tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6357026555577605135.post7561988852292284545..comments2023-10-11T05:10:59.975-07:00Comments on kimchi-icecream: "Korean Children 'Don't Get Enough Sleep'" -- Wow . . . now there's a 'revelation' to foreign English teachers!Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14403839433187045342noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6357026555577605135.post-9153127884414077582013-03-26T18:12:58.289-07:002013-03-26T18:12:58.289-07:00I've just started teaching in Korea, and recen...I've just started teaching in Korea, and recently made friends with a young Korean man (24) who literally wants to make it his life's work to help children, especially teenagers, with their problems, that come from so many pressures on them.<br /><br />He told me about the high suicide rate they have here and about how little sleep they get. <br /><br />Little sleep + meritocratic pressure + Confucianism + other assorted factors of poor health = untold stress<br /><br />I aim to do whatever I can in my lessons to give these children a bit of a break, without of course it being a detriment to their learning.<br /><br />Poor little kids :(Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6357026555577605135.post-58582397430037255092012-11-19T06:08:56.037-08:002012-11-19T06:08:56.037-08:00i am a korean student and i can understand what yo...i am a korean student and i can understand what you are saying Jason and i find it pretty funny hahabeth or yejinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6357026555577605135.post-91772958297210627112012-11-19T06:07:14.487-08:002012-11-19T06:07:14.487-08:00You know im a korean student (its south not north ...You know im a korean student (its south not north amazing how ppl dont get that right) and i agree with you there. I get, what, 6 hours of sleep every day. You may say this is enough. But im one of the most sleepiest students in the school campus...i know a person that the less she sleeps, the more hyper she becomes...she sleeps at what, 4 in the morning and she's skipping and bustin ppl up when shes at school weird right?<br />and its true,nothing can be done about it. there are still a lot of hagwons that hit students in korea when they dont do their work including hw. its harsh, but you get used to it trust me its too sadbeth or yejinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6357026555577605135.post-85056089014310278882011-11-01T07:48:23.886-07:002011-11-01T07:48:23.886-07:00babo, na ga ra.babo, na ga ra.Jasonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14403839433187045342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6357026555577605135.post-73080954882108326152011-10-31T11:31:03.178-07:002011-10-31T11:31:03.178-07:00"There are SOME Korean parents I've talke..."There are SOME Korean parents I've talked to, who are also teachers, that let their children sleep more. I was so shocked to hear them say this, and that they knew about the relationship between sleep and memory/learning/testing ...."<br /><br />Give Korean parents a little credit. They are not as backwards as you would like to think. You act like it's some foreign concept to Korean parents. It's not and your insistence on this just shows how ignorant and patronizing you really are toward them. You don't know what's going on in the Korean home as much as you'd like to think you do.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6357026555577605135.post-13497267731002939822010-04-19T07:45:48.545-07:002010-04-19T07:45:48.545-07:00Sometimes I don't feel my job is very moral wh...Sometimes I don't feel my job is very moral when my kids are here til midnight... and I am soo tired after 11 hours of work ... while knowing they started there day at 8. They are little people. After teaching here for long enough it's really hard to keep reminding yourelf of that.Kelly Teacherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02401986171097786798noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6357026555577605135.post-10336577934694772122009-08-23T14:18:29.035-07:002009-08-23T14:18:29.035-07:00My other students were always amazed to hear that ...My other students were always amazed to hear that my best student was the one who didn't attend any hagwons at all!Kelseyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02057778340760717886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6357026555577605135.post-53511186038038199952009-08-23T14:09:02.720-07:002009-08-23T14:09:02.720-07:00Hi,
There are SOME Korean parents I've talked...Hi,<br /><br />There are SOME Korean parents I've talked to, who are also teachers, that let their children sleep more. I was so shocked to hear them say this, and that they knew about the relationship between sleep and memory/learning/testing ....<br /><br />I think things will change in Korea-especially with more and more students being educated and then coming back. The things they experience and learn will be integrated into the culture here.<br /><br />Thanks for reading.<br />JJasonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14403839433187045342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6357026555577605135.post-78557075898540907582009-08-21T23:14:22.795-07:002009-08-21T23:14:22.795-07:00This is an excellent post, I wish Koreans could re...This is an excellent post, I wish Koreans could read it in Korean - although I doubt they'd believe most of it anyway, or would just throw it away with comments like "but nothing can be done to change it."<br /><br />Towards the end, you said:<br /><br />"I've read about, and heard from students, the expresion, "Sleep 5 hours, get into an average university. Sleep 4 hours, and get into S.K.Y. ( the top 3 univesities in Korea)." I wonder if anyone has done research in Korea to test the validity of this expression . . ."<br /><br />I think this is a tough one, because whether the kids are getting 4 hours or 5 hours, they're all sleep deprived anyway, so perhaps there is some degree of truth in this expression <i>in Korea</i>, because among the sleep deprived students, the ones getting the least sleep are doing the most studying.<br /><br />Obviously, I also don't have any research or statistics relating to this. I just think it's a shame that none of the students or parents have the education, knowledge, and courage to be the one who breaks the mould entirely, to do it differently from everyone else and get enough sleep and beat everybody else on the tests.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6357026555577605135.post-38693713775457598452009-01-09T05:40:00.000-08:002009-01-09T05:40:00.000-08:00Well . . . yes . . . but I think that new foreign ...Well . . . yes . . . but I think that new foreign teachers thinking about coming here might like to know about the kind of conditions their students are in when they walk into the classroom for the first time . . . so I think it's useful for them. <BR/><BR/>So . . .. hmmm, yeah. <BR/><BR/>Amen . . .lol.<BR/>JJasonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14403839433187045342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6357026555577605135.post-91485685924082382062009-01-09T03:49:00.000-08:002009-01-09T03:49:00.000-08:00I believe this is what we call preaching to the ch...I believe this is what we call preaching to the choir.Kelseyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02057778340760717886noreply@blogger.com