Chinese schools in Korea are becoming popular with Korean parents amid a trend for learning Chinese. The parents believe their children can learn Chinese without having to go to China to study the language…

With educational authorities stepping up enforcement of regulations at Chinese schools, many parents have turned to kindergartens that offer legal enrollment for Korean children. But interested parents have flooded some Chinese kindergartens with phone calls several months before the admissions process begins, prompting some schools to accept students on a first-come-first-served basis…

A similar situation occurred in Japan recently. In 2004, the daily Asahi Shimbun wrote, “Unusually, 70 percent of the students at Yamanote Chinese School in Yokohama are Japanese children, with Chinese children accounting for the rest. Only a few years ago the school was on the brink of closing down because of a shortage of students. But this year the school is busy turning down parents’ requests for admission.”

Source: Chosun Ilbo
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