classes to become musical virtuosos or to gain an edge over their peers in mathematics or English. In North Korea, by contrast, school is typically followed by compulsory labour in the fields.
In recent years, however, school days in the North have come to resemble those in the South—at least for a select few. Of 116 recent North Korean defectors interviewed by researchers at Seoul National University this year, a third said they had received some form of private education while in the North. Some had worked as private tutors themselves.
Accounts abound of pupils compelled to pay teachers to show up to work. If they could not pay, they were forced to help the teachers harvest crops or, in winter, bring firewood to class. The first private tutors were state-school teachers trying to make ends meet. Since then, tutoring seems to have evolved into a profession in the state’s grey economy, with an average monthly cost per subject of around 200 Chinese yuan .
The accounts of defectors are probably not representative. They are, after all, an unusual group and private tutoring may be much rarer than they suggest. Still, among some parents, educational competition may be nearly as all-consuming as it is in the capitalist South. One North Korean recently told a South Korean talk-show host that she had made her daughter study with a headlamp during power outages. Another said that she used to wake up her nephew at 4.
alllibertynews The moment you say : it’s illegal , you already know it’s going to be a thriving businesses.
It's so funny kids are being brainwashed oh well who cares?
Debate remains very respectful regarding the best way to achieve the Juche ideal
Two tier education system, just like everywhere else.
North Koreea will Rise ONLY with Education ! dictator Real_kimjonguno is inept but Dangerous
Is this about Virgil
Tbh, wish my kids would do that more.
So some physical exercise..
I wonder how many more generations it will take before North Korea becomes a normal country.
the immature, growing up in the borris yeltsin era, version of me wants to say something akin to 'in soviet union, fields plow you' the more mature, broken version of me says METIintl , forget everything i said before. we are too stupid and violent to be left unsupervised.
Cuban education system forced student to forced labour in the fields for a month every year, from grade 7 until grade 12.
Sad very sad ?