With the forced adoption of online classes due to the spread of COVID-19, aneducational gap has become severe in school education. While empirical researchon this matter in the context of school education has burgeoned, little has beendone in the field of lifelong education. To address this loophole, this paperempirically analyzed the changes in Korea’s lifelong education in the aftermath ofCOVID-19 regarding the overall participation rate of lifelong education, theparticipation rate of online lifelong education, and the gap in participation ratebetween classes. From the analysis, we identified a few significant changes anddrew implications for the future of lifelong education.

Covid-19 , lifelong learning participation rate , online class , education gap