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Korea’s unlikely internet star

By Anna Fifield in Seoul

Published: February 14 2007 17:20 | Last updated: February 14 2007 17:20

Son Joo-eun is a star in South Korea. Not a rock star or a film star but a uniquely Korean celebrity – a teaching star.

He has combined fame as a social studies lecturer with Korea’s advanced technology and its obsession with education to create Megastudy, an online hagwon (cramming school) that has revolutionised the way Korean teenagers learn and has become a darling of the Korean stock market.

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