向白宫送的书信2010年09月30日 星期四 下午 07:15
Dear Mr. President Obama
I am a plain writer in South Korea. I heard from newspaper that You President praised on Korea's education system several times.
Today I heard again that you emphasized American education should follow Korean eduction. Although as a Korean people You Great President praise about Korea felt not so bad, now I become inevitable to say about Korean education.
You should have heard about so-called Chinese character. Today most of world people would consider this as really China's own character, in Japan also pretty used.
But in fact at Korea until 1910 this character used more than at Japan. All of the Korea's historical record and intellectual culture are by this character accumulated.
However today's Korean education not teach this character at public education. Eventually most Korean people don't know the true meanings of intellectual words of their language, even educated superficially high.
Hence many Korean high class parents - including high government officers that made this education policy - make their children to learn 'Chinese character', so that their children have no difficulty in high level study and have global mind between Japan and China.
Nevertheless so many students in plain family become lack in intelligence as people of civilized society. And they grow up to an 'inevitable patriot' who cannot find general opportunities in Japan or China. They become people for national leader easy to deal with.
As people cannot read intellectual words, only frivolous writer can be popular. So writers became very destitute.
If America really need to follow Korean eduction system, that is not difficult.
Let African-American children and American-Indian children not learn English because English is the language of those who persecuted our ancestors, and try to overcome the traces of invasion by using pure our own tribe's language. As this education scheme adopted in public school, white children in poor family also will be included.
In education, competition is a requisite. But study what is more important that study competitively. America's friend nation should be a nation in which real freedom and equality of opportunities are guaranteed. Please consider Korea's situation and help to become not a little bit shameful to be America's friendly nation.
Your friend coutry's people Park, Kyung Beom/ 朴京范 / 박경범
