Second Joseon Education Ordinance

After the March First Movement Japan issued the second Joseon Education Ordinance, extending common schools to six years, making Korean a required subject and providing for universities.

Proclaiming "cultural rule", Japan issued the second ordinance in February 1922, claiming to follow the same school system as Japan. Common schools were extended from four to six years and higher common schools to five, and Korean became a required subject. But far more hours went to Japanese, and with few schools the enrolment of Koreans stayed low. When rules for founding universities appeared, the movement for a national university arose, but Japan blunted it by founding Keijō Imperial University in 1924.