South+Korea+(KK)

- Primary education Preschool or Kindergarten is not required for children in S. Korea. However, parents who work send their children to preschool and most of the five or six years old students are enolled in Kindergarten. Lower income family can receive fund from government to enroll their children to the public Kindergarten facility. Elementary school starts from age 7 or 8 depends on the birth month of each student. It is six-year system, and required for everybody.

- Secondary education Middle school is three years followed by graduates from elementary school. Then, students can continue enrolling to high schools for another three years. There are diffeent types of high schools based on the specialties--music art, sports, foreign language, commercial, technology, or science. Of course there is regular type of high schols where students prepare for college and universities, and this kind of high school is most common.

- Tertiary education High school graduates can enroll two-year college or four-year university. Also, they can continue learning such as masters, doctoral, and post-doctoral. Tertiary education in S. Korea is almost same as U.S.