“They start med school prep classes at age 3 or 4” ... Chung Seung-Je: “They should be arrested for child abuse”

[Financial News] Math “star instructor” Chung Seung-Je strongly criticized the reality of private education, where even children as young as 3 or 4 prepare for medical school entrance exams, and argued that it should be punished as child abuse.
Chung Seung-Je recently appeared on the YouTube channel ChimChakMan and criticized the problem of early private education. “In math, for instance, children start med school prep classes at age 3 or 4,” he said, adding, “This is a completely insane country.”
When Yoo Dae-jong, a “star instructor” in Korean, who appeared on the program with him that day, said, “At 4, they probably don’t even have their first memory yet,” Chung Seung-Je reiterated his criticism: “They start med school prep at age 4. That’s why this is crazy.”
Chung Seung-Je also said that people who make young children prepare for medical school entrance exams should be punished. “I really don’t know why the state doesn’t arrest them for that. They should be arrested for child abuse,” he said. “I think they really should be punished. But I want to show that this atmosphere of thinking it’s right shows that it is not (the right path).”

Meanwhile a survey found that the proportion of infants and young children receiving private education is already close to half. According to the results of the “2024 Pilot Survey on Private Education Spending for Preschool-Age Children,” released by the Ministry of Education last year, 47.6% of the 13,241 children under age six surveyed were receiving private education.
Participation rates by age were 24.6% for children aged 2 or younger, 50.3% for 3-year-olds, and 81.2% for 5-year-olds. The older the children were, the higher the proportion participating in private education.


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