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hakwon

hakwon is the alternative form of hagwon.

Meaning of hagwon

Noun

hagwon (plural hagwons)

  1. A profit-making private school, common in South Korea.
    • Geneho, whose bedroom faces the street, is attending a hagwon, a Korean tutoring program.2007 August 12, Fred A. Bernstein, “A House to Grow Into”, in New York Times

Forms of hakwon

pluralhakwons

Questions about hakwon

What is hakwon the alternative form of?
Hakwon is the alternative form of hagwon.

Words near hakwon in the dictionary

  1. Hakunila
  2. Hakuraahuraa
  3. hakurei
  4. hakureis
  5. Hakusan
  6. hakwon
  7. hakwons
  8. hal
  9. hal'd
  10. hala
  11. Hala'ib

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hakwon (page history and authors); hagwon (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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