Aspects of Establishment and Reorganization of Secondary Schools in Jeju Area Immediately After Liberation

This is a study on the aspects of changes in secondary education that appeared in the establishment of secondary schools in Jeju area immediately after liberation. At that time, Jeju was a representative region showing the expansion of secondary schools. During the Japanese colonial period, there were only two regular middle schools, but by 1949, the number of regular middle schools increased to ten. This indicates that the inherent demand of Jeju-do residents for secondary education surfaced immediately after liberation and the meaning of changes in secondary education can be determined through the aspects of school establishment. Immediately after liberation, secondary schools in Jeju showed the aspects of reorganization from non-regular private middle schools to regular middle schools. The rapid increase in the number of middle schools in Jeju area after 1945 was made possible due to the internal sympathy of local community for the expansion of secondary education. After the second half of 1946, the administrative organizations expanded and the institutionalization of middle schools was carried out with the implementation of the Jeju-do provincial system and the U. S. military government’s new school system. At that time, the reorganization of the system into regular schools enabled not only the administrative authorities to strengthen the administrative power, but also made it easy for students with academic background of secondary school to enter into higher education or get a job. Many middle schools established immediately after liberation were gradually reorganized into regular middle schools in the system, which became the foundation of secondary schools in Jeju.