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Whistleblower

“This is insane!” Kevin shouted as he followed April, his coworker and best friend, struggling to catch up to her. “Listen to me goddamnit.” From the very moment I was walking on dark-hided street, smelling like piles of garbage of fish' I could see some features shivering with tears and doing something. April turned her dazzling blue eyes at Kevin. Sapphire blue, with just a hint of emerald green. Like the oceans in the Caribbean, he had thought to himself. Those eyes were the reason why he had agreed to this madness. A data chip containing all of Transtar’s experiments, and he was too stupid to see what she wanted to do…. “Why should I listen to you ?” April replied, her voice dripping with contempt. “You knew all along. You knew that Transtar was using Russian convicts for human experiments. And to think… I trusted you, Kevin.” She reached her office, angrily shoving aside a startled technician fixing the lights, while trying to find her keycard from her purse. Kevin wa...
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Carlos doesn’t Remember

Carlos doesn’t Remember           Carlos is a one-in-a-thousand kind of genius, but he faced numerous obstacles in his way to success. Malcolm Gladwell discusses how the college admissions officers grossly underestimate the number of poor, prodigal students in America, and that many kids like Carlos grow up without ever given the chance to show their intellectual skills. I believe that the problem is much more severe in Korea.           The private education industry in Korea is one of the largest in the world. Entire districts in Seoul are dedicated to private academies, or hagwons , and literally thousands of tutors visit middle-class kids to give exclusive lessons and tips. I don’t deny that the education craze in Korea has some benefits, namely the high levels of literacy and knowledge that Korean students possess. The great human capital is the powerhouse that drives the Korean economy, a...
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