Education in South Korea
Reflections on a Seventy-Year Journey
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The 70-year history of lifelong education policy in the Republic of Korea has evolved in response to various social situations facing the Korean society. Social education policy for the improvement of literacy...
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The miracles of education in the Republic of Korea for the past 70 years after the national liberation can be regarded as a remarkable achievement that is unprecedented all over the world. Over the past 70 yea...
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During the 70 years after the Liberation, Korean education moved forward with the practice of democracy as its most critical task from the very beginning. The Republic of Korea first had to overcome the war an...
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This chapter deals with the education system in the Republic of Korea over the past 70 years. The scope of the Korean education system will be viewed as the organic system of educational ideology, education sy...
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Higher education in the Republic of Korea has experienced substantial quantitative growth over the past 70 years since the liberation in 1945. The current college enrollment rate, the ratio of high school grad...
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The institutional system of the current education was officially launched simultaneously with the establishment of the Republic of Korea in 1948. What we take interest in and write about here is “national educ...