A Comparison of Education System of Korean and American |
A Comparison of Education System of Korean and American Every country has its own education system. However, the Korean people think that America education system is much better than any other country education system, thus our education system has had a lot of influence on American education system over the past decades. Therefore, there are several points of difference and similarity between the Korea system and American system. To be specific, there are regulations, curriculums, test and so on. The most main differences between Korea and American education system is that Korea school regulation is a compulsory system. For instance, most of high school students in Korea have to wear unity school uniform and have a short hair style regardless of student’s agreement because of the purpose of focusing on their studies. Also, after regular school class, we should take a night complement study until 9 PM. Like this, the high school regulation is more like a compulsory while American school regulation is self-regulation which the school do not step in. On the other hand, some similar things are both countries consider the number of attendances to be quite important. Each class requires students to attend over 80 percentage of attendance. Otherwise, the students are not able to get a credit, so they should take that course again. In this respect, I think that, in a way, Korea and America regulations are very similar. Another outstanding thing is a curriculum system. Above all, American curriculum prefers a group study way of discussing their own thought each other. Thus, this curriculum promotes creativity and enhances presentation ability while Korea class prefers individual class way. In addition, America curriculum tends to be quite slow progress, I have ever heard that students in Korean high school learn University courses in U.S.A. some Korea people said it can be possible fast processing class has a tendency to affect students bad influence about creativity and initiativeness. Unlike this, a similar thing is two countries have same subjects such as physical education, science, history and so on. Also, mathematics, science and language subject is very important subjects, and their curriculum should take courses like an art, music and a physical education once or twice a week in order to relieve stress and find another latent ability. Finally, a different thing between Korea and American education system is test system. On the whole, Korea education system reflects just mid and final term test score without quiz, attendance and attitude. However, America education system include other element, of course although mid and final term grade is much more important than others. On the other hand a comparable point is that two countries have a mid and final term exam system. Also, according to a score gap which students get, students have an opportunity to apply for more good named university, and even the teacher is likely to judge image of student good or not. I think that these issues cause a social problem. In conclusion, on the one hand the Korea and American education system have several things in common, but on the other hand there are some differences. In addition, there are a lot of advantages and disadvantages. Therefore, before decide to accept those things, although American education system is much better, we should make a careful comparison of them and consider which is more appropriate for students. In that case, both Korea and American education system should improve more and more. |