South Korea's private kindergartens have gone ahead with their plan to postpone the start of the spring semester to protest the government's move to introduce new regulations.<br />But parents didn't go through their worst nightmare,... as the government directed them to seek out local public kindergartens instead,... and some kindergartens DID open their door to preschoolers.<br />All but one of the kindergartens in Jeolla-do, Gangwon-do and Jeju-do provinces started their semester as usual.<br />Korea Kindergarten Association had said its roughly 15-hundred member institutions will not be open, but the government claims the number is closer to six-hundred or even lower.<br />The government said it will force the kindergartens to open, and if they don't open on Tuesday, it will press criminal charges. <br />