The question sounds simple, but the answer seems to change depending on where you learned to ask it. For us, the answer was never entirely Korean nor entirely Brazilian. We are both Korean, but we grew up in Brazil. We learned to speak Portuguese, went to international schools, ate Korean food at home and Brazilian food outside it, and learned — sometimes consciously and sometimes not — to move between two very different ways of imagining a successful life. In Korea, there is a familiar guideline to having “made it.” Study hard. Get good grades. Enter a good university. Build a respectable career. Earn enough to buy a good home. Get married. Build a family. Give your children opportunities, perhaps even better ones than you had. Somewhere along the way, become the kind of person whose life can be recognized by others as successful. Not every Korean follows this path, of course. And more and more Koreans are challenging it. But the existence of the path itself is difficult to miss. Education is particularly powerful in this equation. Historically, it has been understood as one of