Many hagwons, or private cram schools in Korea, have increased tuition this year, citing inflation. Statistics Korea reports that households with four or more members, including at least two ...

A recent government survey found that parents of children under the age of six spent nearly 815 billion won (US$558 million) ...

According to a first-of-its-kind government survey released on Thursday, 47.6 per cent of South Koreans under the age of six are enrolled in cram schools known as hagwon, for-profit private education ...

The Financial Times recently reported that nearly half of Korean preschoolers now attend “cram” schools, pushing private education spending to record levels as intense competition raises the cost of ...

South Korea will drop so-called “killer questions” from its notoriously tough college entrance exam in a bid to reduce reliance on private cram schools, the education ministry said Tuesday.

In South Korea, Asia’s fourth largest economy ... and her family cannot afford to hire a tutor or send her to a cram school, like most of her friends. “I don’t want to compare myself ...

The deciding factor in her decision to “escape South Korea” was “freedom from the cram school lifestyle,” she said. “If I go back to (South Korea), I will have to spend my days taking my ...

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