Why Do A Lot of Koreans Speak Eng but Japanese Don't?

Question

As an Asian, I wish to go to Japan & Korea one day for fun but, I don't know Korean or Japanese. I've heard that in Seoul, a LOT of people, especially younger people, DO KNOW English but in Jaan, a WIDE majority of them DO NOT know English. Why's this? Don't they teach Eng classes in Japan?

Anonymous · Answer

The story is easy. This is because the IQ of South Koreans is higher than that of Japanese.It's more appropriate to call the Japanese a monkey. A liar insidious monkey.

? · Answer

In Japan
English is ***required*** in schools
from a pretty early age.

Almost all "younger" people in Japan
(age: 10 - 25)
probably speak passable English.

According to this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_English-speaking_population
about 15% of Japanese speak English.
(South Korea is not listed on that chart)

According to this, which measures AVERAGE ENGLISH PROFICIENCY
https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/countries-that-are-most-and-least-proficient-in-english.html
Japan - 52%
South Korea - 55%

In other words: practically identical.

Why Do A Lot of Koreans Speak Eng but Japanese Don't?

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