Tongue surgery as a key for                education in the "bigger world".

South Korea is well-known about extremely intensive education politics. It is not surprise anymore to hear that Korean students study very hard spending almost whole time from early morning till the late night in order to get better scores on examinations for being successful in admission to prestigious universities and correspondingly for finding a highly paid good job. In other words, education field in south Korea is considered as a very big and important part of people's life with the reason to achieve career development, to base lifespan in good conditions or simply saying, to have a "happy life" as they believe. 

In this article I would like to share with you my small researches about Korean cosmopolitan striving through the English language issues. Have you ever hear about "lingual frenectomy" or "tongue surgery"? It is quite interesting and delicate topic to discuss. 

- So what is "lingual frenectomy" and how does it related to education in South Korea? 
The fact is that in Korea the knowledge of English language is very valuable. There are not  so many countries like Korea which make tremendous focus on English as a marker of globalization. 

However there is a small issue, most of Koreans have some challenges with English pronunciation. So the reason of tongue surgery, which is quite popular for Koreans,  is to make an ability to pronounce English.  A lingual frenectomy is the removal of a band of tissue connecting the underside of the tongue with the floor of the mouth.* The surgery takes about ten minutes overall. 

 'One Korean doctor, Jung Do Kwang, an ear, nose and throat specialist, said: "Korean mothers have a fervour for education and think it will make their children fluent in e
English" '* This show  how South Korean mothers make an accent on surgery for flawless English and we can see that many mothers agree on surgery for good English pronunciation, what demonstrate an Korean obsession about education.

References:
"Mother's Management of English Education in South Korea" So Ji Park and Nancy Abelmann
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingual_frenectomy
*http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-108751/Childrens-surgery-speak-better-English.html
and some more if you want to know more about:
http://articles.latimes.com/2004/jan/18/news/adfg-tongue18