{"id":59234,"date":"2024-04-26T15:30:53","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T06:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=59234"},"modified":"2026-04-05T15:56:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T06:56:17","slug":"many-young-high-school-graduates-north-korea-face-barriers-getting-higher-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/many-young-high-school-graduates-north-korea-face-barriers-getting-higher-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Many high school graduates in N. Korea face barriers to getting higher education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some recent graduates of North Korean high schools in Sinuiju are frustrated because they have no money to get into institutes of higher education, Daily NK has learned.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThis month, graduates of high schools in Sinuiju launched their adult lives in various places, including education-focused institutions like universities and vocational schools, but also workplaces and the military. But most of them are upset they didn\u2019t get to go where they\u2019d hoped,\u201d a source in North Pyongan Province told Daily NK on Wednesday, speaking on condition of anonymity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the source, this year\u2019s high school graduates were born in the years 2005 and 2006. Unlike their parents\u2019 generation, they are voicing disappointment about not getting to freely choose their course in life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Young people are very dissatisfied about the fact that higher education is out of reach unless they can afford to pay the increasingly expensive bribes required for admission to university or vocational school. Bribes for admission used to be around RMB 2,000 (around USD 276), which was already pretty steep, but now the least you can get away with is RMB 3,000 (around USD 413), the source explained.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In short, North Korean society&#8217;s economic inequality is leading many graduates to face limitations in their choice of career after completing their high school education.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMy family wasn\u2019t well off, but I managed to keep up my grades,\u201d said an 18-year-old male graduate of a high school in Sinuiju identified by the surname Han.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI studied late into the night with the hope of getting into teaching college, but I never even got to take the admission exam. I\u2019d foolishly assumed it was possible to get into college on talent alone, even without any money. I want this to be a country where you can get into college through talent, or at least for a fixed price, as in other countries,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kim, aged 17, graduated from another high school in the city. \u201cIf you\u2019re hard up for money, you end up digging in the mines, and farmer\u2019s children have to keep working on the farm. I hate the fact that things are like that here. I wish this were a country where people could realize their hopes and dreams,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While military service is normally mandatory for North Korean men, there are plenty of ways to get out of it, provided that you have the financial resources, the source observed. The result is that only graduates from families without money or connections go to the military.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI\u2019m told that military service is only two years in South Korea and other countries. It\u2019s the 21<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">st<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> century, but I can\u2019t help feeling that we\u2019re living in the Stone Age,\u201d Kim said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWhen my friends get together, we talk a lot about military service and how soldiers are treated in other countries. People often say they wish [our military service] was shorter and that soldiers would get special treatment after finishing their service,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cPeople with money can find various excuses for not doing their military service or for getting out after a couple of years if they do enlist. In the end, only the children of penniless and helpless workers and farmers have to give the army nearly ten years of their youth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAnd then, after returning to civilian life, you don\u2019t have any useful skills and you struggle in your career, too. I really wish this were a society where everyone was given equal opportunities based on their abilities.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Translated by David Carruth. Edited by Robert Lauler.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Daily NK works with a network of sources living in North Korea, China, and elsewhere. Their identities remain anonymous for security reasons. For more information about Daily NK\u2019s network of reporting partners and information-gathering activities, please visit our FAQ page\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/faq\/\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Please send any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@uni-media.net.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/20240424-3\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/20231201-5\/\">Read in Korean<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some recent graduates of North Korean high schools in Sinuiju are frustrated because they have no money to get into institutes of higher education, Daily NK has learned.\u00a0 \u201cThis month, graduates of high schools in Sinuiju launched their adult lives in various places, including education-focused institutions like universities and vocational schools, but also workplaces and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":59236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,1360],"tags":[273,691,695,696,703,705,1430],"class_list":["post-59234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-society","tag-corruption","tag-military","tag-sinuiju","tag-north-pyongan-province","tag-education","tag-universities","tag-youth"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v28.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Many high school graduates in N. 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