Wait! Is this New?

South Korea to promote reading at schools. – ‘Crawl’ heading at bottom of Korean KBS news channel TV screen.

Wait! You mean they don’t already read in school? And they have to promote it?

This is one of those “Duh!” statements that make you wonder out loud. I mean, what’s the big deal about promoting reading in schools. Shouldn’t they be doing that anyway? I mean, isn’t that how one learns? By reading?

Well yea-a-ah, it is.

Yeah, yeah, I know, I know. What the station is really trying to say in a few words is that students in Korean schools will be encouraged to read more books after school, with the South Korean Education Ministry providing  financial support to 500 teachers’ reading clubs in 2011.

Apparently, they want to expand the program to double the teacher participation by 2013.

Now THAT explanation makes sense.