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[sakamuras]

Just out of curiosity, how much does an average student (parent) pay monthly for ESL classes at a hagwon? Do students usually stay aboard all year long, or do they come and go? How many hours a week does a student attend the hagwon? What is the average class size that you teach, and how many students are there overall at the hagwon?

Thanks.

[shawner88]

Most stay, many come and go. Average I'd say is 150,000 won more or less per student/month. If the school teachers other subjects as well, tuition may be higher. If a parent sends two kids they may get a discount.

[Plastic B]

At the hagwon I work at it is 180,000 + 10,000 (library privileges) Won per month. 680,000 Won for the current winter intensive 2 month course. Bisaeyo!

[sakamuras]

Would you say the competition for students (among hagwon owners) is fierce at the moment?

Has any foreigner or gyopo attempted to start his/her own hagwon? From the surface, it looks like a very lucrative business as long as you can maintain 150 or so students.

[ryleeys]

150?


I think my hagwan has maybe 50 and I doubt that many... maybe as low as 35-40

[just because]

It depends on how intensive the course is and how big and reputable it is(obviously). My last one it was 140 000 won a month but I know it can be up around 300 000 and I know of one where it is 1 000 000 won. In Gangnam who knows how much it would be???

[sadsac]

It depends on the areas, but 110 - 150,000 seems to be the mark. I don't know of any hagwon that ofers discounts for multiple family members. I know of two foreign owned hagwons and they are doing well. One is in Gwangju and the other in Anyang.

[Howard Roark]

The regular 1 month fee at my hagwan is 120 000. The TOEIC class fee is 130 000. And the native speaker only class is 140 000. Fees were about the same, give or take a "man-un", at my last hagwan too.

Oh actually, I don't work at this hagwan. I work at a company. I'd love to know what those guys are paying. I'll bet it's more than 120 000 though!

[bucheon bum]

my former hogwon in Bucheon: 150,000/month, classes 3 days a week. Had 100 students, just 1 foreign teacher- me. We were doing better than most English hogwons in Bucheon. The one below us lost many students during my year there. Way too many in the city if you ask me; a couple dominate the industry (ECC being one) in the area.

[khyber]

here in my hick town in south hickdom, 110,000...and they're SOMEHOW managing to pay me 2.3.
this place is nuts.

my friends in gangnam are getting the same pay rate but their hagwon is 850,000/kid....retARDED

[waterbaby]

[Saxiif]

My predecessor told me that my hagwon charged 100,000 a month for classes five days a week. From the kids bills that I've seen, it seems its been upped to 130,000 though, we should be turning a decent profit due to pretty good classizes though.

[Beeg]

It really depends upon the city. As with most things they tend to be more expensive in Seoul.

Mine charges about 150,000pcm expensive for the deep south but cheap for Seoul. Our Kindies pay 400,000 a month, but they get 3 lessons a day (two english) and lunch.

[Juggertha]

My school is fast approaching 250 students at a modest 130,000 per month. With only 3 waygooks and two Koreans.. we're hopin' of late.

Either way..looks like the schools makin' decent bucks.

[Drakoi]