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[mindmetoo]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080407/ts_nm/sleep_children_dc_3

[laogaiguk]

3 years of hell in high school, 2 years of jack shit in university, 2 years of horribly time wasting crap in the army, then 2 more years of trying to cram all the necessary stuff for graduation. Then add in corporate life here, and being fat is the least of their problems

[PeteJB]

Korea has been the same for a long time with studying, work, school hours etc... Infact it's probably a little more lax now. So...

Do you see many chubby kids around?

... And if so, do you see many chubby teenagers and young adults?

[Atavistic]

PeteJB, I see a lot of fat Korean kids. Lotteria culture is on the way in. And ajummas and ajosshis aren't that thin either. Lots of them have potbellies.

[marlow]

Not to mention that all the time they spend studying is wasted if they don't sleep enough. Sleep is the key to long term retention of things in memory.

[cdninkorea]

[brento1138]

Not many Koreans I've asked remember their childhood before even 7 years old. That kind of surprised me. I was put to bed early as a child, and can still remember things that could only possibly happened when my younger sister was just born, so I would have been just a little over 3 years old. I even remember the day she was born... Maybe certain things trigger in us to remember? Sleep is very important, as it organises the thoughts in your mind... "defrags" your brain, per se.

What's your oldest memory? I think mine is chewing ice in the hospital waiting room, and seeing a new baby when I was only 2 years/eleven months old. That baby turned out to be my sister. I also remember dangling jingle bells in front of my baby sister during Christmas, so I would have been like 3 years and two months old then...

[Smee]

Yes, I remember visiting my newborn brother and my mother in the hospital. I remember seeing my brother in his glass box of a crib in the room with my mother. And I remember the day my father brought my mother and my brother home. That would have been a little more than two weeks before my third birthday.

The lack of sleep seems to undermine a great bit of the cramming Koreans do.

[Miles Rationis]

I suffer from Chronic Insomnia in Korea; I know all about how too little sleep affects you...

I am hoping it will improve upon leaving this country...

[PeteJB]

Come on, Fat here is barely the equivalent to "chubby" in many Western countries. Korea has a LONG way to go.

[DrunkenMaster]

[crazy_arcade]

Yeah...I've noticed the lack of childhood memory here.

I have a grade 7 student who lived in England for two years during Elementary School. She can't remember very much about it. She can't even remember what city she lived in.

Not enough sleep leads to all sorts of problems and doctors really need to jump on this one here. Lack of retention is the biggest one as someone already mentioned. Students and workers are inefficient due to lack of sleep (and lets face it...Korean work culture is inefficient).

Now, with the fact that it could lead to problems later on--this needs to be changed.

[Zolt]

[mindmetoo]

[ryouga013]

sleep is not the only thing that is dooming the children, but I'd rather not get too far into it....

(they are being raised by ajosshi etc....)