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NoExplode
Joined: 15 Oct 2008
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 Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 2:48 am Post subject: Korea EASES Entry into International Schools for Koreans |
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Didn't this whole debate start because some Foreign Diplomats kid couldn't get into an International School because it was full of Korean Koreans?
Anyway, Korea decides to ease Korean Korean entry into "International" schools. It will now go from 30% Koreans in "International" schools to 50%. So, poor Diplomat Jr. will have an even harder time finding schooling in Korea.
Sparkle!
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2900347 |
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the_wicker_man
Joined: 14 Jan 2009
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| Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 3:03 am Post subject: |
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US Schools Here Blind to Adoption Abuse Cases
By Kang Shin-who
Staff Reporter
The United States Forces Korea (USFK) has turned a blind eye to allegations that U.S. base personnel have adopted Korean children who wish to attend American schools in army bases in exchange for money and other irregularities.
Following a Korea Times report on Dec. 8, the USFK had said it would look into the abuse of adoption by Americans working at military bases here.
Asked whether it plans to investigate the allegations, Dave Palmer, chief of the USFK's public affairs office, said, ``We have physically no role in the process over somebody doing an adoption. We don't know if there is anything wrong.
``The adoptions are approved by your nation and our nation. Far above you and me. If the adoptions are approved then they are fit to enter school.''
The U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command (CID) has not yet decided whether it will investigate the accusation, saying it doesn't have enough manpower in Korea.
According to some parents and school staff, there have been complaints related to their inability to get ``legitimate'' children into Department of Defense (DoD) Dependent Schools due to them being overcrowded with Korean students.
Asked about the number of adopted Korean students, the Seoul American High School, one of the DoD schools, said the information was protected by the Privacy Act, which is a U.S. Federal Law that limits the amount of information the U.S. government can release from official records regarding an individual without their permission.
``Adoption is a very sensitive issue and we do not keep demographic data files on students who have been adopted. Students who meet the registration requirements for admission are not treated differently because of their race, religion, ethnic background or birth status,'' said Robert E. Sennett, principal of Seoul American High School.
According to a broker, a female working at the U.S. camp in Yongsan garrison was willing to adopt a Korean child for 200 million won ($146,000). She recently adopted her nephew to ensure his education at a DoD school. The broker did the documentation work as an agent during that adoption.
The adopted children can obtain a Green Card and then U.S. citizenship, normally in three years. It is already widely known that many Korean parents send their children to the United States for adoption because they can then get an American education cheaper and avoid obligatory military duty in the case of males.
Established in 1946, DoD schools are supposed to provide education for the children of American military and DoD employees stationed overseas. There are a total of eight DoD schools in Korea, across Seoul, Daegu, Osan, Pyongtaek and Jinhae.
Command-sponsored dependents of U.S. military and DoD civilians with orders to Korea have priority for enrollment in the schools, which charge some $20,000 per year in tuition. Command-sponsored dependents and DoD civilians and non-command sponsored dependents of U.S. military personnel attend free of charge.
The Korean government sets aside a large amount of taxpayers' money to maintain U.S. troops here, and this year plans to provide about 760 billion won to the USFK.
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NoExplode
Joined: 15 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 3:11 am Post subject: |
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That's not the article to the link I posted, though relevant.
This is:
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International schools in Korea will be allowed to increase their admission quota for Korean students to 50 percent of the entire student body starting this year, the education ministry said yesterday.
At present, the quota of Korean students at 46 foreign schools nationwide is 30 percent. The new quota was approved when the Cabinet ratified a law governing the establishment and management of foreign schools in South Korea.
The quota will take effect next week, said the ministry.
Other changes are also being made.
Under new rules, which will replace the existing government directives, all Korean students who have lived abroad for over three years will be eligible to apply to foreign schools in South Korea. Currently, the minimum overseas residence period for the Korean applicants for local foreign schools is set at five years.
The government will also ease regulations on the establishment of foreign schools here, allowing nonprofit foreign entities and South Korean private school foundations to set up international schools. At present, only foreigners are permitted to establish such schools here.
The new law also obligates the central and provincial governments to lease land and buildings to international schools.
In addition, the government will ease rules on Korean graduates of foreign schools here by allowing them to directly apply to Korean colleges and universities as long as they attend Korean language, history and social studies classes for over 102 hours annually. Currently, Korean graduates of foreign schools here are not eligible to enter domestic universities and colleges.
As of last September, about 10,989 students were enrolled at international schools.
Meanwhile, a Cabinet meeting also approved a bill calling for filling more than 1 percent of lower-ranking government positions with applicants from the lower-income bracket.
A bill that requires high-ranking female government officials to make public their parents� assets, instead of assets of their parents-in-law, was also approved at the Cabinet meeting, according to the public administration ministry. Under the current law, all ranking civil servants in South Korea are obliged to annually disclose their family wealth under the government�s campaign to heighten public sector transparency. Yonhap |
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the_wicker_man
Joined: 14 Jan 2009
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| Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 3:12 am Post subject: |
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Wisconsinite
Joined: 05 Jan 2007
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| Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 8:37 am Post subject: |
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| It's a business thing pure and simple. All it means is that international schools in Korea can expand by 20% and make even more money. It also means more international schools can open up. International schools are the future hagwans of Korea..... |
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