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[Real Reality]

According to the central bank, tuition at private institutions and revenues of private tutors stood at 9.4 trillion won ($8.1 billion) last year, up 14.6 percent over 2002. In 1998, the expenses were 4.7 trillion won. Spending on private tutors showed sharp growth, up 27 percent, and higher than spending on tuition at private institutions.
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/200403/24/200403242351405439900090509052.html

Has your pay increased? Have you received pay increases within one year? Can you legally provide private tutoring? If you have to ask your boss for permission to teach privately, then would your boss permit you to teach privately? Does not your boss have an interest in preventing you from doing private tutoring? Does not your boss want you to teach within his/her business?

[Saxiif]

Logical fallacy there. It says tuition payments are increasing, not tuition payment per classroom hour.

[Real Reality]

Spending on private tutors showed sharp growth, up 27 percent.

Can you legally provide private tutoring? If you have to ask your boss for permission to teach privately, then would your boss permit you to teach privately? Does not your boss have an interest in preventing you from doing private tutoring?

Is tuition linked to salaries?

"I would suppose tuition would go for expenses and improvements for the school," Handelman said.
However, all tuition is allocated to each college and is primarily used for faculty salaries.
http://www.utulsa.edu/collegian/article.asp?article=1056

UNC tuition increase needed to make faculty pay competitive, ensure high-quality education here. Some 46 percent of the tuition increase will go toward faculty salaries. The remaining 18 percent will go to nonteaching staff salaries and benefits, with the highest priority placed on bringing up the wages of those employees paid the least.
http://cgi.citizen-times.com/cgi-bin/story/editorial/51509

[kylehawkins2000]

This is private classes across the board. I assume that includes everything from little MiJung's art classes to the Ajumma's cooking classes.

Also, has the average tuition increased, or has it been the number of people enrolled?

It may be illegal for us to do privates on E2 visas but there are 45 million or so Koreans who are not subject to the same laws as we are as foreigners.

[Gord]