Korean students stress. Korean students stress a lot. It's the pressure from their parents, the pressure from their society and the pressure from themselves. There was a student who missed the review for our midterm due to being in the hospital for a brief stay. She came for the midterm and took it and scored the lowest score in the class, but even that wasn't anything remarkably bad. So today when I passed out the midterms right before lunch, I stepped back into the classroom during lunch and called her to the teacher's area and I was like "don't stress, don't worry. Relax. You're still going to finish with an A with all of your other grades." Her reaction was "how did you know I was worried?" I told her I knew that Korean mentality, and I figured that she'd be worried. It's just a different world when students wear that much stress in themselves after they get an 85.
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