More English in South Korea

In South Korea parents spend significant amounts of money to send their kids to bilingual schools (Korean and English). Parents are worried that if their kids do not learn to speak English like natives, they won’t be successful in life.Some South Korean parents are going as far as putting their kids through a frenectomy—a minor surgery which lengthens the tongue by about one millimeter. The idea is that having a longer tongue will significantly affect the kids’ pronunciation when they learn English. Now the government is planning to continue promoting English even more through legislation.