Data note

Live Online SAT in Korea: 10 Profiles Disclose It, 1 States U.S. Time Zones, and 5 of 60 Management Cells Are Third-Party Confirmed

Direct answer

Live Online SAT in Korea: 10 Profiles Disclose It, 1 States U.S. Time Zones, and 5 of 60 Management Cells Are Third-Party Confirmed

Of the 63 surveyed Korean SAT and IB academy profiles, 10 disclose an online format and 1 states U.S. time zone scheduling; across six between-class management items, 5 of the resulting 60 cells are confirmed by dated third-party press, and makeup-class policy is confirmed at none of the 10.

Comparable evidence

Evidence mapped to this question

Key figures

Profiles disclosing an online format: 11 to 10, as of the August 31, 2026 data refresh. Profiles stating U.S. time zone live scheduling: 2 to 1.
Management cells checked: 60 (10 profiles x 6 items). Third-party confirmed: 5 (8.3%), all 5 belonging to a single profile.
Makeup classes after an absence: 0 of 10 confirmed in any reviewed source, unchanged from the August round.

Commentary

Hakwon Scale re-counted its live online management check against the August 31, 2026 data refresh and widened the item list from four to six, adding class-placement and promotion criteria and curriculum parity. The count of profiles disclosing an online format fell from 11 to 10, and the count stating U.S. time zone live scheduling fell from 2 to 1. Neither change came from a closure: one profile's format label was corrected from "in person and online (U.S. time zones)" to in-person only.

Across the resulting 60 cells, 5 are confirmed by dated press reports and 55 are not documented in the reviewed public record. All 5 confirmed cells belong to Veterans Edu, the one profile in the 63-academy set with a verified press record, and they cover homework checks, error-log review, parent reports, class placement and curriculum parity; 3 of those 5 appear in more than one outlet and 2 rest on a single report. On the earlier four-item basis the same data yields 3 of 40 cells, or 7.5%, so the two rounds are not directly comparable.

Makeup-class policy is the one item confirmed at none of the 10 profiles, in third-party and self-published sources alike. That gap matters more for U.S. households than the headline schedule does: with local evening hours as the constraint, Eastern, Central and Pacific students overlap at a single Korean-time point, and the November 1, 2026 daylight-saving change shifts every fixed Korean-time class by an hour six days before the November 7 test date. Among the 10 profiles, verification grades are V1 at 1, V2 at 1, V3 at 1 and V4 at 7, and a Google review sample exists at 4.

Source grade & source class

How the evidence is classified

Note evidence grade: DATA NOTE
Source classes used: Independent reporting
Evidence Registry claims: claim.hagwonscale.live-online-management.2026-09

Hakwon Scale — Independent reporting · Claim IDs: claim.hagwonscale.live-online-management.2026-09 · The dated 10-profile online-format count, one U.S.-time-zone disclosure, six-item 60-cell audit and five third-party-confirmed cells. Limitation: Fifty-five unconfirmed cells do not mean fifty-five failures. The count describes the limits of the reviewed public record, not the quality of a program.

Denominator · period · campus

Scope of the comparison

Profiles disclosing an online format: 11 to 10, as of the August 31, 2026 data refresh. Profiles stating U.S. time zone live scheduling: 2 to 1.
Management cells checked: 60 (10 profiles x 6 items). Third-party confirmed: 5 (8.3%), all 5 belonging to a single profile.
Makeup classes after an absence: 0 of 10 confirmed in any reviewed source, unchanged from the August round.

Establishes · does not establish

What the evidence can and cannot support

What it establishes

What it does not establish

"Online" is a label, not a format. Of the 10, five run online alongside in-person classes, three are online 1:1 matching, one is small-group online and one is recorded on-demand, and a recorded course has no time-zone schedule to convert at all. Confirm which of the four a course actually is before comparing.
Fifty-five unconfirmed cells do not mean fifty-five failures. Only 1 of the 63 surveyed profiles has any verified press record, so the unconfirmed cells describe the limits of the public record, not the quality of a program. The list of questions to ask is six items long regardless of how many academies are on a shortlist.
A verification grade and a management record are separate axes. The grade asks whether outcome figures and review samples are confirmable outside the academy; the 60-cell count asks whether between-class procedures are documented at all. A V4 self-published profile that can produce a written makeup policy and a sample parent report is giving more specific evidence than a grade alone conveys.

Last verified · original sources

Verification date and source links

Final verification: 2026-09-10.

Source: Hakwon Scale report, September 10, 2026 - https://hagwonscale.com/news/us-live-management-2026-09

Underlying dataset: Hakwon Scale public dataset, updated August 31, 2026. Google review figures cited in the source report were re-collected September 7, 2026 and are not yet reflected in this directory's per-profile snapshots, which carry their own collection dates.

온라인 공개 11곳에서 10곳으로: 관리 6항목 60칸 중 제3자 확인 5칸, 보강은 10곳 전부 0칸Hakwon Scale · Independent reporting · published 2026-09-10 · accessed 2026-09-12 · story key hagwonscale-live-online-management-2026-09Evidence Registry: source.hagwonscale.live-online-management.2026-09 · claim.hagwonscale.live-online-management.2026-09The dated 10-profile online-format count, one U.S.-time-zone disclosure, six-item 60-cell audit and five third-party-confirmed cells. Limitation: Fifty-five unconfirmed cells do not mean fifty-five failures. The count describes the limits of the reviewed public record, not the quality of a program.