Fame, fortune for web tutors in education-crazy S.Korea
By : Jon Herskovitz and Christine Kim
Date posted :2009-07-02 01:45:00
SEOUL (Reuters Life!) - For a teacher who never sees his students and instructs only online, South Korean Woo Hyeong-cheol makes a lot of money, $4 million a year to be exact.
Woo is not affiliated with any institution that is part of the official school system, but the 46-year-old math instructor is considered one of the best cram school tutors in education-obsessed South Korea, with his web-based classes as well-known among test-taking teens as top-rated TV dramas.
"School teachers are concerned about creating moral people. We focus more on getting the students better grades in a short amount of time. That's why we are needed and popular," said Woo, who commands a salary higher than almost all of the top baseball players in the country's professional league.
Woo is among a group of about a dozen instructors raking it in because they are thought to be the best at raising scores.
The bulk of their income comes from online classes that are easily accessible in the world's most-wired country, where more than 90 percent of households can receive high-speed Internet.
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