“…There were 57 preschools in 1985, and there were 176,000 licensed kindergartens in 1987 (Laing & Pang, 1992 (Shim & Herwig, 1997). Teachers of early childhood education have a four-year college degree or two years of college and passing scores on the National Teacher Exam (Lee, 1997). In addition, there is a recent trend to improve the quality of teacher education on a continuous base.…”