대학수능시험/dae-hak-soo-neung-si-heom (Korean SATs) Today!

Almost forgot. Today all workers are advised to stay off the roads until about 9AM so that Korean students can get to their testing centres on time for the dreaded SATs here. (I walk to no problem.) This grade more than anything else (even connections, maybe) decides which university they might attend and, ultimately it seems, their life-path (job, spouse, home, cemetary plot). Many suicides occur when the grades come out. Glad my kids need not go through this.

Article and picture of parents praying here.