Participation in vocational education is necessary for all adults in the era of lifelong learning. It is lack of systematic study on adult participation in vocational education in Korea. This study examined who participate in what kind of vocational education with the raw data surveyed by National Statistical Office of Korea.
This study found that adult vocational education was divided by education in enterprise and job training. People who are employed, young, with high educational level, and male with high status tended more to participate in education in enterprise, while people who are male, old, with low educational level, and low status in job training.
This finding may mean that adult participation in vocational education is segregated and that the opportunities are structurally differentiated according to adults' background characteristics. This study proposed more elaborate research about the implication.