SEOUL (AFP) - Hundreds of thousands of South Korean students returned to school on Wednesday (May 20) as educational establishments started reopening after a coronavirus delay of more than two months.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
SEOUL - Hundreds of thousands of South Korean students returned to school on Wednesday as educational establishments started reopening after a coronavirus delay of more than two months.
"It's really exciting to meet my friends and teachers face to face, but we have to strictly follow the disinfection guidelines," said Oh Chang-hwa, student president of Kyungbock High School in Seoul.South Korea endured one of the worst early outbreaks of the virus - at one point the second-worst hit nation after mainland China - prompting officials to delay the reopening of schools in early March.
Around 440,000 final-year students, who will in December take the university entrance exam that is crucial in the education-obsessed country, are the first to return to schools, with other years following in stages over the next several weeks. "Concerns over small infection clusters still remain and no one can predict what kind of situation will arise at schools," education minister Yoo Eun-hae said.
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