
Graduating from a top South Korean university is the ultimate distinctive and distinguishing marker of prestige, high socioeconomic status, promising marriage prospects, and a path to a prestigious and respectable white-collar professional occupation.

Academic success is often a source of pride for families and within South Korean society at large as much of the South Korean populace view success in education as the main propeller of social mobility for themselves and their family as a gateway to the South Korean middle class. As education is regarded as a high priority for South Korean families, as success in education is crucial for channeling one's social mobility to ultimately improve one's socioeconomic position in South Korean society. Higher education is an overwhelmingly serious issue in South Korean society, where it's viewed as one of the fundamental capstones of South Korean life. The nation is consistently ranked amongst the top for global education. South Korea is well known for its high standards about education, which has come to be called "education fever". The country has one of the world's highest-educated labor forces among OECD countries. South Korea is one of the top-performing OECD countries in reading, literacy, mathematics and sciences with the average student scoring about 519, compared with the OECD average of 493, which ranks Korean education at ninth place in the world. Both types of schools receive funding from the government, although the amount that the private schools receive is less than the amount of the state schools. ( August 2021) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Įducation in South Korea is provided by both public schools and private schools.

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