South Korea: 600,000 students to sit for college entrance exam
In South Korea, fewer students are opting to take the ‘Suneung’ college entrance exam, favouring a new system that has a variety of sources instead of a single exam.
The pressure’s on hundreds of thousands of students in South Korea – as they sit for an exam that could determine their personal and professional futures.
The students have prepared for the all-important college entrance test, often with years of study and long nights in afterschool programmes designed to improve their results.
This year they were postponed because of a rare earthquake.
Al Jazeera’s Kathy Novak reports from Seoul.
Published On 23 Nov 2017