{"id":18447,"date":"2019-07-14T11:49:27","date_gmt":"2019-07-14T11:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/?p=18447"},"modified":"2019-07-14T11:49:27","modified_gmt":"2019-07-14T11:49:27","slug":"special-institutions-education-koreas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/special-institutions-education-koreas\/","title":{"rendered":"Special institutions in South Korea help people who left North Korea and struggle with education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">South Korea has created several <strong>special institutions, which aim to help people who fled North Korea in making up for any gaps in education.<\/strong> While North Korea boasts with a rigid educational system, many people who chose to leave the country and run for the South, find themselves unequipped in terms of knowledge. The problem &#8211; the <strong>North Korean school curriculum is mainly focused on pushing a political agenda, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GJgS2im_40M\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">praising<\/a> the leadership of the country.<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In turn, when people decide to leave the system and flee the country in search of better opportunities, they find themselves uneducated, despite successfully graduating in North Korea.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To provide some help, guidance, and education to people who fled North Korea, and are too old to enter the traditional educational system, <strong>South Korea has opened several specialized schools, where adults can catch up on their education.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">South Korea\u2019s special institutions<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">One of these schools is Wooridul School in Seoul, where defectors from North Korea get the chance to study, even if they are older, and cannot get into a regular school.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to <strong>South Korea government representatives, the educational system of their northern neighbor is mainly aimed at producing:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">unconditional loyalty to the party and the leader as the most important aspect of life.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Because of this extreme focus on leadership and the royal family in North Korea, many essential subjects are left out of curriculums, or tainted with a biased perspective.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To make up for this, schools like Wooridul are providing defectors with the opportunity to correct the knowledge they already have, and make up for any inconsistencies.<strong> Currently, there are seven special-purpose academies around South Korea<\/strong>, which provide free education to older people and students with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/awareness-of-autism-at-schools\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">special<\/a> needs.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to Wooridul\u2019s director, Yun Dong-Ju, <strong>these schools aim to at least provide an accurate representation of culture, language, society, and history<\/strong> as these are essential elements of a wholesome, quality education.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea has created several special institutions, which aim to help people who fled North Korea in making up for any gaps in education. While North Korea boasts with a rigid educational system, many people who chose to leave the country and run for the South, find themselves unequipped in terms of knowledge. 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