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South Koreas education system 韩国的教育体制 FEW countries have done better than South Korea over the past half-century. Within thespan of a single working life, its economy has grown 17-fold, its government has evolvedfrom an austere dictatorship into a rowdy democracy, and its culture, once scarred bycensorship, now beguiles the world with its music, soap operas and cinema. Scholarsenthuse about the speed and precocity of its compressed development. 在过去的半个世纪，几乎没有国家表现得比韩国更好。在仅仅一代工作人口的时间跨度里，韩国经济增长了17倍。韩国政府也从严厉的独裁政权进化成了热闹的民主政体。韩国的文化原来被审查体制弄得千疮百孔，现在韩国的音乐、连续剧和电影席卷世界。学者们对这种快速且早熟的高压发展非常关注。 The only people unimpressed by South Koreas accomplishments may be South Koreansthemselves. As our special report notes, the prosperity they enjoy has not relieved thecompetitive pressure they endure. To them, the countrys development is compressed ina different way. Its success is confined to a few big employers and industries. The countrysmanufacturers are more impressive than its service firms, although these now generatemost jobs. And in manufacturing its big, family-owned conglomerates do farbetter than their small, hard-pressed suppliers. | 
