English Education in Korea - The Reformation We Need and Deserve

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Last year, South Koreans’ aggregate expenditure on English education reached outstanding 13 billion US dollars, which is approximately twice the amount estimated in 2009, and it continues to rise exponentially. Korea’s cramming method of teaching English is bad education”– many have criticized. Indeed, it systemically eliminates the admiring of the language– the beauty of it– which should be the centre of any language learning curriculum.

Korean students expend their youth in learning the English language-- 13 years is what most will admit that they have spent for this object. After school English academies are home to these teens, where they spend longer time toiling through thousands of English vocabulary. Indeed they exert more effort than anyone else in this task, but why is it that they just can't reach fluency in this language after all this time spent to master it? This video shows exactly why:

Korean students aren't learning English, they are but training to excel in English exams like TOEIC, TOEFL, SAT, and the like. In the end, the purpose for language education is dead. Practical use for the knowledge taught in these private academies is null, and the students live in this protracted process of university entrance.

We must pitch ourselves the question, are we educating our children for the betterment of our nation, or are we simply feeding the private education industries?