A Parent Who Talked About "Paying 1 Million Won for Academy Fees"... Daughter Says "It Feels Like Being a Beggar"

Online Community Post Sparks Debate
Netizens: "Should Embrace" vs "Daughter Is Abnormal"

A parent’s concern about her middle school third-grade daughter’s academy fees posted on an online community has become a hot topic.

On the 5th, the author A, who revealed herself as an employee of a large corporation raising a daughter in the third grade of middle school, expressed that she felt burdened by her daughter’s academy fees and suggested maintaining them at a reasonable level, but her daughter told her she was "pathetically poor."

Daechi-dong Academy District, Gangnam-gu, Seoul. Stock photo unrelated to the article.
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A said, "I have done my best raising my only daughter," and added, "As she grew up, she started attending academies in Bundang."

She continued, "She saw and heard things while attending academies in Bundang. So she started going to quite a few academies," and said, "My daughter is in 9th grade. When the academy fees she was paying exceeded 1 million won, I told her, 'We can’t go any further, so let’s manage it well at this level.'"

It was a suggestion to stop one academy and attend another instead. However, A’s daughter got angry and shouted, "Others spend more than 2 million won on academy fees. Why is our family so pathetically poor?"

A said, "My daughter grew up kindly, so it hurts my heart to hear such words all of a sudden," and asked for advice, saying, "I wonder if I raised my child wrong or if our family is too poor to raise a child."

Netizens’ opinions were divided in half. One netizen advised, "This is not a matter of right or wrong, but I think you should hug and comfort her by saying, 'I’m sorry I can’t do more.' Your daughter will regret what she said when she grows up."

Another netizen pointed out the daughter’s behavior, saying, "If the daughter had normal thinking, she would know that her parents work hard to earn money to educate her, so she shouldn’t say such things," criticizing the daughter for not considering her parents.

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