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The Lee administration’s guiding principle for national strategy is fully reflected in educational policy planning. Upon diagnosing the preceding government’s education policies as “having placed excessive emphasis on the equality issue,” the Lee government set forth a series of new education drive that focused on “fostering competition and securing excellence in education.”
The chapter refers to education reform in Korea of Lee Administration and it was written when President Lee Myung-Bak was in office.
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Kim, J., Kim, T. (2013). Korea: Fostering Competition and Securing Excellence in Education. In: Wang, Y. (eds) Education Policy Reform Trends in G20 Members. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38931-3_7
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