Korea’s low birth rate seems unlikely to rebound after parents last year had spent 27.1 trillion won ($20.6 billion) to send their kids to private academies despite a drastic decrease in the number of students.
The government must fix Korea’s English education system, and fast.
The CSAT has grown too distant from its original goal.
More than 300 cases highlighting irregularities at private education businesses have been reported to the government in the past two weeks after President Yoon Suk Yeol vowed to weed out academy “cartels.”
The Ministry of Education said Monday it requested police investigations into two cases of alleged collusion between private education businesses and College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT) exam writers.
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