Min Jin Lee Wants Us to Rethink Education
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Min Jin Lee Wants Us to Rethink Education

B2中高级2026年10月9日56分钟
  • 访谈
  • 艺术与文化

For Min Jin Lee, the process of writing fiction usually begins with a deep dive into reality. She spends years researching, traveling and interviewing people. That process underscored her belief that education was a common and central value for Koreans in diaspora. But it was also a complicated value, one that often resulted in extreme competitiveness and impossible expectations. In her new novel, “American Hagwon,” she tells the story of the Kohs, a middle-class family of five. The parents are fixated on attaining the best possible education for their children, thinking it will guarantee success and...

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I'm John Karamanaka, a critic at The New York Times. And I'm Joe Cascarelli, a culture reporter at The Times. Together we host Popcast, a weekly pop culture chat show where we speak to the biggest musicians, actors, internet celebrities, and more.

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And anywhere you get your podcasts. I wanted to illustrate what it's like to educate a family and still believe that if you have a Western education, then you're going to be safe. When actually there are economic shocks which happen to perfectly decent people every day,

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