Why Mathematics Can Decide a Korean Student’s University — and Why Math Academies Remain a Powerful Franchise Business
South Korea’s private education market reached KRW 27.5 trillion in 2025. Mathematics alone represents an implied market of roughly KRW 7.7 trillion a year. For students targeting elite universities, particularly STEM, engineering and medical programs, mathematics often has more leverage than any other single subject. That makes the math academy not only an educational institution, but one of Korea’s most resilient education-business formats.
