| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.1

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.1 | The History Cooperative

Michael J. Seth. Education Fever: Society, Politics, and the Pursuit of Schooling in South Korea. (Hawai'i Studies on Korea.) Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. Center for Korean Studies: University of Hawai'i. 2002. Pp. vii, 305. $49.00.
As the subtitle suggests, this is indeed an ambitious volume. Michael J. Seth ranges across five decades of society and politics tracking the nation's "educational fever" or "obsession," as evident in "exam mania." The volume succeeds with a more modest yet very important goal of reviewing state educational policy, although it does not offer a consistent analysis of the substance or extent of educational aspirations. One finds rather an informative chronological review of state education policy and public response from 1945. Seth provides historical detail drawn from government documents and secondary sources to fill out a picture of education aspirations in Korean society. The volume also benefits from an effort at comprehensive coverage of major education issues through 1998. It provides a useful introduction to major issues in development of state educational policy.	1
The story begins with a profile of remarkable growth in literacy, schooling, and education policy from 1945 through 1960. Three motifs give texture to the chronicle in chapters two and three: private sector financing, sequential development from primary through secondary levels, and the broader argument of public demand as the driving force for expansion.	. . .

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