Parents living in the capital Seoul spend more money on private education than parents in other regions in South Korea.

Data from Statistics Korea shows parents in Seoul spent a monthly average of 328-thousand won on private education costs per child last year. The number is more than double the spending made by parents living in smaller towns.
 
Average per-capita private education costs stood at 233-thousand won a month in the six large cities of Busan, Daegu, Incheon, Gwangju, Daejeon and Ulsan. The spending was 238-thousand won in small cities and 147-thousand won in eup and myon-level communities.
 
Actual private education costs per head would be greater as the statistics included students who receive no private education at all.
 
In Seoul, 75 percent of students received private education last year. The figure was 68-point-nine percent in large cities, 70-point-two percent in smaller cities and 57-point-five percent in eup and myon-level towns.