The Internationalization of Foreign Language Education in the Republic of Korea

The findings from this paper show that the outstanding feature of foreign language education in South Korea manifests itself as the internationalization strategy in education concept, curriculum, cooperation and talents training. On the one hand, the strategy promotes the socioeconomic development in Korea and boosts its competitiveness in the world; on the other hand, the socioeconomic development in turn stimulates the peoples' need for English and spurs the government to increase input to enhance foreign language education. Adapted from the source document