[This article is written by a JDC Junior Journalist. The JDC Junior Journalist program is an educational project sponsored by Jeju Free International City Development Corporation (JDC). JDC Junior Journalist articles are only briefly edited by mentors before publishing.]

These days thousands of students leave their native countries to study abroad. So the Ministry of Land, Transportation and Maritime Affairs’s under the command of the public enterprise JDC (Jeju Free international Development Center) and their coporation Haewool Inc, built the International school BHA (Brank some Hall Asia) and NLCS (North London collegiate School) on Jeju. These schools franchise famous private school brands and education systems. They gave billions of won in royalties and management expenses to home school in their own country.

But these schools makes a lot of problems in these days.

According to Shim Jae-chul member of National Assembly, These two International schools give too much privilege to JDC and Haewool Inc’s employees’s children. For example, for the last two years, 54 teacher’s children enter the school with no admission process and JDC support whole tuition for them. JDC’s position is that they can’t avoid to support whole tuition for them, because they want to invite the best teachers.

In 2012 JDC expanded support to their Haewool Inc’s employees. Shim Jae-chul member of National Assembly said, “As of last year, a report said Haewool Inc’s capital was perfectly encroached. But they still give lots of royalty payments to the schools in their home country. The public enterprise, JDC, provides a large financial guarantee for Haewool Inc. So if the school’s finances become a weak then huge part of the private budget will into the schools.

NLCS and BHA in Jeju was built to absorb demand of study abroad. But NLCS and BHA’s expenses is 2.4 times more expensive than overseas study and living expenses. So in last year 12% of NLCS’s student and 31% of BHA’s students dropped out because of economic reasons. Why are their expenses is so high? Because these schools allow remittances which bolster the primary institutions back in their home countries. After the school was founded, NLCS saved 9 billion won and BHA saved 9.8 billion won by earned surplus. And these two schools earned surplus income from their students. Many student leave these schools because of the high costs, but the school still earns surplus income.

The goverment should take an active hand to must solve these problems.