Oct 2, 2011

Essay Idea

1)     What is the issue you plan to research and write about?
Korean high schools’ tuition free issue

2)     Why is the issue important? What is the significance?
Japanese high schools and other international schools are now free or supported by government, but Korean high schools are not.

3)     Why are you interested in this? What’s the connection to you?
I had not known about Korean schools entirely before I saw the Korean high school’s team at the competition of volleyball when I was a high school student. At that time I was shocked to hear my team mate’s word discriminating them. Since then, I have been interested in Korean schools.

4)     What questions do you have about this issue? What do you want to find out?
What is Korean school?
What are toughed in there?
Are they different from Japanese and other foreign schools?
What is Japanese government policy of free tuition fee in high school?
What are the current situations in high schools?
What kind of arguments have been discussed in the Diet?
How are Korean students feeling?
How about Japanese students?
Is it a racial discrimination?
Does this issue have something with diplomatic issues?
What are the reactions of foreign countries?
What about UN or NGO?

5)     What English sources have you found regarding this issue?
1)        MEXT English page
2)        Amnesty International Japan

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