“What will happen to North Korea’s education system after reunification?” This is an important question that should not be dismissed. The book recognizes the issue of integrating North Korea’s education system and explores the processes and directions to follow. In addition, the book covers financial policies and strategies to take in the vision of life-long learning. North Korea’s reformed education system following reunification should serve as an advanced Korean education model that would lead the 21st century. Thus, upon reunification, South Korea’s education must also reform and evolve alongside North Korea’s. In other words, North Korea’s reformed education system should integrate fully into South Korea’s renewed and advanced education system.

This book focuses on educational reforms in North Korea upon reunification. The reformation of North Korea’s education must emulate South Korea’s post-independence educational reformation. However, North Korea’s reformation should not model after South Korea’s current education system but a reconstructed one, an advanced Korean education that could lead the 21st century world. Thus, upon reunification, South Korea’s education must also reform and evolve alongside North Korea’s. Korea’s post-reunification education will reach influence beyond the Korean people and serve as an emblematic model in furthering peace.

Contents
Part 1/ Envisioning an education system post-reunification
1. Recognizing the problem: unification through complete revolution
2. Basic principles of integrating two education systems
3. Reconstructing South Korea’s education system
4. Redirecting North Korea’s education post-reunification
5. Conclusion: challenges for South Korea in reconstructing North Korea’s education

Part 2/ Designing North Korea’s curriculum
1. Introduction
2. Comparing education goals
3. Comparing education: a focus on North Korea
4. Reforming North Korea’s education post-reunification
5. Summary and discussion

Part 3/ Designing North Korea’s teacher policies
1. Introduction
2. Maintaining North Korea’s education system and the role of teachers
3. Reappointing and retraining North Korean teachers post-reunification
4. Appointing teachers to the North Korean region post-reunification
5. Conclusion

Part 4/ Reunification and life-long education
1. Entering
2. South Korea’s current state on life-long education
3. Looking at North Korean education from the perspective of life-long education
4. The direction of life-long education in the post-reunification era
5. Exiting

Part 5/ Strategies for financing North Korea’s educational reform
1. Introduction: “A unified Korea must continue an education miracle!”
2. Funding strategies
3. North Korea’s resources
4. Reforming North Korea’s financial policies for a post-reunification education system
5. Conclusion: the need to design a “North Korean Educational Reform Committee”