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	INSIDE JoongAng Daily (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		But the general perception, at least back then, was that being a hagwon teacher was a temporary job, or even that hagwon teachers were simply people who couldn't get real jobs.
		Hagwon, of course, are a major industry in Korea.
		Tuition fees at a hagwon average about 70 to 80 percent of per-student public expenditure; still, many parents are willing to pay the fees to give their children that edge.
	joongangdaily.joins.com /200401/09/200401092147339339900091009101.html (890 words)

	Teaching English in Korea - Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) About Living and Teaching in South Korea
		Some hagwons actually look like schools from the outside, but most are housed in ordinary downtown buildings that could just as well be home to accounting firms or export brokerages.
		This is why hagwons are so keen to have native English speakers: they want a person who can challenge the students to apply their vocabulary and learn conversational skills.
		Hagwon directors want native English speakers who are immediately identifiable as such, before they even say a word.
	www.english-korea.org /pages/faq.htm (16015 words)

	What's a hagwon? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		A hagwon is a sort of school where Korean students go for extra study in just about any subject.
		A hagwon may be part of a chain or independent.
		The hagwon at which I was employed is mainly a foreign language hagwon, but also has classes in other academic subjects.
	www.ugcs.caltech.edu /~reuben/hagwon.html (464 words)

	CEC Institute
		When you are offered an appointment please remember to check your visa conditions (you must have a working visa, for example) and all aspects of residence and work in a country outside of your own.
		Hagwons will generally give you all this information when a position is offered.
		You don't need one, but bear in mind that you'll be paid in cash or 'notes' which are similar to a cheque but they don't have to be banked and they can be used anywhere just as you would use cash.
	www.cecinstitute.org /recruitment/faq.asp (413 words)

	Display Detail Information
		The history of the Soongsil Hagwon began with the founding of the Soongsil School by William Baird(Korean name Pea Wi-ryang), an American Christian missionary, in Shinyang, Pyongyang, on October 10, 1897.
		Sharing the lot and suffering of the people, the Soongsil Hagwon has grown as the educational institution of the nation and produced many prominent figures including Dr. Cho Ung-chun, a great authority on electronic engineering, Hyun Je-myong and Kim Tong-jin, famous musicians, the Poet Kim Hyun-sung, and the Reverend Han Kyong-jik.
		In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Soongsil Hagwon, the Ministry of Information and Communication is issuing a commemorative stamp featuring the main building of Soongsil Sollege in Pyongyang and the statue of white horses, the symbol of the Soongsil College.
	www.pennfamily.org /KSS-USA/971010-1921.htm (364 words)

	[Editorial] Daegwang Hagwon and Chaplain Ryu : English Editorials : Internet Hankyoreh
		The educational foundation that operates the school, Daegwang Hagwon, essentially kicked him out, since it sent him warnings that came close to containing threats he would be harmed.
		Daegwang Hagwon suffers a major loss by losing Ryu, and the responsibility for that lies entirely with the school for its lack of good faith and self-righteousness.
		Daegwang Hagwon warned Ryu that he had dealt the school emotional injury by hurting its reputation and causing a needless dispute.
	www.hani.co.kr /section-001100000/2004/10/001100000200410280201001.html (360 words)

	CBC News - Viewpoint: Yoav Cerralbo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Hagwons (private academies) offer about two million won ($2,500 Cdn) a month, a somewhat furnished apartment (at least all the essentials – bed, TV and kitchen supplies – are there), return airfare, 50 per cent medical insurance, and a bonus extra month’s paycheque at the completion of the one-year contract (more on this bonus later).
		At one time Japan was the place to go to teach English but because it got to be such a popular destination for university graduates the deals changed, and what began as a good thing started to become a hard thing, especially for first-timers who have never left the comforts of home.
		There are so many shifty hagwon owners and recruiters that new teachers have to be careful or else they will get burnt,” said Jeremy (who only wants to be identified by his first name) from New Zealand.
	www.cbc.ca /news/viewpoint/vp_cerralbo/20050530.html (965 words)

	Persistency's Promise: Whose idea was this? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		While public schools can handle that well enough, their programs seem to focus on that one aspect of English to the virtual exclusion of listening, speaking, and writing.
		To satisfy demand, hagwon directors (or owners, as most are actually franchises) import foreigners to add prestige to the hagwon (as well as teach the classes).
		So although it costs an arm and a leg to keep me and the four other foreign teachers here, the fees for my hagwon seem to be enough to keep the academy in the fl.
	briaryos.blogspot.com /2004/05/whose-idea-was-this.html (423 words)

	YONHAPNEWS WORLD SERVICE::ENGLISH NEWS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In the global telecommunications hub, where unemployment among young people is skyrocketing due to intense job competition, parents routinely send pre-schoolers and older students to extra-curricular English "hagwon," or private academies, in hopes of giving them an early leg up the career ladder.
		Many hagwon use CCTV surveillance in the classroom to monitor teachers, who may be experts in bioengineering or botany but know little of teaching English.
		"My hagwon falsified teacher's resumes, saying they were from prestigious schools like Berkeley," said a Korean-Canadian woman employed in the affluent district of Daichi-dong in southern Seoul two years ago.
	english.yna.co.kr /Engnews/20050304/301900000020050304094627E6.html (1192 words)

	CEC Institute
		Hagwon teachers can expect that the student will rely on them to set rules, to be decisive and authoritarian.
		The existence of these patterns of learning does not mean that the Korean students cannot change their learning style because they can, but only within the confines of an informed classroom, which encourages and consolidates content and teaching strategies persistently.
		When the hagwon teacher is armed with this knowledge they are better able to meet the needs of their Korean students within the syllabus parameters.
	www.cecinstitute.org /recruitment/teachkorea.asp (654 words)

	INSIDE JoongAng Daily
		“The hagwon you are attending now may help you pass the exam, but what’s the point when you will still have a superficial knowledge of the South?” Mr.
		As far as she knew, attending a hagwon would help her pass the high school qualification exam, which was the fastest way to become like other South Korean students.
		She said the instructors at her hagwon were very authoritarian and strict.
	service.joins.com /asp/print_article_english.asp?aid=2538718&esectcode=e_life&title=For+young+defectors,+education+is+a+hurdle (1763 words)

	The Suh Republic: 02/01/2004 - 02/29/2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Mr Yang and his classmates are among the roughly 80 per cent of South Koreans who attend private evening schools, known as hagwon, to improve their chances of reaching university.
		Mr Yang attends his hagwon in Seoul four evenings a week from 6pm to 11pm after a full day at school.
		Jung Bong-sup, head of school policy at the ministry of education, says the hagwon style of teaching fails to provide the skills needed in the modern global economy.
	suh.blogspot.com /2004_02_01_suh_archive.html (1635 words)

	Teaching and Living in Korea - Getting Started
		There are many different kinds of "hagwons" in Korea; math, music, english, korean, etc. They are similar to private schools, but far less glamorous.
		Some people are able to get jobs in Korea without an E2 visa; they merely have a "tourist" visa stamped into their passports which must be renewed every so often (depending on their countries of origin) simply by leaving Korea for 24 hours, and then returning.
		Your hagwon will arrange a trip for you to your nearest Immigration office where the necessary paperwork will be filled out and your fingerprints will be taken.
	www.angelfire.com /bc3/talik/getting-started.html (1340 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The hagwon network has created a system in which kids learn their lessons twice, once in public schools and then again in a private institute.
		The hagwon network has exploded because "everyone wants to get their children in the same universities," he says.
		Jin says other parents have called her everything from "brave" to a "bad mother who wasn't educating her children properly." Even she had misgivings when her daughter initially fell behind; now, though, her daughter is in the top 5% of her class.
	courses.wcupa.edu /rbove/eco343/050Compecon/Korea/050729educ.txt (2418 words)

	people (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Broke, many hagwon teachers are not treated well by their employers.
		However, most hagwons treat their teachers fairly and most teachers I meet in Korea are content with their employment situation.
		A local legal professional's assurance may be needed to insure that the information, and your interpretation of it, is appropriate to your particular situation.
	wk.koreaherald.co.kr /SITE/data/html_dir/2003/05/01/200305010004.asp (654 words)

	The Madness to the Methods …And (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		My hagwon also requires students to memorize this dialogue, so that they can act it out later in a classroom performance.
		Few hagwons even offer computers at school, so teachers would have to pay out of their own pocket for time at an Internet café.
		Korean hagwons are big business, so government officials and wealthy entrepreneurs wanted to tap into the market of education.
	www.ajarn.com /Contris/kenmayaugust2005.htm (6653 words)

	BCM Junior English School
		We taught at a hagwon (private institute) about a fifteen-minute walk from our house.
		"Hagwon" means "learning place." Korea is full of hagwons for all sorts of things--math, piano, art, computers, and, of course, English.
		Many parents send their children to hagwons after school to work on things that they show promise in or need extra help with.
	helenajole.freeservers.com /school.html (247 words)

	Sleeping with the fan on: I do dumb things (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		I didn't have time yesterday to study much, so I took the list to the hagwon (I had 2 classes cancelled, so I had extra time) and studied a bit there.
		Since I had it at the hagwon, of course I forgot it.
		I feel relatively certain that Saddam Hussein passed through my room with his WMD at the hagwon before the war in Iraq and that's why they're turning up in the Netherlands.
	www.johnhofmann.com /koreablog/2004/06/i-do-dumb-things.html (244 words)

	Welcome to English School Watch Organization (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Re: Terry and Just W. As a result of all that compression the directors will, and I repeat will, PUSH their teachers to deliver a level of teaching FAR beyond what they will be paid.
		The push is designed to make a particular hagwon seem to have a higher class of teachers or higher level of education delivery.
		What should have been a fun teaching experience in a foreign country turns out to be a nightmare with teachers and hagwon managers at each others throats.
	www.englishschoolwatch.org /webboard_detail.php?topic_id=128 (2697 words)

	4: The Business of Knowledge - Seoul Man: 12 Months in Korea - BootsnAll.com
		Despite this, Korean parents pile their kids off to these hagwons (essentially grind schools that teach everything from English to taekwondo to math) so they don't have to deal with them.
		But while hagwons might be effective as glorified creches, as places of learning they leave a lot to be desired.
		Again, this might not seem important or have anything to do with the hagwon system but the basic lack of professionalism is the same.
	www.bootsnall.com /travelogues/korea/4.shtml (1034 words)

	Survive Korea Message Board
		Taking a job outside the hagwon, even a non-teaching one, may be a violation of your contract.
		Since that contract is the basis of your visa, you can (theoretically) be deported for working for someone else in your free time.
		So I'd say that if you get on well with your hagwon director, or whatever current Korean boss you have, you probably have the tools you need to recognize a good employer and maintain a decent business relationship with him or her.
	www.survivekorea.com /forum/viewtopic.php?TopicID=363 (924 words)

	Teaching English in Korea - Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) About Living and Teaching in South Korea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The most common jobs are in universities and hagwons.
		The hagwon will usually buy you an economy-class air ticket, or else provide a transportation allowance.
		If the hagwon won't put you in touch with anyone, present or past, look elsewhere.
	www2.ald.net /~roden/korea/pages/faq.htm (16015 words)

	High School Student's Schedule (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		hagwon (a special study, or "cram" school) and/or self-study in the school library
		On Mondays, the entire school gathers for an hour-long address by the principal.
		A hagwon is a special “cram” school that prepares students for this important examination.
	www.askasia.org /Korea/edact2schedule.html (308 words)

	AstroboyinKorea.tk: The phone won't stop ringing!!!
		One is for a Christian school in a different part of Seoul and the other is for a Hagwon in Ulsan(a city of a million about an hour north of Busan).
		The Christian job(offered by Footprints) involves teaching 2 or 3 days a week at a Hagwon and teaching Christian home-schooled kids either at their homes or at a church for the other 2 or 3 days a week.
		The Hagwon hours are from around 10:30-7:30, but like I said, it's only 2 or 3 days a week.
	mrcheslock.blogspot.com /2005/01/phone-wont-stop-ringing.html (1199 words)

	The Korea Times : Illegal Companies in Public Schools (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		That is why there are many language institutes and ``hagwon.’’ Often they engage in some form of suspicious activity whether it is not honoring their contracts, not paying their teachers properly, poor working conditions or using teachers without visas.
		This seems to be a common occurrence in the hagwon industry but the illegal activity in public schools goes way beyond this.
		Unfortunately, legitimate hagwon are few and far between.
	times.hankooki.com /lpage/opinion/200506/kt2005060219263854060.htm (800 words)

	INSIDE JoongAng Daily (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		August 05, 2005 ㅡ In the spring of 2003, the hagwon (private language institute) where I was working was in trouble.
		He pulled out perhaps 10 million won ($10,000) from his pocket and peeled me off the 400,000 won he owed me, and we said goodnight.
		I had seen this coming, and now I had been released from the hagwon's bonds.
	joongangdaily.joins.com /200508/04/200508042114082009900091009101.html (824 words)

	The Hagwon Experience (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		For example when I am confronted, once again, with my Hagwon director softly telling me with her kind smile, "I am sorry, I will pay you tomorrow.
		Rarely do I hear a positive word about the hagwon experience; thus hagwon directors are probably one of the most interesting experiences for newcomers to Korea.
		Hagwon directors represent a slightly twisted side of the Korean people, and a slightly paradoxical side of capitalistic competition.
	www.pusanweb.com /Exit/Sep97/hagwon.htm (613 words)

	9: Last Exit to Bucheon - Seoul Man: 12 Months in Korea - BootsnAll.com
		Late payments, sudden shift changes, split shifts; all of these have been going on for so long at their hagwon that it seems normal.
		Sosa is a throwback to the early eighties, a rainbow of yellow and grey.
		This streetscape soon became repetitive and my ejection from the hagwon was a blessing in disguise.
	www.bootsnall.com /travelogues/korea/9.shtml (1260 words)

	Yellowworld Forums - Night Study Becoming Par for Course in S. Korea
		Yang and his classmates are among the estimated 80% of South Korean students who attend private evening school, known as hagwon, to improve their chances of being accepted to a university.
		Yang attends his hagwon in Seoul four nights a week, from 6 to 11, after a full day at school.
		Commitment to education is reflected by research showing that South Korea's 15-year-olds have the highest level of scientific literacy and the second-highest level of mathematics standards among OECD members.
	forums.yellowworld.org /archive/index.php/t-13967.html (864 words)

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