Just looking at the brochures felt like a second job I spent half of last Tuesday sitting at a cafe near the Seoul Garden Hotel, just trying to process the sheer volume of information I’d gathered. My desk at home was already a mess of pamphlets from various fairs—there was that one about the Australian…
Walking into the hotel ballroom without a real plan I ended up going to one of those education fairs at a hotel in Gangnam last Saturday. I don’t know why I thought it would be simple. I just wanted to see what the options were for sending my younger sibling abroad, maybe to Australia or…
Watching other parents obsess over rankings I remember sitting in a stuffy office near Gangnam station, listening to a consultant explain why I should pick one boarding school in Pennsylvania over another. Everyone around me was sweating over SAT scores and extracurricular profiles. It felt like we were all preparing for some kind of high-stakes…