[Today's Cartoon] 2023.03.08 Cartoon

Despite a decrease in the number of school students by 40,000 in 2022 due to ultralow birth rates in Korea, parents spent the largest-ever 26 trillion won ($19.9 billion) educating their children at cram schools last year, an 11 percent increase from 2021. That only helps widen the polarization. [PARK YONG-SEOK]