Educational attainments, especially female educational attainments in East Asian countries, particularly in Korea, have improved substantially in the past decades. Human capital, particularly as attained through education, is found as a crucial factor for economic progress in a country. Educational attainment also influences social outcomes like fertility and female labor force participation in a society. Comparative research shows that Korea encounters a low fertility rate meanwhile a lower female labor force participation rate compared to other industrial countries. Researchers suggest that traditional culture in Korean society, i.e. patriarchal family structure and traditional gender roles, may affect such social outcomes.  This paper examines the change of public attitudes towards gender role in Korea since 1990, and aims to explore how public attitudes towards gender role relate to educational attainment. Specifically, draw data from the OECD Family database and World Value Survey data, this paper aims to answer the following questions: 1.What are changes in female educational attainments in Korea since 1990s? 2. What are changes in public attitudes toward gender roles in Korea since 1990s? And 3. How do public attitudes towards gender role relate to educational attainments by controlling age, gender, marital and employment status? Public attitudes towards gender role are measured by responses to the same survey question from World Value Survey wave 2 (1990), wave3(1995) , wave 4 (2000), and wave 5 (2005). Respondents were asked whether they “agree, neither agree nor disagree, disagree” with a statement that “Men should have more right to jobs than women when jobs are scarce”.  An agreement with such statement indicates a more traditional view on gender that men should be privileged over women in access to employment, while a disagreement indicates a more modern view on gender equality. Results show that with a large increase of educational attainments for women in Korea, there is a clear direction of moving away from traditional views of gender and work. The young, unmarried, employed, highly educated women expressed the strongest disagreement of traditional attitudes toward gender roles. Implications of findings include that family policy development in countries like Korea needs to recognize the significant change of public attitudes and seek how to support highly educated population in family and work.