This study was performed to develop indicators for evaluating the economic size of
lifelong education centers using a new method for creation of indicators and to
evaluate the educational economic sizes in the university-offered lifelong education
fields. In order to evaluate the annual changes of the Korean economic sizes of the
university-offered lifelong education fields, the time-serial trends of indicators were
analyzed. Also, to evaluate the annual improvement of their economic sizes, the
trends of the dimensionless indicators indexed by the reference year were analyzed.
Meanwhile, the Korean economic sizes of the university-offered lifelong education
fields were compared to those of OECD countries. The results of this study were
that its quality is not satisfactory yet while the university-offered lifelong education in
Korea is growing quantitatively. Compared to the cases of the United States, the
university-offered lifelong education of Korea is quite unsatisfactory in both the
aspects of quantity and quality. The proportion of 4-year university-offered lifelong
education centers to total higher institution-offered lifelong education center is even
decreasing in Korea. The university-offered lifelong education, therefore, must meet
to both the educational demands in the economic and non-economic aspects by
offering diverse courses with high quality for degree-seekers to hobby-learners.