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This picture taken on May 15, 2019 shows elderly South Korean women (front L-R) Park Young-ae, Nam Yang-soon and Shin Dong-hee posing and their eight-year-old classmates in a classroom at Woldeung Elementary School on the outskirts of Suncheon, 320 kilometres (198 miles) south of Seoul. With South Korea's population ageing rapidly and families migrating from the countryside to the cities for decades, rural primary schools are facing falling pupil numbers. Now some are targeting the opposite end of the age spectrum and recruiting elderly illiterate grandmothers – who were denied education on gender grounds during their own childhoods – to stave off the threat of closure and teach them to stave off the threat of closure and teach them to read and write. (Photo by Jung Yeon-Je/AFP Photo)
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