Author: Anthony Kuhn

Student Ma Yeonwoo, center, raises his hand during a Great Books summer camp seminar about Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein at the Toegye elementary school in the city of Chuncheon. Teacher Han Kyoung-min, to Ma’s right, leads the discussion. Anthony Kuhn/NPR hide caption toggle caption i Anthony Kuhn/NPR CHUNCHEON, South Korea — “Is the Frankenstein monster human?” a teacher asks students at the Toegye public elementary school in Chuncheon city, some 50 miles east of Seoul, as they discuss Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein. “I think we can call it a human being with no soul,” ventures student Ma Yeonwoo. The Toegye…