Loose resident registration system The fugitive became a hagwon operator and enjoyed every right as a Korean for the last 14 years, police said, adding it was possible due to the flawed resident ...

She wears Moncler, drives a Porsche and speaks English to her 4-year-old. Comedies about Korean tiger mums are a hit online and on TV.

Hagwon (cram schools and other private learning institutes) exceeded 12 trillion won ($11 billion) in annual revenue last year despite the ongoing economic slump. Hagwon (cram schools and other ...

South Korea’s fertility rate has plunged to 0.72, the lowest in the world, due to career-family conflicts, high living costs, ...

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 ...

Daechi-dong, a neighborhood in Seoul's expensive Gangnam district, is the main center South Korea’s private education industry, home to thousands of hagwon. Daechi moms have become synomous with ...

A 19-year-old who had gotten into Soongsil University had their admissions offer cancelled in a prank by a classmate from the same private education institute, or hagwon, a local news outlet ...

known as “hagwons,” according to the report. This heavy reliance on private education has helped result in South Korea having the world’s highest cost of raising a child, according to a ...