How should the hagwon-dependent education system of South Korea change?

So South Korean students are very dependent on private education, or hagwons, and this, in my opinion, leads to very obvious problems.

The first one is, as private education is much harder to control than public education, children go to hagwons from elementary school ages and spend most of their time in hagwons or doing homework. IIRC, there is a regulation for this, but many hagwons ignore or find a loophole and nullify the regulation. This leads to students having less to no happy childhood and struggle with stress and lack of relationship and parental care from young ages.

The second problem is the financial one. These hagwons basically cost a lot (average cost of $350 are spent to a month per child) . This gives a financial burden to parents, contributing to the low birth rate in Korea.

How can this problem be solved? Or is it a problem? I'd love to hear your opinions on this.

Submitted March 28, 2021 at 11:47PM by ruudgullit10 https://ift.tt/31uukcq