Abstract: Entrepreneurship education in South Korean higher education institutions since the 1980s has marched into high-quality development, which is driven by government-led guidance, industry-university collaboration and self-reform promotion. In the past 40 years of cultivation, it has designed three entrepreneurship education models with its own feature in knowledge teaching, resource developing and achievement transforming. Its social practice education is based on Entrepreneurship Support Center; its specialized education is guided by entrepreneurship discipline development and ecological entrepreneurship education is dependent on industry-university collaboration. Higher education institutions in China can learn from the entrepreneurship education in South Korea by attaching importance to integration of production and education, with the optimization of entrepreneurship education development system, as well as establishing inclusive evaluation and transformation mechanism towards entrepreneurship education achievements.

Key words: South Korea, entrepreneurship education, industry-university collaboration, LINC, LINC+