>South Korean tutorial to coach students in IIT-JEE

>South Korea based coaching institute Etoos Academy will set shop in India with its first IIT-JEE coaching institute in Kota (Rajasthan) to be operational from next month. Known as South Korea’s biggest coaching conglomerate, Etoos plans to train at least 5,000 students in the first year of their operations.

Etoos which provides coaching for Korean Scholastic Aptitude Test (KSAT) – the common entrance exam for professional colleges; much like Indian entrance exams like IIT-JEE, has set up its hundred per cent subsidiary in India with its headquarter in Gurgaon, Haryana. “We are planning to train 5,000 students annually from our Kota centre. Next year we are planning to open centres in Delhi, Hyderabad and Mumbai,” Etoos Academy CEO Park Seong Bok said.

Backed by SK Group, one of the biggest industrial conglomerates in Korea, Etoos focuses on two major businesses in South Korea – e-learning website etoos.com and offline coaching centres. It is also exploring opportunity to offer training courses via mobile phones. “We will partner with telecom companies to offer the course content to students in the rural India,” he said.

Source: Business Standard, April 7, 2011