ABSTRACT

The success story of Korean economic development is intimately linked with the so-called developmental state; and education policy, as part of centrally orchestrated industrial policy, played a critical role in the country's rapid industrialisation, which allowed for high employment rates, relatively modest social inequality and remarkable social mobility. However, the Korean success story has started to show ‘cracks’ – with labour market dualisation, rising inequality and ‘over-education’. While acknowledging the importance of the East Asian financial crisis as external shock for the Korean political economy, we suggest more fundamental problems in the socio-economic and socio-political underpinnings of the developmental state and its education and skills formation system for understanding how Korea's economic and education miracle turned into ‘education inflation’, skills mismatch and social polarisation.

摘要

韩国经济发展的成功故事与所谓的发展状态密切相关。作为中央统筹的产业政策的一部分，教育政策在该国的快速工业化中发挥了关键作用，该工业化带来了高就业率，相对适度的社会不平等和显着的社会流动性。然而，随着劳动力市场的双重化，不平等加剧和“过度教育”，韩国的成功故事开始显示出“裂缝”。在承认东亚金融危机对朝鲜政治经济的外部冲击的重要性的同时，我们提出了发展国家及其教育和技能形成体系的社会经济和社会政治基础中的更多基本问题，以了解韩国如何