No I don't attend it..
They don't really help much in improving grades in my opinion..
here is something which may help you:
WHAT IS HAGWON?
Hagwon is the Korean-language word for a for-profit private institute, academy, or cram school prevalent in South Korea. Although most widely known for their role as "cram schools", where children can study to improve test scores, hagwons actually perform several educational functions:
•supplementary education that many children need just to keep up with the regular school curriculum..
•remedial education for the children who fall behind in their work..
•training in areas not covered in schools..
•preparation for students striving to improve test scores and preparing for the high school and university entrance examinations (the university entrance exam is also called suneung (수능))..
Some information on Hagwon..
Hagwons normally operate from around 4-10pm on weekdays and all day on the weekends. Regular school starts around eight in the morning, which means some of these students are sitting in the classroom for as many as fourteen or fifteen hours a day. This is before they go home to complete their homework.
Not many children would be good at coping with this kind of stress. As a hagwon teacher, it is very important to understand the stress your student faces. If your students are messing around, having a hard time focusing or never seem to complete their homework, it’s probably not because they are bad or rebellious students; it’s often simply because they cannot keep up and they’ve focused for as long as they can for one day.
