You taught me, all night long?

Recently, the Seoul City Council floated a scary plan to allow private hagwon owners to keep offering English, math, and music classes basically all-night long. Hagwons in Seoul had asked for the freedom to offer later classes as a business freedom and a response to supposed "customer demand." The new presidemt is very pro-business...and so we teachers were all scared that it would pass. (There is intense competition for slots at the top Seoul universities. Thus Korean children's advocates also became concerned that parents, meaning well, might send high school students to study late at night, thereby robbing them of the sleep they need to maintain their health!)
Thankfully, this week, the Seoul City Council saw the insanity of letting children go to school past 10pm...See the article below for the full Story...
Seoul City Council Cancels All-Night Hagwon Plan

"The Seoul Metropolitan Council cancelled its plan to allow private cram schools or hagwons to stay open all night, Tuesday.
With the cancellation, cram schools' operating hours remain unchanged between 5 a.m. and 10 p.m..
``We reached an agreement that we need to maintain the regulations on the operating hours,'' a committee member said. ``We considered student's health as a key factor in the decision.''
The council originally sought to liberalize the operating hours of private tutoring institutes as many hagwon open until past midnight despite the rules. They pointed out that the lack of law enforcement officials also makes the rules virtually useless in practice.
But the council changed its position after strong protest from civic groups and parents. Even President Lee Myung-bak reacted negatively to the move.
Despite its succumbing to public protest, the city council still wants the issue to be discussed further at public hearings.
The council's educational committee last week passed a municipal ordinance to abolish limitations on business hours at private cram schools as part of deregulation to provide more freedom to private business sectors.
Parents raised concerns that the move would force students to study all night, resulting in health risks, as well as pose a threat to the public education system.
In the face of protests, the committee decided to put it to a vote. They voted for the amendment to the ordinance to restrict hagwon business hours to 10 p.m. Of 89 council members, 70 voted for the revised amendment and 19 against, according to the council.