Education plays an important role in South Korean society. It is useful for social mobility and to raise social status. Therefore, parents encourage their children to be highly educated to raise their social status. This research analyzes the form of symbolic violence in the Korean drama Sky Castle using Bourdieu's theory, which combines forms of capital and habitus as a tool to dominate. A qualitative approach is used with Roland Barthes semiotic narrative structure analysis to identify concepts which include habitus, capital, and arena. This research has reveals that Sky Castle represents educational inequality through cultural, social and symbolic capital, and how the unequal distribution of capital reinforces social stratification and reproduces symbolic violence in the education system. Using Pierre Bourdieu's perspective, this research shows that education, which is supposed to be a tool for social mobility, instead functions as a mechanism for class reproduction, where only individuals with certain capital can access success. The play also reveals how the hierarchical education system creates the illusion of meritocracy, so that individuals from lower social classes accept inequality as natural, even though this inequality is the result of an unjust social structure
