ABSTRACT
This chapter investigates the extent to which female labor contributed to economic growth during the 25 years from 1960 to 1985 in the context of parallel rapid expansion of educational opportunities in Korea. South Korea's remarkable success in economic development started in the early 1960s with a sustained high growth rate. Educational opportunities private initiatives, which were instrumental in the expansion of the education system, only reinforced inequality in terms of the educational opportunities available to males and females In Korean society parents have consistently made strong demands that readily available educational opportunities be open to their children. This is because, apart from the high value that was traditionally placed on learning, education has become the main channel for upward social mobility in modern Korean society. Korean government in the late 1960s which abolished the Secondary School Entrance Examination on the assumption that without this exam a larger number of students would receive education.
