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When compared to Canadian (or Western) university students the big difference seems to be Korean students are doing the socializing at university that Canadians did at high school, while Canadian students are doing the studying at university that Koreans did at high school. I would argue the point and say Canadian students seem to have better balance between studying, clubs, sports and the like through high school and uni, but I can’t be objective either.
The comment about Christians on campus seems be a good reference to the bigger picture – Korean Christians seem to be more Christian than God – I mean, Christians of other nations.
Kwandongbrian,
Of course, the fact is that most Korean students retain little or nothing of what they learned for the College Entrance Exams, or at least, this is what person after person has told me. (It’s not surprising, since massive amounts of rote learning often don’t stick for years.) Meanwhile, Canadian college students are learning at the point when learning something useful is actually possible, ie. while at University, and got the socializing overload out of their systems while it was handy to do so, ie. in high school, when they didn’t learn too much that had to be retained.
I wouldn’t claim to be perfectly objective either, but there is a kind of logic here. It’d be cooler still if we could balance things out in high school a little more, too. But in fact, I don’t find my memories of high school involving anything like the massive social party that Uni seems to be to freshmen here. Some of them go so far off the deep end it doesn’t scale.
Re: the Extreme Christians on Campus, I often found that my most fanatical students made the least progress in acquiring English. There were much more important things to do, to their minds, like proselytizing and participating daily in religio-obsessive singalongs in the student center. And they certainly do seem often to have little or no respect for anyone’s academic aspirations. “What good is knowledge if you haven’t joined my particular cult?”