Those who came to cheer on their seniors expressed both excitement and worries. I told him to solve the problems as usual,” Koh told The Korea Herald before hurriedly leaving for church to pray for good results. I believe my son will do well because he is very calm and has been preparing a lot (for the exam). Koh Jung-hee, a mother who came to send off her son, stood in the crowd at Yongsan High School and prayed. ![]() For the sake of the national exam, airplanes waited on land and in the air for takeoffs and landing temporarily, while the opening of banks and government institutes were delayed an hour to keep traffic off the streets in the morning. Suneung is the culmination of 12 years of elementary, middle and high school education for students in Korea, and a rite of passage into adulthood. “I hope I do not get too nervous (taking the exam) and want to do well, as usual.” Time went faster than I thought and I am a little nervous,” Park Sung-ho, a third-year student at Hwanil High School in Seoul, told The Korea Herald as he entered the test site in Yongsan. ![]() 'It does not feel real (that it is Suneung day) yet. (Video shot by Lim Jeong-yeo and Jo He-rim, edited by Lim Jeong-yeo/The Korea Herald)
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