Studying in South Korea

What time do you have breakfast?

Where do you have lunch?

Do you go out with your friends for a coffee after school or after work?

Do you work in the evenings, or do you have dinner with family or friends?

Life is very different for many young people in South Korea. It's very important for people to go to a good university, and find a good job...so study is very, very important! Young people get up at about six o'clock, have breakfast with their family, an then go to school...schools in South Korea start at seven o'clock.

After five hours of lessons in the morning, it's time for lunch. Most people have lunch at school. Then there are more lessons until six o'clock...but that's not the end! Many young Koreans go to the library and study from about eight o'clock to eleven or twelve o'clock, when the libraries close.

At that time, they go home in a special minibus. Most students don't go to bed before one or two o'clock, an then the next day, after just four or five hours of sleep, it's time to get up again.

Here in Brazil, young people do not support staying in school four hours, so the reality is different too.

Follow the example of young Koreans!