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Hagwon (; ) 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.

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Korean name/auto.image
Dunsan-dong.jpg
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A building containing numerous hagwons in Dunsan-dong, Daejeon
Korean name/auto.hangul
학원
Korean name/auto.hanja
學院

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Hakwon street 1971-07-24.png
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Revised Romanization
hagwon
McCune–Reischauer romanization
hagwŏn

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