Manner of Speaking
Joined: 09 Jan 2003
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 Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 6:34 am Post subject: |
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Here think about this:
There are approximately 675,000 high school students who take the test every year.
Let's assume it costs the government approximately 10,000 won per student to prepare and administer the test; research, question selection, pretesting, printing, scoring the results, etc.:
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| 675,000 students x 10,000 won = 6,750,000,000 won per year. |
Assume 75% of high school students have taken hakwon lessons in three years of high school to prep for the test:
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| 675,000 students x 75% = 506,250 students |
Assume their parents have spent AT LEAST 200,000 a month on hakwon fees:
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200,000 won x 36 months = 7,200,000 won per student.
7,200,000 won per student x 506, 250 students = 3,645,000,000,000 won. |
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6,750,000,000 won (government expenses for test) plus 3,645,000,000,000 won (parents expenses for test) =
3,651,750,000,000 won or
$3,043,125,000 a year. |
This one test, given only once a year, costs Korea approximately $3 billion every time they give it.  |
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