Guidebook Published for “Goose Dads”

In Korean, a “goose dad” is a man who sends his children to be educated abroad from an early age, often with their going too, leaving him all alone in Korea to work to support them and their hideously expensive school fees. Now one of these fathers has published a guide to doing this on the (relative) cheap.

A guidebook to studying abroad in the United States has been published for fathers who wish their children to be educated there but worry about “a fiscally constrained life”.

Lee Gang-ryeol’s “How a Poor Father Sent His Children to Top American Schools” is a book filled with information collected from the homepages of, and other web sites related to, American high schools and universities during the process of sending his own two children to study there.

The author’s eldest child was an exchange student in the US in 2003, and then went to a state university in Iowa, and his second child graduated from high school in Canada before studying at an American university.

The author introduces readers to his know-how on reducing the burdensome school fees.

When selecting a university, he says, consider a state university ranked in the top 100 and located in the South or Midwest as it will have tuition and boarding fees no more than half that of private universities located elsewhere.

But in other chapters he divulges more tips for parents burdened by school fees.

He dispenses common sense on dealing with the school fees, including information on schools which offer financial aid to study-abroad students and ways to find other aid including scholarships.

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~ by johnnytalkback on July 2, 2008.