South Korean parents prepare their five-year-olds for eventual college entrance exams as competition for prosperity grows ever fiercer.
Keri Schnabel, a homeroom teacher at Twinkle English Academy, teaches a creative story writing class to a group of six-year-old kindergarten students in Seoul, South Korea. The Washington Post via Getty Images
The South Korean kindergartners squirmed through their English-language writing class. They were not doing their ABCs. They were getting a head start on a defining moment more than a decade in the future: their university entrance exam.
Write a paragraph of five to eight sentences using five synonyms for “large”, said Ms Keri, their teacher. The kids began jotting down ideas in neat handwriting.
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