A Tokyo-based Japanese youth research center, surveyed a total of 6,173 high school students in Korea, Japan, China and the United States between June and November, last year. The results were very interesting. The survey found that 32.3 percent of Korean high schoolers nap during classes. Japan posted the highest ratio of 45.1 percent ― the figure was 20.8 percent in the U.S. and 4.7 percent for China. The main reason is that
"Many Korean students study late at private tutoring institutes and tend to doze off at school."
This is probably the same case with Japan.
An official said that Korean students need to undertake huge workloads to advance to prestigious universities. Even after school, they have to stay up at late.
Another cause is addiction to computergames.
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One Third of Korean Students Sleep in Class
by Kang Shin-who
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2010/04/117_63892.html
kung sa bagay nakakaantok talaga minsan pagkatapos ng isang major exam^^;; -tiny
ReplyDeletegrabe naman kasi mag aral mga high school di ba? magdamagan kaya sila sa hagwon. most of them pa ay iniisip na walang silbi ang classes sa school..kasi iniisip lang nman nilang makapasa sa magandang univ...
ReplyDeleteIn Korea, their highschool starts at 8am until 10pm sometimes 2am because some students still have to go to academy. In Korea, I heard that some people say this, if you will sleep more than 5 hours you will never succeed. I'm not sure if it's five hours. ahaha
ReplyDeletehaha that's right
ReplyDeleteYes..sleep for 4 hours, you will pass. Sleep for 5, you will fail.
ReplyDeleteLiving proof of how Koreans go gaga over studying.Only if they knew how to study by heart.
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