Now, however, thanks to their countries' economic woes, fewer parents in South Korea, as well as in other parts of East Asia and in South-East Asia, can afford the fees.
Once again, the seven FEI zones of the world come into play: North-West Europe, South-West Europe, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, North America, Central and South America, Africa and the Middle East, and South-East Asia and Oceania.
Youth unemployment is expected to rise in emerging economies in Eastern Europe, East and South-East Asia and the Middle East, according to the report.
India's economic ties with East and South-East Asia fall short.
They left Tuvalu on Wednesday, ending a nine-day Diamond Jubilee tour of south-east Asia and the South Pacific.
They found that resistance to this drug could be traced back to the 1950s and to specific events in south-east Asia, South America and Papua New Guinea.
Asia Pacific brews some of the most popular beers in fast-growing South-East Asia, including Anchor and Tiger, and recently expanded its business in Mongolia.
Emirates has also thrived by entering markets in the rest of the Middle East, Africa, South-East Asia, India and Latin America that had hitherto been poorly connected to the global air-transport network because of over-regulation, the absence of a strong local flag carrier and the indifference of established airlines.
Hyundai of South Korea plans an ultra-low-cost car for South-East Asia and Fiat is hooking up with India's Tata.
She also boasted this week of an agreement to set up a fund to buy toxic debts from banks in South-East Asia, China, South Korea and Japan.
China's exports are still mostly low-end manufactures, such as toys and shoes, which do not usually compete head-on with South-East Asia's higher-end products, such as electronics.
Until now, the economic troubles of East and South-East Asia have looked dramatic but not serious.
Overall, the investment rate in East and South-East Asia is now close to the average in Japan, a much richer country.
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It is now all over East and South-East Asia, was launched in India last autumn and, in August, will be rolled out all over Latin America.
The saving surplus in East and South-East Asia is the legacy of a bust both more recent and more spectacular than the 1970s oil shocks: the Asian financial crisis in 1997-98.
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It is not wild-eyed to view South-East Asia as a last frontier, with a lot of fresh ears waiting to hear Beethoven.
The prospect of peace in Mindanao has quickly prompted speculation about whether this model could help resolve other long-running insurgencies in South-East Asia.
Oji Paper, a Japanese giant that uses fast-growing eucalyptuses from South-East Asia, has put carrot genes into them so they can flourish in acid soil.
Before Asia's economic slump in 1997, Indonesia had become Australia's second-biggest export market in South-East Asia.
More than 90 people have died of H5N1 bird flu since the disease's resurgence in December 2003 - most of them in South-East Asia.
But for strategists grappling with the diminished safety of the world's seas off east Africa and in other perilous spots such as South-East Asia and the waters of Nigeria figuring out a sensible and workable division of labour between navies and private firms is not easy.
Without the security of such achievements, 1995 might have been more wrenching for East Asia - as it was for South Asia.
These are Indo-European, Bantu, Austronesian (from South-East Asia and the Pacific) and Uto-Aztecan (the native vernaculars of the Americas).
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Americans hope that the Australian deal will set an example of closer co-operation with other allies, especially in South-East Asia.
Networks of exiles dominate trade in many parts of the world: the Indians in east Africa and parts of the Caribbean, the Chinese in South-East Asia, and so on.
As the climate has worsened in Japan, they have simply moved more of their business offshore: first, following the sex-tourists, to the Philippines and the rest of South-East Asia, and more recently to Latin America and even Europe.
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The result is that what the Chinese took to be a solid, mutually beneficial relationship with the Burmese has exploded in their faces with long-term consequences for Myanmar, the balance of power in South-East Asia and the whole way that China does business with poorer countries.
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Ms Neighbour offers no grand prescriptions for dealing with terrorism, but her book is a compelling, readable and well-informed account of an Islamist terror network that has spread across South-East Asia.
Transparency International, a global counter-corruption watchdog, ranks Vietnam as the second most corrupt country in South-East Asia (after Indonesia), based on a survey of international businessmen.
By the standard measure of purchasing-power parity, which reflects currencies' relative buying power, all of South-East Asia's currencies are now undervalued.
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