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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.

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