South Korea has one of the highest levels of higher education attainment in the world and 69 per cent of those aged between 25-34 are educated to the tertiary level. Globally, South Korea is the fourth-largest sender of international tertiary students: over 130,000 South Korean students were enrolled in degree programmes abroad in 2018. There is however diminishing interest in traditional education destinations abroad such as the US and this appears to result from the perception that Korean employers are reluctant to hire graduates who have studied abroad. Interest in short-term programmes abroad and study within the Asia region is meanwhile increasing. South Korea regularly scores higher than the OECD PISA average in maths, sciences, and reading, but despite high rankings on global scales, the school education system has been criticised for being memory-based, for being extremely high-pressure, and for its failure to develop creativity, good communication skills, empathy and critical thinking skills. South Korea is also becoming a popular destination for globally mobile students and foreign enrolments in the country’s tertiary institutions have increased from 12,000 in 2003 to 160,000 in 2019.
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