Outward and Upward Mobilities: The Global Dispersion of Students from South K…

Education has long been the route to social mobility and educational qualifications persist as a legitimized marker of social class. In the 1970s and 1980s, South Korea experienced rapid growth in its educational system and economy which resulted in a large middle class. Currently, the middle class is contracting and income inequality is rising. What was achieved in one generation for a large s…