Education Fever

by Michael J. Seth

In the half century after 1945, South Korea went from an impoverished, largely rural nation ruled by a succession of authoritarian regimes to a prosperous, democratic industrial society. No less impressive was the country's transformation from a nation where a majority of the population had no formal education to one with some of the world's highest rates of literacy, high school graduates, and university students. Drawing on their premodern and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824825349
• ISBN13: 9780824825348
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.4"