North Korean Students Learning Foreign Languages on Smartphones… Education Gap Deepening

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It has been reported that foreign language learning using smartphones is increasing among students at elementary and senior high schools in some regions of North Korea. It is said that children from economically well-off families are supplementing their private tutoring with learning via smartphones, further widening the educational gap based on parental economic status. On the 11th, a DailyNK source in North Hwanghae Province stated, “Parents f…