South Korea clamping down on private, after-school academies

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http://www.time.com/time/magazine/artic ... 27,00.html

Parents in a lot of Asian countries do take education very seriously.

I thought that this was an interesting outcome.

Is that uncommon elsewhere?

I recall I had to study long hours after school, on daily basis, staying doing homeworks after 10 pm wasn't uncommon. There were so much to do and study: French literature, Arabic literature, French/Arabic/English grammar and orthography, had to memorize poetry in both Arabic and French, Europe's history and geography (french), Levant/Middle-East history and geography(in arabic) math/physics/chemistry/bio were all
in french (at least at my school), philosophy....nowadays students are also taking computing, basic programming and graphic design(didn't have those in my days).

During the 1980's and 1990's, there was quite a lot of stuff on "cram schools" in Japan.
Chains of them were offering the kind of accelerated learning needed to pass the
entrance exams to more esteemed universities. I'm not at all surprised that a similar
phenomenon would be going on for some time in South Korea.