The Last Children – level 1

The Last Children

25-03-2021 07:00

Nokdo is a South Korean island. It takes about 75 minutes to get there from the land by a boat.

Only 100 people live on the island. Only a few children live there. A school opens for them. A teacher is not there. The teacher must come from the mainland.

The children are happy there. They say that the island is quiet. Cars are not there. The air is clean. Sadly, the children do not have any playmates.

South Korea has the oldest people in the world. The number of people is going down. The problem starts in the past.

Many people start to work in big factories in the 1970s. Apartments and houses are expensive. Families have a few children. Many families have no children. It is a problem now. The population is getting old.

Difficult words: mainland (the country or continent without islands), playmate (a friend with whom a child plays), population (all people who live in a place).

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