Korea Education Partners

What Korea Education Partners does

Korea Education Partners (한국교육파트너스) is a Seoul-headquartered, privately held Korean education-AI startup that develops and operates the HAKZZONGpro (학쫑프로) AI student-record management SaaS for the country's private academies (학원). The platform addresses the fragmented, manual workflow academy directors face in managing Korean high-school student records (학생부/생기부) — including career and learning disposition testing, AI-driven student-record diagnostics, performance assessment drafting, research topic and report generation, predictive target-university modeling, and a 24-hour AI admissions counseling chat — and exposes all of this through a single director dashboard. Underlying technology combines text generation, computer vision (PDF/image guideline parsing), structured-data analytics, recommendation logic, and RAG-style retrieval grounded in each student's record, and the company is currently developing an education-specialized multimodal AI foundation model under the 2025 Deep Tech TIPS program run by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups.

The business is sold as a quote-based SaaS subscription to Korean SMB academies, with a 14-day free trial that issues KakaoTalk login credentials, a complimentary onboarding consultation, and a multi-year contract that grants lifetime membership after one signing. Distribution runs through the company-owned website (hakzzongpro.com), direct consultation by headquarters staff, and ecosystem relationships with Korean education media and research entities such as CREVERSE, 잇올, 매경 감자유학, 동아사이언스, and 한국진로진학연구원. Commercial traction cited by the company includes 400+ paid academies, 1,300+ signed academies, and 30,000+ cumulative student users, alongside quantified case-study outcomes (e.g., +50% academy revenue at Hansuwi Academy in Busan and +220% consultation conversion at Dodang Vision Study in Bucheon).

The company was incorporated as a Korean corporation (주식회사) registered in Seoul's Mapo-gu, is co-led by co-representatives Kwon Gi-won (권기원) and Kwon Jae-woo (권재우, who also serves as Privacy Officer), and operates with 1–10 employees. It closed a 600 million KRW (~$458K) seed round in September 2024 from Smilegate Investment and the Ulsan Creative Economy Innovation Center, and has additionally secured non-dilutive R&D funding through the 2025 Deep Tech TIPS program. The product roadmap is explicitly aligned to Korea's 2028 college entrance reform (내신 5등급제 and 정성평가 강화), and the company has been publicly recognized with the Minister of Education Award and the Seoul Mayor Award.

Name

Korea Education Partners

Legal name

한국교육파트너스 (주) [Korea Education Partners Co., Ltd.]

Website

https://hakzzongpro.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2024

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Korea Education Partners is a Seoul-based education AI startup operating HAKZZONGpro, a SaaS platform that automates Korean high-school student-record management, performance assessments, and research reports for private academies. It serves 400+ paid academies with 30,000+ cumulative student users nationwide.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Education Technology SaaS

NAICS

Educational Support Services (611710), All Other Schools and Instruction (61169)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Learning Management Systems (LMS) & Digital Classrooms (EDAJAMAA)

akta.pro secondary industry

Credit Recovery & Learning Loss Catch-Up Programs (K–12) (EDAJAGAI)

Keywords

• Education AI SaaS
• Student record management
• Academy operations software
• College admissions AI
• Educational technology platform

Headquarters

HQ city

Ulsan

HQ country

South Korea

HQ region

Asia

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. SaaS subscription to HAKZZONGpro (학쫑프로): Recurring SaaS revenue from Korean private academies (학원). Pricing is not publicly disclosed; quote-based on academy size, operating direction, and selected features, with lifetime membership maintained after a single contract signing. Replaces fragmented point tools across student record, performance assessment, and research report workflows.
2. Seed venture funding: Capital infusion from strategic/regional investors (Smilegate Investment, Ulsan Creative Economy Innovation Center) — 600 million KRW seed round, plus selection into the government Deep Tech TIPS program providing R&D funding. Not an operating revenue stream, but supplements runway for R&D on a multimodal education AI model.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels3 records

Core offering

HAKZZONGpro (학쫑프로) is an education-specialized multimodal AI SaaS platform that helps Korean private academies (학원) manage the full student record (생기부) workflow — from career and track testing, through AI student-record diagnosis, performance-assessment drafting, and personalized research report generation, to an academy director dashboard and 24-hour AI admissions counseling chat — replacing fragmented point tools with a single integrated interface aligned to the 2028 Korean college admission reform.

Product overview

Korea Education Partners (한국교육파트너스) operates a single unified product, HAKZZONGpro (학쫑프로), an AI 학생부 관리 플랫폼 (AI student-record management platform) delivered to Korean academies. The platform bundles seven integrated modules — 계열·성향 검사, AI 생기부 진단, 수행평가 AI 도우미, 탐구주제·보고서 AI, 원장 대시보드, 수시 목표대학 가늠, and 24시간 AI 입시 상담 채팅 — into one all-in-one interface built on an education-specialized multimodal AI model, and is currently used by 400+ academies and 30,000+ students.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• HAKZZONGpro (학쫑프로): AI student record (생기부) management SaaS platform for private academies, offering AI diagnostics, performance assessment support, research topic/report generation, and a director dashboard.

Products and services

• HAKZZONGpro (학쫑프로) Unified AI student-record (생기부) management SaaS platform for Korean private academies (학원). It combines career/track testing (계열·성향 검사), an AI student-record diagnostic engine (입학사정관 AI 학생부 진단), a performance-assessment AI assistant that ingests school guideline PDFs/images (수행평가 AI 도우미), personalized research topic and report generation (탐구주제·보고서 AI), a target-university admissions simulator (수시 목표대학 가늠), 24-hour AI admissions counseling chat, and an academy director dashboard (원장 대시보드) in a single all-in-one interface built on an education-specialized multimodal AI model. Designed to reduce per-student student-record management from 60 hours to 11.9 hours and to enable solo academy operation without dedicated instructors.

Quantifiable outcome

• Cuts per-student student-record management time from 60 hours to 11.9 hours (~5x efficiency, saving ~48 hours per student per semester)
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability11 records

Feature7 records

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• MagicSchool AI: US-based AI SaaS purpose-built for teachers, offering lesson planning, assessment generation, and student-record-style workflow automation. Closest direct peer: same target buyer (teachers/directors), same AI-for-education workflow positioning, but serving US K-12 rather than Korean 학원.
• Sana Labs: AI learning and knowledge platform for enterprises and education providers, combining generative AI with structured course/assessment workflows. Comparable enterprise AI education SaaS model and multimodal AI foundation, though aimed at corporate L&D and European/US education markets.
• Curipod: AI lesson and assessment generation platform for K-12 teachers, focused on saving teacher prep time and personalizing instruction. Comparable to HAKZZONGpro's teacher-facing AI assistance workflow, though geographically and curriculum-aligned to US schools.

Broad incumbents

• Khan Academy (Khanmigo): Non-profit AI tutor Khanmigo offering teachers lesson planning, assessment, and student-progress tooling. Comparable teacher-facing AI workflow, though at massive scale, free, and US-curriculum-aligned.
• Riiid: Korean AI education company (Yanolja subsidiary) best known for the AI Tutor 'Santa' and adaptive learning products. Comparable AI-for-education DNA and Korean-market presence, but at much larger scale and focused on adaptive tutoring rather than student-record management.
• Mathpresso (QANDA): Korean AI tutoring app with tens of millions of users globally, using AI to solve and explain math problems. Comparable Korean AI-EdTech origin and consumer/academy distribution, but focused on math tutoring rather than student-record workflow.
• Quizlet: Large-scale AI-enabled study platform with Q-Chat (LLM-powered tutor) and teacher tools, used in classrooms and self-study globally. Comparable AI-powered learning workflow and teacher/director buyer, though primarily consumer-led and English-language focused.

Regional players

• Conects (커넥츠): Korean EdTech SaaS offering online learning and academy operations tools to private 학원 and tutoring centers. Comparable Korean 학院-SaaS distribution and SMB academy buyer, though focused on live-classroom and content tooling rather than AI student record generation.
• Elemento (엘리멘토): Korean EdTech SaaS providing academy management and student/parent communication tools to private 학원. Comparable Korean 학원-SaaS channel and SMB customer base, but a broader administration/communications suite rather than AI-specialized student record workflow.
• Classting (클래스팅): Korean K-12 communication and learning platform used by teachers, students, and parents across public and private schools. Comparable Korean K-12 distribution and teacher-as-buyer motion, though focused on classroom communication rather than AI-driven student record generation.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors2 records

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M&A

Investments

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