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xypher

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KYli said:
Overspending in tutoring is detrimental to children. SK needs to enact policies to decrease the cutthroat competition in basic education.
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This is certainly an issue, China banned those cram schools but I don't think that targeting only the symptoms is useful in the long run - eventually the underlying issues like overly competitive environment will have to be addressed somehow, although that's obviously not easy and will take long time.

However, I don't think metrics from the article are really useful to determine productivity or education quality, e.g.:
It spends 40% more on a typical teenage student than Ireland yet obtains 60% less in gross domestic product per employee.
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Everyone knows that most of the Irish GDP is fake in reality and driven by Ireland being a huge tax heaven. This is even confirmed by their government which uses different metrics. So whether Irish economy is really stronger and more productive than the Korean one is a big "IF" question. In terms of important high-tech industries the latter is certainly ahead.
 
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