The Ministry of Education plans to increase rewards for reporting illegal activities by private academies by approximately 10 times as part of efforts to eradicate illegal private tutoring. The ministry also aims to block tuition fee increases exceeding legally set standards by introducing new penalty surcharges to recover illicit gains obtained by academies.
The ministry announced the "Plan to Strengthen Academy Tuition Fee Management" at the "Consumer Price Special Management Ministerial Task Force" meeting held on Wednesday.
The government will first introduce separate penalty surcharges to recover illicit gains from violations such as excessive tuition collection by academies. The surcharge is expected to be "within 50% of revenue." Additionally, fines for violations of the Academy Act, including false representation of tuition fees, will be raised from the current 3 million won to 10 million won ($7,400). The ministry plans to pursue revision of the Academy Act within the first half of this year.
By revising the enforcement regulations of the Academy Act, the ministry also plans to increase rewards for reporting illegal private education activities, such as excessive tuition collection, from the current 100,000–200,000 won to 1–2 million won, a 10-fold increase.
Specifically, rewards for reporting excessive tuition charges will increase from 100,000 won to 1 million won. Rewards for reporting violations of teaching hours will rise from 100,000 won to 1 million won,...
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