This study aims to investigate how providers of private tutoring recognized the free semester system and responded to it. The providers of private tutoring thought that the free semester system brought students and parents into confusion in terms of policy acceptance, anxiety about academic achievement, and dissatisfaction with Extra-Curricula areas and career guidance. Accordingly, the providers of private tutoring responded in three ways: they straightened out the confusion by offering consulting and guidelines, hey lowered the anxiety level by strengthening the prerequisite learning and performance assessment areas, and they resolved the dissatisfaction by strengthening the Extra-Curricula and career guidance areas. These responses of the providers of private tutoring have distorted the original purposes of the free semester system and have made students and parents depend on private tutoring much more. Therefore, in order to effectively achieve the original purposes of the free semester system, it is necessary to clearly identify the form and operation of power held by providers of private tutoring and take a cautious approach from the process of policy design.