This study analysed the effect of globalization on education in Jeju, Korea, and how the residents
of Jeju have reacted to such change. This study examined the laws of Jeju Free International City,
the educational policies of Jeju based on said laws, and the alternative education activities by Jeju
NGOs. The results were as follows:
First, the central government, the Jeju province authority, political parties, and Jeju NGOs
negotiated in the process of legislation of Jeju Free International City Law(JFICL) within the context
of globalization.
Second, even though the drive for Jeju Free International City made the education service trade
more likely, no foreign school has yet to be established in Jeju due to its demographic, industrial,
and geographic conditions. There has been little success so far in raising the quality of education to
international standards.
Third, although attempts at improving the equality of education has been limited, discourses on
globalization of Jeju education has served as an ideology, which bound Jeju residents together by
instilling in them the belief that Jeju will not be able to prosper unless it became more open and
developed global-leader education for its students.
Fourth, some Jeju NGOs, who saw through the ideological function that the talks for global
education served, tried to educate the value of "ethical globalization" to the Jeju people including the
students. They were interested in civic-participation, social inclusion, and community education, but
not yet in global-citizenship education.