23 students from Suncheon accepted into prestigious Seoul National University.

This announcement was made with pride during a meeting of local English teachers this afternoon, and is in the papers, too. From the five cities in Jeollanam-do, 23 students from Suncheon, 20 from Mokpo, 13 from Gwangyang, 9 from Naju, and 3 from Yeosu were granted admission to Seoul National University, considered the top university in the country. In an comment to an earlier post, which I can't find right now, somebody asked me about admission statistics for Jeolla students trying to enter prestigious universities in Seoul. I'm not any closer to digging those up, but I was nonetheless pleased to find out about these numbers.