Introducing the Millionaire Tutors

Author: jeffreyporter

Tutoring is rarely a career that people associate with million dollar incomes, but in some parts of the world this is a regular occurrence. In Asian countries where test prep is a huge industry, celebrity tutors can often command six figure incomes and some can even earn over $1,000,000 in a single year. There are a number of well-known tutors in Hong Kong, South Korea, and Singapore that have gained celebrity status and the high-incomes that go with it.

One of the most well-known celebrity tutors is Hong Kong\'s Richard Eng. Eng was one of the first to market tutors as celebrities using billboard advertisements, model photo shoots, high-end fashion and other methods. He started 20 years ago as regular teacher and began tutoring students in the evenings. After marketing his business and creating celebrity tutors to work for his company, his tutoring business has grown from a part-time job to a multi-million dollar enterprise. He now operates 12 schools in Hong Kong and has just opened one in Tokyo. He has a total of 50,000 students, employs 300 staff and last year he personally took home more than US$1 million.

South Korea is home to some other well-known and highly-paid tutors. Rose Lee is a Korean English teacher who brings home $7 million per year. Lee makes most of her money from online classes that students can pay to view from home, but she also works in classrooms where students can learn and classes are recorded for broadcasting on the internet.

Another millionaire tutor coming from South Korea is a math teacher by the name of Woo Hyeong-cheol. Woo is considered by many to be the best math tutors in South Korea. Like Rose Lee, Woo makes most of his money from his online tutorials which are accessed by about fifty-thousand paying subscribers. Woo has turned his ability to teach math in an engaging way into a lucrative career that brings him $4 million per year.

Not far from these South Korean and Hong Kong millionaire tutors is Phang Yu Hon in Singapore. Phang started out teaching physics and was making about $220 per month. Over the years his student base has grown and he now makes over half a million dollars per year – and his annual income keeps growing. Phang teaches physics to groups of students and is considered one of Singapore\'s best and highest-paid tutors.

Hong Kong has lots of highly-paid tutors, but one that stands out isKarson Oten Fan Karno. Known as K.Oten and 'tutor king', this celebrity tutor has a side career rapping with local pop stars. So not only is he a celebrity in the music world, he\'s also a celebrity in the classroom. This has helped him attract more students who are interested not only in learning, but also in learning from a pop-icon. After leaving a former company to a new tutoring company, apparently enrollment fell by about 7,000 students following his departure. K. Oten has used his celebrity status to earn as much as HK $2.6 million dollars in just 40 days of work.

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Jeffrey Porter is a small business enthusiast with a particular interest in the the tutoring and test prep industries.  He enjoys finding interesting stories and useful advice from all over the world to help tutors improve their businesses.  If you have a tutoring business, try out this tutoring business software.