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Parental expectations
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Traditionally, education in Korea has always been held in high esteem. Many parents will put an enormous amount of money and time into giving their children the best possible advantage of getting a good education. Over the last few years the Internet and foreign trade growth has suddenly thrown Korea into the Western world and many Koreans have found that unless they understand English, they will be disadvantaged. In 2002 Korean parents spent 40 trillion won on education (Korean Educational Development statistics) 26.67 trillion won of this total was spent on private education such as private lessons, after school classes, and 13.38 trillion won for public education including tuition and books. If the government total on educational spending was added to this (63.65 trillion won) then total educational spending is 13.4% of their gross national product. This amount of spending is now 50 times higher than in 1977 and would give you some understanding of the growing importance the Korean people place on good education. Parents can be spending anything from $500US a month for a kindergarten child to attend a private English Education school for 2 years before they start state school and often $20-$40US for one hours English tuition. Private schools (hogwans) try to meet this demand and will often even re-invent themselves under a new name and with a new image to capture the students for their schools. As more English hogwons start up, parents soon get caught up in the system of 'having' what everybody else has and will feel they are neglecting their children's needs if they don't send them to private hogwons and private tutoring. Other Korean 'out of state school' classes your student is likely to be attending are as follows: ballet, taekwondo, maths, computer, piano, violin, art and painting.
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