Comments on: Korea – Don’t Go To University!

By: maciek

maciek — Tue, 08 Jul 2014 19:11:30 +0000

High education boom is what exactly has been happening in my country for over decade. More and more young people think that degree is exactly what they need to get well-paid job. Unfortunately it is not the case. A great number of students got university degrees that are not that worth as they used to be 20-30 years ago. What is more a lot of people just study to get any degree from any university even though there is no demand for people with this kind of degree (forgot to mention that education in my country is free for everyone) But they think that this piece of paper somehow make them get the job of their dream. In the end most students end up working in low-paid jobs. The job market is so competitive that degree is not enough for sure. What is important apart from degree are skills and most of students lack of them. Almost no one think to go to work after secondary school. They do not understand that high schools are not for everyone and sometimes it is better to get some experience and become professional not necessary as a doctor, engineer etc. As a result more and more students graduate, they start looking for a job without any experience and if they are not lucky enough they have to work in jobs that do not require any special experience. Do not have to mention what money they earn – for sure not what the dreamed about before going to university.

By: Yeah, I Love It

Yeah, I Love It — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 19:11:54 +0000

…Canada has only 3

LOL)))

By: Rafal

Rafal — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 06:51:26 +0000

hi everyone,

in my country the problem has also appeared (Poland), we have so many high educated students, but many of them haven’t a job or they are blue color workers despite their education. There are many resons of that problem. For example government says us “we have lack of technical educated students and too many with economic education”, but after ending technical studies you go on interview and there are 60 candidates on one place it’s ridiculous. Maybe we have too many educated people compared to vacancies. But I know one thing if you don’t take care of yourself nobody does it, so the point is if your country doesn’t provide you a good job or a good place to living maybe you should go to another country.

best regards

By: Salam

Salam — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 17:22:57 +0000

nowadays, a lot of people have university degree, but that does not mean that all of them are qualified enaugh to get a good job. For me I beleive that technical work with high professionalism (commerce, fiing tires,…) they are jobs which does not require any particular high education. so people can take it shortly and start working earlier and getting money is more much better than losing time to get your university degree and then queing in line and waiting to get a job which will not be paid enaugh to substain to your needs.

By: arezoo

arezoo — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 07:58:38 +0000

Hi guys
somehow,I agree with this article and this is one kind of the problem in my country too.
Here (in Iran) you can training in a hair dressing about 1 year and then earn about 50000$ in a year but when you study 4 year after school and could be a teacher you will earn about 2000$ in a year.
have nice times

arezoo

By: Stas

Stas — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 16:18:44 +0000

It,s reasonable post and i totally agree with it. But i have slightly different situation in my country (Russia): BS or even higher degree has almost everyone. But about 95% of diplomas mean nothing, because our education is terrible. I dont know how it,s going in Korea but it seems like people are actually studying things and achieving real knowledge there. And with real knowledge you can be world demanded and competitive. So if your country doesnt need people with qualification, they atleast have a chance to apply their skills in different place. But with our education you usually cant doing job you’ve studied in university just because you have absolutly no skills but only paper with some degree.

PS. I’d appreciate all comments on mistakes in my message, my english is very weak yet so i need some help here

By: Cho Yee

Cho Yee — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 08:40:25 +0000

In this education and high tech era, such kind of issue is happening not only in Korea but also in over the globe especially in our third world countries.
I don’t want to debate with others but would like to discuss and figure out some solutions on the above article as we are also facing such situation in our country.
Now a day, young people have a big dilemma; going to continue their higher education/academic level? Or jump into the working environment? Or else? On the other hand, just holding even a Master Degree (just a piece of paper) is not sure to pursue a well-paid job. It could not make the young people to be confidence in the competitive world. So what if without such a piece of document?  just simple answer; no hope!!
Moreover, learning cost is quite high in my country even though the quality of learning environment and services provided by the colleges and universities are comparatively poor. Ok, let it is in the Government and policy maker’s hand.
So, as a young, enthusiastic and potential one, the decision of “not go to the college or university” shouldn’t be come out. Should go and complete certain degree (Master Degree is much better if you could) as the fundamental asset to hunt the best professional career in the outside world. Then, should build up the professional and technical skills for yourself to be more and more differentiate from your competitors.
Degree + Professional Skill + Innovation >>> the best and well-paid job

By: Mahboubeh

Mahboubeh — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 04:31:19 +0000

Ooooh guys when i read ur blog i did not get surprised, that sounds like an old story to me . In my country Iran evey one has at least Master degree, but not everyone who is more educated has better job, even they have no or not well-payed job. I guess that’s comming from the same problem here like u said, lots of people and big competance! If you do not enter to the univ you will go looking for a job sooner than one who wants to get MSc or PhD degree, so you will find a job, get settled down and accupy the positions will not be accessible anymoreً, make situation worse for people who still are studying. I m the one who made this mistake, Im a PhD student now, have no job no money. Poorer than my friends who went to find a job after bachelor. I feel im such a looser, but a good looser though, cause I really enjoy studying my major but being poor is not always negligible!

By: tara tabaee

tara tabaee — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 03:38:01 +0000

we have something worse than Korea in our country. In Iran we study hard and many students have MS or BS but there isn’t enough job. Most people are working in jobs that isn’t the same of their field of studying and economics problems make life hard for not well-educated people too. so we have much more difficulty that Korean.

By: Rema Hnamte

Rema Hnamte — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 15:31:44 +0000

If the Korean students study 12 hours a day in order to get degrees while it’s possible to get good jobs without having degrees, then they are all big fools! Or the government or companies are big fools for employing such uneducated people, or the universities just suck for not being able to make their students capable of landing jobs.