Public prosecutors, including the first batch of Law School graduates, are sworn into office, 2012 Image source: Joongang Daily The year I entered university (2009) was a remarkable year. It was the  first year Law Schools as 3-year postgraduate programs were introduced (same for Medical Science, but this topic really deserves another post). The goal was to “offer law (and medical) studies to a wider array of students, instead of discouraging them at the high-school level”. As a result, the Gosi System (사법고시, or ‘National Bar Exam’, but I will use the term ‘Gosi’ in order to distinguish it from the National Bar the current Law School graduates have to pass) will end in 2017. Instead, Law School graduates will have to pass the National Bar, a much simpler exam, in order to start practicing. A difference is that one does not need to hold a LLB or LLM in order to pass the Gosi, but one does need an LLM to become a lawyer with the new Law School system. In reality, prior to this, …