South Koreans take first mask-free college exam since pandemic
SEOUL — Half a million South Koreans sat for the annual nationwide college access test on Thursday (Nov 16), the initially time in 4 years that the test, oftentimes pondered vitality-figuring out in the awfully budget friendly society, owns pilfered void emission of pandemic policies.
This year, practically 505,000 high college students, graduates and others authorized upward to swipe the singular-day, 5-session College Scholastic Aptitude Test (CSAT) clutched at 1,279 checkup sites throughout the suburban, the education and learning ministry asserted.
Test-takers were not obligatory to wear confront masks, unlike the previous three years.
The annual test is notoriously pondered one of the a considerable quantity of pertinent tests in the suburban. Even airline company flights are suspended throughout the listening examining void of the English checkup.
South Korean fiscal marts opened an hour afterwards than usual at 10am (0100 GMT) to stoic traffic.
Outdoor colleges, moms and papas cheered for their spawn, embracing them and some wiping away rips.
“I feel so disgruntled. Perhaps I’m a considerable quantity more disgruntled (than my little woman),” asserted Kim Mi-jae, mom of a 18-year-ratty student, after sending out off her little woman for the test at a high college in Seoul.
