Previous studies on the development of Compulsory Education in Korea reveal that it is national development programs for education which has completed compulsory education not only in pramary education but also in secondary. Nobody can deny that the n...
Previous studies on the development of Compulsory Education in Korea reveal that it is national development programs for education which has completed compulsory education not only in pramary education but also in secondary. Nobody can deny that the national effort for education contribute towards these achievements. Ministry of Education(MOE) in fact has been making various plans for it and putting into practices.
But it is question that this effort has drived compulsory education to today's achievement. That is, it should be examined whether the effort is a 'prior' driving power or a 'posterior' supporting settlement. In concering the secondary education, the entering rate always has been nearly 100% before this effort became visible. Then, exactly speaking, the completion to its compulsory education is not by favor of this effort, but of other element. The other element is a 'passion for education', one of the particular phenomena that Korean has. So, the passion for education became the basis of these achievement, and the national effort was a supporting system for it.
If this idea could be applied to primary education, the 'prior' driving power for the completion of compulsory education is the passion for education that korean has, and the national effort is a supporting settlement. Of course, what is the passion for education is vague. So this reriew suggest that it is the task of hereafter research on compulsory education.