School Facilities Part 2 (Gym)

The Ultimate Guide to Korean High School

The Gymnasium

 

The gym in Korean schools is a large and airy space with lots and lots of windows, a polished wooden floor and basketball hoops on the walls. All kinds of lines for all kinds of sports are marked on the floors and there are usually stairs leading upwards to the changing rooms. The gyms are usually HUGE and there are all kinds of gymnastics equipment also.

Basketball is very popular in Korea, and so are other sports so in between studying at the school, in their breaks (or if the school re-opens as a hagwon) then the kids will play basketball or another sport to calm down and relax. Sports are also seen as a productive and meaningful hobby for teenagers, instead of going to noraebang and hanging around the streets, shopping or watching movies.


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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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