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Inequality in South Korea: Degrees of disenchantment 

Young people are losing faith in an elitist educationsystem.

“If you don't have the ability then blame your parents,”wrote Jung Yoo-ra on social media in 2014, after being accepted into a 1.__________.Hermother, it turns out, had gone to great lengths to secure a 2.__________ forher, inducing Ehwa Women's University to alter its admissions policy in amanner tailor-made for Ms Jung. Last month a court ruled that the nine peopleinvolved in this subterfuge had fundamentally shaken the “values of fairnessthat prop up our society”. Above all, the “feelings of emptiness and3.__________ they caused in hardworking students” could not be excused.

Universitywas once seen as a source of 4.__________ in South Korea.

But so important is the right degree to a student's5.__________ in life that rich families began spending heavily on coaching toimprove their children's chances, leaving poorer families behind. By 2007 over6.__________ of students were receiving some form of 7.__________, spawning amaxim about the three necessities to win a place at a good university:“father's wealth, mother's information, child's stamina”. A report by theministry of education found that in 2016 households with monthly incomes of 7mwon ($6,230) or more were spending 8.__________ won a month on privateeducation, nine times as much as families bringing in 1m won or less. ManySouth Koreans believe that the rich and influential do not just spend more oneducation, they also

9.__________ the system, as Ms Jung's mother, a close friendof the previous president, did so spectacularly. According to the Pew ResearchCentre, a think-tank, only a fifth of those aged 18-33 believe that workinghard brings success.

An ever-growing dictionary of slang attests to the10.__________: people speak of using “back” (backing, or connections) to getjobs; when Ms Jung refused to return to South Korea to face charges related toher university admission, the local press dubbed it a “gold-spoon escape”. And34% of young people say they feel “isolation due to academic cliques” at work.

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