Unfortunately, Korean culture
is sometime hard to accept for some Japanese.
In
my opinion, the reason why it happens is Japan and Korea have similar culture.
Do you know what I mean?
Personally, even if some
cultures are hard to believe based on my “common sense”, I decided to accept
them.
I call this mind “Neutral Gear”.
Anyway, I am talking about
high school students in Korea.
What do you think how many
hours they study in high school?
We had following
conversation in class.
Teacher: What did you use
to do in your high school?
Brazilian: Used to go to
beach! Party!!
Everybody: (Laughing)
Korean: I used to study
from 7am to 11pm in school.
Everybody:
Whaaaaaaat!!!!!!?????
High school students in
Korea are amazing.
I asked other Koreans
later, and they used to study pretty much same hours.
I’ve heard that most
students in these days study less that before, 8am to 7pm for instance. The situation is changing.
However, it is still amazing
obviously. A lot of people in the world
cannot believe it.
It makes sense that Korean
economy has been developed dramatically.
I have a question at this
point. What about China and India, which
is huge countries in terms of population and growing economy? How many hours do they study? I want to ask!!!!
The world is
interesting!!!!
私はまずは、その文化がどんなに自分の常識とかけ離れていても、すべて受け入れようと決めた。
要するにNeutral Gearの状態。
ところで、今回の内容は驚きの韓国の高校生の話し。
いったい彼らはどのくらい勉強しているのか?
こんな会話がある授業で繰り広げられた。
先生: 皆さんはどんな高校生活を送っていましたか?
ブラジル人:ビーチ!パーティー!
Every Body: 笑
韓国人: 私は朝7時から夜の11時ゴロまで勉強していました。
Every Body: えーーーーーーーーー!!!!!!?????
恐るべし韓国人高校生。
後々、他の友達に聞いてみても、同じような答えが返ってきた。
今の高校生世代は朝8時から夜9時といったように、状況は変化してきているようだが、それでも他の国の人間から見たら末恐ろしい状況。
経済の発展も納得できる。
はたして、中国人やインド人はどの程度勉強しているのか?
世界はおもしろい。
Peter Teppei
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