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This episode features Neil Park. Neil is an extraordinary character who has lived more than most Koreans, and so, we decided to do a two part series. In this, the first part, he describes his education, and family pressure to excel in school, in order to gain a “worthy” job. He sheds some shocking insight on what being a public school teacher was like early in his career. Then he goes on to discuss moving to Vietnam, with his wife, to work in an international school, having two children there, and the Vietnamese’s love, of all things Korean.

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