Emerging of New Korean Manpower Generation Post WWII, 1945-1963

Abstract

Unlike the dazzling economic growth in the 1960s, building human resources in Korea occurred post WWII and in the 1950s under very weak conditions. In general, the Korean economy is said to have started to grow in earnest in the 1960s, but we need to analyze the recovery process of the technical void immediately post WWII and in the 1950s that made the economic growth of the 1960s possible. The graduates of elementary and middle increased immediately post WWII because the U.S. Military Government reconfigured school education. The Survey of Employed Technical Manpower says that graduates in science and engineers enlarged post WWII more speedy than colonial period. During post WWII to 1950s called void period, new manpower generation emerged and it made a basis of economic growth in the 1960s.