: The Judgment Day
The results for this year's Suneung are coming out today. Nowhere is the pressure of the college entrance exam more visible than in the praying families.
The results for this year's Suneung are coming out today. Nowhere is the pressure of the college entrance exam more visible than in the praying families.
In S. Korea, those who don't go to college are labelled as "failures." Here are the voices of those who chose not to go, despite the prevailing norm.
Moon Jae-in plans to do away with a part of South Korea's notorious education system: elite schools. But his move has flaws.
The increasingly fierce competition for a place in South Korea's civil service sometimes results in tragic consequences.
Competition in South Korea extends to getting a spot in the military. South Korean men study English, donate blood to fulfill their national defense duty.
Nearly two decades have passed since the first challenges to South Korea’s predominantly state-driven education sprang up. Can alternative schools change the country’s oppressive education climate?
Physical appearance rules supreme in South Korea. But beneath this fixation on beauty is an uncomfortable truth that we are not what we appear to be.
The popularity of a power ballad - "She's Gone" - speaks to South Korea obsessed with effort and traumatised by a neoliberal capitalist order.
The world looks to Korea as a model for education but the system has a dark side. Korean education produces students who are overachieving but unhappy and ill.