A Jongno-gu fifth-grader was shamed by his peers, teachers and parents today after earning a 'ㅂ' in his advanced algebra course.
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| Jongno-gu fifth graders taunt a classmate at lunch. |
A throng of confused Western journalists spent about 45 minutes on Wikipedia before determining the Korean character mostly closely resembles the sound 'B' in the English language.
It's believed no Asian has ever scored a 'B' in mathematics.
Witnesses told an English translator that classmates taunted the boy at lunch by calling him either "shoe velvet" or "milk fish."
"My Korean isn't really that good, so I'm not sure what they might have said," the translator admitted. "But everyone was pointing and laughing, so I know it wasn't good!"
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