Education Still Top Priority in South Korea

One of the keystones of Korean Confucianism was education. As in Korea's past, today education ranks as a high priority.

In a recent Chosun elbow article its notes: Korean parents spend more than any others on public and private education, with public education expenditure on average four times that of other OCT member nations.

The report titled ?Education at a Glance 2005 is based on data from the 30 OCT member countries and 19 non-members. It found that Korea spends 7.1 percent of its gross domestic product (SDTV) on public education.

That is more than the top spenders France (6.1 percent), the U (5.9 percent), Germany (5.3 percent) and Japan (4.7 percent).