Fresh Competition Looms at Schools

Fresh Competition Looms at Schools: "Among Seoul and other major cities, Seoul showed the largest number of students who failed the tests, while Busan, Daejeon and Gwangju had relatively smaller numbers of students falling behind basic levels."

Of course the largest number is in Seoul; the overall number taking the test is larger there than anywhere else. And how come Gangnam in Seoul is targeted with a special number when they are already an enfranchised section of the population? Where are the contrasts of stats, Korea Times?

What I want to know is how many students per capita (by city or province) are failing the standardized tests. Why is Gwangju mentioned when is it more economically marginalized (and problably has a higher per capita percentage of failing students than Busan or Daejeon) than they other cities mentioned?

Jeollabukdo is the province that is most struggling with limited education dollars to meet the needs of this rural population. What are their results?

And I want to meet one of the 12 KTU members who have been fired from not implementing the state wide test to their primary or secondary students. Who are they, why did they resist, what are they doing now?

This article and the issue of standardized testing scores is confounded further with the amount of educational training students are receiving from cram schools. The economic, digital, English and participatory divides are significant in South Korea.