Yerim Kim, a high school sophomore in Seoul, is anxious. Just one year away from taking the most important exam of her life, the 17-year-old’s battle plan has been thrown into uncertainty, ironically, ...

SOUTH KOREA’S overworked children are well-known for finishing the school day and heading straight to hagwon (cram-school) classes to become musical virtuosos or to gain an edge over their peers in ...

To better understand the global landscape of private supplementary tutoring, its impacts, and the implications for those involved, UNESCO has published the report Whose visions for what learning?

Ok, 45 years old, who lives in Gwangjin-gu, Seoul, hired a “room-cleaning specialist teacher” for her fourth-grade elementary school daughter last May. The lesson fee was 30,000 Korean won for 60 ...

SIINA KARBIN, a Finn living in Vienna, had never imagined paying someone to tutor her children. But then in early 2020 Austria’s schools closed because of covid-19. She and her husband struggled to ...