let’s take a quite recent example of daewoo shipbuilding & marine engineering. the company put up a recruitment notice with an ambitious plan to hire high school graduates seeking employment there. it was a heartwarming surprise to see that applications were sent from more than 3,000 students, among whom were students from foreign language and science high schools. it is everybody’s guess what they have been through to win over their parents opposing vehemently their immature (as they thought) ambitions, asserting that korea is still educational background-oriented and will be for the coming decades as well.