South Korea's education system, the official name of South Korea is the Republic of Korea. The population is 43.3 million (199 1 year). Per capita GNP is 6330 USD (199 1 year). After the Second World War, the primary task facing education is to completely eradicate the colonial slavery policy of Japanese imperialism and its influence, strengthen national education and cultivate national talents.
The Ministry of Education set up an education review committee to formulate education policies after repeated discussions. The Education Law was promulgated in February 1949, emphasizing the full implementation of educational autonomy, setting up educational districts in counties and setting up special municipal education committees in special cities; It is determined that primary school is 6 years, junior high school is 4 years, senior high school 1 ~ 3 years, university is 4 ~ 6 years, junior college is 2 ~ 4 years, and normal school is 2 ~ 4 years.
20 19, 1 1, in order to eliminate the inequality in enrollment, the Korean Ministry of Education announced the abolition of elite high schools and turned them into ordinary high schools. At the same time, it is planned to invest more than 2 trillion won (about 654.38+0.2 billion RMB) in the next five years to improve the quality of ordinary high school education and popularize compulsory high school education in 20265.438+0.