This study is a research on discrimination of the colonial education focused on the Go-deung-bo-tong
school, or the secondary school graduates' course under the rule of Japanese imperialism. The important
tendency for the secondary school graduates' course is that the character of the school as a higher level
preparatory institution is being strengthened due to the increasing proportion of graduates, who continue
their study at a higher level. If we divide them into public and private schools, public school graduates
were much higher in ratio of continuing their studies at a higher level or employment. Especially, they
form a striking contrast by public school graduates entering public higher educational establishments and
private school graduates entering private higher educational establishments.
The course of the secondary school graduates was compared with that of Japanese middle school
graduates in Korea in order to reveal the colonial characteristics of the secondary school graduates'
courses. As a result, the percentage of continuing at a higher level of the secondary school, or Go-bo,
graduates was lower than that of the middle school graduates, and the percentage of engaging in domestic
duties was the other way round. This kind of tendency was not because the secondary school graduates
had less academic abilities than the middle school graduates, but it was the result of racial discrimination.