Children of Misfortune: Child Abuse in South Korea

Over dinner one evening, a South Korean journalist friend posed what seemed like a riddle: “Let’s say there is a high school reunion. One classmate is a Samsung executive with a high-school graduate for a son. Another is a security guard whose son attends Seoul National University. Who do you think will be the envy of everyone at the party?” If you say the Samsung exec as I did, you may have some way to go before understanding how South Korea works. I am struck by how often South Koreans of a