SDG-4 Quality Education in South Korea: SDG-4 Perspective

Title

SDG-4 Quality Education in South Korea: SDG-4 Perspective

Creator

Chung, Chunghee; Moon, Gyewan; Yeon, Guydeuk; Rawat, Sanskriti

Description

This chapter focuses on some of the best quality measures in education adopted by South Korea. It describes the educational initiatives and reforms brought into the South Korean education system to enhance the quality of education at all levels. This includes initiatives incorporated from 2015 to 2023 in early childhood, primary, secondary, and higher education. The chapter brings forth the current status and statistics enhancing the quality of education as envisaged by the UNs Sustainable Development Goal (SDG)-4 target indicators 4.1 to 4.7, including educational innovations, new policy frameworks, policy implementation, and the establishment of newer educational institutes that enhance the quality of education. The chapter reports the current status of gender equity in the enrollment ratio, employment ratio, dropout ratio, population ratio, education attainment, literacy ratio, and teacher ratio. The chapter uncovers the latest initiatives that bring quality to education in assessment and evaluation, new pro-grammes, interdisciplinary research, centers of excellence, entrepreneurial education, inclusive education, and education of the vulnerable population. The chapter further reports projects initiated to enhance the quality of education, including peace education, happiness curriculum studies, resilience education, educational infrastructure, learning environment, scholarships, recognition, information and communication technology, artificial intelligence, and teacher education. Copyright 2026 by Chunghee Chung, Gyewan Moon, Guydeuk Yeon and Sanskriti Rawat Published under exclusive licence by Emerald Publishing Limited

Source

Quality Education for All in Asia-Pacific Countries: Research Insights, Reflections and Initiatives on SDG 4;pp.145-162

Date

01-01-2026

Publisher

Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.

Subject

K-WAVE; non-formal education; quality education; SDG-4; TVET

Coverage

Chung C., College of Human Ecology, Kyungpook National University, South Korea; Moon G., School of Business Administration, Kyungpook National University, South Korea; Yeon G., Department of International Studies, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore, India; Rawat S., School of Education, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore, India

Rights

Restricted Access; Hardcopy may be available in the library

Relation

ISBN: 978-183608872-1; 978-183608873-8; 978-183608874-5;

Format

online

Language

English

Type

Book chapter

Identifier

https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83608-872-120251009

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