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warmachinenkorea
Joined: 12 Oct 2008
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It's very possible to finish college at 21 but it's not common. I knew 2 people that finished in 3 1/2 years. They always took classes and in the summer and winter breaks. One was pre-law the other a teacher.
Parents are encouraged to start kids in school by the age of 5. However some parents think it is beneficial to keep them out until they turn 6. Most people graduate HS at 17-18. |
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Draz
Joined: 27 Jun 2007
Location: Land of Morning Clam
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| Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2011 4:39 pm Post subject: Re: Koreans living with parents |
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Cable/Internet - 65,000
Electricity/Gas - 200,000
Student Loans - 430,000
Savings - 250,000
left over - 1,155,000KRW
And that doesn't include grocery shopping for food, household products, occasional new pants or shirts when needed. So exactly how am I supposed to save 1 million won a month and live on 155,000?
Yeah. Wrap your head around that frog boy. |
You wouldn't be living on 155,000. You already have 250k marked as "savings", and all your bills are paid. 400k/month to buy food and other misc stuff is not a hardship.
Living with your parents doesn't magically make your student loan disappear.
I used to save 2 mil/month, but this year I kind of don't care any more and have no roommate, work no overtime, and eat whatever I want. I've only averaged 1.3/month in savings since March. Terrible. I'm a lot happier in general though.  |
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Squire
Joined: 26 Sep 2010
Location: Jeollanam-do
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| Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2011 10:43 pm Post subject: |
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| This thread became so boring |
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Skipperoo
Joined: 05 Jul 2010
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| Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2011 10:54 pm Post subject: Re: Koreans living with parents |
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| weso1 wrote: |
| Electricity/Gas - 200,000 |
200k a month on 'leccy and gas? What the hell are you doing in that place? |
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Zyzyfer
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
Location: who, what, where, when, why, how?
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| Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2011 12:19 am Post subject: |
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| warmachinenkorea wrote: |
| It's very possible to finish college at 21 but it's not common. I knew 2 people that finished in 3 1/2 years. They always took classes and in the summer and winter breaks. One was pre-law the other a teacher. |
All you have to do is take some AP courses in high school and do a decent number of credit hours each semester (15-16). |
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Malislamusrex
Joined: 01 Feb 2010
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| Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2011 12:26 am Post subject: |
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your gf has 40k now,
when you get married she will have a new imac, cosmetics, car and clothes.... and 0 won. |
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madoka
Joined: 27 Mar 2008
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| chrisinkorea2011 wrote: |
| Normal age is 18 or 19 however ive seen some 20 year old seniors, and i graduated when i was 17 so thats about right. And college can be finished in 3 years IF you are lucky and go full time (including 2 summer sessions) this is costly and only those who had the money for it could do it. most people take 4 - 5 1/2 years or like me take 6 because they screw up a year partying and being stupid lol |
I think it depends on the school you went to. I went to a top ten U.S. college. I can't think of a single person in my class that took more than four years to graduate. The majority of us were aggressive over-achievers. Heck, I took so many community college courses in my spare time, that I had a two-year associate's degree by the time I graduated high school. Then I triple majored in my four years in college. I could have technically graduated college in two years if I just wanted out.
A few years ago, I taught a student who graduated college when she was 17, with a near 4.0 GPA as an engineering major. She told me that there was a freak of nature at her college who graduated at 11 years old. At nine years old, that little girl had a higher SAT (upper 1500s) than either me or my student.  |
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