SEOUL, Nov 4 — South Korea opened Covid-19 quarantine centres on Thursday to house potentially thousands of teenagers with Covid-19 ahead of the country’s gruelling eight-hour college entrance exam in two weeks. The highly competitive exam, held just once a year, is considered a life-defining...
SEOUL, Nov 4 — South Korea opened Covid-19 quarantine centres on Thursday to house potentially thousands of teenagers with Covid-19 ahead of the country’s gruelling eight-hour college entrance exam in two weeks., held just once a year, is considered a life-defining event for many high school students, as a degree from a prestigious university is seen as the bare minimum for securing one of the coveted but limited corporate jobs in Asia’s fourth-largest economy.
Around 510,000 final-year high school students, about 40 per cent of the total across the country, are scheduled to take the mammoth test, which encompasses subjects ranging from languages to mathematics and science. It was unclear how many, if any, students were in the quarantine centres on Thursday. The Education Ministry is not expected to disclose the number of quarantined students who plan to take the test until closer to the exam date of Nov. 18.
Almost 90 per cent of the adult population has been fully vaccinated, although the rate for children aged between 12 and 17 is just 0.6 per cent because inoculations for that cohort began only in recent weeks.
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