Korean student calendar

This past week I had the students do a lesson on how often they do certain activities. As part of the lesson, i passed them out a blank calendar and they were supposed to write down what they do in any regular month. More or less what their monthly activities are. To my surprise, about 95% of the students had "academy" on every day of the month. Academies are specialized after school private schools.- pretty much everyone goes to academies if they wanna get ahead and go to the better schools. Anyways.... i was like ... wow! . And then one of my korean students called me over and said "look, teacher. this is korean student life" and then he went on to talk about the president and how he stresses education and how important it is and that that is why all students' lives are focused solely on academy and study study study. my goodness!!!