South Korea has made every effort to develop its economy. By the 1970s, the economic growth rate had exceeded 10% for seven consecutive years. The rapid economic development has brought about a thirst for talents. As long as you graduate from a famous university, it means a high salary and a good job.
As a result, there has been a grand occasion for the whole people to attach importance to education. Children are overwhelmed by such attention, and parents have therefore paid a high training fee.
As more and more people have to send their children to training institutions, more and more people demand fair education and reduce the burden of education. The Korean government first stipulates that in-service teachers in schools are not allowed to be tutors or take part-time jobs in training institutions. Then creatively invented the high school method based on lottery.
No matter how high school education is reformed, Korean parents still choose to send their children to training institutions, because the enrollment of famous universities is based on scores, and the baton of college entrance examination is still waving. So, it came to the second stage of Korean training institutions.
Under the pressure of public opinion, in 1980, the Korean government promulgated the Measures to Standardize Education and Eliminate Extra-curricular Tutoring, and set up more than 30 special inspection teams to suppress and ban off-campus training institutions. The reason given is that the existence of off-campus training institutions hinders educational equity.
Colleges and universities are banned, but universities still have to be ranked by scores. Many families began to ask for tutors, and ordinary people could only find college students because of the low price; The rich hired a tutor from the original training institution. Although the asking price is high, they are very experienced.
Remember 18 Korean drama "City of the Sky"? The teachers that the rich people there are looking for are all expensive institutional teachers. They are experienced, and the teaching effect is naturally not as good as that of college students.
Results For many years, most of the students admitted to SKY prestigious schools were well-off students. The original intention of the Korean government is to reduce the educational burden and promote educational equity, but it has caused greater unfairness.
Many middle and lower class families are aware of this unfairness and strongly call for opening off-campus training. Under the pressure of public opinion, 1995, the Korean government allowed public schools to make up lessons for students in need, but the effect was not satisfactory.