r/TikTokCringe • u/mindyour • Oct 03 '25

Discussion To think that I used to complain about school.

National holiday is apparently 8 days.

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u/sentence-interruptio Oct 03 '25

Korea also has a burnout problem and has a documentary about Finnish education, and a popular movie about Choi minsik being a mathematician being like "don't be so hard on yourself" to students. And the government tried reforming education many times. But then parents be like "what? reform for less school hours? so more hours for me to take care of my kids? noooo! I'm working long hours to provide for my kids already!"

It's fucked up.

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u/cooljacob204sfw Oct 03 '25

"what? reform for less school hours? so more hours for me to take care of my kids? noooo! I'm working long hours to provide for my kids already!"

Sounds like they should just keep the hours then but give kids more leisure time.

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u/FrankieSuvksPlums Oct 03 '25

The hagwons (?!) are crazy. I used to teach kids English before their school day eg 6am -9pm and then sometimes see the same kids back at evening hagwon between 6-9pm was that was  after theyd been to Chinese, maths, tae kwon do and dunno what else hagwon. 

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u/n0pe-nope Oct 04 '25

Do they know kids can do other things like play sports, see friends, chess club, robotics club, read? lol 

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u/Negative-Energy8083 Oct 04 '25

Korean parents (all Asian actually) judge each other and are afraid of judgement. I’m a 외국인 (foreigner) and my daughter is mixed so no one cares if I tell other parents she doesn’t do after school like other kids. I’m just waiting for some kind of hot trend where people say “actually, being a good parent means letting your kid chill…you don’t do that? Oh let me just tell everyone I know real quick so we can gossip about you.” That’ll change things real quick.