Households pay substantial recurring sums for private supplementary language education, with Korea at 29.2 trillion won in 2024 and English the leading subject¶

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q2 i? South Korea's official national survey put private supplementary education at 29.2 trillion won in 2024, with 80% participation and English the largest subject at 248,000 won per month per participating student in 2023. → Guo 2026

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Guo 2026¶

Guo, Q., Tang, J., Huang, X., Lin, H.-Y., Zhong, Y., & Zhuang, X. (2026). LLMersion: A Local-First AI Agent Framework for Low-Cost Home Language Learning toward Educational Equity. https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.29672 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2609.29672

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The article reports official national survey figures from Statistics Korea and the Ministry of Education, citing them as an anchor for household spending on shadow education. Figures are descriptive expenditures; no effect size is printed, so impact is null.

"private supplementary education at 29.2 trillion won in 2024, with 80% of students participating and English the single largest subject at 248,000 won per month per participating student in 2023"

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