We're Not in Kansas Anymore

Things that are different at Korean Schools (ironic because my second LP is about American High Schools)--> at least in my own experience

• Students stay at school until 10 at the earliest in high school and sometimes as late as 11:30
• Students are responsible for cleaning and maintaining the school
• Toilet paper is thrown out instead of flushed
• It's completely normal to brush your teeth during the day
• You come to school whether or not you are sick (there are no excused absences)
• For the death of a parent, spouse, child, you get less than a week off work
• It's legal to punish students physically
• Students do not drive until they are out of high school
• Students either get a ride or walk to school
• Students address teachers by their title, not their name
• Bowing/Insa in the hallways
• Group discussion is nonexistent
• There are not many clubs and extracurriculars are nonexistent because there is no time
• It is uncommon for students in different grades to mix or be friends
• Boys and girls do not mix (this is also true of teacher dinners)

Something I noticed today: the Korean Anthropologie site has American Models, the US site uses Asian Models...everyone loves the exotic.