My interest in addressing educational inequality grew as I experienced the pandemic; as schools implemented remote learning, poor management of education for the underprivileged emerged as a problem, which many experts emphasized the need to address. As one of my community service projects, I started teaching English to a Korean student at a daycare center online, through which I realized how a small fraction of my time each week brought substantial changes to the student’s academic performance, and I felt accomplished. At the same time, however, I was disappointed to see how so many students did not have access to such opportunities and privileges. The underprivileged students experience this educational gap mostly due to the socioeconomic status of their parents, and the gap is even worsening every year. Hence, I hoped to spread awareness on specific aspects of educational inequality through this project.

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As I researched the issue more in-depth, I came to discover a lot of useful and shocking data and statistics inside PDFs of hundreds of pages; I was disappointed that the information was not as accessible as it should be to the public. Thus, I decided to make my own infographics booklet, named “South Korea's Educational inequality in Numbers,” after collecting data and information from a variety of sources–international and governmental. On some pages, I put emphasis on graphs like bar graphs and pie charts, while on some pages I blended percentages from survey results and text. To ensure that the information was readily understood by everyone, I added analysis and interpretation to any part that may require explanation or create questions for the readers. Each section of the infographics booklet covers information on educational inequality in special education, during the pandemic, in private education, and regional differences.