The South Korean ministry of education wants textbooks in schools to be replaced by tablets. If everything goes according to plan, all students in 2015 with a tablet to school. The plan will cost the government more than € 1.4 billion.
The plan will cost about 2.2 trillion Korean won; converted more than 1.4 billion euros. The government signs, however, that digital textbooks are cheaper than their analog equivalents. Furthermore, the it industry in the country of the plan.
It is still unknown which tablet the students will get. The chance is great that the government opts for South Korean manufacturers such as Samsung or LG; the country would, after all, an investment in its own economy. It is also still unknown whether the tablets completely by the government be paid, or that students own contribution to make.
Part of the plan is that by 2015, every school should have wireless internet must be present. Also should be already there from 2013 possibilities come to online lessons, so that pupils who are ill or weather conditions are not to go to school, however, lessons can follow.