Korean High School in Five Bullet Points

The Ultimate Guide to Korean High School
  • You will be studying hard. Very hard. Up to 16 hours a day, in fact, and that's no lie. Higher education for the win.

  • Even though the government is looking to increase technology and become paperless, at the moment, things are pretty old fashioned. So there are blackboards, and people take lots and lots of notes.

  • Don't expect individuality. Strict uniform code is in place in pretty much every school, you will not be allowed to wear make-up, and your hair will have to kept in check. However, some of these rules are broken.

  • In the UK/America, people look to class clowns as the funny guys and girls who are totally popular and cool. In Korea, no. They are stupid. Don't try it.

  • Getting to school will most likely be done on foot, or by subway (in big cities like Seoul) or public bus. School buses aren't that common. And you will have to do it fast.

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Makoto_tachibana #1
Thank you so much for the useful information XD <3
sungchen98 #2
Chapter 4: woah...it's completely different to Austrian schools....in Austria school starts at 8:00 and we have a 15-minute break between 2nd and 3rd lesson. School ends every day different. On Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday until 13:20 and Monday until 16:50 and Thursday until 17:40...Students in Austria are much lazier and don't have that good marks and teachers mostly don't care if you pass or not. But Austrian school system is just ed up and changes every year because the Ministry for Education has no idea what they actually doing. Everything Austria has too little, Korea has too much....
happyabc #3
Chapter 5: Lol! I love all this great info on the Korean high school system but my favorite part is all about this yummy sounding food. Guess the students might need good cuisine to keep them from committing suicide after years of hrs of studying daily. Haha... Thank you for your clever descriptions with all the extra wit thrown in for good measure. Very interesting!
milohunhun #4
Chapter 4: those subjects are compulsory in high school or?
iwamafuyu #5
Chapter 7: thank you for this! this is extremely helpful for those who need a reference (read: me) ;w;
vickyeowl #6
Chapter 7: omg thank God I found this . I'm currently stressing to find this kind of information but didn't get it anywhere. Thank you for the information. This is really helpful. I 'd be really happy if you can update more about extra-curricular and how is the final test/ the test to get on the next grade. Thanks!
corinneniix #7
Chapter 7: Is every student required to join a extra-curricular activity?? How is the system like hahaha
corinneniix #8
Chapter 5: I realise it's a bit similar to that of Japan, just with different cultural foods yeah HAHAHA
corinneniix #9
Chapter 4: Also, are all of the subjects taken by the students or they are some that they don't take?
And in specialised schools, do they only take the specialised subject and maybe a few more important ones (which ones though?)? Idk I'm not sure so um just- how is it like in specialised schools?
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