TERENCE GOVENDER

I was born and raised in South Africa and was lucky to have access to technology from a young age. We had all sorts of machines from the Famicom to the Commodore 64 to the first Pentium and more. Being a nerdy guy, I have dabbled in many tech-related things but I have a deep love for psychology and education as well... After high school, I tutored STEM subjects and English for a long time and gained a great reputation. This led me to the Chinese community. I started learning Mandarin and started focusing on language teaching in particular. In 2016, I moved to South Korea and started working for a branch of a giant chain of private academies. It was a bit of a culture shock seeing how much stress and anxiety the students in South Korea have to live with on a daily basis. The following year I got a job at a government-owned learning institute in a rural area north of Seoul in a city called Paju. The teaching methodology was far more focused on the students having a fun experience while..