Kindergartens stage nationwide postponement of spring semester
- 5 years ago
South Korea's private kindergartens have gone ahead with their plan to postpone the start of the spring semester to protest the government's move to introduce new regulations.
But parents didn't go through their worst nightmare,... as the government directed them to seek out local public kindergartens instead,... and some kindergartens DID open their door to preschoolers.
All but one of the kindergartens in Jeolla-do, Gangwon-do and Jeju-do provinces started their semester as usual.
Korea Kindergarten Association had said its roughly 15-hundred member institutions will not be open, but the government claims the number is closer to six-hundred or even lower.
The government said it will force the kindergartens to open, and if they don't open on Tuesday, it will press criminal charges.
But parents didn't go through their worst nightmare,... as the government directed them to seek out local public kindergartens instead,... and some kindergartens DID open their door to preschoolers.
All but one of the kindergartens in Jeolla-do, Gangwon-do and Jeju-do provinces started their semester as usual.
Korea Kindergarten Association had said its roughly 15-hundred member institutions will not be open, but the government claims the number is closer to six-hundred or even lower.
The government said it will force the kindergartens to open, and if they don't open on Tuesday, it will press criminal charges.