Due to this status they receive a smaller government subsidy than do ordinary Japanese private schools.
[3] Regulations setting out the standards for accreditation as a miscellaneous school were issued by the then-Ministry of Education in 1956.
For example, as of 2011, the minimum threshold for total assets as a proportion of yearly operational expense ranged from one-sixth to two-thirds, and some prefectures demand that miscellaneous schools own lands and buildings as a condition of accreditation, while others have relaxed this standard and allow schools which rent their facilities on a long-term or even short-term basis.
[4] Chōsen gakkō have been unable to obtain this kind of official recognition as private schools, a situation which their supporters have described as discriminatory.
[8] The classification of gakjong hakkyo (Korean: 각종학교; Hanja: 各種學校) is defined in regulations promulgated under the authority of Article 60, Paragraph 3 of the Primary and Middle Education Act, and Article 59, Paragraph 3 of the Higher Education Act.