ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the changing government policies with respect to Korean private universities and colleges since World War II, and explains the changing relationship between the government and the private schools. It analyzes the effects of policy changes on Korean private higher education from both positive and negative points of view. One of the major causes of the expansion was the enactment of the Agriculture Land Reform Law in 1949. The nation-wide independence movement in 1919 forced the Japanese to change their severe style of control to a milder one. The chapter focuses on the factors that have enabled the government to control private institutions without financial aid, the effects of government control on private universities and colleges, and the effects of recent policies encouraging more autonomy and democratization. In 1985 the government formed the Presidential Commission for Education Reform with the task of recommending educational policy directions and tasks for Korean Education Reform through the 21st century.
