South Korea is one of the top-performing countries in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) rankings. Along with other Asian countries including Shanghai-China and Singapore, Korea has garnered recognition as one of the highest-achieving countries in education since the PISA was launched in 2000. At the same time, however, the 2012 PISA results joltingly revealed that Korean students have low motivation and that only a small percentage of them reported they are happy at school, despite their stellar performance. The PISA is an international survey conducted by the OECD, which aims to evaluate the skills and knowledge of 15-year-old students in the key subjects: literacy, mathematics, and science. It aims to assess the educational policies of different countries and to establish international policy-oriented indices of skills and knowledge. Many countries have undergone education reforms, utilizing the PISA survey results as the barometer. In this session, foreign correspondents will examine the educational systems of South Korea and their own countries through the PISA results, and offer their insights on the desirable educational environment that can make students feel fulfilled and happy.