January 23, 2011
Searching for a New Kind of Student in South Korea
Jean Chung for The Chronicle
Kwon Heok Seung (left), associate dean for the office of admissions at Seoul National U., and Lee Seung Yeon, admissions officer, review application dossiers. New standards guide a search for students who have leadership potential and think independently.
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Jean Chung for The Chronicle
Kwon Heok Seung (left), associate dean for the office of admissions at Seoul National U., and Lee Seung Yeon, admissions officer, review application dossiers. New standards guide a search for students who have leadership potential and think independently.
Seoul, South Korea
While nearly 700,000 aspiring college students in South Korea sat for the grueling university-entrance exam in November, Yu Hwa Young spent the day riding roller coasters and snapping pictures at Everland, an amusement park here.
"Everyone was jealous," said the 19-year-old recent graduate of Posung High School.
Yu skipped the test because he had already been admitted to an international-studies program at Sogang University, based on his grades, a near-perfect score on the
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