Korean Highschool Documentry - Page 11

On August 27 2011 22:54 insaneMicro wrote:


You can't be serious. Young people ending their lives because they can't live up to the expectations of their environment is one of the msot horrible things I've ever heard of. I'm all for competition, hard work + Show Spoiler +, but there is a line somewhere.

What kind of youth is spent drudging along dimly lit floors and rote learning for 16 hours/day? I'm really sad for Korean highschoolers. T_T

On August 28 2011 01:32 jax1492 wrote:
I think all the topics she brings up are valid, but I think she really is just is missing the point .... Korea is not America. just because double eyelids seem so desired and seems odd to her we have the our standards of beauty in the usa also that may seem weird in Korea. this sounds harsh but it seems like she wants to be Korean and is now just trying to pick everything she sees wrong ... i dont think i will watch this .... i call this another case of Korea is awesome all i know is kpop and then she was surprised it wasn't like a kpop video.

p.s. i like kpop

On August 28 2011 02:31 Xenocide_Knight wrote:


Yea, like the OP said, she seems to be pushing Western ideals into a completely different culture. I and many of my friends who went to highschool in Korea don't really see the studying as an issue. The atmosphere of pressure motivates you to work harder than you thought you could and it also clearly separates the ones who REALLY want to work hard for a good university and the ones who might have the ability but slack off.

It's the national work ethic that brought Korea to where it is now after the depression/war/etc. At least that's the way we see it. Sure we complain, but really, who doesn't complain about highschool in any nation.

On August 28 2011 02:37 Cyberspace1 wrote:


I don't think I've ever heard anybody complain about the pressure of high school at my old school.

Sure there were people who complained about stupid shit but never about anything quite as serious like this.

Regardless, I think the Korean work ethic is amazing and a lot of countries would benefit amazingly if they stressed school as much as Koreans do.

On August 28 2011 02:55 Xenocide_Knight wrote:


I meant it in like a "people always find things to complain about, even when they don't really have an issue with it" kind of way. Sorry, should have clarified that.

I mean, obviously Korea is a bit extreme but honestly, I prefer it over the "everyone did a great job! Test scores are private information! Class ranking isn't important at all! It's the personality/creativity/effort that counts, not the result!" kind of attitude my highschool in America had. What a joke. I don't think a single person in that school ever tried 100%

On August 28 2011 03:18 biteMe wrote:
if korean students study 16h per day how do they get so awesome at sc2?

On August 28 2011 01:08 Elroi wrote:
This is horrible, but I am sure it must be at least a bit exagerated. I don't think a lot of people study 16 hours a day, that is almost impossible. If you study that much you would have finished high school in like a semester. And koreans aren't that much better than students from other countries.

On August 28 2011 03:18 biteMe wrote:
if korean students study 16h per day how do they get so awesome at sc2?

On August 28 2011 03:46 farnham wrote:

obviously not everyone does that

many people just give up and seek for other ways

there are exceptions of course like optimus prime who played wc3 as a progamer in highschool went to the best university in korea and then went back to progaming to win gsl super tournmanet