{"id":50304,"date":"2024-11-19T22:04:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T03:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=50304"},"modified":"2024-11-22T22:04:05","modified_gmt":"2024-11-23T03:04:05","slug":"if-this-were-my-korean-family-id-jump-out-a-window","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=50304","title":{"rendered":"If this were my Korean family, I\u2019d jump out a window"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"border-image alignnone wp-image-50305 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/tryhard_parks.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/tryhard_parks.jpg 560w, https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/tryhard_parks-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wchstv.com\/news\/nation-world\/household-filled-with-attorneys-meet-the-family-behind-youngest-to-pass-ca-bar-exam\">FOX26<\/a>: 17-year, 8 month girl passes the California bar exam, breaking the record for youngest person to do so, previously held by, her brother, besting him by three months<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Originally, this was just going to be a fairly predictable, forgettable post about how tryhard these Korean teenagers are, how they propagate Korean stereotypes and make it harder for the rest of the Koreans on the planet that don\u2019t want to be doctor or lawyer and have to go to Harvard or Yale, but then I found this specific article that did a little bit of a dive into their entire family, and then the whole thing kind of turned into a horror story that makes me feel all triggered and grateful that this wasn\u2019t my life growing up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">But when I found out about these tryhard teens who both passed the California bar at the age of 17, my first thought was that man, I certainly hope they don\u2019t have any younger siblings, because the bar set by their asshole elder siblings is going to be one hell of a lofty goal to aspire to best.\u00a0 And then I found this article that goes in depth to their entire family and not only is there one younger sibling, there\u2019s actually two more kids in line behind the brother and sister who passed the bar at 17.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">My next thought was that man, life is going to suck for the two of those younger siblings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Turns out that the 14-year old next in line, is already in her second year of law school.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know how long law school goes, but I\u2019m going to imagine that she\u2019s probably going to do whatever it takes in order to take the bar exam when she\u2019s like 16 years old, and will probably kill herself if she fails to best her nuna.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">But if she succeeds?\u00a0 Man, it\u2019s going to suck to be the baby of this family, who\u2019s just eight years old now, but will probably have to pass the bar at 15 in order to keep up with the escalating expectations that his asshole siblings keep heaping onto him.\u00a0 But the little nerd has already declared his intention of being an attorney as well, to the point where he\u2019s dressing up as a little Korean Carlton Banks, pretending to be an attorney already.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Man though, the thought of if this was my own Korean family growing up, just makes want <a href=\"https:\/\/media2.giphy.com\/media\/3oEjHW05hqOnZaRQ0o\/200w.gif?cid=6c09b952p7eqb4a7cpcs8scjo37732xi6xk07u54lur9mko6&amp;ep=v1_gifs_search&amp;rid=200w.gif&amp;ct=g\">to go all Tommen Baratheon<\/a> if I were the baby of this family and not of my own.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">The best part is that neither of the parents aren\u2019t even lawyers either; appa is a patent clerk, and umma is a baking teacher, and apparently the two of them somehow had <em><a href=\"https:\/\/miro.medium.com\/v2\/resize:fit:1280\/1*7B6bqjQ1iSK7IEZqb51pqA.jpeg\">House Hunters finances<\/a><\/em> to embark on having four fucking kids.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">I can\u2019t imagine the old-world Korean pressures that they put on their kids to the point where they not only managed to get not just one, not just two, but three and potentially all four kids to actually want to become full-ass lawyers.\u00a0 Lord knows my parents and probably countless Korean parents across America would love to invent a time machine to go to the future, abduct these parents to bring them back to their children\u2019s childhoods and learn how to brainwash them into wanting to become lawyers themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">This family sounds like they have to be the biggest squares on the fucking planet, giving Koreans a sad name of being so overachieving and so tryhard.\u00a0 I imagine family dinners must be a real hoot, with a whole bunch of lawyers around the table, and when they get together with extended family, I\u2019m sure all the cousins and aunts and uncles are real thrilled when they roll in luxury cars that budding lawyer salaries are financing, full of tryhards ready to argue and rebut and well actually everything anyone says.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Sure, they will inevitably make a ton of money if they all climb the lawyer ladders they\u2019re aspiring to climb, but all the same I have no other envy for them.\u00a0 I\u2019m sure their life is nothing like <em>Suits<\/em>, is tremendously more boring, and that these nerds probably have even less hobbies than a drowning dad like me.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FOX26: 17-year, 8 month girl passes the California bar exam, breaking the record for youngest person to do so, previously held by, her brother, besting him by three months Originally, this was just going to be a fairly predictable, forgettable post about how tryhard these Korean teenagers are, how they propagate Korean stereotypes and make &hellip; 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