Caveat: Themes-to-come

Dateline: Ilsan.

This isn't really a blog post. This is more of a draft of some thoughts swirling in my mind about some actual blog posts that I keep thinking about writing, on the topic of the hagwon biz – my current career-for-what-it's-worth.

Alienation, factory work, unbridled capitalism in the field of education.

Parents-as-consumers, children-as-products.

The importance of counseling (상담).

Reliable curriculum vs innovative curriculum. The purpose of technology: it's marketing, not pedagogy.

Defining a market – are there customers not-worth-keeping? Do all customers have the same value?

Connection to my previous career (software): recent encounters with concepts of "slow web" or "neovictorian computing".

As I said, this is not an essay. I want to write an essay, but can't seem to get around to it. But during this very hectic day, I kept thinking about it. Watching the office dynamics play out as everyone deals with a lot of stress around the now month-old merger of two very different hagwon.

[Daily log: walking, 3 km]

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