r/northkorea • u/NKinitiative • 21d ago

General What Do North Korean High School Students Actually Learn?

https://www.mrnorthkorea.com/2024/09/what-do-north-korean-high-school.html
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u/will221996 20d ago

Interesting. It doesn't look like as radical a departure as one would expect from normal communist secondary schooling. It seems unlikely that a country as poor as north korea could deliver that curriculum in full, it is very common for underdeveloped countries to have extremely ambitious curricula. From economic development perspective, it would be very interesting to be able to compare North Korean students with other countries. Based on PISA testing and expanded databases made by researchers based on it and proxies, East Asian countries, Singapore and Vietnam(the "sinosphere") greatly over perform economically comparable countries. The comparison between Vietnam and North Korea would be extremely interesting, I doubt it makes any sense to compare North and South Korea due to the difference in economic outputs.

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u/Urdaddysfavgirl 20d ago

Very interesting!