Circulating East to East

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The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, 
and/or publication of this article.
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The author(s) received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of 
this article.
Note
1. The Korea Research Institute for Vocational Education and Training developed the Korean 
Education and Employment Panel (KEEP) survey to understand students’ school experi-
ences and their college and career decisions. This study used the KEEP survey as a guide-
line to develop our survey because the KEEP survey not only contains survey items related 
to students’ college decisions and satisfaction but was also constructed to consider Korea’s 
dynamic higher education context.
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