Korean Educational Development Institute(KEDI)

2019 Korean Education Longitudinal Study:

An Analysis of the Lives and Achievements of Early Adulthood after Graduation from High School (Ⅳ)

Early adulthood is a time period when an individual is required to become independent from one's parents, choose a career and job, marry and have children. In addition to these social tasks, young adults need to gather knowledge from learning as well as using and applying it to practical use and establish their own self-conception of personality, capability and gender role identity. In comparison to other countries, however, in Korea, an individual's ability to achieve tasks such as getting a job, marriage and pregnancy during early adulthood has been delayed due to pursuing higher education and increases in housing and child rearing expenses. This research has been conducted and expanded continuously under the title of “An Analysis of the Lives and Achievements of Early Adulthood after Graduation from High School (Ⅰ), (Ⅱ), (Ⅲ)" in 2013, 2015 and 2016 to understand and improve the reality in Korea.