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'Should our children also send their children to English kindergarten', parents must have thought about this at least once, but when they are even one year old, they buy past papers with money or even tutor them in order to get them into a good English kindergarten. Three or four-year-old children who are not good at Hangul are in extreme competition.



Reporter Ha Jeong-yeon covered the situation.



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This is an English kindergarten admission memo posted on the Internet.



After the retest, the 4-year-old child passed.



You can easily find an article that says you need to take private tutoring to pass the level test at a famous English kindergarten in Gangnam.



[Parents of the English kindergarten: First of all, children who are 3 or 4 years old here are 100% (preparation) almost done.]



I received counseling in person.



They are three or four-year-olds who have a hard time sitting all the time, but they advertise that they can learn how to do well on exams.



[Mr. A/Teacher: I was taken to an unfamiliar space and said to the child, 'What is this? Some children scream or cry or something like this.]



He says retesting is basic.



[Mr. A/Teacher: You have to hold on to how to hold a pencil and the strength of your buttocks. You should know the basics of the alphabet, and of course you should know lowercase and uppercase letters. Most of the time, they retake the test three or four times before entering.]



I have received additional counseling, but they boast of the passing rate or even scare me that I am 4 years old.



[Mr. B/Teacher: Last year, I passed 19 students. I have 5 friends who replaced them and passed Apgujeong at the same time.]



[C/Teacher: But the child who is not doing anything like that… The kids going there have to be really smart. Their brains are definitely faster than normal kindergarteners.] As a result



, test genealogy is also being traded.



It is a genealogy that is being traded for 50,000 won on the Internet.



It contains past questions, expected questions, and even handwritten notes.



[C/Teacher: I run a lot at the last minute. Every day, the number of children who go to daycare English is also dropping, and even those children studied almost five times a week.]



Experts say that learning language and emotions through natural interaction with people around them is much more important at the age of three or four.



[Lee Byung-min / Professor of English Education at Seoul National University: It is unimaginable that two or three-year-olds are studying, and it is not in line with cognitive and emotional development. In the case of learning that is taught consciously, such as sitting down and teaching something in class, it is not very effective and children are very burdened.] Is the



prior learning that skipped the developmental process for the child, or is it because of the greed or anxiety of parents? You have to carefully examine your cognition.



(Video coverage: Yang Doo-won, video editing: Kim Jong-mi, VJ: Roh Jae-min)