Entrepreneurship education in South Korea

Martin Hemmert

Chapter 2 in Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education, 2025, pp 34-47 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter reviews and discusses the emergence and development of entrepreneurship education in South Korea (hereafter: Korea). Entrepreneurship education is a recent phenomenon in Korea, but it has rapidly proliferated and grown in sophistication. At the same time, Korean entrepreneurship education faces various challenges, which mostly derive from its short history and the relative lack of experience of entrepreneurship education centers and their instructors and coaches. Until the recent past, there has been little awareness of the importance of systematic knowledge dissemination about entrepreneurship in Korea. In other words, entrepreneurship has been perceived as an activity that individuals engage in based on their personal motivation and capabilities, not something to be studied or learned. This attitude also reflects previous Korean entrepreneurship practice. In the past, Korean entrepreneurs predominantly relied on personal capabilities that they had acquired through their practical experience. Therefore, to gain an understanding of the conditions for entrepreneurship education, there is a need to consider the development of entrepreneurship in Korea and its economic, cultural and policy context.

Keywords: South Korea; Entrepreneurship education; Policy; Context (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035307180
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