In Korea, the total number of students who enrolled in vocational high schools in 2015 was 113,000, accounting for 19.0% of whole students.
The proportion of vocational high school students in Korea is 16.7% which is lower than the OECD average of 49.1%, and its declining rate is higher than other OECD countries.
In 2015, 147,000(24%) places were in demand for vocational high school admissions, suggesting that there was an excess demand of about 31,000 places.
According to the mid to long-term skills supply/demand forecast, although there are difficulties in securing skilled workers and technicians at high school graduate level, the number of vocational high school students has been decreasing continuously.
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