Education is essential for the empowerment of both men and women, but it was not easy for women during the developmental period in Korea. According to one study, there was gender discrimination for educational opportunity when the parents had many children and a lower socio-economic status. Like girls in other neighboring countries, Korean girls also faced this discrimination. We can see that the most common educational attainment for women in the 1970s remained at the primary school level. The 1970s were still a time when the traditional customs of Confucianism and a patriarchal culture were strongly upheld in Korean society.

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