The document describes the rigorous daily schedule of a typical South Korean high school student named So-jung Kim. She wakes up at 6 AM, has breakfast with her family, exercises with her father, and attends classes from 8 AM to 3:35 PM, followed by additional tutoring classes that cost 700 euros per month. She helps clean her classroom daily before leaving school. In the evenings, she does homework, helps her father at his clinic, and reviews lessons until 11 PM before going to sleep. Her schedule illustrates the long hours and hard work South Korean students devote to their education.
The document describes the rigorous daily schedule of a typical South Korean high school student named So-jung Kim. She wakes up at 6 AM, has breakfast with her family, exercises with her father, and attends classes from 8 AM to 3:35 PM, followed by additional tutoring classes that cost 700 euros per month. She helps clean her classroom daily before leaving school. In the evenings, she does homework, helps her father at his clinic, and reviews lessons until 11 PM before going to sleep. Her schedule illustrates the long hours and hard work South Korean students devote to their education.
The document describes the rigorous daily schedule of a typical South Korean high school student named So-jung Kim. She wakes up at 6 AM, has breakfast with her family, exercises with her father, and attends classes from 8 AM to 3:35 PM, followed by additional tutoring classes that cost 700 euros per month. She helps clean her classroom daily before leaving school. In the evenings, she does homework, helps her father at his clinic, and reviews lessons until 11 PM before going to sleep. Her schedule illustrates the long hours and hard work South Korean students devote to their education.
The document describes the rigorous daily schedule of a typical South Korean high school student named So-jung Kim. She wakes up at 6 AM, has breakfast with her family, exercises with her father, and attends classes from 8 AM to 3:35 PM, followed by additional tutoring classes that cost 700 euros per month. She helps clean her classroom daily before leaving school. In the evenings, she does homework, helps her father at his clinic, and reviews lessons until 11 PM before going to sleep. Her schedule illustrates the long hours and hard work South Korean students devote to their education.
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Education in South Korea is viewed as being crucial for success and competition is
consequently very heated and fierce.
Mathematics, science, Korean, and social studies are generally considered to be the most important subjects. South Korea was the first country in the world to provide high-speed internet access to every primary, junior, and high school. The Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (often abbreviated into "the Ministry of Education") is responsible for South Korean education La educacin en Corea del Sur es visto como crucial para el xito y la competencia es por lo tanto muy caliente y feroz. Matemticas , ciencia , coreano , y estudios sociales son generalmente considerados como los temas ms importantes. [4] Por lo general la educacin fsica no se considera importante, ya que no se considera que es la educacin y por lo tanto, muchas escuelas carecen de alta calidad gimnasios y deportes varsity. Corea del Sur fue el primer pas del mundo en ofrecer acceso de alta velocidad a Internet a todas las escuelas de primaria, secundaria, y preparatoria. [5]
El Ministerio de Educacin, Ciencia y Tecnologa (abreviado a menudo en "el Ministerio de Educacin") es responsable de la educacin de Corea del Sur. The Korean education system has a preschool is not mandatory, which lasts three years and is aimed at children aged three to five years old. The first level of education, is made up of primary education lasts six years. This level is compulsory and free for citizens of that nation. The second level consists of secondary education, which is divided into two cycles three years each, the first is the Middle School, which is also mandatory. The second corresponds to the College, it provides general studies or specializing in any particular branch, being the case of vocational schools.
Later the student can enter higher education can be of type general university, whose studies have a duration of 4-6 years, giving the Bachelor's degree (BA in Mexico) normalista type, with a 4 years career, lasting 2 to 3 years and polytechnics whose duration varies depending on the desired degree. El sistema educativo coreano cuenta con una etapa preescolar que no es obligatoria, cuya duracin es de 3 aos y esta dirigido a los nios de tres a cinco aos de edad.
El primer nivel de educacin, se conforma por la educacin primaria que dura seis aos. Este nivel es obligatorio y gratuito para los ciudadanos de esa nacin.
El segundo nivel lo constituye la educacin secundaria, que se divide en dos ciclos de tres aos cada uno, el primero es la Escuela Secundaria Media, la cual tambin es obligatoria. El segundo, corresponde a la Escuela Superior, misma que proporciona estudios de tipo general o especializados en alguna rama en particular, siendo el caso de las escuelas vocacionales.
Posteriormente el alumno puede ingresar a la Enseanza Superior que puede ser de tipo universitario general, cuyos estudios tienen una duracin de 4 a 6 aos, otorgando el grado de Bachiller (licenciatura en Mxico); de tipo normalista, con un programa de 4 aos; vocacional, con una duracin de 2 a 3 aos y las escuelas politcnicas cuya duracin vara dependiendo del tipo de grado acadmico que se desee. Today, in the magazine Weekly XL (one of my favorite magazines) devoted an entire article to the Korean education.
As you know, Koreans are first class, according to the latest PISA. Have displaced even Finland. Everyone is asking what is the secret, and in that story is revealed. But would you be willing to do the same?. The report shows the daily life of So- jung Kim, a Korean girl of fifteen and class rather high average.
Kim So-jung in class.
I leave here your schedule and then a part of resportaje Would you be able to keep up daily:
6:00 h. The alarm clock.
6.20 h. Breakfast in family.The breakfast and dinner are the best times for families to enjoy. Despite the early start, so.Jung Kim reads at least one newspaper and talk to their parents. An only child, her mother says proudly that it is "enthusiastic, educated and pure." Never has lit a cigarette does not know what a bottle.
7.10 h. Before class: morning exercise with Dad. Before class, So-jung Kim goes with his father to a gym. While exercising, listening to reggae music through headphones to wake up at all. A shower and her mother about to drive middle school located in the neighborhood where he lives. It is a public and free.
8.00 h. In class: total respect for the teacher. The office of teacher is prestigious and well remunierado. They are given six to seven classes per day of 45 minutes, with breaks of ten. Kim So-jung uses recess to go to the school library. Read novels and biographies. Four month.
12:45 h. Lunchtime: refreshments and more lessons. So-jung has 45 minutes for lunch in the school cafeteria. "The food is rich and varied," he says. It costs 35 euros per month. Schools reopen after. There you have two hours per evening (three on Tuesdays). The school must approve ten to twelve courses per semester.
15.35 h. Before leaving the class: Tap clean the classroom. Students help clean the classroom before leaving. "We organized in two shifts. At every turn he plays a week." Discipline is strict. Both the school uniform and gym attire must be pristine.
17.00 h. Remedial classes: the endless day. Get extra classes in math, English (their English allows the interview in that language) and Korean language. They cost 700 euros per month. Exhausted, some fellow struggling not to fall asleep.
19.30 h. A gift: Guitar lessons. The guitar lessons are a prize, but in practice involve extra effort. Her parents encourage with gifts. "Last semester: a puppy, a trip and a camera. And always are encouraging me."
20.10 h. At home: help Dad. Kim So-jung comes home after eight in the evening. Thursdays assistance in her father's office, which provides free care to elderly patients. After dinner and her mother takes checks as homework.
23.00 h. Review night, and so every day. Upload some pictures to facbook, gives one last look at the lessons and gets into bed "I'm so tired that I have trouble falling asleep.'s Not easy to hold one day after another, especially with exams"
Your day is super-duper: six to seven hours of class in a public school, in addition to three private academies reinforcement and a guitar, not counting the gym, homework and volunteer work as assistant to his father , doctor of Oriental medicine. When you get into bed at eleven o'clock at night, still give a final review of the lessons the next day and read a few pages of a biography before you close your ojos.Su day is more typical. "It's hard being a teenager in South Korea. But I guess it's just as hard to be a teenager anywhere in the world. At this age we are risking our future 'statement. Hoy, en la revista de XL Semanal (una de mis revistas favoritas) dedican todo un reportaje a la educacin coreana.
Como ya se sabe, los coreanos son los primeros de la clase, segn el ltimo informe PISA. Han desbancado, incluso, a Finlandia. Todos se preguntan cual es el secreto, y en dicho reportaje se pone de manifiesto. Sin embargo Estarimos dispuestos a hacer lo mismo?. En el reportaje se muestra el da a da de So-jung Kim, una chica coreana de quince aos y de clase, ms bien, media alta.
So-jung Kim en clase.
Dejo aqu su horario y a continuacin una parte del resportaje Seras capaz de seguir su ritmo diario?:
6:00 h. Suena el despertador.
6.20 h. Desayuno en familia.El desayuno y la cena son los mejores momentos para disfrutar en familia. A pesar del madrugn, so.Jung Kim lee, al menos, un peridico y conversa con sus padres. Hija nica, su madre dice con orgullo que es "entusiasta, educada y pura". Nunca ha encendido un cigarrillo ni sabe lo que es un botelln.
7.10 h. Antes de clase: ejercicio matinal con pap. Antes de clase, So-jung Kim va con su padre a un gimnasio. Mientras se ejercita, escucha msica reggae por los auriculares para despertarse del todo. Una ducha y su madre la acerca en coche a la escuela de enseanza media ubicada en el barrio donde vive. Es un centro pblico y gratuito.
8.00 h. En clase: total respeto al profesor. El oficio de maestro es prestigioso y est bien remunierado. Se imparten de seis a siete clases diarios de 45 minutos, con descansos de diez. So-jung Kim aprovecha el recreo para ir a la biblioteca escolar. Lee novelas y biografas. Cuatro al mes.
12:45 h. Hora de comer: un refrigerio y ms lecciones. So-jung tiene 45 minutos para almorzar en el comedor escolar. "La comida est rica y es variada", dice. Cuesta 35 euros al mes. Despus se reanudan las clases. Todava le quedan dos horas lectivas por la tarde (tres los martes). Los escolares tienen que aprovar de diez a doce asignaturas por semestre.
15.35 h. Antes de dejar la clase: toca limpiar el aula. Los alumnos ayudan a limpiar el aula antes de marcharse. "Nos organizamos en dos turnos. A cada turno le toca una semana". La disciplina es rigurosa. Tanto el uniforme escolar como el traje de gimnasia deben estar impolutos.
17.00 h. Clases de refuerzo: la jornada interminable. Recibe clases extras de matemticas, ingls (su nivel de ingls permite que se la entreviste en ese idioma) y lengua coreana. Cuestan 700 euros al mes. Exhaustos, algunos compaeros luchan por no quedarse dormidos.
19.30 h. Un regalo: Clases de guitarra. Las clases de guitarra son un premio, pero en la prctica suponen un esfuerzo suplementario. Sus padres la incentivan con regalos. "El semestre pasado: un perrito, un viaje y una cmara. Y siempre me estn animando."
20.10 h. Al llegar a casa: ayudar a pap. So-jung Kim llega a casa pasadas las ocho de la noche. Los jueves ayuda en la consulta de su padre, que atiende gratuitamente a pacientes ancianos. Luego cenan y su madre comprueba como lleva sus tareas.
23.00 h. Repaso nocturno, y as todos los das. Sube algunas fotos a facbook, da un ltimo repaso a las lecciones y se mete en la cama "estoy tan cansada que me cuesta quedarme dormida. No es fcil aguantar un da tras otros, sobre todo con exmenes"
Su jornada es de apa: de seis a siete horas de clase en una escuela pblica, a las que se suman tres de refuerzo en academias privadas y una de guitarra, sin contar el gimnasio, los deberes y el trabajo voluntario como asistente de su padre, doctor en medicina oriental. Cuando se meta en la cama, a las once de la noche, todava dar un ltimo repaso a las lecciones del da siguiente y leer unas pginas de una biografa antes de que se le cierren los ojos.Su da es de lo ms tpico. Es duro ser adolescente en Corea del Sur. Pero supongo que es igual de duro ser adolescente en cualquier parte del mundo. A esta edad nos estamos jugando nuestro futuro, sentencia.