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| Students from Duksung Girls' High School in Jongno-gu, Seoul, cheer their senior peers and display banners bearing encouraging messages in front of Ewha Girls' Foreign Language High School in Jung-gu, Seoul, Thursday, where third-grade high school students sat the annual College Scholastic Ability Test. Korea Times photos by Shim Hyun-chul |
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| The Duksung girls prepared a giant banner that reads: 'Duksung Girls' High School third graders, fighting!' The cheering squad described themselves as BTS, an acronym for Best Teachers and Students. |
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| Among the cheering crowd in front of Ewha Girls' Foreign Language High School, a girl makes sure a mirror is well stuck to a cheering prop made from a cardboard box. Letters next to the mirror read: 'You are the hero.' |
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| A test sitter at Ewha Girls' Foreign Language High School receives hearty encouragement from her teachers before entering the school. She didn't let go of her notepad until the last second she stepped inside her designated test site among the 1,190 venues nationwide. |
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| A father hugs his daughter as she braces herself before going into Ewha Girls' Foreign Language High School for the CSAT. |
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| Mothers also accompanied their daughters to the school to give them a last-second pep talk before the test, like this pair. |
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| One of the test sitters is caressed by her older sister before the cheering crowd and photo journalists at Ewha Girls' Foreign Language High School. A sign at the school's entrance indicates the venue is test site No. 19 in the city's 15th test district. |
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| Encountering a torrent of cheers and well-wishes that they will probably never experience again, test sitters cannot help but smile as they enter Ewha Girls' Foreign Language High School. |
