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“What we are seeing now is only the start,” said Yi In-sill, president of the Korean Peninsula Population Institute for Future. “Restructuring measures can act like painkillers to lessen the symptoms, but the pain itself is unavoidable.”

Citing a recent survey of 116 presidents of universities at the Korean Council for University Education’s general assembly, she pointed out that more than 60 percent of them expect over 30 four-year institutions to close within the next 10 years.

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