[Kim Seong-kon] Leaving Warsaw, pondering on Sophie’s Choice
ViewpointsMay 16, 2017
A few weeks ago, I flew to Warsaw to deliver a lecture at the University of Warsaw. As I had anticipated, Polish students, unlike their Korean counterparts, were eager to learn and full of intellectual curiosity. I talked for 1 1/2 hours and yet no one fell asleep or left the lecture hall in the middle. Nobody was texting or checking Facebook either. Polish students were radically different from...