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- noun Plural form of
hagwon .
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Examples
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Clay Burell, an American high school humanities teacher, who currently lives with his family in South Korea, reports on his blog that Korean students are forced to study in "hagwons" -- private night, weekend, and summer classes where the overwhelming emphasis is on learning English.
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Caught in the middle are the managers and teachers working in after-school academies called hagwons .
Studying Too Much Is a New No-No in Upwardly Mobile South Korea Evan Ramstad 2011
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To reduce the country's addiction to private, after-hours tutoring academies called hagwons, the authorities have begun enforcing a curfew - even paying citizens bounties to turn in violators.
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The nation's ubiquitous private academies, known as hagwons, include richly decorated franchises, mom-and-pop establishments with six chairs, celebrity-taught online lessons and illegal after-midnight tutoring centers.
The Washington Post: National, World & D.C. Area News and Headlines - washingtonpost.com 2011
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To reduce the country's addiction to private, after-hours tutoring academies called hagwons, the authorities have begun enforcing a curfew - even paying citizens bounties to turn in violators.
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To reduce the country's addiction to private, after-hours tutoring academies called hagwons, the authorities have begun enforcing a curfew - even paying citizens bounties to turn in violators.
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To reduce the country's addiction to private, after-hours tutoring academies called hagwons, the authorities have begun enforcing a curfew - even paying citizens bounties to turn in violators.
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To reduce the country's addiction to private, after-hours tutoring academies called hagwons, the authorities have begun enforcing a curfew - even paying citizens bounties to turn in violators.
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To reduce the country's addiction to private, after-hours tutoring academies called hagwons, the authorities have begun enforcing a curfew - even paying citizens bounties to turn in violators.
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To reduce the country's addiction to private, after-hours tutoring academies called hagwons, the authorities have begun enforcing a curfew - even paying citizens bounties to turn in violators.
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