Sentences with phrase «hagwons after»

Students do spend long hours in self - study after school, which helps undoubtedly, but for many, they tend to excel because their parents spend huge sums to send them to hagwons after the self - studying, in which students do their «real» learning, teachers, parents, and school leaders told me again and again.

When I was in Korea on my Eisenhower Fellowship, even though I had heard about it, I was still stunned to see scores of students sleeping during their formal schooling and then awake late, late at night in their hagwon after school programs where they did their actual learning.