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Banker, lawyer, property developer. Who else can afford to drive $0.5 dollar Lamborghini? But Richard Eng doesn’t work in any of these professions. He is a tutor, a celebrity tutor. With his flash sports car, designer clothes, expensive watch collection and manicured hair, Eng owns 12 tutorial schools in Hong Kong and has just opened another one in Japan. He has a total of 5,000 students, 300 staff and earns almost US $1.5 million dollars a year.

 

“This is a kind of chance in Hong Kong. Okay? It comes…….. This is certainly a chance for some body who can teach and who can present themselves as well to help students. And at the same time, students find out, oh, you can really help them. And every time I come to your classroom, I can see something beautiful and more importantly they can learn some very important exam skills and that’s why we are worth and we are here.”

 

Tutorial schools are big business in Hong Kong where glossy그럴듯한 brochures, giant billboards and TV ads turned these university graduates into stars. Four major schools dominate, but there are hundreds of others attended by approximately one third of all students. They pay approximately US $130 a month to improve their grades in a society where information is power.

 

While most industries took a hit during the global financial crisis, Richard Eng says his business and other Hong Kong’s tutorial schools have proven to be recession proof. In fact, he claims in the past year his student numbers have grown up by more than 10%. 18-year-old Daisy Chung has been attending Eng’s English class for the past two years. "My grade improved from C to B now. And I hope there's still a room for me for improvement." She says she comes for the lessons, but some are attracted to Eng’s celebrity status. “He is really a nice teacher and he is really handsome.”

 

“I have to admit that they may come to me just for a curiosity. Okay. Why or what kind of seats or what kind of clothes do you wear today. Okay. But I think as time goes by, they will know that I can teach them exam skills. This is very important in Hong Kong.” Well, the big names of multi-millionaires, the average celebrity tutor earns more than US $120,000 a year. Government teachers take home less than a half that. As long as a child’s education is considered an investment, Eng and his colleagues will continue to rake긁어모으다 the rewards. Anna Karen, CNN, Hong Kong.

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