[KS] Korea's literacy rate

[Yoo Kwang-On]

Dear Mr. Michael Duffy,

Literacy rates in South Korea

According to CIA World Factbook updated on June 30, 2015;

*Literacy: **definition: *age 15 and over can read and write
*total population:* 97.9%
*male:* 99.2%
*female:* 96.6%

Further details are here;
http://www.indexmundi.com/south_korea/literacy.html

Regards,

Yoo Kwang-On




On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 1:16 AM, Geert Scholten <geert.scholten at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear Mister Duffy,
>
> Although I am not aware if you read Korean or not, a quick search on naver
> resulted this:
>
> http://blog.naver.com/heemangys74/220670673671
> http://sites.miis.edu/southkoreaeducation/diversity-and-access/
> http://www.mt.co.kr/view/mtview.php?type=1&no=2016040710250369430&outlink=1
>
> The third link puts in on 2,4%
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Geert Scholten
>
> On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 1:59 PM, Michael Duffy <mgduffy45 at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>> Thank you
>> Michael Duffy
>>
>
>
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