hagwon
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hagwon (plural hagwons)
- A profit-making private school, common in South Korea.
- 2007 August 12, Fred A. Bernstein, “A House to Grow Into”, in New York Times[1]:
- Geneho, whose bedroom faces the street, is attending a hagwon, a Korean tutoring program.