"Humans learn from when they are born until they die and must receive  continuous teaching for adaptation to social change.' This is one of the ideals of lifelong education. Recently, lifelong education has become a matter of fact in the aging society of our country. As you can see, this education divides in two: 'Lifelong Education License(LEL)' and 'Academy of Continuing Education(ACE).'

 The first one is known just like a license course but, most people don't know well what they can do with it and what kind of jobs they can have with it. In case of the Academy of Continuing Education people easily think it as a school institute. So, The Dakook Herald investigated them in depth.

Let's see these two concepts.

The LEL is managed with credits so, you must complete subjects like Introduction of Lifelong Education. After completing the course, you can earn a second or third degree of license according to how many credits  you obtain. The LEL is installed in the university curriculum, and also in a Lifelong Education academy or in a cyber university through on-line classes. Therefore, it is quite similar with university education. Then, for what is this license being served?
Young-Joon Choi, Prof. of Lifelong Education in Dankook University forecasted the positive future comparing "Green Field." Prof. Choi said "People don't know well but there are countless professions related with LEL. People can work in a division of human resources of a small or large company, in community center department, an educational institution and multi-cultural family center, a school for adult learning in the community center of a neighbourhood including the National Training Institute of Education and Education Development. Consulting is now being hiring among Lifelong Education licensers, which in the past the company hired among professionals. The licensers can provide job training, business counsel and education of a group development of a company. In school for adult learning they can work as an educator, teachers or administrators so, it has many possibilities. Of course, there are some students who consider the license as a 'Spec.' However, as you can see above, the LEL is being of help to the employment which is a reason why people try to get the license."
 

The Lifelong Education law was enacted in 1982 as a Social Education Act and it was passed only a few years ago when it was promulgated as an independent act in 2000. However, there is a legal record which is still missing to make it a binding force. So, it is not enacted properly even though there is a fixed number of personnel that the organization should hire. Prof. Choi said "Despite this insufficiency, the LEL has its recognition among companies so, people can carry on right away to a job related with it. The reason is that getting out the formal education, the LEL is an education of life, something essential for our society. In one phrase, we can learn wisdom for living."