Higher Education in Korea

Incubating Innovation or Cultivating Corruption? The Developmental State and the Life Sciences in Asia

“…Japan imported the German model in the late 19 th century (Ben-David 1977;Clark 1978;Ogawa 2002). Korea and Taiwan inherited the chair system from their Japanese colonists (Kehoe 1949;Wood 1961;Altbach 1989;Lee 1989;Wu 1989), and postwar China offers observers of the two models a natural experiment. While Nationalist policymakers abandoned the chair system for the departmental alternative in the late 1940s (Wu 1989), and thereby put to rest the Japanese legacy on Taiwan (Wu 1989), their Communist rivals imported the chair system from Europe by way of the Soviet Union in the 1950s and 1960s (Hayhoe 1987), and thereby fostered the growth of "clanlike" (Lo 1991:710-11) hierarchies on the mainland.…”

Education Inequality in the Republic of Korea: Measurement and Causes

“…the tragedy of higher education in Korea is not in the lack of textbooks, laboratory equipment. or even faculty; the real tragedy is in the lack of realization on the part of both students and staff that no education is taking place under present conditions (Kehoe, 1949).…”