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Education

How education is valued and how it is tied up with culture and the structure of society is the focus of the article . Moreover , several factors that encourage people to attend higher education are also explored in the article . For instance , several examples about the South Korean culture were revealed in the article in to emphasize how the view of education changes depending on the culture . For the South Koreans , education is seen as a status symbol and

not a stepping-stone to acquire a job in the future . The good thing about it though is that statistics has shown that the percentage of dropouts is less in areas that believe in the relationship between education and societal value

People from different walks of life have varying points of view regarding education . A survey conducted in to determine the reasons why people choose to attend higher education reveals that reputation or culture and the enhancement of an individual 's disposition are the topmost reasons why people value their education . At this point people view the learning and understanding of the English language as an instrumental skill in to accomplish an individual 's aims to gain a high and respectable social status . Koreans nowadays are struggling to learn the English language , as it gives one a high rank in the social climate . Koreans spend time and effort in studying English that they are willing to undergo rigorous testing just to speak English well

Perhaps , the article does not only discuss education as part of culture . I think the issues in this article also have strong connections with globalization . As the world moves to become a global village people are forced to increase their chances of belonging to the international community . This objective shall only be accomplished through further education . This is probably one of the reasons why education is seen as a form of earning a high rank in society because being well educated and learning to speak English well keeps you in a range of belongingness with the rest of the global community

The Costs of Educational Zeal

The article explores the effects of Korea 's valuing of education to the costs of attending the educational institution . Apparently , with the Korean 's growing value for education and the educational institution 's goals to enhance the quality of education , the costs of higher educations have also reached a high . The reasons underlying the high cost of education in the country was explored under different regimes The influence of colonialism to the educational system of the country contributed much to the high cost that they require of education Moreover , majority of educational institutions in the country require expensive rates for their services because most of them are privately owned . At this point , I ask myself , why do they need to pay expensive taxes for education when most of the educational institutions are private

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