Following on from Scramble for Success we look at the effects of failure with some horrifying statistics.
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The expense of failure
Posted: September 24, 2011 in Crime and politics, Social issuesTags: celebrities, death, ESL, Korea, OECD, role models, suicide, teaching English, Travel
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Scramble for success
Posted: July 31, 2011 in Crime and politics, Social issuesTags: big test, competition, ESL, expat, Korea, RoK, stress, Suneung, teacher
Competition is needed to survive. The pressures of life are taken to the extreme in Korea, even from an early age.
