South Korea's private kindergartens are on a collision course with the government as they go ahead with plans to postpone the start of the spring semester, protesting the government's move to introduce more regulations. <br />On Monday, Korea Kindergarten Association said its roughly 15-hundred member institutions will not be open on the first day of the spring semester.<br />The government claims the number is closer to six-hundred and said it will force the kindergartens to open, and if they don't open on Tuesday, it will press criminal charges.<br />The government will also direct parents to seek out local public kindergartens while the private ones are staging the protest. <br />
