Today, TK Learned:

... Mount Vernon gets ridiculously crowded on Thanksgiving.

• There are four types of criticism against American higher education. All of them are flawed. [Los Angeles Review of Books]
• Should law school pay students to quit? The Korean says yes. [Slate]
• Effort is important, but talent still matters. [New York Times]
• Seoul as a model of urbanized growth. Very insightful. [National Geographic]
• What a Chinese scholar thinks about Korea's unification. [The Interpreter]
• Big international stories that did not receive enough attention this year. [Foreign Policy]

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