National Qualifications Framework Operation Plan for the Promotion of Lifelong Skill Development

Current National Qualifications Framework (NQF) has become a global phenomenon as it has been implemented or is under the process of implementation in more than 155 nations. As South Korea is also one of the nations that prepare for NQF implementation, it is going under the process of NQF implementation as a part of government project to ‘create a competence based society, not on academic clique’. Therefore, the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Employment and Labor are planning to build up NQF, ultimately until 2017, through demonstration projects by establishing ‘Basic Plan of National Qualifications Framework (2013.12)’. However, even though the purpose of NQF is respectable, if it is difficult to be absorbed by existing system or has some implementation limit, it is considered that its original policy goal cannot be fully achieved. Therefore, it is required to have systematic examination and analysis about the foundation for NQF and the existing system