Usually means: Private academy for supplemental education.
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▸ noun:  A profit-making private school, common in South Korea.

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for-profit, profiting, superprofit, profitmongering, wagedom, earner, boot, sale of work, proceeds, gainsharing, more...

Opposite:
non-hagwon, regular school, public school, traditional school

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Similar:
for-profit, profiting, superprofit, profitmongering, wagedom, earner, boot, sale of work, proceeds, gainsharing, more...

Opposite:
non-hagwon, regular school, public school, traditional school



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