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 ...

The nation’s private education spending per child in 2014 edged up 1.2 percent on-year from a year earlier, Statistics Korea said on Sunday. Officials attributed the increase to a sharp rise in ...

You may think that a teacher could only achieve rock star status and be paid millions in some alternate universe. However, it's really happening in South Korea - in the private sector. The Wall Street ...

SEOUL, July 6 (UPI) --North Koreans with the financial resources are increasingly turning to private education for their children. Families who seek the best schools and teachers for their children ...

In the U.S. teachers, on average, earn salaries of $51,000, according to Forbes. If they want to make more, Forbes suggest, they should get a second job over the summer, or else get a graduate degree ...

Korea’s enthusiasm for early education may come at a significant cost to children as experts warn that excessive private tutoring and mounting academic pressures are taking a toll on their well-being ...

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 ...

SEOUL—Four years after Kwon Soon-hoo studied by himself for the Scholastic Aptitude Test, or SAT, and successfully entered a U.S. college, he returned to South Korea with a major in economics to open ...

Kelly Mok first saw Hong Kong’s celebrity tutors blown-up on billboards above the highway and plastered alongside buses. “Are they tutors?” she wondered. They looked more like South Korean pop stars, ...