A notable trend in the data is the steep rise in private education spending in rural areas. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Parents of elementary and middle school students aiming to go to elite private high schools in South Korea are spending on ...

Parents are shelling out to get their kids ahead, with costs for English-language preschools costing on average over 1.5 million won each month ...

in South Korea. On the same day, the government also released annual private education spending data for elementary, middle, and high school students. The figure reached a record 29.2 trillion won ...

According to the data, compiled jointly by Statistics Korea and the Ministry of Education, the total spending on private after-school classes for primary, middle and high school students reached ...

SEOUL--South Korea’s government is due to unveil ... Nearly eight in 10 students take part in private education such as cram schools, known as “hagwons,” according to the report.

The principals of 25 "autonomous private high schools," the elite schools that have been blamed by liberal superintendents for widening educational disparity in Seoul, vowed Monday to block the ...

METHODS: Data are from the Gyeonggi Education Panel Study of 7th and 10th graders in South Korea ... to classes within schools to examine whether having peers who receive private tutoring is ...

South Korea’s private education spending has once again ... up 1.5 percentage points from the previous year. Elementary school students had the highest participation rate at 87.7 percent ...