Korea, Republic of
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This chapter provides an overview of the educational, employment and well-being outcomes of young people in Korea. It first outlines Korea’s economic context. It then compares the educational and employment performance of young Koreans with that of...
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Korea faces unique ageing and employment challenges. On the one hand, it will experience much faster population ageing than any other OECD country: the old-age dependency ratio (population aged 65+ over population aged 15-64), for example, is...
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The Korean social and economic context makes adult learning investments particularly important for SMEs. This chapter paints a picture of the place that SMEs occupy in the economy. It looks at the key mega-trends that are changing the skills needed...
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Korea performs above the OECD average on several ECEC outcome indicators but underperforms on others. On participation, Korea has a relatively large share of children aged three and under attending some form of ECEC. On child outcome indicators ...
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Korea has different curricula in place for different provisions: the standard child care curriculum covers all children aged zero to five in child care. In parallel, there is the national curriculum for kindergarten for children aged three to five ...
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Common challenges countries face in enhancing quality in ECEC curriculum are: 1) defining goals and content; 2) curriculum alignment for continuous child development; 3) effective implementation; and 4) systematic evaluation and assessment. Korea ...
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Potential areas for reflection can contribute to broadening country perspectives through comparison with other countries and highlight emerging issues in a changing society. Based on other country practices and international data, potential areas ...
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