TOEIC Fever
Almost all of Korean university students are eager to get a high score on TOEIC test. Regardless of what they study in universities or what they do at workplaces, it is the essential to get a job. Even though many of them are not using English ever after they get jobs, a lot of companies want people who have high TOEIC scores. The extreme case is that some companies select people in the order of a TOEIC score only. It is obviously time and money wasting for the job seekers because they all have to study for the TOEIC test. Besides, it is easy for the company to lose a person with specialiized skills because of the score. It has become worse since the whole world got more globalized and the total economy of Korea waned. What is worse, it is still going on, and it will get worse and worse until there are enough jobs for everyone.