Thursday, March 5, 2026

South Korea public school lunch today 3/6/26

 

Delicious lunchee today πŸ₯°














Less and less students in South Korea

 


The decreasing population in South Korea is reflected in the lower number of elementary students. Soon elementary schools will cease to exist.

We are seeing the decrease in students in real-time, sadly.


Grade                     Year 2025                        Year 2026    

3                                    72                                        59

4                                    74                                         71

5                                     68                                        75

6                                     78                                        65


Currently Grades 1 and 2 have two classes only, with 20 students in each class.

When I first came to my school 8years ago, there were 4 classes of each grade and every class had about 28 or 29 students. 

The decrease impacts every industry that touches education - hagwons, teachers, textbook publishing, school supplies (pencils, pens bookbags, school uniforms, school slippers, etc), cafeteria food and all the ingredients from farmers and food companies, drinks and juices, snacks.


 Classes               Year 2025            Year 2026

3-1                        24                                 21                                  

3-2                        24                                19     

3-3                        24                                19


4-1                        25                                24

4-2                        24                                23

4-3                        25                                24


5-1                        23                                25

5-2                        23                                25

5-3                        22                                25


6-1                        20                                21

6-2                        19                                22

6-3                        20                                22

6-4                        19                               No class/not enough students                




Thursday, December 4, 2025

Highest salaries in S Korea


I saw this when researching for the career section of my grade 5 lesson this week.


Korea's high-wage occupations include management, surgeons, judges, and pilots. Other profitable fields include various engineering and technical positions such as dentistry, ophthalmology, law, software, and nuclear engineering.

the highest-paid jobs
Management: Median annual salary is $147 million ₩.
Surgeon: The median annual salary is $110 million ₩.
Member for Parliament: Median annual salary of 140 million ₩.
Judge: Earn about 12.1 million ₩ per month.
Marine Pilots: The median annual salary is $126 million ₩.
Dentist: average annual salary of 170 million ₩.
Pilot: The median salary is $147.7 million ₩.
Ophthalmologist: The median annual salary is $144.2 million ₩.
Lawyer: You can earn about $9.83 million a month in ₩.

Other high-yield areas
Doctor: The median annual salary is $95 million ₩.
Korean medicine doctor: Median annual salary of 92.23 million ₩.
Senior Civil Servant: Median annual salary is $9201 million ₩.
BANK MANAGER: Revenues about $9.25 million a month in ₩.
CEO: Revenues approximately $8.68 million per month.
CFO: Revenue of approximately 8.1 million ₩ per month.
Corrector: You can earn about $7.81 million a month in ₩.
College professor: You can earn about 6.94 million dollars a month on ₩.
Software and Nuclear Engineering: At the professional level, the annual salary for software engineering can be as high as 190 million ₩, and the annual salary for nuclear engineering can be as high as 154 million ₩.

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κ°€μž₯ 높은 κΈ‰μ—¬λ₯Ό λ°›λŠ” 직업
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μΉ˜κ³Όμ˜μ‚¬: 평균 연봉 1μ–΅ 7천만 ₩.
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기타 고수읡 μ§€μ—­
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ν•œμ˜μ‚¬: μ€‘μœ„ 연봉 9,223만 ₩.
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CEO: μ›” μ•½ 868만 λ‹¬λŸ¬μ˜ 맀좜.
CFO: μ›” μ•½ 810만 ₩의 맀좜.
μ •μ •μž: ₩μ—μ„œ ν•œ 달에 μ•½ 781만 λ‹¬λŸ¬λ₯Ό 벌 수 μžˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€.
λŒ€ν•™ ꡐ수: ₩둜 ν•œ 달에 μ•½ 694만 λ‹¬λŸ¬λ₯Ό 벌 수 μžˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€.
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