More than 4,000 elementary, middle and high schools across Korea have shut their doors as the country’s student population shrinks, new data shows....

More than 4,000 elementary, middle and high schools across Korea have shut their doors as the country’s student population shrinks, new data shows.

According to the Ministry of Education’s latest figures, revealed on Sunday by Rep. Jin Sun-mee of the ruling Democratic Party of Korea, since 1980, 4,008 schools under 17 regional education offices nationwide have closed as of March this year. During the period, the number of enrolled students decreased from 9.9 million to 5.07 million.

  • k0e3@lemmy.caEnglish
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    3 hours ago

    I don’t even understand his previous comment. He doesn’t like children and mortgages and his wife’s job?

    • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 hour ago

      Apart from being wrong, the rest simply made zero sense, so I admit I simply blocked him. Waste of time IMO, I don’t mind people disagreeing if I at least can understand where they are coming from, but those 2 comments were worse than a bad AI IMO.