From Corruption in Education to a Corrupting Education: The Ascendance of Private Tutoring in South Korea

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· 발행기관 : 한국부패학회
· 수록지 정보 : 한국부패학회보 / 18권 / 2호 / 219 ~ 236페이지
· 저자명 : 조지바카

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This paper exams the controversial role of private education in Korea. Since liberation from Japan in 1945, government leaders and educational planners have sought to limit the role of private education in order to build a modern educational system that provided equality of opportunity to all Koreans. This paper examines the ways in which the demand for private tutoring expanded in relationship to various equalization policies.
The paper will be primarily concerned with the transmutation of private tutoring following the collapse of the dictatorship and the rise of market liberalism in terms of the rhetoric of segyehwa(globalization). I will emphasize the manner in which private education, with market liberalization of the 1980s and 1990s, moved from the shadows of the illicit education market into a dominant position. In this way private education transformed themselves from purveyors of corruption to leaders in education. This explosion of the private education industry has coincided with the expansion of English education. In this way proficiency in English has been presented as the key to Korea’s success in the new age of globalization. Thus the various entities that comprise the private education industry have become purveyors of a corrupting education that has systematically denigrated public education in terms of standardized exams like TOEIC and TOFEL.

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