Hi! My name is Kelly (예린), and I come from a very international background, having lived in South Korea, Japan, and Switzerland. Born in the U.S., I grew up in Korea for over six years, where I graduated from Seoul Foreign School and worked at Lotte Seoul before moving back to the States. My passion for tutoring began over ten years ago, when I started a nonprofit tutoring chapter for TASSEL (Teaching And Sharing Skills to Enrich Lives) schools in Cambodia. Since then, I’ve had the joy of teaching students as young as three years old to young adults, tutoring English, Korean, and Japanese to learners of all ages. With my trilingual backgrou

Writing is not very difficult. Writing WELL, however, can be challenging. But it's certainly not impossible. The biggest problem that students face today is that they're all taught to write the same way, when each person writes very different from one another. Students are essentially told to remove their personality from their essays or term papers; I vehemently disagree with that choice. My approach to teaching how to write well is centered around getting to know your student and their personality. Some things click easier than others. While some find writing expository essays more interesting, others can't stand them and instead prefer to