School Swap: Korea Style, Episode 1 Full BBC Documentary 2016 

I feel you. Got a quiz coming up and homework I was supposed to hand in a week ago, but youtube is better so..

i have korean sat next thursday and i'm watching this video...

actually i've been studying for 4 yrs for korean sat to apply university. i don't know if other students in other countries study like this.

Same

정대영 studying for 4 years or to go to university for 4 years?

That was the perfect representation of the phrase "If you think you are good at something remember there's always an asian who does it better than you"

Requiem lol

Halles_worldd I was like 💀💀💀

They were nice and cheering. That's part of their hospitality that's well known around the world.

@@lalalazarus 😂😂😂😂😂 So true!

Yeah and the blonde girl is quite disrespectful to me

@D. Va wha- I’ve never slept in school and no one ever does in my school I clearly have a different culture

@D. Va than sleep early

@@mayas4230 that's impossible my classes usually ends at 6 pm and i have homework i usually finish it all at 1 am or 12am .... and i have to wake up at 5am ,be at school at 7:15

@D. Va na h she is disrespectful. first time she saw her korean mate she didnt even shake hands or greet her, she just pushed herself through the door. she is impolite as fuck

it was definitely not easy for everyone, but the concept of "the nail that sticks out gets the hammer" is pretty central to east asian cultures. that kid has more integrity than many of the students who lied out of fear.

@@fritzjackson4336 I'm South Asian and agree a lot. Most students fear raising their hand or asking questions. They always have to act the best and smartest and be better than everyone else. And then there's cases like me... I used to be the one who asked questions a lot but the teachers scolded me for asking "out of syllabus" questions or accused me of trying to defame them by asking creative questions so they would slip up and kids could make fun of them. Of course I wasn't doing any of that, I was just curious. But the teacher's responses made me shut up and stop speaking up in class.

I know right

I thought it was sooo racist...😂 but a bit funny...

Like wtf ?! 😑

The background music was dumb and guess what who used it for this documentary?The show

Don't be a snowflake.

I thought she looked nervous at breakfast 😂😂

Koreans have a really neat food culture. They prepare a bunch of side dishes according to "rank": 3 is for regular people, 5 for respected people, 12 for royalty! You don't have to eat each side dish but it's there for you to try out.

I counted 4 side dishes in this breakfast, so I figure the Welsh girl fell in between "regular people" and "respected people."

Luboman411 Yup she is a "guest"

she should see my breakfast xD a piece of bread with Nutella spread on it or nothing xD

Yeah thats right

@Sidney Choi .... absolutely!

Exactly my thoughts.

I’m welsh and gosh the words on the board though so confusing

I know right. When I went to Korea the first few days I was totally dead. Then when I flew back home I had to go to school the next day. I legit slept in my 7th period study hall because I was so tired.

Jojo_is_a_MBB hahahh ye in America u have to go sooo early at 7 : in England it’s later, like usually 9. But honestly 8 isn’t that early, my school here is super strict and make us come at 8 but it’s still really dark. It’s not rlly fair bc I’m only in 6th grade ㅠㅡㅠ

my old sched used to be at 6:30. like i have to wake up at 4:00 to study and arrive at school before 6:30 so that i'll be able to study some more

hawtsa I’m crying for you

@@girlwithapearlearring4522 Mate only in primary school (Year 1-6) (1st - 5th grade in the US) is this ever true, for England at least. Most secondary schools (6th-12th grade in the US) here in England require you to be in school for 8.20, but there is much variation as to when they end. I still have to get up at 6 tho since getting to school on public transport in England takes forever since its so crowded.

Aryan Agrawal yep, sucks

Suga is my Husband it’s in their genes

yeah me too he is computing accounting without using a fuckin' calculator.

@@jobbap6669 are you an ARMY? 💜

Fearl Purple ARMY ?

@@precious6224 I am! 💜 Why? 😁

Lol same

Raka Rachmanda I do that to 😂

Their PARENTS are rich.

I mean..its in Gangnam so... anyone who lives in Gangnam has got to be super loaded lol

lol I don't think you know what you're talking about. That is a standard apartment in Korea.

???? I've been living here for over 3 years. I definitely know what im talking about.

honey bread I'm literally Korean. And own 3 apartments in varying neighbourhoods in Korea. And go there every year for 6 months. I really don't think you know what you're talking about.

Kids from Wales remind me of U.S. teens, they should have prepared getting up early and staying up, it makes the Wales teens as flippant

I also used to live in gangnam and those schools were like THE schools to go to, they work so hard

Ever heard of student debts? 😡🔥

@@beekeepermariadelgado6806 You need to consider the time difference and jet lag though. The kids may not have had any time to adjust.

That is why the comparison is not fair. I paid school fees in London for my children as my parents did for me and we wanted that kind of education. I must have put in 10,00 hours of practice in classical music alone as a teenager so am not surprisingly very good and have ended up a pretty good lawyer too. If you took the children from say London's Westminster school and compared them with these you would have much more similarities. Wales is a very deprived part of the UK.

Right? I thought that was really inappropriate.

Kung Fu is Japanese, not Korean hahaha

Ugh. Growing up in the US, people always assumed I knew kung fu or karate. It was annoying but more understandable. We didn't have things like the internet to gain exposure to other cultures. There's really no excuse anymore, with the world at your fingertips.

I'm glad I wasnt the only one uncomfortable with this

Terrible! Wrong nationality; horrible cover!

Me too🙌🏼

+Disko H We don't study that many hours here in Singapore. Well maybe only during major exams. We typically have 6 hours of normal classes followed by supplementary lessons on some days for 1 to 3 hours. With 1 or 2 days of extracurricular activities till the evening (number of days depends on the type and how many extracurricular activities you chose). All Primary and Secondary Schools closes at 7pm

Singapore is pretty much up at the top in education that is really good too compare to some .

+Alexis Ang Really ? i thought education at singapore is one of the top ... here in australia it's totally loose, we can basically chill in years 7,8,9. (by chill i still mean homework and necessary assignments, getting ahead but still having 5/7 days of the week to relax). its slightly different during the final years (12th grade mainly), though still sort of chill but can be demanding. obviously we have outliers and extremely talented students as well. It's been said that singapore is like 4-5 years ahead in syllabus material compared to australia, e.g 11th grade chemistry will be learnt in yr 7 or something. is that true ? if so, that'll be very demanding and singapore education is quite respected in aus

Alexis Ang not all jcs close so early. Mine closes at 10. But it's true that Singapore students don't have such a long day. Some students have tuitions after school like korean hagwon.

I agree with Alexis. At least students in Singapore still get to participate in Sports, Dance, Drama and Music after school hours -- say usually after 2pm. Most 13 to 16 year old Singaporean kids study from 8am to 1pm with a 30 minute recess. There are also a few Physical Education sessions, special music or dance program woven in every week to make school more interesting. Every school system has it's pros and cons but in my opinion, it is how the parents try to balance the importance of play vs studying, learning other skills vs just book smart, and highlight the significance of character, values education before academics, to their children that matters. It will highly affect how children show up in life as adults in future, good results or not.

Lol 😂 source?

@@hackjaelee Bro google it, doesn’t even need a source that’s just fact, it’s like asking a source about the roundness of the earth

How the fuck is that even relevant to this swap?

@@nicol.7738 bc both is related to the south korean school system

Not surprising, this lifestyle is not sustainable at all.

OK, Koreans make up 1% of the population and take them out, now what about the other 79% of dumb people.

Kyleigh Rae Thank you, I didn't know this. People should really know what they talk about before they say it. Also idk what +MauriceW is implying... but I totally agree with you.

Maurice W i think you’re confused about something. I’m referring to the video, which states around 80% of *Koreans* were illiterate. Neither I nor the video were referring to the entire world’s population.

Now replace Japan with UK, that's exactly what happened with India.

facts.

Send them to Glasgow and scar them for life

@@itsgodnga same here in Manchester

Wait do u watch that show too?? Just asking cuz of yr pfp ☺

@@honeyhoneycomb5596 yep it's amazing 😂

Back in 2013 , we had a Korean exchange student come to the America. He was in my seventh grade class. He knew no English. I was able to help him with English. He saw me struggle with math at the end he helped me with math

agree with ya, it would heve been better insteadof from the wales school

@b o i b y e woow so exaggerate. Really??? Doubt that. Korean students more like to listen, while in harvard or any prestigious university in USA are like to ask/ talking much/ make solution/ understanding the concept and make it with their own...doesn't mean study hard like hell, would make you win or woooowww.. it's like being so extra.. i'm pretty sure even the majority of them couldn't beat a harvard student/undergraduate.. btw most harvard students also from asian

Lol maybe some korean students would win but harvard students still would definitely in top.. korean students were more like to listen, they're study hard like hell but some of them didn't get pass some kind of test like WTF they're study/doing. Study too much is not good too, your brain would not process all the information...

@Abigail Prather doubt that, the way they taught was different... but doesn't mean they're study like hell, they definitely would win.. korean students more like to listen.. they're study like hell but still like can't get pass.. like WTF they're studying/doing.. study too much ( from textbook) is not good for your brain.. btw most harvard students also from asian

@Abigail Prather i'm asian, just like we're more study harder, we're more genius/ smart / can beat them etc, lmaoo NO, indeed we're more like nerd person, while they're like party etc, but there're type of people like us too in there and they are incredible genius/smart/ even they're not study hard like asian students but just like reading one time, they can memorize all one book/ solving difficult questions ( there're kind of people like that). Their learning process also different, we're more like to take from textbook etc, while they are more talking/asking. Maybe some korean students can beat them but as university like harvard mehhh i bet it's rare.. you must be hella genius ( also they don't just have like nerd person in there, but like active/leadership students who can make solution etc). Btw in harvard/some prestigious university in USA, there're many asian students ( including korea/china) / students around the world ( like europa/middle east and they're like the best students when they're in high school/ have won like international competition etc). In this we're talking about harvard right?? But if you wanna put like reguler students from high school in USA and korea, just put it,, but put the all of genius students, they're very competitive too ( i bet there're some asian who school/grow up in USA in the list students ) ..

Must have been for sure

Maybe it's because they listen to the movie and practice pronouncing American English on the Internet.

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With how competitive they are I am sure they have gone for lessons and practiced - needing to be perfect.

Black Sunshine lmao

Black Sunshine lmao. 😂

that awkward moment when you're a palestinian canadian, and even you notice the messed up music '_'

This is called stereotype. Just like how most south korean think of other south east asian county as a one country not particular country. Just like how they think our face would look like. . It's allowed when the one is uneducated or live in north pole and have no tv and cant speak english. . But BBC is such a big media station. To make this korea video with other country's speciality is reflecting how lazy theh are to search the matching theme for the video.

I’m Chinese and I found it awkward as well 😂😂😂

Jack Bauer My face was priceless

You mean he said "Bitch, hole my math book for a second"

lol what?

Jack Bauer Ture

WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU ALL SAYING?

I saw that they had headphones in during class,so they most likely had a translated lesson they were listening to.

most lessons are taught in english and also headphones

@@aidenives-day2259 The lessons in Korean public schools are not taught in English, they are taught in Korean.

@@liamhaughton5909 I meant like learning english is taught mostly just in English and in some public schools they do speak english and korean so that the koreans can get more fluent into english as well

​@@tarjaau If you read the comments properly I was just explaining it to someone who was asking about it no need to be sarcastic.

your English isn't 😂😂

Dance moms Edits *Their lol.

These kids come from pretty wealthy families. They probably either attended english immersion schools from preschool on. Some families will even send the mother and children to an english speaking country while the children are young while the father stays in Korea and sends money to support them.

the one that the girl is staying with sounds American!

It's better than mine lol

Nabium I’m Danish. School is usually 8-14 (to 16 once or twice a week) we have two types of homework. We usually have to prep 10 min. for each class (3-4 a day) and Then do about 5 hours of actually homework. I’m 18 in first year of gymnasium. It is really Nice, that You don’t have to spend as much time with school, since I have time to do other aspects of Life that I find important. I don’t get how anyone could survive with their only Life goal being studying in order to work a 50 hour work week... oh, wait. They don’t the koreans have the higest suicide rate.

😂😂😂

kor bor du??????!!!!!

Så bra, har ventet på den endringen veldig lenge. Neste steg: gi spesialisert utdannelse så vi kan lære et yrke på 1-2 år + praksis, i stedet for 3 års realfag + 5 års ingeniør utdannelse for så å bruke mindre enn 10% av det (har mange venner som har bekreftet dette). Så i teorien kunne vi gitt dem en 1 års utdannelse for å lære de 10 prosentene som de trenger. Helt idiotisk hvor mye tid og resurser vi sløser på slikt. Veldig mange må gjøre om fag fra videregående pga deres snitt ikke er bra nok til å komme inn på universitetet, men det er saker som nynorsk, spansk, gym og historie som kan holde tilbake noen som vil bli ingeniør, selv om de fagene ikke trengs overhode for den utdannelsen. Da er det bedre å se hvem som har best snitt i for eksempel: engelsk, matte, fysikk og kjemi (bioingeniør), altså karakterer fra relevante fag. sukk

Look so wants to go now

Not even chinese music for gods sake

@@WokOverEasy Chinese "themed" according to the western stereotype.

@@cloud_9429 That's a nice song. They really are doing dumb stuff with the music

@@Abc17890 these are the same dumbasses that put dubstep on a ww1 video

@@WokOverEasy but ironically was from a Chinese show about a japanese martial art and “yeAh iTs NoT iN ChInEse”

CompilatioNad It depends. Korean and Japanese people tend to know English quite well. I once stayed with a Spanish host who spoke no English whatsoever (mainly because she was encouraged to not learn any English to help me by my school).

Probably because they don't know many people who are bilingual, and when we hosted our foreign exchange student we couldn't speak their language, it's just a thing

@@ew6483 Japanese people are terrible at English what are you talking about?

@@pokemasterx4244 Just from my experience, Japanese people tend to be quite proficient at English. I don’t know of actual statistics, but the school system is quite strict on learning English in a lot of places in Japan.

@@ew6483 theres literally vids abt how bad the english teaching is at normal level, sometimes even the teacher is not that good at english but had to fill the spot.

At least 2 3 months...I guess...

I agree!

😂😂😂i know.....right.

I searched up a welsh gcse past paper for maths and it really was primary level maths, I guess its not only Korea that is hard on maths

Coming from Korea, my teacher had me self study math because what the class was leaning was so far behind in the US. I would say at least 2 plus years if not more. This was in grade school.

Quantumfreak US maths is easy tho.

It’s pretty normal as a person that studies in a chinese school we learn topics 2 years ahead than most schools such as having algebra as early as grade 4

Can I ask you how people of Korea go join these K-Pop bands when they are so young if you're all forced so hard to study? I wouldn't imagine most parents would be okay with it.

MsKorearock I fully agree with you. There is more to life than just education and you should in the first place be doing what you enjoy. I wish you a happy life.

I wish I could meet u,

Where to? America?

nσ mαttєr hσw íntєllígєnt thєч'rє . í dσnt líkє thєír єducαtíσn ѕчѕtєm . ítѕ tσσ much...thєrє'ѕ nσ tímє fσr єnjσчmєnt . whαt чσu ѕαíd íѕ ѕσ truє....í thínk thєír lífє íѕ full σf prєѕѕurє, cσmpєtítíσnѕ αnd fαmє.

I have never heard about this and I’m sad to know it’s not a thing here in the North of Ireland. I for one would have benefited immensely from that. I went into my A Levels and my first year of uni with rather severe depression. I was miserably for about 3 years straight.

@@667neighborofdabeast That sucks dude. I know how it feels. Hope you're good now.

As a Korean dude I can't envy your system more. this is certainly what Koreans HAVE TO learn. we are all bragging about how much time we spend each day for studying but what about the efficiency? I was in the middle of that system and honestly not many students can actually learn anything after 5-6 hours of work per day. after that it's more of hollow gimmick and there are so many studies that proves longer hours of studying past certain amount of time will eventually make you dumber in all aspects. furthermore in terms of emotional/psychological impact on them, well anyone with common sense can expect what will happen. I am so sure that 10 years after the graduation from this BS these Welsh kids will be WAY ahead in creativity, quality of life, actual knowledge/skills and so forth, compares to these Korean kids.

@@MyronChoe I'm pretty sure Koreans are a lot more educated than Irish kids. The extra time studying definately makes them learn more. But, I suspect Irish kids are happier than Korean kids and perhaps more educated in each of their specific hobbies. So for example, one of my friends loves writing and published a book at age 16. Korean kids who are better writers than my friend don't have the chance to publish their books because they're busy studying. A couple kids earned quite a bit of money playing as a band at concerts. I myself represented Ireland in a satellite building competition and learned how to code. I also partied a lot and made great friends and developed basic social skills. Then, I somehow managed to represent Ireland in the maths olympiad. A guy from a town near me wom a science competition and sold his project for a couple million euro at 16 and is now a billionaire. A girl in my school came second in the European Junior Olympics for decathlon. Irish kids are definitely worse at maths, science etc than Korean kids but they have more time to be really good at things they enjoy.

Dusan Veselka South Korea is ahead of Finland, also good results in a closed education system doesn't necessarily mean smarter.

but studying 14 hours a day because of competitiveness is not the point. The question is if this system is actually any good. The fact that they have good result is due to their morbid drills. When I was talking about Finland, their results are just as good, but they spend 4 hours a day at school with no homework. working hard to achieve something is not always as good as finding the right way of doing things.

They also don't really cover the suicide rate of students from the pressure of studying. And as like Matt Washer said, we should look at the broad range of subjects from maths and sciences, to philosophy, music art etc. The Finnish system has been well praised the past years. Although looking through, this documentary wants to focus on the effort put in by the government as a whole into education, which, can't be a bad thing.

zogibear The suicide rate is high. But it's high OVERALL, that is, for Koreans as a whole, for all age groups, not just students. You have to understand Korean culture and what it's like living in a competitive society where there's a feeling of intense competition (such as job interviews, and getting into companies- so many other more accomplished candidates...), a lot of expectation from parents and family and society, and not much of a social security net. It's not like Scandinavian countries where everyone expects to be able to get good unemployment payouts, or disability pensions etc. The suicide rate among students - as far as factors go, I don't think exam and study pressure is the most significant factor. Bullying by their peers, and generally unsatisfying lives (including unsatisfying home lives) is probably a bigger factor.

S Y I do understand it quite a bit and I know of the pressures that exist in that culture having grown up in it. Forgive me for not making my point clearer. I wasn't suggesting that the Korean system copy that of the Finnish system but instead have the UK system look at it too. Not only that but also look into the range of subjects being taught. I do believe that both Scandinavian and Korean governments put a hell of lot of emphasis on eduction which is a positive point and sadly something that isn't as strong in the UK. I mention the suicide factor as the stress and pressure and competitiveness starts so young and builds up into adult hood. It's something I feel, the Korean government may not be tackling head on as much. I can imagine mental health is still a touchy subject.

Natalie girl, same lmao

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ay same

Natalie universe one day will fade away there will be nothing someday . They are the dumbest don't follow them

I've been researching into how to talk Korean and found a fantastic website at Napars language learn (check it out on google)

exactly, that also explains why BTS is currently now dominating the world because of their hardwork

It'd kill me to social the best years of my childhood away instead of developing my brain and learning things to take me further in life than just a nice family in a boring home. Sure, a lot of the knowledge we are taught in schools are basically useless, but that just broadens your general knowledge and expands your "memory space" to be able to stimulate it better for maths or similar subjects. It's a whole new world out there in academics. Perfect scores are like Tetris blocks fitting together for an amazing future. Good test results give you a high like very few other things can.

Sherry the irony. You are so naïve and dumb. Please don’t judge by seeing one documentary. No wonder you guys feel sad and guilty.

That was a lot of assumption. "naive, dumb, sad, guilty?" Sounds to me like someone is projecting. Also, maybe you should look up the definition of ironic.

But perhaps a compromise is needed seeing as Sherry cannot spell 'ridiculous' correctly. I think that she would have benefited from a longer school day.

I actually agree with you. It is not a healthy system for a child in anyway. I’m not saying the British one is. I really like British independent (private) education though. I think it has the best of both worlds.

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Neither, neither have I ever had a detention n I'm in yr 10 nearly yr 11

That's commitment right there

ive never been early tbh

I'm late all of the time 😂 Detention hasn't stopped me yet lol

LOL. When I graduated, I had 42 hours of unserved detendtion for being late to Homeroom. That means in one semester, I was late for 42 of those days. Not saying I was proud of that, actually ashammed after seeing this. We had kids in our school that never missed a day and was never late.

Honestly I thought the blonde guy played better because it sounded so much better, and it's not at all necessary to play it backwards 😂

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In what major do European students outperform?

How you know I do abroad in south Korea for 6 years and Suicidal :'D that is Quite true though I get Pushed too much that I can't handle it but I still always study to stay the Top Student in my school.. But yeah I can't wait to go back to my Japanese school T-T Nvm Probably already be dead by that time

the fact tht south korea ranks high in country with most suicides should absolutely be red flag despite their renowned education system.

Western countries needn't worry about suicides too much, they won't get to SK's extremes. They just need to learn a bit from their discipline and perhaps have programmes for motivated and gifted students. That way they can still ensure they have a good pool of talented graduates without too much of a backlash from parents.

in asia, your gpa is everything. if your gpa is low, you wont find a decent job. thats why in asia, you study not only for getting certificate or diploma, or just high school graduate, but higher. asia have more poeple (population) and you compete with those who have good backgrounds and high gpa. and you want to be on top so you could change your social status. work experiences? ofc, high schoolers and university students in asia also work part time jobs and internships.

@@AmeliaCaroline looks like you think japan,korea and china are the only asian countries

@@DutchVanDerLinde77 im literally live in indo, you think japan korea and china are the only asian? i can show you the map of asian tho. what i said is a fact, in asia your gpa is everything. i dont know where you live but my other asian friends (malaysia, sg, philliphines) say the same thing

I'm from the Philippines, it is almost exactly the same like most of our Asian neighbors... your GPA means a lot in getting to good schools. Bad grades = not passing top universities admissions = not getting to good schools = not getting a high paying job. Most companies are elitist in my country, if you come from a so so college/university even with good grades, they won't even bother looking at your resume/CV. Medical schools, STEM schools and Law Schools are absolutely grueling in my country, and most of these schools don't accept students who have sub-par GPA. Amelia Caroline is absolutely correct.

Alexina Paiement South Korea don t let the kids have their own thought or mind because they want to control them. That is very sad

Thats so true!! Students never learn to express their opinions, to question authority and so on. Studying in Korea was stressful and I felt like being taken off my basic human rights

Alexina Paiement True. They get a perfect score in English Tests but when it comes to actually speaking freely... they fail miserably. Here in Europe we learn English since primary school and nearly everyone can speak English quite good.

from my understanding, when the students did speak up to their government, they died as what happened in the Massacre of 1982 when the South Korean students protested against their government resulting in the government's retaliation by labeling them as communists and sending the military to subdue them with full-on Military weapons!

That is hardly today's Republic of Korea. There was a militaristic dictator, Chun Doo-hwan, in charge back then, and those students were protesting his government. South Korea has advanced by leaps and bounds since the incident you're talking about, which was the Gwangju Uprising in 1980. The 1982 Hama massacre, by the way, was in Syria, which is far far from South Korea.

Childhood is overrated when yours successfully you can have fun

You should watch the videos about south koreans emigrating as they are burned out from careers and society. They will pay to do menial work overseas in say the US picking acorns so they can get citizenship and start over there. There's also a video about suicides, they have suicide watch cam on a famous bridge so they can rush to save them.

sucksqueezebangblow lol when you’re lazy to study and put these statement as an excuse 😂😂

Living In China yeah, until you find out the person who made the statement has a masters degree in law.

Yohan Choi, I absolutely admire you for that. A very big WELL DONE! Keep it up with the good work.

oh shit i just noticed this what the fuck

ikr kung fu doesn't even have anything to do with korea

I dunno-my Korean dad was laughing😂

I SWEAR I NOTICED THAT TOO.

I noticed it too like bruhhhh

Absolutely. The thing they don't show you about our school systems, is that a lot of kids ultimately break down. The system is deliberately designed to ensure that you feel inadequate every step of the way so that you can continue improving. And here's another bitter reality, our work life is no better. Its the same routine.

Yeah, South Korea has one of the highest suicide rates in the world, and this is one of the causes. I'm a fan of the kpop group BTS and they have multiple songs about South Korea's education system and they do not hold back the punches. They condemn it pretty brutally "who is it that turned us into studying machines and labelled us as number one or failures... ...who is it that made us stand on our closest friends to get to the top" is part of the lyrics to their song "N.O." They have another one called "School of Tears" which is genuinely horrifying, it is about school bullying and from everything I know, the song does not exaggerate. Everything I know indicates school bullying is a huge issue in SK and that it is often extreme.

As a teacher in the US I find this appalling as well. While there are plenty of issues with US schools. When you literally test the top students against South Korea or other areas we are very competitive. South Korean students woukd do fine in the United States and other countries because at least the students we are shown have that backing of their parents and stable home life.

I can't believe there's a country where can raise 3 children while working at a company that leaves work at 4 o'clock. Please let me know so I can immigrate there.

NIce to see the Columbia University logo at the end of the video. If that's what they aspire to, they should quit school and start a company instead with that work ethic. I graduated from Columbia YEARS ago, it was a waste if time and money! They're wasting their childhood! How sad!

It is BBC, what do you expect? Remember Jimmy Saville? That pedophile used to run the BBC.

That`s so good to hear. I am in Austria and my child is still in kindergarten where it is all about play and just a few tracing and counting exercises every now and then. Next fall he will transition to school and the one next door is known to be so strict and they have to be there from 7.45 to 3.30 each day. But it seems like nothing compared to what I see here :-(

in secondary in my school no one ever slept except maybe in form in the morning. people were disruptive though

That is the reason how Japan, Korea and Taiwan are known as Tiger economies of East Asia

I already finished school years ago and I never saw someone sleeping in all of my school years 🤷‍♀️

you dont see people here in switzerland sleep in class, we’re not allowed to

Bangtan Trash honestly

Bangtan Trash ay army and yeah that's probably true

I swear

Not the same here in Singapore 😫

not possible in SG :'(

I'm commenting on the production, not the content. I don't know what you're on about, I never mentioned these kids have an easy life.

What do you expect from the BBC?

I was just going to remark about this.... after all, Kung Fu Panda is Chinese, not Korean.

그러니까 쿵후팬더 음악을 왜 한국에다 같다붙이냐고?그리고 여기서 한국자살애기가 왜 나와 이 또라이세꺄. 니네백돼지들처럼 수당에만 의지해서 사는건 뭐 정상이냐?

니네백돼지들? 인종 차별 주의자가 되지 마세요.

I feel attacked😳

@@peeppon9769 so u koreaboo...

I'm not a kboo (i would kms if i was) but i really want to go to South Korea to study in a good college

It's a pretty chill life as an expat to be honest. if you are born and raised Korean... not so much!

@Beatrice Persson I was a teacher there for 5 years and I found it quite easy as long as you were able to accept and go with the flow of their culture. Much easier than my job/life in the US.

Wowzer Bowser lol i make sure to keep ALL my textbooks no matter what

Wowzer Bowser if you missed it. it's a religious practice. they beleive strongly in bad lack so to ward it off they burn old knowledge

same i spent 500 on one textbook i would kill my mum if she burned it

Their schoolbooks aren't the same as western ones at all. They aren't expensive like that.

they likely don't spend any money on their textbooks. In the UK, text books are very cheap also. It's only really America that overcharges for the books. Stupid.

xsharetheworld it’s called sleeping on the plane to fix your schedule it’s hard to sleep so high chances she took sleeping pills

Jet lag's not that bad getting there, it's usually a pain once you get back.

its pretty difficult to sleep on a plane that is so loud with no comfortable seats unless you pay for first class which isnt even worth it..

Ikr!

periodtttt

That's why it's compulsory for students in my country to have extra curricular activities. Plenty of opportunities to choose from to pursue your interest.

Just look at Finland they have minimal school hours and top the world in educational outcomes.

They don't own a television, I'd imagine learning such a unique skill was a way to get through the boredom

damn ikr

Muscle memory I guess??

Like Freddie Mercury :)

I dont wanna like ur comment cause its on 666

He clearly said insufficient

As a tutor in S. Korea I saw parents getting FURIOUS, absolutely IRATE when their kids were sleeping. They really honestly seem to think that sleep is time wasted, and everyone should be able to get by on practically no sleep at all. If you're sleeping, you should be studying! Jeez....

6 hours is suffient

Depends. I can't sleep more than six hours. If i do, i feel terrible because i never need that much sleep. My body aches if i sleep for more than six hours.

@@hariniobla422 So you live in, like, Spain or Guatemala where you guys take a 2 hour nap (SIESTA) every afternoon on top of the 6 hrs you sleep at night? B/C humans need 8 hrs of sleep a day, 8 hrs of work, 8 hrs of downtime, 8 hrs of sleep. it's a scientifically proven fact. Unless you're bipolar & driving every other human you come into contact with crazy every waking moment of your life. If you only sleep 6 hrs / day you do NOT need to be a train conductor or airplane pilot or a surgeon. You do NOT live a natural and healthy life.

Where as the Korean of the Welsh students is non existent

@@GemGem12 but she's pretty good in english

she probably learns english and her parents host american kids so it's just built up over time

Nona Nona in Korea, the English curriculum is based on American English.

sugar rocks well there’s all kinds of English -American, Australian, Canadian, South African, British, New Zealand- if you’re from any of these countries you can teach English in South Korea. BUT... the preference is for American English. That’s all. Speak whatever accent you want... who cares.

That’s the problem with Korean schools. They really don’t value mental health. Look at the high teen suicide rates in South Korea!

This is not education. One cannot concentrate for 12-14 hours straight without any break on studies. Yes it is advisable to revise what you were taught in your school on the same day but this is madness. One can put in 4-5 hours of self study and be at the top of the class. Imagine studying continuously from 8 am to 11 PM. Will you be able to maintain the same level of concentration? No.

I hope i can just stop like you, haha.

well said! We should value happiness in schools and society as a marker of success.

depends on the job, many places in korea have the rule that u must employ a korean before a foreigner. Two foreigners had another foreigner in mind to work for them but had to follow this rule too and employ a korean student first.

natasha Dockray Lol thanks

You guys are great at shooting, at least something to celebrate

@@cristinaserna5674 And you're great at being dumb. If someone in your country gets hold of a gun and starts shooting, tell me if you'll be laughing then. It can happen - anywhere.

@@vrinda5303 that's not happen anywhere lol....that's not something like that in asian school...

Cristina Serna Yikes. You don’t know how stressful it is to have ALICE training from time to time. I’m just glad that my school isn’t going to use fake blood or firing blanks (firing empty guns) when we’re doing ALICE training.

Aifa J. Finland is bullshit

excellent point. i bet the student suicide rate is much lower there as well.

Aifa J. I heard they don't get homework, lucky kids.

HOBO BRO it means everything in Korea. The too kind go to too students

"i bet the student suicide rate is much lower there as well." We can check that. According to World Health Organization. Per capita. It's 24 for South Korea and 14 for Finland. The difference is 10 which is lower, so yeah. But if you compare South Korea to another country with a first world economy like Kazakhstan, the South Koreans are still doing better. Citation: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_rate#References iq-research.info/en/page/average-iq-by-country

when the government tells you to study less and gives you a 10 pm curfew looool

Yeah tbh South Korea has one of the highest suicide rates in the world and it’s mainly teenagers...

12345 67890 korea has the highest suicide rate because of school. The school there is so hard, a lot of kids from korea are coming to my school because their parents don't like the school systems there.

that's the problem with Korean students they are under insane pressure and many of them in my opinion with no blame crack. itd brutal and that's why so many koreans move to the US because it's easier

Thats very true indeed.

Hjaja Bjka same here

my school finishes at 3:25pm :(

lucky you

Really ..? wow ..... ( in South korea usually the 4 graders finish school at 2pm not middle school graders ... ) + How did i knew that ? well i live here .......

Wtf really where do you live, that's so early

Crazy society

Joshua Phan the other 1% are forced

No, there's one guy -- just one guy -- who totally ruins the statistic for everyone else.

Disrespectful? No, it's just a bit dumb and uninspired. You're simply looking to be offended.

well gangnam is a city in south korea, right? song made by a south korean man. but yeah i get how kung fu fighting is disrespectful

Kung Fu isn’t even Korean, it’s Chinese. So yeah Ku Fu Fighting was pretty distasteful

wild stingray yeah I guess Gangnam style isn’t disrespectful, just feels very topical.

well gangnam stlye is korean pop ( kpop ) and stuff but kungfufightig? i mean if anything.. BTS is prob more known at the time then that song

What are you talking about? Lacking social and emotional skills? You must think all Koreans are zombies. Meanwhile Korea's media and entertainment content is spreading throughout the world. Quite an achievement for a country of socially inept emotionless zombies huh?

jw theyre not being called zombies... im not quite sure why youre so offended. It was an observation, not an insult. Don’t out words into peoples’ mouths.

Also, documentaries fail to mention some "secrets" about law-breaking Hagwons. Many hagwons break the curfew law.

KJ Burned really now

@@akhcubing wait what... what is their curfew time? is it like 10 or 11 pm?

I was one of them, I was suffered and I dont want to go back but still I believe that was one of beautiful periods of my life. Can stick with friends almost of the days so we had a lot of fun. I couldnt do without my friends. And we do a lot of other experiences in schools. I still always saying Korean Education is fuck8ng sucks and we should change this but I'm frustrated with that. Poor kids

@@auliareski well...yeahh Usually, around that time or even like around 8 Idk about illegal curfews tho

Idkthinkfirst Humans Well the school probably had to pick from people who interviewed for ot

Kind of. I mean the sporty kid was a really nice person but imagine the embarassment when the Korean teacher asked you a question about english and you can't answer. I was thinking just say we don't learn that in Wales but then she reveals she lived in Wales for years. lol

Idkthinkfirst Humans Samen I love how positive and respectful they are

lol ok HAHAHAHA Why not add some abrakabra to it? ;) HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

theuglykwan english is my first language but i have no idea what she was asking about. for many ppl whose english is the first language, it isn't about what's "past tense" or whatever when communicating. it comes naturally. but for those who are learning english, they have to stick with "rules" about grammar etc which most of us don't thinj much of

astro XD

i screamed ahaha

omg yes i saw it on tv today and i literally scream to my family that it was eunwoo and im proud

omg same

i spotted hyuna in the girls video!

Right 👍

Taekwondo copied karate

Mashal arts: india

@@Priyanka-bq4ze no one ask sorry

@ScepticalCynic is kung fu a blanket term

Grace Kim not all kids would be this good at English - majority of Koreans aren’t - but “gangnam kids” usually have wealthy parents or middle-class parents who save to send their kids abroad for a summer or two to get them fluent in English. It’s really important. The parents know that fluency in English (with natural accent) will only further benefit their kids futures and give them more opportunities - especially if they want to apply for Oxbridge in England or IV league universities in America. I always heard about Koreans whose parents sent them to USA, Canada, Australia or New Zealand - UK not as much (in my personal experience)

Ikr, like, I went to Korea with my sister and met my cousin. And he is fluent in english...while I can't speak korean that well...I can only understand it bc of my mom.

Skeptics we love you anyway I’m from gangnam myself and for us it is quite normal to have that level of fluency in English. It is not because people go abroad to study English, (I only have one friend who went to the UK for summer camp) it is mainly because of the level of our university admissions exam. Students get a lot of private educations.

They wouldn’t host them if it isn’t lmao

in the UK I remember someone broke their arm and they got someone to write for them in exams.

theuglykwan I broke my arm during an English exam and the teacher wrote out everything I said word by word. I was like " blah blah blah full stop" it was so jarring but if I wrote with my right hand you wouldn't be able to understand shit.

he is a badass, solved math problem in 15 minutes while wearing bandaged. for us, we need to bandage our brain after taking 60 minutes math test.

j.y jt LMAO

This made me choke on my watermelon

LOOOOOL

Lmaooo

Lol

bitch no you don't. there's a reason why korea is the no.1 in teen suicides.

@@charlieshin9868 ikr

same, i'd rather study 14-16 hours and get 6 hours of sleep and be sleepy because i had been actually working before instead of studying 6 hours and sleep 6 hours and be sleepy because I had been watching youtube videos and series all day (just like i'm doing now)

As a Korean, I just wanted to say that we admire the UK and other European countries' method of teaching as well. While my country is focused on learning stuff more efficiently, your schools focus on understanding the concepts and making it your own. I would love to have a freer environment where I can learn things that I fully understand, not have the teacher cram fifty math shortcuts that I cannot understand where it came from.

.. Yeh .. Sleeping in Class ..

Well, they're certainly not getting pregnant at 15 and doing meth like all the kids I see when I look around my hometown.

They do also have one of the highest suicide rates, so unfortunately you’re right. It all comes with large consequences

tararasque it is still present in korea, the main difference is they’re often pressured into abortions and putting the children up for adoption and hidden by the families

we have similar education systems and i can assure you its definitely not good for mental health

@@akxnxjbx You poor baby 😔

also it seems that they just arrived in the country, so major jetlag

Jet lag

Vanjay22m Gardener I know😂😓

Well.. isn’t it true? 😂😅

We are lol. We don’t even want to cook healthy food for kids in school . Instead buys pre made process foods.

yeah but which country is happier? Life is about balance...

right even when British are fighting it seem like their saying something intelligent

This is funny

Whenever I hear, “You absolute wanker” in *that* British accent I immediately savour it and replay it in my mind

@@yabazyabacoffee 😂 yeees!!!

Omg! So true

Kuppy Mon You're Korean. So you know that Korean parents don't care that much about their kids being happy. They care more about their kids' report cards, exam results, and eventually, the universities their kids get into. And they care what jobs their kids get, and they care what other people will think of them. How many Korean parents would be satisfied with their kids deciding they want to be happy and not study so hard and not go to university and get jobs as car mechanics?

Nope. Finland used to be top with the education system. for the past 10+ years the results have gone worse and they still are getting worse. Finland is pretty mediocre now.

Lischu they are actually still on top and the peeps that don't really get along gets more help like my brother and sister. But i find it rly easy in school. But I actually just care that we gets good education and now we start to get better education and it's more simpler than it has been before. And we learn certain things in different periods, the most countries do that lol.

Yeah no. I'm a Finn myself too. I got my education in Finland when the pisa scores were in the top 3. 15 years ago. Now Reading #4, Science #5, Maths #13. That is not top. The quality of the education is still good, but it is not top. It is not as good as it was and the results and the quality of the education is getting worse and it has gone worse ever since 2006. We're not even #1 in Europe anymore. So yeah, we used to be very good, but we are not anymore and instead of telling ourselves 10 year old lies we should focus on figuring out where we went wrong.

Lischu i checked it out we are 1st in Europe

@@Jasmin-id5rz umm. Estonia is #1 in Europe since 2015.

Becca Torres I have to wake up at 5 for school -.-

In my school you either enter at 7:30 am or 9:12 am. At 9:12 am is our 3rd period and that's when the whole school is taking attendances

my 5 year old gets on the school bus at 6:45am. Crazy huh

School starts at 730 here

My school started at 7:20 lol

Definitely! Especially when you're still growing. Obviously school is important, but not moreso than getting a full night of sleep.

I haven't slept in 2 days. Oops

@Florides BB No most kids I know go to sleep at 8 or 9 pm. Most of them go to sleep early. And if your going to right a comment like that please say some, you just said something about the whole country.

It shortens life span I feel like that's why they look so young until so old and then they get so old so quickly and then they look like wrinkled bats

Yoi Red No, that’s due to their genes. But such little sleep will cause dangerous side effects.

drsnowmon The movie 's director is Korean. So I think that a reason why they use 'Kung Fu Fighting'.

drsnowmon indeed that's how they think.

It's just a song, get over it. Go to some Asian countries and every European becomes American...

Erm no. Unless you go to a developing country where not everyone gets proper education and exposure.

Dafydd Williams I'm so sure I'd be able to tell the difference between a French person, a German person, and a Swedish person. We all fucking look the same.

Traditional?

Found the cringe lord I was looking for

Yea some westerners have no idea these are Chinese music.. they just too stupid to tell

Daxing Li exactly what I was thinking

I'd cringe like hell even if they were using traditional Korean music let alone Chinese

Exactly

Kristin or more students. 3 is quite a small number I think

Ah thanks man just got ABB for my AS levels. Like to think I am ambitious!

Kristin Exactly

Maybe they did this to encourage these students to study more and feel grateful their studying hours in school back in the UK are not as bad.