Number of primary, secondary school students falls 3.6%
Sept 4, 2013
The number of South Korea’s primary and secondary school students has fallen 3.6 percent over the past year amid the country’s chronically low birthrate, data showed Wednesday. According to the data by the education ministry, the number of elementary, middle and high school students combined came to 6.52 million as of April, down 240,000 from a year earlier. Elementary schools saw the largest d...