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South China Morning Post
11-03-2025
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
The Korean tiger mum is called ‘Daechi mom' and she's been sent up brilliantly on YouTube
By Park Jin-hai Advertisement The 'Daechi mom', a figure obsessed with her child's education, has become a cultural phenomenon in Korean media. A seven-year-old preschooler effortlessly converses with native English speakers and aces maths tests that stump even Seoul National University undergraduates. This extraordinary child is the product of a Daechi mom, described as a woman sporting a high-end down jacket and a coveted designer bag, who shuttles children between after-school academies in the posh Daechi-dong neighbourhood in Gangnam district in southern Seoul, known as the mecca of private academies called hagwon. Parents wait outside a famous language academy in Daechi-dong, in Gangnam District in Seoul. Photo: captured from KBS's In-Depth 60 Minutes Comedian Lee Su-ji parodies this Daechi mom on her YouTube channel Hot Issue Ji. Lee has turned the character into an overnight sensation, igniting a cultural firestorm.
South China Morning Post
10-03-2025
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
Meet Korea's ‘Daechi mom', wealthy tiger mum parody viral on YouTube for accuracy
By Park Jin-hai Advertisement The 'Daechi mom', a figure obsessed with her child's education, has become a cultural phenomenon in Korean media. A seven-year-old preschooler effortlessly converses with native English speakers and aces math tests that stump even Seoul National University undergraduates. This extraordinary child is the product of a Daechi mom, described as a woman sporting a high-end down jacket and a coveted designer bag, who shuttles children between after-school academies in the posh Daechi-dong of Gangnam district in southern Seoul, known as the mecca of private academies called hagwon. Parents wait outside a famous language academy in Daechi-dong of Gangnam District in Seoul. Photo: captured from KBS's In-Depth 60 Minutes Comedian Lee Su-ji parodies this Daechi mom on her YouTube channel Hot Issue Ji. Lee has turned the character into an overnight sensation, igniting a cultural firestorm.
