Kim, Sunwoong; Lee, Ju-Ho - In: Economic Development and Cultural Change 58 (2010) 2, pp. 259-296
Private tutoring in South Korea is quite pervasive. In 2006, the household sector spent 2.57% of the nation's GDP on private tutoring for primary and secondary school students. Government spending on those students was about 3.5% of GDP, which is about the average level among OECD countries....