TS #3 and #4 - Sujin Yang

 5/11/23

Hours: 2

For this tutoring session, we met for two hours. For the first hour, we talked extensively about the culture of learning English in Korea and why exactly English teachers are in such high demand. She explained to me that Koreans place a lot of value on a person who speaks English, as your ability to speak English is regarded as high-class. I explained to her that it is the same in my country, the Philippines, as well, and you can almost tell how much wealth a person has by how well they speak English and their accent when speaking English. We both lamented over the sadness of having English be placed above your native language, as I told her how a lot of higher-class Filipinos don't even really know how to speak or write Tagalog. 

For the second hour, she gave me a presentation on her work at Samsung. I found it fascinating that one family can hold so much economic and political power. She gave me a rundown of what her job entailed and told me some very interesting stories about the Samsung family, especially about the third daughter. It was very funny because Sujin was saying how she was just very bad at business since she didn't need to have a strong grasp on business since nepotism got her a high position regardless of her skills.

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