SEOUL, Sept. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — A majority of English cram schools for kids turned out to charge monthly tuition of more than 1 million won (US$716), a data showed Wednesday. The number of English-language private education facilities for kids stood at 745 as of the end of June, according to the data that independent [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The education ministry on Tuesday promised to come up with measures to improve its plan to place cram schools under the government vaccine pass system amid strong opposition from students and parents, officials said. Education Minister Yoo Eun-hae held a meeting with representatives of the Korea Association of Hakwon [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — An advocacy group for private educational institutions, or “hagwon,” on Friday urged the government to retract the no-assembly order imposed on its members in the greater Seoul area as part of anti-COVID-19 measures. On Tuesday, the government ordered hagwons in Seoul, Incheon and Gyeonggi Province to close for three [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — About 4,000 cram schools, called hagwon in Korean, across the country have installed a quick response (QR) code-based entry authentication system to help curb the spread of the new coronavirus, the Ministry of Education said Monday. In the Seoul metropolitan area, where QR code-based entry logs are mandatory for [...]
SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s education ministry on Tuesday released tightened guidelines for cram schools to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus on fears of group transmissions breaking out in the private-sector education institutions. Under the advisory, local and provincial governments will be able to impose a ban on group activities [...]
SEOUL, March 6 (Korea Bizwire) – In its latest tactic to combat the new coronavirus, South Korea on Friday again asked private sector cram schools to temporarily suspend classes to prevent group transmissions. The move comes in line with the government’s recent decision to push back the new school year by three weeks to March [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The education ministry said Friday it will conduct a special crackdown on alleged irregularities in the private education sector, including high-priced consulting services tailored for college admission. The move is part of the government’s pre-emptive measures to tackle potential rises in expensive private tutoring services as the government has [...]