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Real Reality · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Location: Seoul

80% of Freshmen Study Less than 2 Hours a Day
According to a poll by Hanyang University's Student Life Consultation Center conducted on 1093 students last year, over 80 percent of freshmen do not study even two hours a day. About the source of student anxiety, 49.9 percent replied their studies are troubling, indicating that freshmen worry the most about their studies while at the same time studying the least.
http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200404/200404050027.html
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just because · Joined: 01 Aug 2003 Location: Changwon - 4964

After what they have to go through in the years of middle and high school here the first year i got out of school i wouldn't study either.

Clutch Cargo · Joined: 28 Feb 2003 Location: Sim City 2005

just because,
your avatar looks like a platypus Laughing

PEIGUY · Joined: 28 Mar 2004 Location: Omokgyo

i never studied in my first year of univ! you would be hardpressed to find any freshman who doesn't study the first year! its a breeze, by 2nd year though you have to buckle down and study Crying or Very sad

but oh well why else would we go to univ for if it wasn't to study? well drinking would be a reason lol!

rudyflyer · Joined: 26 Feb 2003 Location: pacing the cage

how come I'm not suprised at this

wylde · Joined: 14 Apr 2003

the whole 'overworked' korean student is a joke.. its all bs..

some, like any nationality, study all hours. some do nothing.

poor, poor korean high school students.. yea right..

finish @ 9pm.. hahahaha

they do nothing during the day, thats why they need to stay so long at school. they spend 1/2 the day asking their friends answers to the questions. really, when given work to do they treat it as a group activity...

pisses me off to hear all this crap and sympathy for these lame ass excuse for students.

djsmnc · Joined: 20 Jan 2003 Location: Dave's ESL Cafe

I just love this situation:

"What did you do over the weekend?"

"Study?"

"Really? Only studied?"

"Always I study"

weatherman · Joined: 14 Jan 2003 Location: Korea

I know I am going to seem not very teacher like for saying this, but the shear fact that these students don't study, and in fact most uni students don't study that much no matter what year they are, makes university life seem more like a four year play time vacation than really education. Now here is where it is walking a thin line for people who teach at these playhouse-educational grounds. You must present you lessons and subject material as if they student wanted the best education possible, but knowing that they don't care about the matterial and only want to see your sincerity, and some not even that. So the thin line and draining line is that the only one you are really trying to please with any standard of learning is yourself, because your students don't care and the univeristy itself doesn't care.

Arthur Fonzerelli · Joined: 22 Jan 2003 Location: Suwon

Real Reality posts useless information 100% of the time...

Real Reality · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Location: Seoul

Swiss James · Joined: 26 Nov 2003 Location: Shanghai

Real Reality: I always wonder about since almost all your posts are quotes with no comment, do you have a second identity that you use to express opinions and keep the RR one purely for the facts?

kangnamdragon · Joined: 17 Jan 2003 Location: Kangnam, Seoul, Korea

W.T.Carl · Joined: 16 Jan 2003

Okay, here is deal on Korean University. It is hard to get in a Korean Uni. In High School these kids have to bust their butts to study for those killer exams. Once they get into school, they are allowed to date and party, which couldn't do (for the most part) before they passed that test. In the US, it is much easier to get into school, but you stand a much better chance of flunking out than you have at a Korean Uni. I guess it evens out, because US kids don't do much in High school. Then again, they don't really have to.