Typical hierarchy at South Korea’s myriad English cram schools, better known as hagwon. Of course, there should be an even bigger guy labelled “fear of watching your child fall behind in a hyper-capitalist economy” standing behind the dad, but I ran out of space.
I am from South Korea, but I make it a point not to write or speak in Korean about this country. That my Korean language skills have ossified from disuse is only one reason; it is more that my brushes with South Korean media are rarely uplifting. A case in
In 2014, pop star Park Bom, of the group 2NE1 made headlines with her alleged drug usage back in October 2010. The singer had ordered 82 amphetamine pills labelled ‘gummy bears’ from the U.S. and dispatched them to her grandmother’s address in the port city of Incheon
