ROK Education Minister Forced to Resign After Only 34 Days in Office
It looks like the lowering of the elementary school age in Korea is no longer going to happen after public protests has led to the resignation of the Education minister:
Education Minister Park Soon-ae offered to resign Monday, just 34 days after taking office, amid criticism she mishandled key school policy proposals, such as lowering the elementary school entry age.
Park has been under pressure to step down after many teachers and parents protested strongly against lowering the school entry age by one year to 5. She has been criticized for announcing the proposal without sufficient preparations, such as collecting public opinion.
Her ministry had also unveiled a plan to abolish foreign language high schools, only to retract it days later.
Should President Yoon Suk-yeol accept the resignation, Park will be the first Cabinet minister to step down since Yoon took office in May.
Yonhap
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Just thinking out loud…
I assume this is 5 Korean age, not Western age, and she’s talking about kindergarten or pre-school. If you’re 6 in Western years, you’re in first grade. And really, if you start school at 5, Korean age, then you’re probably 4 in Western years. In the West (or the US, at least), age 4 is pre-school.
if the Blue Party had proposed this, it would have been spun as the greatest idea EVER. Yoon is getting the Trump treatment, finding out that the media are universally aligned against him, with their negative reporting and fake “polls”.