Samsung head stresses need for Korean educational reform

At an awards event on June 1, Samsung Group chairman Lee Kun-hee repeatedly stressed the importance of education reform in South Korea, emphasizing Korea’s ’need to model itself after advanced countries’ because of its position, "sandwiched" between Japan and China.

At the ceremony of the annual Hoam Awards, given for achievement in the arts, service, and science and technology, when asked by reporters what he thought of the ‘sandwich situtation’, Lee replied, "It is increasingly getting more serious. Education matters. We should produce geniuses by properly educating the gifted."...

After making such remarks at the March speech, Lee went on a month-long visit to Samsung’s European branches while helping promote PyeongChang’s efforts to host the 2014 Winter Olympics.
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