South Korea’s Education Minister Steps Down Amid Uproar Over Plan to Lower School Entry Age

South Korea’s Education Minister Steps Down Amid Uproar Over Plan to Lower School Entry Age
South Korean elementary school students wear masks as a precaution against the Middle East Respiratory Syndrom virus at an elementary school in Busan, South Korea, on June 9, 2015. Cha Geun-ho/Yonhap via AP
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South Korea’s education minister tendered her resignation on Monday following a backlash against proposed changes to school policy, which included lowering the admission age for elementary school.

Education Minister Park Soon-ae resigned after 34 days in office, just two weeks after the ministry said it would lower the elementary school entry age to 5 years old by 2025 upon social consensus.

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