This paper explores relationship between neighbor effect and child
education of parents whose children attend junior high schools in
Boondang-Gu, Seongnam city where middle class residents congregate.
We do this by interviewing 12 parents, 2 teachers, and a head-officer
in child welfare center, the director of a private institute. The great
majority of middle class parents in Bonndang devote to child
management that parents systematically plan and monitor their
children's academic achievement, extra curriculum activities, friends,
and time in order to go to top colleges. However there are some
parents who are not very eager to their children's entering into top
colleges. There are wealthy parents who engage in self-employment or
businesses or those who inherit considerable wealth from ancestors.
Some parents try to make current school entrance examination oriented
education in to schooling that care for all children's various abilities,
experiences, interests and dreams. This implies that even same middle
class people construct various child education culture according to the
nature of critical capital that contributes to acquiring and maintaining
current social status.