South Korea’s Education Minister Wants More Diverse Student Bodies
South Korea has a well respected education system that has provided workers for some of the world’s greatest companies, but the current education minister wants to make major changes:
Korea’s education system is at a turning point, facing both a declining student population and the pressures of a highly competitive academic environment, with Education Minister Choi Kyo-jin calling for greater diversity to drive innovation in higher education.
“Diversity in the student body positively affects creative thinking and learning outcomes. It goes beyond equal opportunity — it plays a decisive role in improving the quality of university education,” Education Minister Choi Kyo-jin told reporters Monday at Government Complex Sejong.
The press conference, held a month after Choi took office, outlined the ministry’s vision and priorities for higher education under the Lee Jae Myung administration.
Citing examples from overseas, he noted that many foreign universities have established dedicated committees to promote diversity across race, gender and socioeconomic background.
“Some Korean universities are also making such efforts, which is an encouraging sign,” he said. “Expanding diversity should be a key direction for the future of Korean higher education.”
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This seems to be a two-prong approach.
Bring in more foreign students based on race, gender, and parent’s income rather than high ability and standards that will motivate and stimulate Korean students to achieve a higher level.
Then reduce early education for Korean children to ensure they don’t overachieve against these dumbed down international students.
This is a great plan.
…not for Korea, of course…
…but as a single step in the pathway towards the globalist goal of uniform mediocrity.
If Koreans allow the import of substandard foreigners (paid for with their tax money) and the reduced education of Korean children, Korea deserves to fail until the people force the Korea government to work for Korea and Koreans rather than for the globalists.
Korea is not going to be a global AI player with a bunch of women and colored poors trying to figure out which end of the large language model to cram in the data.
Korea certainly needs foreign influence with AI, but substandard students is absolutely not the way forward. Korea needs to get the calculator out and determine how much can be made with world-class AI. Then Korea needs to offer world-class AI scientists ridiculous salaries, benefits, and bonuses to live in Korea, set up world-class AI, and teach the smartest merit-based Korean students everything they know.
Korea only has one resource… smart people.
And this new globalist-inspired government program is designed to destroy that advantage.
Go government!
What he really means is more Chinese students.. NO CCP!!