Dear Mina:

Wikipedia has an entry on SKY: an acronym used to refer to the three most prestigious universities in South Korea: Seoul National University (motto: The truth is my light), Korea Univiersity (motto: Freedom, justice, truth) and Yonsei University (Motto: The truth will make you free). It reads: “In South Korea, admission to one of the SKY universities is widely considered as determining one’s career and social status. Many of South Korea’s most influential politicians, lawyers, physicians, engineers, journalists, professors, and policy makers (bureaucrats) have graduated from one of the SKY universities… Being admitted in one of these universities typically requires students to be within 1% of the Korean College Scholastic Ability Test which means that these universities have acceptance rates as low as 2%”

It also reads: “There have been a number of SKY university students who have dropped out of school to protest against South Korea’s overheated academic eliticism.”

* I wonder what these students who dropped out as a protest, how it worked for them… and I wonder, following the student’s suicide, did the university administrators offer any counseling, any help for students to deal with what happened?

I am also wondering why Truth is in the motto of each one of the three universities. What truth is referred to…?

anita