Education in Singapore - Mi-kyeong Jo 8P
A player who is 3dan came here from Vietnam to training for one month.
Virtually, she came to Singapore because there are many strong players and she can use English. She was elected as an Asian Game player in Vietnam.
She said that she wants to get great result at the Asian Game after studying hard.
Singapore is a country which has high passion about education.
When children enter an elementary school, there are distributions into better school and worse school. And middle school's system is same.
The rate of entering university is 10% or so.
so parents and children's passion about education is very sharp.
Commonly, in sports part, you can see the players' activity who are from another country is more remarkable.
Recently, the ping-pong player who is from China had great record and it was the talk in Singapore.
Parents of student in Singapore think study is the most important thing and if their children have great ability in sports, the parents just think it's a hobby.
Singapore is very small country, so the business connected with engineering or IT is more active than art or literature.
Every Saturday, there are Baduk games, National youth league, at Bugis.
There are totally 4 teams and they are organized such as Korean Insei.
It is advanced for 9 weeks. The 2 upper rankers are promoted and the 2 lower rankers are eliminated.
In the evening, they have a time to think over their game from pro player.
In this month, there will be Masago's cup and Lanke cup.
They always have a meeting before competition.
And after the competition, they have a meeting to find what is the problems.
Almost people who like Baduk and university students volunteer progress the competition. Lanke cup is eligible for poly and university students.
Required age is more 17 years.
Masago's cup is 13 lines Baduk competition.
Every people can attend without connection with ability and age.
13 lines Baduk competition brings us another exquisiteness.
Everyone including men, women, the old and the young can enjoy the competition together easily and simply.
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