<div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Dear Mr. Michael Duffy, </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Literacy</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> </span><span style="font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">rates</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> in South </span><span style="font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Korea </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">According to CIA World Factbook updated on June 30, 2015;</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></div><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:medium"><div><b></b></div>Literacy: </b><strong style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:medium">definition: </strong><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:medium">age 15 and over can read and write </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:medium"><strong style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:medium">total population:</strong><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:medium"> 97.9% </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:medium"><strong style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:medium">male:</strong><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:medium"> 99.2% </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:medium"><strong style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:medium">female:</strong><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:medium"> 96.6% </span><br><div><br></div><div>Further details are here; </div><div><a href="http://www.indexmundi.com/south_korea/literacy.html" target="_blank">http://www.indexmundi.com/south_korea/literacy.html</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Yoo Kwang-On</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 1:16 AM, Geert Scholten <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:geert.scholten@gmail.com" target="_blank">geert.scholten@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Dear Mister Duffy,<div><br></div><div>Although I am not aware if you read Korean or not, a quick search on naver resulted this:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://blog.naver.com/heemangys74/220670673671" target="_blank">http://blog.naver.com/heemangys74/220670673671</a><br></div><div><a href="http://sites.miis.edu/southkoreaeducation/diversity-and-access/" target="_blank">http://sites.miis.edu/southkoreaeducation/diversity-and-access/</a><br></div><div><a href="http://www.mt.co.kr/view/mtview.php?type=1&no=2016040710250369430&outlink=1" target="_blank">http://www.mt.co.kr/view/mtview.php?type=1&no=2016040710250369430&outlink=1</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>The third link puts in on 2,4%</div><div><br></div><div>Kind regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Geert Scholten</div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 1:59 PM, Michael Duffy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mgduffy45@hotmail.com" target="_blank">mgduffy45@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div><div dir="ltr">I wonder if anyone on the list can point me to an official source regarding literacy rates in Korea. There's a list published by UNESCO in 2015 (reproduced in Wikipedia), but South Korea is one of a minority of countries not reporting. By the way, North Korea is the only country that claims a 100% literacy level.<br> <br>Thank you<span><font color="#888888"><br>Michael Duffy<br> </font></span></div></div>
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