K-Parenting
The IMF Crisis and South Korea’s Hyper-Competitive Childhood
How Economic Trauma Turned Parental Love into Relentless Pressure
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K-Parenting
Eleven Years of Grief: Remembering the Sewol Ferry Tragedy
Today marks the 11th anniversary of a disaster that claimed 304 lives—most of them schoolchildren—and forever changed South Korea. For those outside Korea, here’s why it still matters deeply.
K-Parenting
Shut Up and Do Math: Inside Korea’s Childhood Race to the Top
In Daechi-dong, Seoul’s most competitive education hub, children master middle school math before they’ve lost all their baby teeth—and English is done and dusted by age 12.