About 440,000 South Koreans prepare for civil service exams
Social affairsApr 8, 2018
About 440,000 people in South Korea are estimated to be preparing to take the state-run civil service exams, Yonhap News Agency reported Sunday. More than half of the test applicants counted “job security” as the primary motivation for choosing a civil servant as a job, while 48 percent said they study more than 10 hours every day for the exams.(Yonhap)The research was conducted by Kim Hyang-duck and Lee Dae-joong, who are in doctoral courses at Konkuk University and Korea Advanced Institute of