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‘Failed S’porean student’ who started Dulwich College International now has 14 schools in 6 countries
Ms Karen Yung and her husband opened Dulwich College Shanghai in 2003 for their children. They never thought their company, Education in Motion, would grow so fast, she tells executive editor Sumiko Tan.
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Ms Karen Yung said that setting up a school in Singapore was something she had always dreamt about.
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Ms Karen Yung describes herself as a “failed Singaporean student”, though it is clear she made the grade in the end.
At the Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus (CHIJ) back in the 1970s, she was floundering in so many subjects that her teachers suggested she consider the vocational route.
