Cram schools, also known as 'hagwons', are bustling in South Korea where regular schools are shut due to the coronavirus outbreak
SEOUL - Choi Young-eun is so concerned about her teenagers’ education as South Korea’s schools stay shut that she has been sending them to a private tuition center to make sure they don’t miss out.
South Korea has delayed the beginning of the school year by about a month as Asia’s fourth-largest economy grapples with the virus that has infected more than 9,600 of its people and killed almost 160. “Many parents called us and asked for classes to restart,” said Lim Sung-ho, chief-executive of Jongro Academy, one of the largest hagwon franchises in Korea with some 6,000 students.
“Parents said it’s safer and better for studying when children are under the watch of hagwons,” Lim told Reuters.Last year, South Koreans spent more than 21 trillion won on private tuition, government data shows, as three out of four children - from grade 1 to grade 12 - attended a cram school. There were more than 127,000 teaching centers registered as of 2019.
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