The purpose of this study is to analyze the relationality between mothers and children’s education as represented in contemporary Korean novels and to discuss the educational implications of these representations. To this end, a qualitative content analysis was conducted of three contemporary Korean novels in which mothers’ involvement in their children’s education constitutes a central narrative focus. The main findings of the study are as follows. First, in the novels, children are represented as the primary source of meaning in mothers’ lives, and children’s education is understood as a source of hope through which mothers are able to envision a different and better world. Second, the relationality between mothers and children’s education, as represented in the novels, can be categorized into four thematic dimensions: (1) mother-centered parental roles in children’s education, which emerge as the dominant form of parental identity; (2) children’s education as a field onto which mothers’ desires for self-realization and compensatory aspirations are projected; (3) children’s education as a resource through which mothers affirm their identity and gain recognition of their authority; and (4) the emotions of compassion and identification internalized within mothers’ educational practices. Based on these findings, the study discusses the educational implications.