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The purpose of this article is to examine the changes in the elementary education environment due to the urbanization of Seoul and the expansion of administrative districts from the 1960s to the mid-1980s. In Seoul in the 1950s and 1960s, the most important educational issues were the rapid increase in the school-age population and the deterioration of the educational environment due to "classroom difficulties(敎室難)." In addition, this poor educational environment was a problem that must be solved in the process of continuous industrialization and urbanization. It can be seen that the existing annual history and studies on Seoul's elementary education environment in the 1960s and 1980s did not list only the facts or attempt a full-scale analysis on the status of overcrowded classes. This focused on changes in the education system in Seoul, and the analysis of the educational environment of elementary schools was conducted only with statistics from the 1950s and 1980s. On the one hand, since everyone has experienced the educational environment of the period, I guess there is a judgment that everyone knows it. Therefore, it is necessary to organize the data and contents of the period at the point of approximately 20 years, when the actual overcrowded class problem is not mentioned. The primary purpose of this article is to organize and analyze existing statistical data on changes in the educational environment in metropolitan Seoul during industrialization. In particular, it focused on the analysis of the educational environment of elementary schools in the 60s and 80s, which was briefly dealt with in previous studies. To this end, we first looked at the urbanization process in Seoul, and how the overcrowding of urban populations due to such urbanization has changed the demand for educational conditions in Seoul. The urbanization of Seoul was carried out through rapid population movement after the war, and development based on urban planning was only possible in the 1960s. Despite the formation of public opinion to improve the educational environment, Seoul's urban planning did not properly reflect active measures to resolve overcrowded classes due to classroom difficulties. Eventually, in terms of the educational environment, Korea's "compressed growth" created a "compressed classroom" in Seoul, a metropolitan city. This could have been a natural choice in the financial situation of the government and Seoul at the time. Under the pressure of industrialization and urbanization, the educational environment of elementary schools in Seoul, a metropolitan city, was in a poor environment. The problem of overcrowded classes was caused by a lack of the number of teachers and classrooms. It also affected students' study achievement. Furthermore, it led to a gap in the educational environment. The government and related authorities also tried to come up with a solution to this. However, rather than securing the number of classrooms, it was carried out in a way that increased the number of teachers, and since then, it has moved toward resolving through a decrease in the natural school-age population, such as family planning policies and changes to a nuclear family society.