The main purpose of this paper is to identify Korean mothers' enthusiasm for the education of their children. The data are based on interviews carried out in Seoul, South Korea. The sample is composed of twenty-three, middle-class Korean mothers who have one or more children aged between 13-18 years. Twelve out of the sample are housewives and other eleven have paid jobs. The questionnaire is designed to find out the hidden meanings behind mothers' enthusiasm for the almost blind investment in the education of their children by checking the priority given by them to the success of their children on the basis of individual, family, and social variants of the interviewees. The interviews have been analysed for the frequency of various subjects mentioned in the course of the dialogue, and the results are as follows. The educational success of their child is one of the most important tasks in a mother's life, regardless whether she has a job or not. However, there are some differences according to the personal and social status of the mother. In the case of housewives, the child's education is used as a powerful tool to overcome their own identity crisis at a time when the role and status of women are changing. For those working mothers, even though their child's education is important, it becomes a double sense of responsibility that can sometimes conflict with their career-based identities. In brief, the enthusiasm for the education of their child is a strategy of Korean mothers to secure an individual and a social position for themselves as capable mothers and a way of responding to the expectation of others on the future success of their child.