Both Korea and Japan place strong emphasis on English education, as well as on education as a whole. The high percentage of children enrolled in Schools bear testimony to this. For example, in Korea almost 100 per cent of primary school students go on to middle and junior secondary schools, and the percentage of junior high School students going on to senior secondary school is high. The percentage of senior high School students continuing their studies at the tertiary level, I,e. universities, junior colleges and cent in 2007 (Korean Ministry of Education, Science and Technology Development, hereafter referred to as KEST 2009).