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Law

What in this major can only be learned at university?

10-SECOND VIEW

At a glance

4-year tuition
₩25.7mHumanities & social field avg ₩6.4m/yr × 4 (2026, before aid)
Total cost & opportunity cost
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Degree requirement
Legally requiredTo become a lawyer you need a law-school (JD) degree to sit the bar exam.
Lecture parts AI can cover
Explaining statutes and case law, issue spotting
Hard for AI to replace
Responsibility for current law (high error risk); bar exam eligibility
Practice dependency
PartialMoot court and clinics; supervision matters more than equipment.
Major–job match
Not confirmed by major · all 4-year grads 73.8% (KRIVET 2016)
Employment rate
69%Social science field, all higher education, 2024 graduates
Where the school spends
Official averages by type (per-school data not loaded)
Confirmed audit / misconduct
See confirmed cases

Source: 교육부·한국대학교육협의회 (2026-04-29) · 교육부·국가데이터처·한국교육개발원 (한국교육신문 보도) (2025-12-30) · 한국직업능력연구원(KRIVET) (2016-01-15) · 국가법령정보센터

PRACTICE

Practice and substitutes

Partial AMS ANALYSIS

Moot court and clinics; supervision matters more than equipment.

Where the university is strong
No special facility
Partial substitutes
—No evidence simulation equals real practice.

LEARNING BY DOING

Can it be learned on the job?

Failure costHigh
Safety riskLow
Provable by portfolioLow
LicenceLegally required

Legal practice requires the licence first.

DEGREE NECESSITY

Degree necessity — six axes

License dependency
High
Equipment dependency
Low
Employer degree filter
High
Credential value
High
Network value
No data
AI lecture substitutability
Partial

Not combined into a score. Employer filters and network value stay empty without data (licensed jobs show the statutory rule).

ALUMNI

Alumni of this major

Answer at the alumni survey; distributions appear at 30+ responses.

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