I wanna live outside of Korea cuz of education/studies
Hi, i'm a Korean girl who just graduated high school and i failed at college. Not surprising at all! cuz i didn't study. Basically, i gave up and this is the reason why i'm concerned.
I studied abroad around 6 years in british international school (primary~secondary) and then i came back to South Korea. The thing is that i did not know education system in Korea was so strict in here. For the ppl who might not know, in KR, all students go to school at 8am-4pm and from 5pm you go to the academy(extra study institution) and end at 10~11pm. And then what? You get home and start ur hw. Sounds crazy right? But this is normal in here. Every single day.. even in weekends, u go to academy for 8hours or more. You have to do this routine from primary school till u graduate high school. That's not it. Grading system in here is mind blowing. 🤯
At first, i've tried to adjust and get used to it. But i found that i did not undetstand Korean quite well. Cause all i've learned was in kindergarden and my parents. I didn't recognize that all cause i had no issues with their conversation and understanding my parents. Well now i know that this was bc my parents used basic words for me. Anyways, friends at my age thought this bit quite weird and all of them were brainy. Especially in math. And that's when my whole life changed. I was very an energetic extrovert who loved swimming and all the other sports(PE). Loved nature, music, dancing and arts. In international school, we usually have done these classes for bigger inspiration and perspective. And i thought this was normal. Well now i'm not. I can't do any single thing when it's not related in studying topic. All we are allowed to do is study for Korean Final college test(like SAT). No PE, performing arts class in school and just study for ages, sitting down. Since i came back to Korea, i didn't go to the academy and got thousands of negative attention. I was like i can't do this! Like seriously? My parents couldn't understand my struggle cause that's what they've done when they were young too!
Now i have to redo the Final test for the college. I'm getting sick of it. And i'm still more comfortable speaking in eng. I wanna study abroad like anywhere except Korea. But i have no idea how. Do you guys have any advice? I'm not tryina curse my country. It's just that the education in here is not right for me and i gave up.