Sentences with phrase «hagwons for»

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Naturally there are many snake - oil salesmen, which has historically created more demand for both the high - end hagwons and trusted programs with human tutors like MegaStudy.

Yes, I know, there are other factors that contribute to their better score on the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA)-- longer school days, advanced science and math starting earlier in elementary school rather than high school, extra tutoring in Korean hagwons, less to learn with a more focused curriculum, no non-essential learning activities such as sports, home ec or computer applications courses.

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.

In Korea, the obsession with exams, and the more than full - time study regime, is a problem; national education officials are trying to reduce this preoccupation, limiting how much time can be spent in hagwons, possibly introducing a more American - style system of selecting students for elite colleges, thereby producing, they hope, a more well - rounded student.

Parents pay to have their students attend the best hagwon they can afford, much like U.S. parents buy homes in the best district they can afford and pay for private tutors.