HELLO from KOREA
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16 _ <strong>HELLO</strong> <strong>from</strong> <strong>KOREA</strong><br />
Education<br />
The Korean education system consists of elementary school (six years),<br />
middle school (three years), high school (three years), and college and<br />
university (two to four years) with graduate courses leading to Ph.D.<br />
degrees. From the start of 2002, middle school education was made<br />
mandatory until age 14. The curriculum, revised in 1997, introduces ten<br />
basic common subjects, autonomous activities and special activities that<br />
cover the ten years <strong>from</strong> the first year of elementary school through to the<br />
first year of high school and elective subjects for the final two years of<br />
high school.<br />
The new curricula were put into effect, beginning with kindergartens,<br />
in 2000. The application of curricula in elementary schools started with<br />
the 1 st and 2 nd grades in 2000, followed by the 3 rd and 4 th grades in 2001<br />
and the 5 th and 6 th grades in 2002. In middle schools and high schools, it<br />
applied to first year students and freshmen in 2001 and in 2002 respectively.<br />
In general, high school education tends to be rigorous, as the competition<br />
for college admission is stiff.