41 about 109,000 in 2017, and their percentage out of the entire students has also increased from 0.44% in 2010 to 1.89% in 2017. 196. The dropout rate for multicultural children in 2016 was 0.85%, which was higher than the entire students’ dropout rate of 0.77%. The high school dropout rate was the highest at 1.41%, followed by middle school at 1.15% and elementary school at 0.70%. The multicultural children were having hard times in adjusting to school life and their reasons for dropout were due to cultural difference (18.3%), difficult schoolwork (18.0%), school transfer and study abroad (15.3%), money (14.4%), and lack of interest (11.1%). In terms of the career path, multicultural students expressed difficulties in setting career goals and preparing for the future as 33.1% answered that they do not know what to do in order to get into the school or workplace that they would like to go, and 31.1% answered that they are not sure what they want to become in the future. North Korean Refugee Children 197. According to the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family, the number of North Korean refugee children was 2,517 (1,143 elementary school students, 773 middle school students, and 601 high school students) in 2016 with middle school students being the majority group. The dropout rate for North Korean refugee children in 2016 was 2.1% with high school dropout rate being the highest with 6.1%, followed by middle school and elementary school at 2.3% and 0.6%, respectively. 2) Questions 198. Please provide detailed statistics regarding the right to educations of children from minority groups and explain how it is being managed. Issue 53. Leisure and Culture Activities 1) Current status 199. UNICEF Korea’s 2014 report states that 50.4% of children were not aware of their right to play and 22.8% of them were discontent or highly dissatisfied about their playing activities. Children could not fully enjoy their play time due to a lack of time (24.5%), academic stress (19.5%), and lack of understanding and interference from parents (15.1%). Academic stress is related to a lack of time to play as the children think that they should spend their leisure time on studying rather than playing. 200. According to the Ministry of Health and Welfare, adolescents (15 to 24 years old) spent an average of 7 hours 50 minutes per day on studying, which is about three hours longer than the OECD average per day or about 15 hours longer than the OECD average