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harms, we assert that public awareness campaigns and Chang, K.S. (2010). South Korea under Compressed Modernity:
educational-sector reforms can improve welfare for all Familial Political Economy in Transition. Abingdon, UK:
those affected. The advocacy and search for a preferred Routledge.
regime should bring together various stakeholders – https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203854396
including education scholars, employer groups, and Chang, K.S., & Song, M.Y. (2010). The stranded individualizer
representatives of children and healthcare – with the under compressed modernity: South Korean women in
common interest of ushering in a harmonious society individualization without individualism. British Journal of
preoccupied not with the test scores of 18 year olds, but Sociology, 61(3):539-564.
with what the next generation broadly can do and become.
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Acknowledgments Chen, Y., Huang, R., Lu, Y., & Zhang, K. (2021). Education fever
None. in China: Children’s academic performance and parents’ life
satisfaction. Journal of Happiness Studies, 22:927-954.
Funding https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-020-00258-0
None. Cho, H., & Brutt-Griffler, J. (2015). Integrated reading and
writing: A case of Korean English language learners. Reading
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Author contributions Cho, H.J. (1995). Children in the examination war in South Korea.
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Writing-original draft: All authors Cho, H.J. (2000). ‘You are entrapped in an imaginary well’: The
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