Middle School Years

Abstract

This chapter, I would like to illustrate the experiences of Korean middle school students at hakwons. After primary school, Korean students also head to hakwons as they enter middle school. Moreover, middle school students spend more time and study harder at hakwons than they did as elementary school students. From now on, I will describe a prototype of middle school students’ three-year long lives at hakwons. Through this, we can understand how Korean middle school students experience hakwons as their learning/living spaces compared with their school lives.