The annual opening ceremony for Korea’s Judicial Research and Training Institute (JRTI) is usually a time for pride. To enter the institute’s mandatory two-year course and become a Korean lawyer, trainees must first have passed one of the world’s toughest Bar exams. Only around one in 10 test-takers succeed. But at this year’s ceremony, held in March, pride was supplanted by protest. More than half of the starting class of 947 boycotted the event.
July 13, 2011 at 07:03 PM
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The original version of this story was published on Legalweek
New postgraduate law schools turn the Korean legal education system on its head as trainee lawyers protest
The annual opening ceremony for Korea’s Judicial Research and Training Institute (JRTI) is usually a time for pride. To enter the institute’s mandatory two-year course and become a Korean lawyer, trainees must first have passed one of the world’s toughest Bar exams. Only around one in 10 test-takers succeed.
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