As soon as someone gets Certified over here in the US, they could start to offer in-person here so that US folks don't need to travel so far - who will be first :)
I would suspect the lack of paid video tutorials is perhaps because other engines needed detailed explanations to get any results out of them at all, while Corona is much more "just hit render with the defaults", making demand for tutorials less as people were able to get the results they wanted without extensive training?