Life Of Korean Students

Today, I will describe to you about the life of Korean students. There are many important
differences between Korean and Canadian student lifestyles.

In ancient Korea, only rich children could go to school and learn. In these schools, these lucky children would study to write special tests. If they scored well, they could be invited to live and work inside the royal castles. They could be asked to help the king of Korea to rule the country. Sometimes, they would be sent to different countries to work for the king. The poor children could not go to school so they just worked in small fields to help their families.Poor families had to work harder to make crops and good harvest to give to the king. They also had to pay taxes, but rich families did not.

TODAY

In the morning, students wake up at 7 A.M, and they go to school at 8:30. Most elementary schools start at 9:10. In my elementary school, we had a total of 5 recesses. We learned Science, Language Art, English, Math, Social Studies, PE, Music, Chinese Characters, and Elective. You can choose from five different electives: Cross Stitch, Traditional Games, Movie, Reading, Origami. We had our lunch at 12:30 P.M. In Korea, elementary school only goes to sixth grade.
For Middle School, school starts at 7:00, so middle school students have to wake up at 6.
Middle School has separate grades from elementary school. You start at middle school grade 1 and go to middle school grade 3. This is the same for high school and university.


In the afternoon, elementary school ends at 1:00 P.M. They go home after lunch.
Most students go to study more at another academy or they go to learn extra-curriculars. Korean students keep very busy. After school, they go from one academy to another.Middle school and high schools usually end later than elementary schools. Some people say that few middle school and high schools end at night time so they eat lunch and dinner at school.


At night , Korean students are very boring and just come home to do homework. Elementary studnets come home to eat dinner with their family. I'm not in high school so I don't know what they do at night... so.. that's all...

Interesting Facts
- In Korea, at recess, you don't have to go out side if you don't want to.
- There is a total of five recesses in one day.
- There is a rule in Korean schools that parents are not allowed to drive their kids to school.
- Students always walk, bike, bus, subway to school.
- There are differences between Canadian ( Actually, our school <> ) and Korean schools in how they eat lunch
* You don't have to pack lunch (There is a cafeteria in the school)
* Cafeteria ladies make lunch and we line up with plate and cutlery then, cafeteria ladies serve the food.