South Korean parents force babies to learn yoga, infant psychiatric patients increase sharply

It is reported that there is an infant tutoring school in Gangnam, Seoul, South Korea, which offers "Harvard University" education courses for infants as young as 18 months old. Class hours are from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.. In addition to being taught authentic English by American teachers, the school also specially arranged for these little people to learn yoga.

A nearby cram school also offers an "infant class" to enroll babies aged 18 to 36 months and teach them nine courses including English, arithmetic, music, and entertainment.

Some baby cram schools even offer "philosophy courses" and invite teachers majoring in sociology and philosophy to teach babies philosophy. The person in charge of the college said,"Recently, writing is a non-negligible part of entering Korean universities. Therefore, parents hope to train their children's thinking skills as soon as possible."

South Korea attaches so much importance to children's education, but it has produced many unexpected side effects. After receiving great teaching pressure from parents, many babies developed infant autism.

Sun Seung-en, a psychiatrist at the Institute of Sensory Cognition in Seoul, South Korea, said,"Mental illness patients among infants and young children in South Korea account for 30% to 40% of the total mental illness. The main reason for the illness of these babies is pressure from parents to compulsory early education. The symptoms of these infants and young children include emotional unrest, attention disorders, and unbalanced cognitive development."

Shin I-jin, a pediatric psychiatrist at Yonsei University in South Korea, also said,"Recently, the number of infants under the age of 3 has increased rapidly. This may be due to the influence of parents paying too much attention to early education and dual-working families." (Internship Editor: Lin Xiaodong)