
هاجوان
Sign in to saveHagwon (; ) is a Korean term for a for-profit private educational institution. They are commonly likened to cram schools. Some consider hagwons as private language centers or academies operated like businesses apart from the South Korean public school system. , 78.3% of grade school students in South Korea attend at least one and spend an average of 7.2 hours weekly in them.
Key facts
- Korean name/auto.image
- Dunsan-dong.jpg
- Korean name/auto.caption
- A building containing numerous hagwons in Dunsan-dong, Daejeon
- Korean name/auto.hangul
- 학원
- Korean name/auto.hanja
- 學院
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Wikidata facts
- Country
- South Korea
- Image
- Hakwon street 1971-07-24.png
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- Revised Romanization
- hagwon
- McCune–Reischauer romanization
- hagwŏn
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