1 "Clear boundaries" Separation of learning and playing
Maybe you think Korean students are under too much pressure, maybe you think Korean students like to play, but Korean college students treat learning and entertainment with "clear boundaries". When studying, they can "lock" themselves in the study room or library all night without taking part in any entertainment activities; You can also queue up at the cram school hours in advance, just to get a good seat. When it is time to relax, they will have dinner with friends and enjoy drinking and entertainment, but after dinner, they will return to their homework with full enthusiasm.
Make-up is considered a kind of etiquette.
Korean girls have to put on makeup before going out. Not only college students, but also Korean elderly women make up more or less before going out. They regard makeup as a kind of etiquette. Make-up is not only to make yourself look more confident, but also a courtesy and respect for others. Even recently, the age of Korean girls' makeup tends to be younger. Originally, girls usually began to make up when they entered the university, but gradually high school students began to make up, and junior high school students began to learn makeup secretly. Even now some primary school students are beginning to learn some simple makeup.
Dormitories take care of international students from all over the world.
The number of university dormitories in Seoul is limited, and less than 10% of all students can successfully apply for dormitories. In order to give priority to non-Seoul foreign students and international students, Korean universities do not even provide students living in Seoul with the opportunity to apply for dormitories.
For example, Gyeonggi Province near Seoul is also within the scope of not providing dormitory application opportunities. It takes at least two hours to get to the university in downtown Seoul by public transportation from Gyeonggi Province. This has also formed a "business circle" of examination institutes and dormitories around major universities in Seoul, and has become the choice of students who cannot stay in the dormitory on campus.
Accommodation is a way for a private person to rent an extra room in his home to others, which is similar to the way of staying in a private house. The room facilities are excellent, but a high deposit is required. The other is the examination institute, which literally means a special place for people who need to take exams. The price is very cheap, and there is no need to pay a deposit. The facilities are also complete, but the conditions are very simple. The smallest area is only 3-4 square meters, and the largest generally does not exceed 10 square meter. Generally speaking, it's just a place to barely sleep.
The relationship between the former and the latter is very strict.
Different from China, we are used to the AA system when having dinner with our elders, seniors or senior students, so we are more casual and equal in the process of getting along. However, in South Korea and South Korea, the relationship between the younger generation is very strict. When the younger generation meets the elders, they should respectfully nod or bow to say hello, and also use honorifics in their daily communication with the elders.
On the other hand, seniors take care of the younger generation, and they will share learning materials and experiences in their studies. In daily life, seniors usually pay for meals together. This relationship between the younger generation and the younger generation can be traced back to military culture. In order to rectify the soul of the army, there has been a very strict relationship between the younger generation and the younger generation in the army, which has gradually affected the university campus.
Every student has dropped out of school.
The word "drop out of school" has a somewhat different meaning in Korea. In our inherent impression, we usually choose to drop out of school only under objective pressure, and "dropping out of school" will definitely become the key issue in job hunting.
But in Korea, every student has dropped out of school at least once. During the period of suspension, some students will use it to think about their real favorite career and future development, some students will accumulate experience through working or social practice, some students will use it to obtain qualification certificates or prepare to study abroad, and some students will use this time to travel around the world or choose to work and vacation to broaden their horizons. ...
The school uniform is designed by myself.
In China, our classes, departments, societies, student unions and other organizations will uniformly customize special T-shirts or jackets, while in South Korea, this way of customization has been further developed. On the university campus in South Korea, there is a popular purchase method called "* * *", which literally means "* * * with purchase". Some students who are interested in fashion design will have some fresh design inspiration from time to time. After being inspired, these students will communicate directly with the garment factory with their own sketches to find out the minimum order quantity needed to produce their own clothes, and then post their own design drawings on the public forum of the university to recruit students interested in their own clothes. After reaching the minimum order quantity, the garment factory can produce students' own designs. This is also the reason why the name, baseball uniform, jacket or other clothes of every university in Korea have dazzling and countless novel designs, and they are constantly updated.
All clubs have their own activity classrooms.
The exclusive activity classroom is also a major feature of Korean university associations. As long as there is a certain scale of student associations, there will be their own activity classrooms. This classroom is managed independently by the members of the association, and the teachers will not interfere. Students can not only carry out club activities in the exclusive classroom of their own club, but also use it for free self-study and lunch break. This provides a good place for some students who can't be assigned to the dormitory and live far from school to have a lunch break.
Dinner has become a cultural activity in universities.
Dinner is an indispensable cultural factor in Korean universities. When the university starts, all classes will have dinner; When the club is active, members will have dinner together; At the end of the semester, there will be a graduation dinner; There are small-scale dinners between friends every day. Dinner has become a way to make new friends, get familiar with new members, increase tacit understanding and enhance emotional communication, and has also become an entertainment culture for college students after school every day.
The dinner culture also indirectly gave birth to the Korean university wine culture. Many college students believe that drinking can not only release the pressure accumulated due to exams, qualification certificates, employment and other reasons, but also express their dissatisfaction with their predecessors. The popular wine culture among college students has also spawned a new culture called "Daily Bar"-university clubs or other groups rent the whole bar for one day, and use this day to sell their own creative wine and creative food and hold some themed activities. On Halloween or Christmas and other festivals, pubs around colleges and universities will be "occupied" by associations of major colleges and universities.
College students also attend remedial classes.
You may see such an "interesting" scene in your spare time at a Korean university. At the gates of some famous cram schools in the south of the Yangtze River, college students lined up in a long circle just to get a good seat in front of the cram school at night. In addition to examination rooms, dormitories and pubs, most places around Korean universities belong to tutorial schools. There are all kinds of cram schools. Because Korean college students are "difficult to find jobs", they will attend at least one cram school, and the most popular one is toeic. Recently, Chinese cram school has become one of the popular courses in cram school. If you can get the certificate of HSK (Chinese Proficiency Test) in Korea, you can increase the "weight" of your application.