By the way, Korean mothers are quite extreme in their "devotion" to their children, even among the East Asians. My parents are Chinese, and yet I'm shocked and appalled by what Korean mothers do for their kids. Every Korean mother with a successful child seems to get a huge amount of media publicity in Korea and ends up writing a book on just exactly what *they* did to groom their child into the success he/she is. And if you read those books, you'd be amazed.