Opportunities for Korean Young People
Have to devote at least one post to this situation. When Korean young people go to college and pick a major or choose a career, they almost always choose something practical, something they can get. Young men and women make completely different choices.
I'll start off with this:
Girl Majors: Nursing, Early Childhood Education, Dental Hygiene, English/English education, languages, graphic design, piano, music
Boy Majors: computer science, business, engineering
Majors for Both: special education, English, Japanese, Chinese
Koreans have told me they don't respect men who are teachers and one male friend told me his family wouldn't allow him to become at teacher.
Almost all the women I met in Korea had jobs such as teachers, nurses, part-time teachers, private tutors, secretaries, government workers.
Language is a more common major for girls overall in Korea.
People from richer countries can't appreciate the smaller number of jobs and otpttptorunities in Korea. After a long time here I realized this affects all aspects tof life. This is the reaston tor hagwons, academies, winter and summer academic camps, focus on test scores and high school students sleeping four hours per night and studying the rest of the time. And for the $$$ which parents are willing to pay for kids' education.
I read in a newspaper about two years ago that there are 1 million unemployed young people. The jobs with benefits, decent salaries and pensions almost all go to young people with the highest test scores. For everyone else there's low level jobs, working for the family business, starting a business, going back to school, being unemployed or leaving the country. As I wrote in another post I believe that most Koreans going to grad school these days are going because they don't have a job.
I'll start off with this:
Girl Majors: Nursing, Early Childhood Education, Dental Hygiene, English/English education, languages, graphic design, piano, music
Boy Majors: computer science, business, engineering
Majors for Both: special education, English, Japanese, Chinese
Koreans have told me they don't respect men who are teachers and one male friend told me his family wouldn't allow him to become at teacher.
Almost all the women I met in Korea had jobs such as teachers, nurses, part-time teachers, private tutors, secretaries, government workers.
Language is a more common major for girls overall in Korea.
People from richer countries can't appreciate the smaller number of jobs and otpttptorunities in Korea. After a long time here I realized this affects all aspects tof life. This is the reaston tor hagwons, academies, winter and summer academic camps, focus on test scores and high school students sleeping four hours per night and studying the rest of the time. And for the $$$ which parents are willing to pay for kids' education.
I read in a newspaper about two years ago that there are 1 million unemployed young people. The jobs with benefits, decent salaries and pensions almost all go to young people with the highest test scores. For everyone else there's low level jobs, working for the family business, starting a business, going back to school, being unemployed or leaving the country. As I wrote in another post I believe that most Koreans going to grad school these days are going because they don't have a job.
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