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With one of the highest per-capita expenditures on education in the world, South Korea offers a window on the challenges of learning in a neoliberal era of increasing global competition. No Alternative? investigates the rapidly growing field of education outside of daytime K-16 schooling in South Korea. Through ethnographic portraits of private after-schooling, alternative or second-chance schooling, home schooling, and adult distance education, the book reveals that education producers and consumers alike often reject or exit mainstream education while simultaneously seeking or embracing its symbolic value. --