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The South Korean education system does not allow any leeways for students' rights. The Superintendent of Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education Kwak No Hyun made a remark how "it is very embarrassing to discuss verbosely about the poor development of students' rights within the South Korean society" during his seminar in March 2011. [103]
The 2024 South Korean medical crisis is an ongoing healthcare crisis following the announcement of new government policies that would significantly increase medical student admission quotas. Thousands of residents and interns have since resigned, resulting in medical school professors working to cover.
The 2011 South Korean University Tuition Crisis was a socio-political dispute among the conservative Grand National Party, the liberal Democratic Party, and various citizen groups over reduced university tuition fees for South Korean university students.
Meanwhile, those working in the English education market, an entry point for many expats wishing to establish themselves in South Korea, describe the opposite problem: being seen as “too Korean ...
Article 84 of the Enforcement Decree of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act will normalize middle school education by addressing overheated competition in high schools. Also, the purpose of legislation is justified as it is for equalization of high school education opportunities through reduction of school-to-school gaps and regional gaps.
The level of education is a factor related the gender gap of the LFPR, considering the 88.3% of the men with a graduate school education whereas women rate was 62.9% with the same education degree. [19] In 2024, even though average salaries for South Korean workers reached an all-time high, the gender gap remained, at a rate of 31.2 percent. [21]
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South Korea signed the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) on March 30, 2007, and ratified it on December 11, 2008. [15] The initial report followed in on June 27, 2011. [16] South Korea combined the second and third report which was received March 8, 2019. [17]