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JacktheCat · Joined: 08 May 2004

What do you think will happen to Korea when the hagwon generation grows up?

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eamo · Joined: 08 Mar 2003 Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.

I've been speculating for years that Korea will be a great country when the Park Chung Hee generation dies off. That means anyone currently 45+.

They are the generation that brought corruption to new levels and created this concept of "Korea No.1!!".

The hagwon generation will still inherit a little of the negatives from their grandparents generation but should be a whole lot more aware that it will hurt them rather then help them in the long run. If they want to be truly global that is.

Wrench · Joined: 07 Apr 2005

I think they will be just as corrupt and more spiteful.

deessell · Joined: 08 Jun 2005

They will make their children learn chinese. Its need to memorize thousands of characters will be more suited to their education system and style of learning.

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

The same question is asked several times every year in every teachers' lounge in every school in the US. I can personally attest to that for one school between '74 and '94. The answer was always the same: the country is doomed if these kids are the future.

Funny thing though. You run into the same students on the street ten years later and the surly teenager with zero interest in anything beyond a steady source of beer and sex has morphed into an apparantly decent human being. I'll go out on a limb and make the same prediction for Korean kids.

jlb · Joined: 18 Sep 2003

Their parents will realize what a waste of money all this hagwon crap has been.

inthewild · Joined: 28 Mar 2004 Location: Korea

VanIslander · Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 6:31 pm Post subject: Re: Money

just because · Joined: 01 Aug 2003 Location: Changwon - 4964

BigBlackEquus · Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 9:50 pm Post subject:

A lot of the students in university now used to attend hagwons.

I think that in 5 years, teaching university will be a lot more enjoyable than it is today. Or have a lot more grammar questions! aacck

Freezer Burn · Joined: 11 Apr 2005 Location: Busan

I say to my students that if I had been learning another language for 5-10 years, I would know a hell of a lot more than they do in this language.
I took French at school, and even though I sucked at it, I still to this day know a little more French than they do english.
The parents mother the kids more here, I'm surprised that they can cope when they finally get married and have to leave the nest, my adult students cluck there tingues when I say that I moved out of home at 16.

Zyzyfer · Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 11:43 pm Post subject:

Korea and Bundang will become one and the same.

joe_doufu · Joined: 09 May 2005 Location: Elsewhere

It makes me sad to think that some of my favorite elementary school kids will grow up to be Koreans.