We learned two new grammar points but besides that, we talked a lot about new-age technology and the advancements that humans have made. Of course, “School” is basically me studying Korean. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. It's the third most viewed video of the week. My day lasted for over 4 hours. A subreddit for news, culture, and life on the Korean Peninsula. (Gotta get our fixings in before the weather gets too warm and they stop being sold–since it is more commonly eaten during cold weather),: Korean class today was really entertaining. I feel honored to have so many amazing people in my life. Flowers left on a fellow classmate’s desk after she jumped to her death at the young age of 16. 6:05 a.m.: Get dressed in my school uniform (and I wear thick leggings because it’s cold and my school uniform doesn’t come with a pants option). Koreans are almost always eighteen years of age at the time of graduation (though by the bizarre system used to calculate age, they tend to think that they are almost twenty at the time high school ends). It was pretty funny. Here’s a few examples of the harsh reality behind high school life in South Korea: 1. But it also looked like a lot of work. It’s the seniority based culture. It feels good to be included. The film will follow the students during the most stressful time of their lives- their last year of high school. 6:30 a.m.- 6:45 a.m.: Take my first bus to the main bus station. This entire second semester, we have not eaten at the school cafeteria (without our group of friends) at all—not even one time under our belt. “There is the surprise factor – things you never know are coming,” McGuirk said. Goesan, the site of my orientation back in July, is my new home for the month of February. Because of intense competition and cultural factors, high school students are encouraged to do schooling beyond the typical 8am-4pm schedule. That’s all for this blog post~ I hope you enjoyed! He goes to school by 7 a.m. and studies English words and does English listening practice for an hour. Follow. Just wrap your mind around that. ), 1:40 p.m.-4:40 p.m. – Three more class periods with similar breaks, -I usually go home after this. 4. ), -everyone immediately goes home as fast as they can-. Welcome to everyone, including native Koreans … 11. Or rather "Hul!" Along the way, she created new memories of the place she used to call home. We also read a blurb of an article predicting that there would be humans marrying robots in the near future and our teacher goes “Probably from Japan! _______________________________________________________________. South Korea is known for their education system, which includes very long days of up to (or over) 12 hours. Don’t be sad that it’s over. She asked me what I wanted to eat and gave me three options that included 물냉면 so of course I went for that—one of my all time favorites. Eat a quick breakfast of rice and seaweed soup, put on my uniform, and walk to school. She rises at 6.30am, is at school by 8am, finishes at 4pm, (or 5pm if she has a club), then pops back home to eat. I could have eaten that forever for sure. I wanted to say hi but I worried that he might be busy so I just sat down. The manga was serialized in Gangan Online and was released in seven manga volumes between May 21, 2009 and September 27, 2012. So what is the daily life of a Korean high school student life? You’re posts are so fun to read with the gifs included they make me laugh and so relatable, ahah but 대원외고 야자 goes until 10:30 and first class is at 8:10… i don’t know how they do it day in and day out. In Korea, the saying is “Teachers are as high as God“. So here it is. It literally said you can check where the items themselves are placed. Actually half way through the period, two of the girls from my group—은서 and 지연—came into the room apologizing to me as they thought I was waiting for them since they never outright cancelled the meeting with me. On November 10th, 2011, thousands of high school seniors will take a nine hour test that for many, will determine their economic and social status for the rest of their lives. Korean students typically graduate slightly later than American students. Yaja is basically after school self study. I attend classes for 6 periods. It was really sweet to see them thinking about me! Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. Today, April 3rd, marks that I have eight more weeks ahead and almost thirty one behind. 04/16/19 Tuesday . (The act of living here is studying Korean so)  I’m basically in Korean class or doing Korean class or studying Korean grammar or practicing Korean all day. You think about your future. Don’t waste it by worrying about how little there is left. You think about your future. Playing next. ( Log Out /  The final screen is 끝 which means finish. Nonetheless, the strawberries were delicious with the Nutella. And I was positively EXHAUSTED. ( Log Out /  And less fitting… a BMI scale? You think about your present. Katie and I had another mentorship class before lunch so we just did some self-studying in the special room on the third floor—it’s for meetings I believe? You might live with a host family and attend high school in South Korea for a real view in the culture of the country. Superficially, this is life for most high school students in South Korea. But how does my regular NSLI-Y schedule look anyway? Thanks for reading! My days were really off today (in my mind I mean). I went home after that and I was told by my host mom that I would be eating alone tonight because my host sisters were so hungry that they already ate ramen at the 학원. A Korea exchange student program could provide you a way to visit South Korea, learn the language, and be immersed in the culture while also having support in country. From what I've gathered from my older students at my English academy (hagwon) and my academy's director's son, high school students sleep 6 hours a day, if they are lucky and work, study, work, and study all day long. Like the other day, she gave us chords to work with for our song because she thought that we might have been having trouble. I spend another 2 hours on the way home 6. I arrived in Korea on September 3rd. You would think that being back in school (and having so many deadlines from Better World to keep track of), I would be better about knowing the date and such but clearly, that is not the case. at 11:45 PM. I realized that I hadn’t give any hint as to what my daily schedule was, but what I did today would be the best representative of what my friends at school go through on a daily basis. In other, more relevant news, Fridays are days where I get the closest I can to going through what an average Korean high school student experiences daily. And that was my day. We all laughed at this point and our teacher kept saying that that was why—Koreans don’t really organize their refrigerators like Americans apparently. ( Log Out /  윤아 tried defending the idea saying that you could see what was inside (or how much you had) without opening the door and though I find that somewhat valid, that’s not what the article said. That said, let’s have a look at the typical day in the the life of a fictional Korean middle school student. At least, that was what it was like in my high school. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. To help ease the worry and anxiety of both students and their families, we have put together this guide for families, to help them visualize and practice what a typical school day will be like in the 2020-21 school year. Let us peep into the school diary of a student and learn about a day in the life of a high school student. Thanks for watching! 0 shares. So when she began looking at summer programs as a high school student, she was eager to consider a return to Cambridge. Instead, they are dressed in t-shirts and shorts or jeans. I really hope you guys like it, and I'll come back with a new video very very soon! I'm back at Jungwon University, also known as the "marble palace," a moniker myself and my fellow ETAs dubbed this ostentatious stone monument to education. The opening screen reads: 고등학생의하루 Which just means High School student's day. The fact that she prepares stuff outside of class for us rather than forgetting we are a part of the class (and even with small things like calling our names for attendance)… most teachers don’t do even that. I live an hour away, so I ate at school with my deskmate and her friends. Their desks are covered in doodles, of cartoon faces with sharpened chins, of panels and illustrations the length of a comic book page. Teachers are respected in Korea. That’s a very fun country…” and then she goes on to bring up the anime girlfriend pillows. To represent this event, many people wear a yellow ribbon. You think about your present. Typical Day as a High School Student in Korean. I don’t want to waste these last two months. Today we just went for it and honestly, it was not bad at all. )". This made me laugh so hard that tears almost left my eyes. (But only for a short period at a coin 노래방, I wanted to be home for dinner.). It was funny that he wanted to make me feel more included within the class but I was not about to sit next to someone who clearly wasn’t up for the interaction. But there are couches! Her day is typical of that of the majority of South Korean teenagers. You think about your past. Change ). ( Log Out /  Scotty Darin. 6 a.m.: Wake up. Daily Lives of High School Boys (Japanese: 男子高校生の日常, Hepburn: Danshi Kōkōsei no Nichijō) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yasunobu Yamauchi. I made you a chart: So it’s really not that bad! Posted on April 3, 2016 by Katie McMahan. She rises at 6.30am, is at school by 8am, finishes at 4pm, (or 5pm if she has a club), then pops back home to eat. I honestly find it really heartwarming that she always thinks about what we will be doing in class. During my usual English mentorship class today, I just self-studied in the library as midterms are approaching. No wonder Korean students’ test scores (when compared to those of students from other countries) are so highly ranked. Most students get to school on their own by walking, bike, or the city bus. sentences you run the risk of your head exploding. “SPECS” get you further along in life than your GPA can? I would like to thank all my classmates for letting me shoot the video for the whole day, love you … Though the Yonsei Samsung Library bursts … Some of my friends have to take the city bus, but I’m lucky. I participate in after school club activities for 3 hours or so. my youtube channel is the 89th most viewed Korean channel of the week!!!!! He actually ended up coming over to me and asking how I was and we quickly talked about midterms, third year life, and so on. You think during East Asia class too because even though you’re interested, most of the time  you just pick up on small words to capture the big idea (–I definitely don’t have the vocabulary of that level). Then 동철 continues on and tells me to just go move over to him. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. With the average South Korean high school student spending 1,020 hours in school a year (pdf) according to a 2012 OECD study (134 hours more than the OECD average), it’s easy to … To differentiate the grades between students, one would often state the grade based on the level of education he/she is in. I left home at 6:30, studied for a bit, arrived at school at 8:30 a.m. left at 9:30 p.m., and got home a little before 11 p.m.  Oh, what a night. I suppose that now I’m living a life just like that of average Japanese high school students. Twitter Facebook Google + Pinterest Tumblr. Education Fever in Korea (ExamiNation) Award-winning Education Fever in Korea, by Judy Suh, documents a day in the life of a high school student preparing for the once-a-year Korean college entrance exam (KCSAT) called Suneung or Sooneung, held in November every year… His friend was laughing along but you could tell he felt really awkward and uncomfortable. You still have plenty of time.” But to put this into perspective, I have 8 weeks left. During 한국사, our teacher lectured the whole time but that did not stop me from just doing my own Korean work in class. He pointed out that I had no one sitting next to me on one side, so he could just plop his stuff down on that desk. 5. Before class started, I noticed that 동철 was still in the class, getting ready to leave. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. Her day is typical of that of the majority of South Korean teenagers. February 11, 2013 8871 Views. I would like to note that I stayed at school for (more than) 13 HOURS. During the summer of 2016, Michelle joined us for the Secondary School Program to study philosophy and screenwriting. For example, a student in the first year of middle school would be referred to as "First grade in Middle School (중학교 1학년. And then, I kept talking about Topik being on Saturday even though it is on Sunday! There aren’t separate school buses like in America. Koreans already often have another fridge for their 김치 and 반찬! Today I found out what happens afterwards-, 6:40 p.m. – 7:20 p.m.: Dinner (some students choose to go home instead of eating at school. Hell. With vigor, passion, and drive. They are not in uniform like many other high school students in South Korea. A student gets up at 6 a.m. and reads the newspaper to get an idea on how to write essays. I only do this on Fridays, and get to sleep late the next day. 13!!! Other students will stop at a corner store (CU or GS25) to get maybe a bread, kimbap, or some other snack food. I’m also grateful to all of the friends I’ve made here, and all the memories we’ve made together and will continue to make for the time I have left. Rigorously. ( Log Out /  In Korea to this day, this is a sore subject and is seemingly continuously present in the collective Korean psyche. ( Log Out /  Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. The other students were put into random groups and then allowed to pick their topics from a list (a list that she created from topics that we included in our survey about music from the first day of class back in March) based on the number of their group (also chosen randomly). Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. You think when your economics class because your teacher is talking so fast that if you even try to understand anything but the verbs at the ends of her. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. You think about your unfinished homework, how far your language level is improved, how your goals are from the beginning of the program have changed, how you expect to do on your end of the year language exams. They also need a fancy fridge with a screen? They had a cooking class at the 학원 today and the students got to eat fruit crepes. In South Korea, the grade of a student is reset as the student progresses through elementary, middle and high school. I’m so thankful for all of the support I’ve had in getting here. I don’t know how everyone stays awake during the day when their day always lasts this long. One of the readings we looked over was about new inventions involving technology that can be commonly found in the home—making people’s lives easier. The actual 하나고 students need to study for those! Feb. Find All Posts of This Month: 2 - 2013. Our teacher gave the argument that finding things in the fridge can be difficult and then josh retorts back “Not if the fridge is organized.” He then goes through his own American fridge’s organizational state–meat drawer and all. Students kept coming into the room to use it… I originally planned on sleeping during that period but instead I went hard on the study grind. It literally said that “by using the smart screen on the door, you can check where the items in your fridge are placed.” I immediately called this out to my teacher. So June took Kaitlyn and I to her favorite place and we spent about half an hour there. While chatting with Katie in the morning, I kept telling her that I was dreading going to 국어 and that Wednesdays were always so long… when it was in fact Tuesday. The past seven months have been like riding a roller coaster nonstop (which I know is the most cliche analogy). S. Korean military on high alert as N. Korea marks party anniversary. 5 years ago | 6 views. They also brought back cartons upon cartons of strawberries (I’m talking at least 10) and three jars of Nutella. Today, April 3rd, marks that I have eight more weeks ahead and almost thirty one behind. I yaja’d (야자를 했다.). I take public transportation for 2 hours to commute to school (yes, it’s VERY FAR but not uncommon for kids here).  The cash register worker actually helps upperclassmen cut. For three years, they repeat these seemingly boring days. ( Log Out /  Suicide is the leading cause of death among teens. the Marble Palace, July 2010. It was a funny conversation. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. At first, I thought this was extra but then I realized how handy it could be… until I read the description for it in the excerpt. Monday to Saturday, I wake up around 6:30 to 7:00. I’ve been gone for 31 weeks. ( Log Out /  But this in the end had a positive, we were not going to have to present anything! 155k members in the korea community. Our teacher asked us if our host family’s fridges are organized and we all looked at each before simultaneously saying no. Keeping friendships when you’re on opposite sides of the planet is no easy task, but I am happy to say that I really had you guys with me while I’ve been here. I get up by 6am 2. You wouldn’t … Eventually, my host sisters came home and they didn’t just bring themselves. Report. This puts immense pressure on high school students, as there are extremely high stakes in getting accepted to a reputable university. Long time no see :) This video will be about real school life in Korea. Welcome to everyone, including native Koreans … While chatting with Katie in the morning, I kept telling her that I was dreading going to 국어 and that Wednesdays were always so long… when it was in fact Tuesday. Just like in real life, high school life can be grouped into two: the fun side and working/studying side with a grey area in between, for activities such as hobbies and interests. By Bo-kyung Byun. This video is awesome. I don’t want to spend them taking for granted what I’ve been given. Korean high school students sometimes attend school from 7am until midnight, and on weekends visit private "hagwons" (academies similar to crammers, which are attended all year round in South Korea) to brush up on their English, maths or science. In fact, I was in the complete opposite mood. School days are the beautiful days’ anyone would cherish with a desire for more in the later years. The thing you do most often as an exchange student is think. (Unnecessarily long and unedited post ahead). Freaking awesome. Today was also the 5th year anniversary of the 세월호 침몰 사고 (Sewol Ferry Incident) in which a ferry carrying mostly high school students on their school trips sank–killing many. She showed me the pictures and wow did they look delicious! 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