SEOUL, Sept. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – Seoul’s ritzy southern neighborhood of Daechi, known as a major cluster of cram schools in the country, may be one of the areas that has been most affected by the government’s toughened social distancing guidelines aimed at containing the new coronavirus. The neighborhood, where one can sometimes spot people [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s government on Tuesday said it has imposed administrative penalties on some hundreds of private education institutes illegally operating in the affluent southern part of Seoul this year. The Seoul Gangnam Seocho District Office of Education said a total of 259 cram schools were fined or received other [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Feb 28 (Korea Bizwire) – Parents’ burden in the cost of out-of-school private lessons keeps declining since 2009, although the diminishing amount is small, according to a government statistics. Statistics Korea announced on February 27 that the cost of private education spent in Korea last year totaled 18.6 trillion won ($17.4 billion), a [...]