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agoodmouse
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 Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 5:02 am Post subject: Korean Children Least Happy in OECD |
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Korean Children Least Happy in OECD
Korean children and teenagers appear to be the least happy among the nations of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. This comes from a survey of 5,000 Korean students carried out by a research institute at Yonsei University that was then compared with a study conducted by UNICEF in 2006.
The subjective happiness rate of Korean children and teenagers was 72 points, more than 40 points below Greece, the highest ranking country among the 20 OECD members.
http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2009/05/11/2009051100960.html |
I feel bad for my high school students. I know why they're unhappy sometimes. They stay at school until 10:00pm every week-night. |
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postfundie
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| Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 9:21 am Post subject: |
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| Korea is definitely over the top but hey if you want to be a rich country in the future then you have to make sacrafices.. |
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Kuros
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| Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 11:23 am Post subject: |
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But we already knew this, it just helps lend legitimacy to the rest of the findings;
and no, making people miserable about learning doesn't help anyone. |
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canuckistan
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| Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 5:31 am Post subject: |
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No time to go outside and skin their knees.
I've never understood what Korean parents think they are accomplishing by imposing such grueling schedules on their kids--besides exhaustion and depression. Young bodies need way more sleep than the average Korean kid gets.
In 4 yrs I only met one set of parents who explicitly said they didn't want impose the usual hagwon hell on their children. They had a healthy attitude towards what childhood should be. |
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ManintheMiddle
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Not surprised in the least and tragic, really. One can only absorb so much learning in a day. Almost as bad in Hong Kong.
This parental behavior, while socially mandated, borders on the pathological. |
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mises
Joined: 05 Nov 2007
Location: retired
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| Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 10:41 am Post subject: |
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Korean children and teenagers appear to be the least happy among the nations of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. This comes from a survey of 5,000 Korean students carried out by a research institute at Yonsei University that was then compared with a study conducted by UNICEF in 2006.
The subjective happiness rate of Korean children and teenagers was 72 points, more than 40 points below Greece, the highest ranking country among the 20 OECD members. |
No mention of methodology or such. I want to know more.. |
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confucian
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| Posted: Sun Jun 20, 2010 1:40 am Post subject: |
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No time to go outside and skin their knees.
I've never understood what Korean parents think they are accomplishing by imposing such grueling schedules on their kids--besides exhaustion and depression. Young bodies need way more sleep than the average Korean kid gets.
In 4 yrs I only met one set of parents who explicitly said they didn't want impose the usual hagwon hell on their children. They had a healthy attitude towards what childhood should be. |
ROI.
They get babysitters when their children are supposedly becoming better students. |
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moosehead
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I actually know of some of the more elite hakwons that are open on national holidays!!!!
the kids only get sundays off 
one of my students had to postpone his birthday party (age 12) until Tuesday because Monday nites he went to hakwon. I dug in my bag and pulled out all the cash on hand - almost 20,000 won - and sent 2 girls to the local bakery and we bought a cake and had a party for him right then and there!!!
what kind of parent makes a kid wait for his birthday!!!!!!!!!!! |
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