Expensive Educational Expenses

High educational expense in Korea is not a new problem. As many people know, many of Korean parents are supporting their children as long as they can. There are lots of problems causing expensive educational expenses, but a high tuition fee for universities is becoming the major reason thesedays. Yesterday, I watched the news that one of top-ranking university students put a hand written poster on the wall at the one of her university buildings, explaining why she decided to quit attending the university. She left only one year to graduate, and she said that it was not just because of money problem. She mentioned that she wanted to blame for the social tendency which only survivers having high educational background could be recognized. And, to make students survive, their parents are working harder and harder though their kids are in their twenties.

It appealed to me so much. Because I am the one who is preparing for another higher education abroad. My parents are still working and they are gonna support me until I get a job. It is true that more and more young people are smarter than before, and it is becoming more competitive to make them to be a major social member. From students' perspective, they have to do many things to get a decent job compared to the past. They need higher education not only undergraduate degree but also higher than that. It is also not easy to keep up with studying fast changed high technology knowledge. But, anyway, they might be able to put up with everything to make themselves better. But, the problem is that they are mostly supported by their parents, and it makes them feel so sorry and bad for their parents. They might feel more pressure that they have to achieve something big enough to pay off their parents' efforts. It is good time to be independent in 20s, however, the world is making the smart young generation more dependent than ever.

It seems like it is not the problem only in Korea. I heard that students in America have been staging a demonstration parade against high tuition fee. The universities insist that they need to increase tuition rates in order to make research achievements and high quality education.
It sounds good to have such a good system in the universities, however, I think that universities have to stick to the position as an educational institution. It seems that they focus too much on research achievements and school rankings annually published by major news papers. If students cannot have a chance to study owing to financial reasons, I think it would be better to give more opportunities to more students though they cannot benefit from such a high qualified educational system than providing only some students who can afford to pay high tuition fee with educational opportunities.