SEOUL: Summer vacation is approaching with fears of hunger, not joyful expectation, for hundreds of thousands of children in this country. This is because they will not be going to school, so they will not be served lunch.
It is shameful for a nation known as the world’s 11th largest economy, and an OECD member, to have as many as 300,000 children who need school lunch programmes. Among these primary and secondary school children from needy households, the government will provide only 35,000 of the most underprivileged class with meal coupons during the vacation.