The Context of Implementing National Human Resources Development in Korea

Rha, Ilju; HyunJung, Byun

doi:10.26857/jlls.2007.11.3.2.55

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“…This policy was continued by President Park from 1961 to 1979 and by subsequent governments, emphasizing the development of human resources to stimulate economic development. During this period, national policy focused on economic development and the policies for other sectors were regarded as supplementary to economic development (e.g., Kim 1997;Kwack 1998;Rha and Byun 2007). For example, it was believed that the rights of workers, freedom of speech, and academic freedom could be sacrificed in favor of economic development.…”

Section: Economic Development and Higher Educationmentioning

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Higher education development in Korea: western university ideas, Confucian tradition, and economic development

Shin

2011

High Educ

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The features of Korean higher education development are related to sociocultural tradition (Confucian tradition), the model university ideas, and economic development in Korea. The modern university ideas adopted in Korean are based on the German model which was established by the Japanese colonial government and drawing on the US university model after the World War II. However, the modern university ideas are intertwined with socio-cultural factors and have been embedded in current Korean universities. As well as the western ideas and the Confucian tradition, the growth of Korean higher education has relied upon the rapid growth of the Korean economy. Education development is well aligned with economic development in Korea thanks to government policy initiatives. This framework can be applied in the analysis of higher education development in other countries. Higher education development cannot be solely explained by individual cultural, historical or economic factor. These three factors are interlinked and influence the development of Korean higher education.

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Section: Economic Development and Higher Educationmentioning

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Higher education development in Korea: western university ideas, Confucian tradition, and economic development

Shin

2011

High Educ

139

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“…The Korean Government’s endeavor to develop human resources started as early as the 1950s, although the policies until the 2000s did not formally use the term NHRD (Cho and McLean, 2002; Rha and Byun, 2007). To reconstruct and develop the country in the aftermath of the Second World War and the Korean Conflict, the Korean Government in the 1950s and 1960s put an emphasis on cultivating basic skills across its citizens (e.g.…”

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“…Because of the emphasis on economic development in such policies, the planning process was led by the Economic and Financial Ministry. The Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Labor, respectively, took charge of educational policies and training policies (Lim and Lee, 2014; Rha and Byun, 2007).…”

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“…Since the late 1990s, the model of quantitative economic growth became ineffective with the advent of the knowledge-based, information era. As President Dae-jung Kim, the newly elected in 1998 liberal leader, stressed the importance of HRD initiated from the national level, Korea began to use the term, human resources, in the nation’s ministerial policies (Rha and Byun, 2007). In 2001, the Ministry of Education was changed to the Ministry of Education and Human Resource Development (Cho and McLean, 2002; Nery-Kjerfve et al , 2014).…”

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Analysis of national human resource development (NHRD) policies of 2016 in South Korea with implications

Kyung-Ran

Ryu

McLean

2020

EJTD

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Purpose The purpose of this study is to explore ways to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of national human resource development (NHRD) policies led by South Korean central government agencies, identifying what policy decisions have been made and how they were implemented. Design/methodology/approach The authors collected data from the 2016 NHRD policy budget plans of the ministries and used content analysis. The unit of analysis was the fourth level, a sub-task, in each ministry’s policy budget plan. All coded policy contents were analyzed in terms of the centralized NHRD model, as well as through the perspective of developmental task theory. Findings The study yielded the following policy and implementation problems. First, the current system of NHRD policies established and implemented by individual ministries risks hampering the validity and effectiveness of the policies. Second, the structure of NHRD policy execution may cause similarity and redundancy across policies, thereby hindering the efficiency of the policies. Third, it is problematic when NHRD policies focus on solving short-term problems to the exclusion of long-term ones. Originality/value This study provides public recommendations to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of NHRD policies created by South Korea’s Central Government. If such an analysis has been made internally by the government, it has not been made publicly available. It also offers practical insights that might help to improve state-led human resource development policies for other countries – especially developing countries – that are planning to introduce central government-led NHRD or to improve existing NHRD policies.

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“…During this period, national policy focused on economic development and the policies for other sectors were regarded as supplementary to economic development (e.g., Kim 1997 ;Kwack 1998 ;Rha and Byun 2007 ). For example, it was believed that the rights of workers, freedom of speech, and academic freedom could be sacrifi ced in favor of economic development.…”

Section: Economic Development and Higher Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Mass Higher Education Development in East Asia

Shin¹,

Postiglione²,

Huang³

2015

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Scope of the SeriesEven though knowledge is the main content of teaching and universities are key knowledge producers, scholars have only recently begun to actively explore research on knowledge studies in higher education. As this fi eld of study has grown, it has increasingly overlapped with the research focus of other fi elds, namely research and science policy, and information studies. However, these three fi elds have developed independently with little interaction between them, causing our understanding of knowledge to be limited, compartmented, and lacking a multidimensional perspective. This book series is designed to improve knowledge studies in higher education by stimulating interactions between these different approaches. Coverage in this series includes:• University and knowledge production • R & D funding systems • Education reforms • Innovation systems for emerging regions • School curriculum and knowledge • Social utility of knowledge production • University research and in-house research • Research collaborations.With its comprehensive overview and multidisciplinary perspective, this series provides scholars and policymakers with the theory and data they need to make more informed decisions regarding knowledge research in higher education.More information about this series at

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The Context of Implementing National Human Resources Development in Korea

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Higher education development in Korea: western university ideas, Confucian tradition, and economic development

Higher education development in Korea: western university ideas, Confucian tradition, and economic development

Analysis of national human resource development (NHRD) policies of 2016 in South Korea with implications

Mass Higher Education Development in East Asia

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