In recent years more emphasis is placed on an equal approach in the field of school education which doesn’t create differences and criteria of good or bad according to the pupils’ individual abilities and grades.
However, even if pupils, while being treated equally within their schools, can spend a peaceful time, as soon as they get out into the world outside the school, they will most likely be confronted with competition and differences in their everyday life.
How do Japan and Korea, whose educational systems and educational environment are said to be similar, respond to the reality of social competition and differences?Based on the above, I chose “Equality and Competition in the School Education” as a topic for my thesis in a broad sense, in which I focus on the grading system, analyze it from the point of view of comparing differences and specific characteristics of grading styles and evaluation approaches in the school education of both countries, and examine how the grading methods change together with social changes and in the flow of time.