There is a student who goes by Lindsay, a mere fourth grader, who regularly out-performs the fifth and sixth grade students in my Tuesday/Thursday "Honors" class. Today only Lindsay and Sally showed up – a lot of kids are on trips with their parents because summer vacation has started in earnest, now.
So we were chatting about various things, having an easy class, and Sally, a sixth grader, was asking why Lindsay was so good. I didn't hear all the details of their conversation, which included a lot of Korean, but then Sally concluded, in English, by saying, "Ahh. She doesn't have a smart phone, so she studies very hard."
I had to laugh. Everyone in Korea, from 1st grade or even younger, has a smart phone. This is the land of the smart phone, now – Samsung.
[daily log: walking, 5 km]