Shadow Education and the Curriculum and Culture of Schooling in South Korea

Young Chun Kim is Professor in the Department of Education at Chinju National University of Education, Republic of Korea. His academic research areas are curriculum theorizing, qualitative research, and postcolonial and transnational curriculum studies.

• 1.Preface.- 2.Prologue.- 3. PISA, Korean students' world-class achievements and Dark side of Korean schooling - 4.History of Shadow education in Korea .- 5.Types of hakwon education.- 6.Elementary School Years.- 7.Middle School Years.- 8.High School Years.- 9.Good and Bad Effects of hakwon education.- 10.Hakwon education as a Worldwide Curriculum Question.- 11.Conclusion: Questions without organs.- 12.Epilogue: Simulacra and Dangerous future.