Oh no… this was the saddest news for both Korean universities and the Korean education due to continuing declined birthrate. 🙁 https://m.koreatimes.co.kr/pages/article.asp?newsIdx=369494
Universities struggle to fill classes amid population decline
by Lee Hae-rin
Universities in Korea are struggling to fill their classes as the number of first-year students matriculating to colleges this spring falls short of their intended class sizes amid the country’s falling birthrate.
Jongno Hagwon, one of Korea’s largest college preparation institutes, said in its analysis of Korean Council for University Education data that 169 schools in the country failed to fill their admission quotas by the registration deadline this year, falling short by 13,148 student enrollments in total.
Universities outside Seoul accounted for 88.2 percent of the total enrollment shortage, failing to fill 11,595 places.
Some of these universities failed to reach 50 percent of their enrollment goals, with one university only managing to fill 21.6 percent of its incoming class, the analysis showed.
The trend affected the so-called in-Seoul universities, referring to more prestigious schools in the capital that many students wish to attend for better employment opportunities and social recognition.
Among these schools, 31 failed to recruit a total of 618 first-year students this year, which accounts for 4.7 of the total enrollment shortfall.
Seokyeong University saw the most significant shortage, needing 111 students to meet its enrollment goal, followed by Sejong University with 53, Hansung University with 34, Hongik University with 31, Kookmin University with 29, Chung-Ang University with 19, Hankuk University of Foreign Languages with 18 and Hanyang University with 17 students.
Gyeonggi Province and Incheon also had 35 universities needing to recruit 935 more students, accounting for 7.1 percent of the total shortage.
Jeju Island was found to need the biggest number of additional students. Two of the island’s universities are seeking an average of 226.5 additional students.
Meanwhile, Kangwon Tourism College, the only college in the eastern city of Taebaek, Gangwon Province, will close down at the end of this month due to a lack of students.
It is the second community college in the country to shut down after Daegu Future College, which closed six years ago for the same reason, and the 20th institution of higher education to close since 2000.
The school decided to close its doors 30 years after its founding, which the Ministry of Education approved earlier this month.
According to the Korean Educational Development Institute, the number of elementary, middle and high school students in the country will drop from this year’s 5.2 million to 4.25 million in 2029 due to a plummeting birthrate.
Korea’s birthrate hit a record low at 0.78 last year, and Statistics Korea estimates the figure will fall even further to 0.65 next year.
I wonder if opening more opportunities for international students that closed up during pandemic border closures would help?
I know classes in my city for all levels of education are combusting at the seams— some middle schools have had to transfer students to other schools, too, because not only are the class sizes too big— which means less accountability, less care, and a lesser quality in the education given— the school buildings themselves are not fit to house such a big student body, and that’s not even including the teaching staff
1 million decline? That is huge, 20% of future workforce. Not to mention the future implications that will have on paying retairement benefits to exactly the population that worked their a$$ off in the economic boom that the country went through. That is a sacrifice generation, indeed.
Hopefully they will keep the standards high and not allow unqualified people in the critical professions.
If you take into account when the MeeToo movement started and how it was and is maintained through agressive and extremist feminist propaganda all these years through social media, books and dramas/movies, it all makes sense. I bet they are celebrating every time this news are shared. This is not a SK issue only, it is happening everywhere. I am meeting more and more young adult women that are convinced not to have children here and in my native country. SK is a win for them because of their succes in such a family and traditional country. In my native one there was a shortage initially due to many leaving to work in the western european countries. Now there is a shortage of qualified workers, cannot find good electricians, plumbers, maintenance workers, etc. Not to mention the more unqualified ones because everyone goes to college due to low standards in education. There is an influx of immigrants all the way from Asia, business are seeking international workers to survive. So there is a movement of population everywhere. It is sad what is happening and everyone is passively accepting it. Manufactured consent to surender entire nations that will ultimatelly enslave people more.
One better solution instead of imigration is seeing more marriages and babies in dramas endings. But that is not happening, 90% of new dramas have these endings that promote separations of the main leads through various ending scenarios. More unity between genders and less divide. More incentives to newly weds and parents and more child support. But that will not happen because they don’t want this. The saddest thing is that women will continue to suffer and be underpaid but will not say anything against the immigrant men that were brought up to get the job and to lower the salary of the korean man.
Forgive my rant on your fan wall.
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Jezz
February 26, 2024 at 7:09 PM
Oh no… this was the saddest news for both Korean universities and the Korean education due to continuing declined birthrate. 🙁
https://m.koreatimes.co.kr/pages/article.asp?newsIdx=369494
Universities struggle to fill classes amid population decline
by Lee Hae-rin
Universities in Korea are struggling to fill their classes as the number of first-year students matriculating to colleges this spring falls short of their intended class sizes amid the country’s falling birthrate.
Jongno Hagwon, one of Korea’s largest college preparation institutes, said in its analysis of Korean Council for University Education data that 169 schools in the country failed to fill their admission quotas by the registration deadline this year, falling short by 13,148 student enrollments in total.
Universities outside Seoul accounted for 88.2 percent of the total enrollment shortage, failing to fill 11,595 places.
Some of these universities failed to reach 50 percent of their enrollment goals, with one university only managing to fill 21.6 percent of its incoming class, the analysis showed.
The trend affected the so-called in-Seoul universities, referring to more prestigious schools in the capital that many students wish to attend for better employment opportunities and social recognition.
Among these schools, 31 failed to recruit a total of 618 first-year students this year, which accounts for 4.7 of the total enrollment shortfall.
Seokyeong University saw the most significant shortage, needing 111 students to meet its enrollment goal, followed by Sejong University with 53, Hansung University with 34, Hongik University with 31, Kookmin University with 29, Chung-Ang University with 19, Hankuk University of Foreign Languages with 18 and Hanyang University with 17 students.
Gyeonggi Province and Incheon also had 35 universities needing to recruit 935 more students, accounting for 7.1 percent of the total shortage.
Jeju Island was found to need the biggest number of additional students. Two of the island’s universities are seeking an average of 226.5 additional students.
Meanwhile, Kangwon Tourism College, the only college in the eastern city of Taebaek, Gangwon Province, will close down at the end of this month due to a lack of students.
It is the second community college in the country to shut down after Daegu Future College, which closed six years ago for the same reason, and the 20th institution of higher education to close since 2000.
The school decided to close its doors 30 years after its founding, which the Ministry of Education approved earlier this month.
According to the Korean Educational Development Institute, the number of elementary, middle and high school students in the country will drop from this year’s 5.2 million to 4.25 million in 2029 due to a plummeting birthrate.
Korea’s birthrate hit a record low at 0.78 last year, and Statistics Korea estimates the figure will fall even further to 0.65 next year.
Bebe | Nessa❣️
February 26, 2024 at 7:42 PM
I wonder if opening more opportunities for international students that closed up during pandemic border closures would help?
I know classes in my city for all levels of education are combusting at the seams— some middle schools have had to transfer students to other schools, too, because not only are the class sizes too big— which means less accountability, less care, and a lesser quality in the education given— the school buildings themselves are not fit to house such a big student body, and that’s not even including the teaching staff
Kodra aka Qanon something
February 26, 2024 at 8:50 PM
1 million decline? That is huge, 20% of future workforce. Not to mention the future implications that will have on paying retairement benefits to exactly the population that worked their a$$ off in the economic boom that the country went through. That is a sacrifice generation, indeed.
Hopefully they will keep the standards high and not allow unqualified people in the critical professions.
If you take into account when the MeeToo movement started and how it was and is maintained through agressive and extremist feminist propaganda all these years through social media, books and dramas/movies, it all makes sense. I bet they are celebrating every time this news are shared. This is not a SK issue only, it is happening everywhere. I am meeting more and more young adult women that are convinced not to have children here and in my native country. SK is a win for them because of their succes in such a family and traditional country. In my native one there was a shortage initially due to many leaving to work in the western european countries. Now there is a shortage of qualified workers, cannot find good electricians, plumbers, maintenance workers, etc. Not to mention the more unqualified ones because everyone goes to college due to low standards in education. There is an influx of immigrants all the way from Asia, business are seeking international workers to survive. So there is a movement of population everywhere. It is sad what is happening and everyone is passively accepting it. Manufactured consent to surender entire nations that will ultimatelly enslave people more.
One better solution instead of imigration is seeing more marriages and babies in dramas endings. But that is not happening, 90% of new dramas have these endings that promote separations of the main leads through various ending scenarios. More unity between genders and less divide. More incentives to newly weds and parents and more child support. But that will not happen because they don’t want this. The saddest thing is that women will continue to suffer and be underpaid but will not say anything against the immigrant men that were brought up to get the job and to lower the salary of the korean man.
Forgive my rant on your fan wall.