Reality of art in Korea

As I've mentioned previously, I had a quite big interest in arts since I was young. As, we're learning about the history about art in Renaissance, I also want to represent about art in my country, Korea. About the view and visions toward artists.

First of all, it's very hard to enter an Art University in Korea. I had learned art for about 3years. However, it wasn't enough, so I failed the first exam so I had to spend one more year to pass it after graduating high school. Also, even in small technical college's rate of competition is about 15:1. In other words, if you don't get an A or you aren't a top in class, you would definitly fail. Not only competitive rate but also there isn't enough support to them in colleges. Except only a few of colleges, most of students don't have enough support by college.

Also, they don't have enough place to work after college. Nowadays, even in small art industries see the beauty first rather that their personality. Also, they tend to have a nightshift all day long without any extra payment. For these compositive reasons, to be able to maintain as a artist in Korea, in my opinion, it's hard to get a job or to be sucessed. For that, some of them study abroad to improve English like in my case ( as English is a required subject to go to a major company in Korea), or else some of them enter in another country's college, get a new start, and study with enough support. However, as my major is art, I feel pity about this reality of these days.