The purpose of this article is to analyze the middle-class parents’ culture of supporting
private tutoring of their children. The qualitative method of in-depth interviews was employed
to carry out the research. The key informants for the study were twenty-one middle-class
mothers in Chuncheon, a local city. The findings of the study can be summarized as follows:
The middle-class parents’ culture of supporting private tutoring consists of three parts,
center-oriented attitude, implementation, and cultural phenomena. A distinctive attitudinal
tendency of the middle-class parents in Chuncheon is their center-oriented attitude, which makes
them to set a goal for getting their children admitted into a prestigious university in Seoul. To
this end, they support their children with differentiated private tutoring. They keep high-quality
tutoring information exclusive to themselves, opt for better programs, and even move their
residence to the center of private schooling. As a result, three distinctive phenomena
characterize the local city, Chuncheon, namely ‘family co-supporting phenomenon’, ‘tipping
phenomenon’, and ‘educational nomad phenomenon’.