{"id":51257,"date":"2022-04-08T12:33:18","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T03:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=51257"},"modified":"2026-04-05T15:49:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T06:49:57","slug":"more-than-40-students-schools-hyesan-fail-show-up-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/more-than-40-students-schools-hyesan-fail-show-up-class\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 40% of students at schools in Hyesan fail to show up for class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 2022 school year in North Korea began on Apr. 1, but school attendance is reportedly suffering due to economic troubles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A source in Yanggang Province told Daily NK on Thursday that over 40% of students at Hyesan\u2019s primary and secondary schools are failing to show up for class. He said students are essentially refusing to go to school due to economic difficulties.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the source, there is not a single class in Hyesan with 100% attendance. He said that prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, schools could guarantee 70% attendance, but recent official attendance numbers have reached as low as 50%.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is an average of 25 to 28 students per class in Hyesan\u2019s primary and secondary schools. Apparently only about half \u2014 12 to 14 students \u2014 are actually going to school, however.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the case of Hyesan\u2019s Hyesin Primary School, only 50-60% of students showed up for the first day of school on Apr. 1.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With attendance so low, the Hyesin Primary School\u2019s principal called an emergency teacher\u2019s meeting the next day on Apr. 2. During the meeting, he reportedly ordered teachers to raise attendance to over 90% within the week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source blamed the mass absences on economic troubles. He said it costs about RMB 2,000 (around USD 314) to prepare basic school supplies like notebooks and backpacks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Hyesan, the cheapest school uniforms, backpacks, and shoes cost RMB 1,000, RMB 550 and RMB 500, respectively. A ballpoint pen costs KPW 15,000, while a notebook costs KPW 8,000 to KPW 10,000.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source said for people living day to day, it costs a lot to buy what their children need to go to school. He said the mother of one second grader at Hyesin Primary School complained that she felt so guilty about being unable to send her only child to school that it felt like \u201cbeing stabbed in the heart.\u201d The mother said her family circumstances were so bad that buying school supplies was out of the question, let alone sending her child to school.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During a plenary meeting of the Central Committee late last year, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ordered that all students be provided with high-quality uniforms and backpacks.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, the source said uniforms and backpacks were provided only to first year students at primary, middle and high schools, as well as to university freshmen. Nothing was provided to students advancing into the next grade.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Please direct any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@uni-media.net.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/20220407-1\/\">Read in Korean<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2022 school year in North Korea began on Apr. 1, but school attendance is reportedly suffering due to economic troubles. A source in Yanggang Province told Daily NK on Thursday that over 40% of students at Hyesan\u2019s primary and secondary schools are failing to show up for class. 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