The majority of South Korean college students are leading “unhappy” lives on campus due to concerns over heavy tuition and bleak job prospects, data showed on Tuesday.

The results are based on a survey of 528 students in their senior year across the nation by Job Korea, in which 50.6 percent of respondents said they are “not happy with university life.”

As the source of unhappiness, 44.2 percent of those who are not happy picked “tuition.”

Of all the respondents, only 12.1 percent turned out to be attending university to obtain knowledge about their majors and 10.8 percent to enjoy and experience various opportunities provided by the university.

More than 70 percent of the surveyed said that they go to university because “a diploma is needed for a job and marriage.”

From news report
(knews@heraldcorp.com)