Issues and Challenges for Secondary School Economics Education in South Korea: Implications from Five Events since 2004

Abstract

Since 2004, five events have led to issues and challenges for economics education in South Korea: economics education fever in 2004; a debate on the economics textbook in 2007; revision of the economics curriculum in secondary schools during 2005–2007; alternative trial of economics standards in and out of school economics education in 2008; and re-reformulation of the economics curriculum in secondary schools in 2009. These gave an opportunity for considering the effectiveness of the economics education curriculum in schools and the relationship between economics education and ideology.