hagwon
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Korean 학원(學院) (hagwon).
Noun
edithagwon (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.