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South Korea Switches to Digital Textbooks in
the Classroom
South Korea is planning change from paper to
digital textbooks in the next few years. All content of South Korea’s school
subjects will be available on PC’s, iPads and mobile phones by 2015. The
education department has announced that South Korea is preparing for a new
digital revolution that will change schools of the future.
The project was started last summer.
Classrooms throughout the Asian country will be equipped with wireless LANs so
that students can access learning materials whenever and wherever they want.
Pupils won’t have to carry heavy schoolbags and satchels any more.
South Korea is a model nation when it comes
to using modern technology. The OECD found out that youngsters in South Korea
lead the world when it comes to getting information from the internet and
working with computers. The country focuses on teaching children the basics of
technology at a very early age.
Compared to South Korea, western nations lag
behind. American president Barack Obama has announced that United States is
installing a national learning centre which is to improve teaching standards
and develop new teaching methods.
Shanghai is Number One in World Education
Rankings
A global
educational study called PISA (Program for
International Assessment ) tests over 500,000 pupils in over 70
countries every three years. The 2010 results showed that pupils in Shanghai
are the world’s best in reading mathematics and science . PISA studies 15
year olds and their abilities in the three fields. The study
did not rank China as a whole but Shanghai, Hong Kong and Macao as
separate countries.
South Korea, Singapore Taiwan and Japan were
other Asian nations that ranked well. In many western
countries the reading score was down. In Europe,
Finland still stays in the number one spot although it
is ranking third overall. Americans are, at
best, average , ranking 17th in reading,
23rd in science and 31st in mathematics.
Why have Asian countries overtaken Europe and
America in the tests? First, they put more focus
on education. Children, parents and teachers know that a good
education is the key to being successful. They are
not tolerant when pupils fail . Asians
believe that if you do hard and succeed in school you
will be successful in your job as well.
Starting at a very early age China teaches
its children that you can only succeed if you are better than the others. They
are tested as soon as they come to school. Only the best can go to college and
then get a good job. Examinations are held very often and lists of students
rankings are posted on the walls of a
school. Shanghai students study much harder than western pupils do and they
spend less time on extracurricular activities
or sport. Teachers are also respected , paid well and
highly motivated .
North and South Korea Set Bold Goals: A Final Peace and No Nuclear Arms
SEOUL, South
Korea — The leaders of North and South Korea agreed on Friday to work to remove
all nuclear weapons from the Korean Peninsula and, within the year, pursue
talks with the United States to declare an official end to the Korean War,
which ravaged the peninsula from 1950 to 1953.
At a historic
summit meeting, the first time a North Korean leader had ever set foot in the
South, the leaders vowed to negotiate a treaty to replace a truce that has kept
an uneasy peace on the divided Korean Peninsula for more than six decades. A
peace treaty has been one of the incentives North Korea has demanded in return
for dismantling its nuclear program.
“South and
North Korea confirmed the common goal of realizing, through complete
denuclearization, a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula,” read a statement signed by
North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, and the South’s president, Moon Jae-in,
after their meeting at the border village of Panmunjom.
The
agreements came at the end of a day of extraordinary diplomatic
stagecraft emphasizing hopes for reconciliation and disarmament
that was broadcast live around the world, beginning with a smile and handshake
that Mr. Kim and Mr. Moon shared at the border and extending to a quiet,
30-minute talk they had near the end of the day in a wooded area of the
village.
Their meeting was marked by some surprisingly
candid moments but also sweeping pledges,
with Mr. Kim declaring, “I came here to put an end to the history of
confrontation.” Still, the agreement was short on details, timetables and next
steps.
The event, at
the Peace House, a conference building on the South Korean side of Panmunjom,
was closely watched because it could set the tone for the even more critical
summit meeting between President Trump and Mr. Kim, The Trump
administration has tightened sanctions on North Korea with China’s help and,
mindful that the North has failed to deliver on its promises in the past,
insisted that Mr. Kim make substantial progress dismantling his nuclear arsenal
before the “maximum pressure” campaign is eased. But by
agreeing to pursue a peace deal this year, Mr. Moon held out the prospect of
progress toward one of North Korea’s top goals before the North has given up
its nuclear weapons, and perhaps measures to withdraw troops from inside the
Demilitarized Zone, the heavily armed buffer area between the two Koreas, and
create a joint fishing zone around the disputed western sea border, a scene of
bloody naval skirmishes between the two Koreas.
Mr. Moon also dangled an economic incentive,
reaffirming promises made in the past by the South of huge investments to help
improve the North’s road and train systems. But those agreements collapsed as
the North persisted in developing nuclear weapons, and Mr. Moon’s aides have
said that such assistance can only come after the North makes progress toward
denuclearization and sanctions are lifted.
In Washington,
Mr. Trump signaled his support of Mr. Moon’s position, writing early Friday on Twitter: “Good
things are happening, but only time will tell!” Fifteen minutes later, he declared in an all-caps tweet,
“KOREAN WAR TO END!” and said that all Americans should be “very proud” of what
was taking place on the Korean Peninsula.
During an
appearance in the Oval Office with Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany on
Friday, Mr. Trump said he believed that the North Korean leader was serious
about making a deal to give up his nuclear weapons.
“I don’t think
he’s playing,” said Mr. Trump, who faulted his predecessors for their handling
of the threat from North Korea, saying they had allowed themselves to be duped.
“The United
States has been played beautifully, like a fiddle, because you had a different
kind of a leader,” Mr. Trump said. “We’re not going to be played, O.K.? We’re
going to hopefully make a deal; if we don’t, that’s fine.”
On Twitter,
Mr. Trump also thanked President Xi Jinping of
China for his “great help” in the process.
China’s state news media played the summit
meeting prominently, even though China had been left on the sidelines with
little influence over the proceedings. The Chinese Foreign Ministry praised the
courage of the two Korean leaders, and said it welcomed “the new journey” for
peace on the Korean Peninsula.
Yoon
Young-chan, Mr. Moon’s spokesman, said Mr. Kim acknowledged the poor road
conditions in his country, a startling admission for a member of his ruling
family, which is considered godlike and faultless among North Koreans. Mr. Kim
also revealed that the North Koreans who visited the South during the Winter
Olympics in February all admired the bullet train there.
Mr. Kim also repeated a lighthearted line he
had used in his meeting with South Korean envoys who visited Pyongyang, the
North Korean capital, last month, apologizing to Mr. Moon for disturbing his
sleep with missile tests and forcing him to attend meetings of his National
Security Council.
“I heard you had your early-morning sleep
disturbed many times because you had to attend the N.S.C. meetings because of
us,” Mr. Kim said. “Getting up early in the morning must have become a habit
for you. I will make sure that your morning sleep won’t be disturbed.”
An armistice brought about a
cease-fire to the Korean War in 1953, but the conflict never officially ended
because the parties could not agree to a formal peace treaty. They would have
to overcome significant obstacles to do so now, including China’s likely demand
that American troops leave South Korea. In their joint
statement, the two Korean leaders said that within a year, they would push for
a trilateral conference with the United States, or a four-party forum that also
included China, with the aim of “declaring an end to the Korean War” and
intentions to “replace the armistice with a peace treaty.”
Mr. Kim and
Mr. Moon also agreed to improve inter-Korean relations by opening a liaison
office in the North Korean border town of Kaesong and arranging a reunion later
this year of families separated by the war. And they said Mr. Moon would visit
Pyongyang in the fall.
Mr. Moon, a
progressive leader who says he likes to see South Korea “in the driver’s seat”
in pushing the peace effort forward, is trying to broker a successful summit
meeting between Mr. Kim and Mr. Trump, which is expected in late May or early
June.
Mr. Kim rattled the region last year by
testing long-range missiles and trading threats of nuclear war
with Mr. Trump. But then he abruptly shifted gears, saying he was
willing to give up his nuclear weapons for the right incentives and proposing the meeting with Mr.
Trump.
Unless “a firm foundation” for North Korea’s
verifiable nuclear disarmament were laid out, he added, most of the other
commitments in the agreement were “merely wishes.”
Analysts have warned that once negotiations
begin with the United States, North Korea could push them into a stalemate by
trying to drag Washington into nuclear arms reduction talks.
To prevent
that, South Korea and the United States are trying to persuade North Korea to
agree to a specific timeline for complete denuclearization: as soon as possible
and no later than the end of Mr. Trump’s current term, in early 2021, according
to South Korean officials and analysts.
During
their morning talks, Mr. Kim pushed for more summit meetings with Mr. Moon,
saying he would like to visit the presidential Blue House in Seoul. He said
North Korea would cooperate to make a “better world.”
But he also
voiced caution, suggesting South Korea and the United States deserved blame for
scuttling previous deals
“As the
expectations are high, so is the skepticism,” he said. “In the past, we had
reached big agreements, but they were not implemented for more than 10 years.
There are people who are skeptical that the results of today’s meeting will be
properly implemented.”
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