First-grade class set to fall below 300,000 for first time

No first graders arrived this year at Deungmyeong Elementary School in western Seoul. The school is now facing a merger, and a similar situation is playing out across South Korea, where the smallest incoming class on record is expected to start elementary school next spring. The number of new elementary school stude…

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