Academic Pressure in Korean Education
Words: 988 Pages: 3 3829Introduction South Korea's meteoric rise from a struggling economy to one of the world's leading economic powerhouses is nothing short of remarkable. Formerly a poor nation, it has grown into the world’s 13th largest economy (Singh, 2017, para. 2). Despite this economic success, South Korea faces a critical social issue: a persistently high suicide rate, which is the highest among industrialized nations over the past two decades, as reported by the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) (Singh, 2017, […]