After pondering about what to talk about on my blog, I thought that it'd be interesting to share teen life in Korea. Last year, I visited Korea and stayed at my aunt's house. I was fully of excited about the thought that I could hang out with my cousins. However, we couldn't spend much time together, because they were always busy studying and preparing themselves for college. An Example of Korean Student's schedule:
6:30
get up
exercise, including dancing, aerobics, and jogging
eat breakfast
typically rice, gimchi, soup, yogurt, apples
wash face and hands or take a shower
clean dorm room
take roll call
7:50
school officially begins
free study at carrel in student study room, known as a yaja
9:20
first of four classes, each between one hour to 90 minutes
1:10
lunch
typically rice, gimchi, soup, bibimbab, tomatoes
sometimes spaghetti with a topping of peas and/or fish
1:45
more classes
4:00
students clean the school with their team
4:20
one more class
6:00
dinner
7:00
roll call and free study at the yaja
often goes until 11:00 with a 30-minute break in the middle,
can go until 1:30 or later during examination periods.
As it is shown, Students in Korea spend most of their time studying.
However, they aren't much different than American students. Korean students love to hang out, go shopping, and play video games as any other teenagers do. In the next blog post, I will share some activities Korean students like to do in their free time.
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