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Foreign Correspondent

Season 24 · Episode 9

South Korea - Education Gangnam Style

0.030mJune 16, 2015

Once shackled by mass illiteracy, South Korea now tops global academic league tables. But as North Asia Correspondent Matthew Carney reports, its stressed out students also rank as the unhappiest in the developed world.

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