For a teacher who never sees his students and usually instructs them online, South Korean math instructor Woo Hyeong-cheol makes a great deal of money, USD$4 million a year to be exact. Woo is not affiliated to any institution that is part of the official school system, but the 46-year-old instructor is considered one of the best cram school tutors in education-obsessed South Korea, and his web-based classes are as well known among test-taking teens as top-rated TV dramas.He has become an education celebrity and commands a salary higher than almost all of the best-paid baseball players in the countrys professionalleague.He thinks his job is different from school teachers who are more concerned about creating moral people. Cram school teachers dont teach how to be morally correct or good. We focus more on getting the students better grades in a short amount of time. Thats why we are needed in countries like South Korea or Japan, said Woo. Woo is among a group of about a dozen instructors raking it in because they are thought to be the best at raising scores.The bulk of their income comes from online classes that are easily accessible in the worlds most-wired country, where more than 90 percent of households can receive high-speed Internet.
