Dateline: Ilsan.
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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]