Hot discussion on Korean Internet: BLACKPINK’s English is great, but all four of them only have middle school education

As the four-member South Korean girl group BLACKPINK, which released "How You Like That", continues to become popular, K-POP fans around the world are also deeply impressed by their image and stage. Even some foreign fans who came into contact with them for the first time believe that BLACKPINK represents the new benchmark for K-POP girl groups! But as their popularity becomes more and more popular, the academic qualifications of BLACKPINK members have become one of the hot topics of discussion among netizens.

Although their English proficiency is very high, the academic qualifications of the four members of BLACKPINK are only high school graduation. Among the four, only Jisoo had some experience in high school, but in order to enter YG, she chose to drop out of school in her second year of high school.

Although Jennie was born in Seoul, she lived in New Zealand from the age of 9 to 14. When he was 14 years old, he came to South Korea for his dream and joined YG as a trainee.

ROSE, who was born in New Zealand, immigrated to Australia with his family when he was 8 years old. He was selected by the company during the local YG audition in 2012, and then started his career as a trainee.

Thailand member Lisa was also selected by the company after participating in YG’s audition in 2010. Came to South Korea when I was 14 years old. Lisa and ROSE also did not choose to continue high school, but had no intention of continuing to go to school after graduating from middle school.

In addition to the BLACKPINK members, there are many well-known idol singers in South Korea who gave up their studies in order to debut. For example, Red Velvet Kim Ye-rin, and IZONE Ahn Yoo-jin. Jin Yelin even became a trainee under SM before finishing middle school.

In addition, people like Kong Minji, who was born in 2NE1, and Wodner Girls members Sunmi and Ahn Sohee also chose to drop out of school because of conflicts between their performing arts activities and their studies. However, later on, both of them successfully obtained high school diplomas through self-study. Sunmi even got admitted to Dongguk University.

So should it be advisable to decisively drop out of school for the sake of one’s own dreams? As we all know, China has always followed the nine-year compulsory education system. However, in South Korea, instead of obtaining a high degree of education, more parents are now advocating to provide their children with an opportunity to realize their self-worth.

Because there are many adults now who feel confused even if they have obtained high degrees. But compared to this kind of people, the practice of fully respecting children's dreams and working hard for them has become the mainstream of Korean society.

However, Korean education experts also urge that children’s decisions must not be blindly respected before making a decision to drop out of school. After all, many children in adolescence have relatively radical thinking patterns and are not very thoughtful. And this requires parents to play a good guiding role next to them.

So would you agree with your children giving up their studies for their dreams? Welcome to leave a message to express your opinion.