‘Twenty trillion won’. It is the budget of seoul city in 2010 and this is also budget of private tutoring in Korea 2010. Can you imagine the how many ‘0(zero)’ behind ‘20’ to twenty trillion? Huge private tutoring expenditure is one of big problems of education in Korea. because it is related to university entrance competition, which sometimes cause suicide of students. Actually the primary reason of excessive competition for entrance exam is University rank. Students want to go to top university to get a diploma which guarantees high income job in Korea. But Korean university rank has three problems that made people try to jump into the competition.

First the rank of university was formed by student’s exam score not by good education environment or education level. One of the elements which showed the influence of education is student number per professor. Actually some regional universities are better than capital universities in terms of it. That is, the criteria of ranking is not proper.

Second Because universities trying to take highest score students to be a top, students was formed a line by just entrance exam score. But Korea entrance exam is not appropriate requirement to choose the people who can get a college education. Of course there have been a lot of changed, but still to get a good grade in this exam, memory is the key factor. Criticize or creative important ability as a college students are not necessary to this exam.

Third Rank of university is rarely changed with seoul national university as the peak, ranking system was formed like pyramid. For 10years, from 1994 to 2003, rank of university which was formed by entrance exam score is little changes in of the top 30% universities. This guarantees the status of university regardless of education activities such as research activities.

Primary cause of university entrance competition is ranking of university and it is caused by unreasonable standard of ranking formed by student’s grade of entrance exam and is cause competition. We should break out of a vicious circle. It can’t make creative talent but just make competition which goal is competition.