I have 15 cousins.. Only my cousins from my eldest family are from Jecheon, and the rest of my relatives are all from Busan. Among the cousins of my uncle(father's younger brother), the oldest cousin graduated with honors from the Department of Political Science and Diplomacy at Korea University. Born in 1942, he is of the same generation as President Lee Myung-bak, but after graduating from university, he struggled to find a job. He also failed the Dong-A Ilbo reporter exam and the Dong-A Broadcasting PD exam in the final interview. Choi Doo-go, former Republican Finance Committee chairman secretary, was also on the list, but he was unable to actually work. Eventually, my cousin joined an American semiconductor company called FAIRCHILD SEMI-CONDUCTOR. Then he moved to Gyeongnam Corporation and even served as the head of the human resources department in the 70s. When his eldest child failed the university entrance exam and went to a small local university in Wonju, he decided that his son had no vision for Korea rather than having a hard time majoring in a major university in Korea, so he immigrated to Melbourne, Australia with nearly 10 Korea University alumni. The people of Korea University are scary people. My son also graduated from Korea University, but my cousin is a great person who has gathered alumni beyond the ancient alumni association to immigrate. The Marine Corps War Association, the Ancient Student Association, and the Honam Association are said to be representative groups in Korea. All the members of my uncle were poor, so they graduated from middle school and couldn't go to an advanced school, but only the eldest cousin was particularly good at studying, so they sent him to study in Seoul, but he didn't take care of his parents, and he went to Australia, saying that he would live a good life on his own. Thanks to him, when I went to my uncle's, there was a <Thought World> magazine, and I had been a fan of the Thought World since I was in elementary school. I'm a magazine fanatic. All the knowledge was obtained from magazines. If I went to a beauty salon or library periodicals room for girls, academies, women's schools, housewives, women's children, etc., I would read all the magazines, and if I couldn't get new books from Monthly JoongAng or Monthly Chosun, and Shindonga, I would get a < and read the monthly issue> at the used bookstore in Bosu-dong. From the 60s to the 70s, it would have been difficult for magazines such as modern literature, literary thought, world literature, literature and intellect, and creation and criticism to avoid my hands. I think I gained more literary knowledge through literary magazines than through novels and poetry collections. I am treated as a scammer by my children. My daughter, who majored in Japanese studies and visual design at Sookmyung Women's University, and my son, who majored in mechanical engineering, studied from elementary school to high school, and from elementary school to high school at Gimhae Cheongsan Entrance Examination Academy. Whether you have a separate teacher or leave your studies in someone else's hands, you feel burdened by your own children. We couldn't afford tutoring, so we taught with our own hands. To be honest, there is a strong wind in Gimhae, and one's grades vary a lot depending on the ability of his parents. Since we are married couples and know the inside story of the school well, we gave up on our son's grades a long time ago. So I went all-in on the CSAT, but my son never missed first place in his school's science class mock test for three years. In the main exam for the CSAT, language, foreign language, and mathematics were within 1% of the country, so he could apply anywhere except medical school, oriental medicine, but he missed out on scientific exploration and couldn't go to Seoul National University. Also, Seoul National University had interview exams and essays waiting for them, so he gave up on Seoul National University. Thanks to President Lee Myung-bak's support from the alumni association, 50% of Korea University's outstanding students received full scholarships and were able to enter without paying money of their own. My son received two F grades in the first semester of his first year, so he immediately took a leave of absence and blew away the full scholarship. Except for my wife, who graduated from Pusan National University, the three international students in my family only pay high tuition fees and are all failures in their studies. Originally, poor people should get along with themselves, but living next to rich people will only hurt their hearts and make it easy to fail in life. My daughter is in the class of 2005, and when she went to Sookmyung Women's University to hold a graduation exhibition at the College of Fine Arts, I was surprised to see how beautiful the prospective students were. Originally, the children who went to art colleges and music schools were children from wealthy families, so many of them were originally pretty, but I thought I could understand why Korean teenagers are admired by people around the world with their beautiful looks. My wife was a science teacher in Busan, she won the Presidential Award at the Science Materials Invention Contest and was highly anticipated by her seniors, so if I had left her as a science teacher, she would have been easily promoted to vice principal, but my mother, who is greedy for money, and I, who am lazy and incompetent in economic activities, ruined my wife's brilliant teaching career. The housekeeper was so good at the cram school class that the children waited for the science experiment time once a week. Although Cheongsan Academy is small, it was famous for sending many special high schools and independent private high schools such as Kim Hae Foreign Language High School , Busan Foreign Language High School, Haeundae High School, Jeonju Sangsan High School, and Gyeongnam Science High School. She was a popular lecturer who received many special extracurricular requests for science subjects . On the other hand, my English skills are not very good. There are also many popular English instructors in the Gimhae area who study in the United States or the United Kingdom. I hate private colleges and pedagogy subjects very much, but I think it's natural for my children to feel ashamed and hate their fathers, who lack English majors, because he is an absurd person who sits in the class aiming for a teacher's license in order not to starve his mother. When I was running a cram school, in order to attract children, I got a first-class large license in 1990, drove a 35-seater bus, got up at 5 a.m., drove a free school bus from the nearest Gimhae High School to Gaya High School, Bunseong High School and Bunseong Girls' High School in Samgye-dong, went to work until 12 o'clock after breakfast, cleaned the classrooms and toilets of the 100-pyeong classroom, took a short break, operated the bus to the elementary school children's cram school, operated the bus to bring middle school students, gave English classes and counseled at the academy in middle school, and operated the bus to bring high school children. Deputy director (in charge of mathematics) without a driver's license After 12 o'clock, I was given a ride to Deokcheon-dong in Busan, bought soup, and came home at 1 o'clock. I didn't have English skills to begin with, but I didn't have time to prepare for class. My wife was like a normal teacher, and she only needed to be in the cram school, but I had to live a daily life that I couldn't handle physically and in terms of time. The instructors at our academy received the highest salary in Gimhae, ranging from 2 million won to 5 million won, but my salary was zero. Aside from being ignored as an incompetent instructor, all the money I paid to open a cram school is my money, and I am doing all kinds of hard and dangerous work, from cleaning to driving a car, but my salary is zero. By the way, after opening the academy, my family sold three houses to eat. I am the director and owner of the registration with the Office of Education, but my wife had 100% of the management rights to the actual operator, course organization, and instructor selection, so even if it failed, it was my wife's fault, and even if it was prosperous, it was my wife's fault. I ran the academy from 1995 to 2011, so it's been about 17 years. In the meantime, my wife has rolled up one commercial building in Jeonpo-dong, one apartment in the Gimhae area, and one neighborhood living facility. Not. The neighborhood living facility was rolled up because I set up a studio, so it is a joint work.
Since I was 19 years old, my dream is to set
up a radio station studio, make programs, record music sources, bring my favorite
instruments, sing all night, bring my favorite people to feed them, and stay up
all night talking about music and movies. There is a reason why I am an English
instructor in a bakery. I spent four years of college majoring in college and
only working in a broadcasting studio, so you might guess that's the case, but
I also studied when I was in college. In the English Department of Applied
University, there was Professor Kim Gu-san of the Nathaniel Hoodon major. From
the time I entered the school, my professor cared for me a lot. In the
Department of English Language and Literature at the College of Liberal Arts,
there was Professor Kim Byung-cheol, who was the number one Ernest Hemingway,
and Professor Yeo Seok-ki, who was the number one English-American play.
I listened to the lectures of the professors
listed above very intently. The problem is that I studied almost on my own for
six years in middle and high school, without taking any classes from school
teachers. A diligent student makes a good educator, but my method of self-study
is not helpful at all for school or cram school classes. So I became a scammer
and a psychopath to my beloved children, and after 41 years as a faithful
husband, I was forced to stand in divorce court with 27 cameras from my ice princess
wife. It is said that if a person puts his heart and effort into it, there is
nothing he cannot obtain. How did I get to this point? As the head of the
academy for 17 years (only nominally), I have not received a single penny of my
salary, should I die soon, go to heaven, and cry to God?
THE
CHAPTER:1
The
Korean War was fought between North Korea and South Korea from 1950 to 1953. It
began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea and ceased after an
armistice on 27 July 1953. The North was supported by China and the Soviet
Union while the South was supported by United Nations (UN) forces led by the
United States. (from Wikipedia) I was born on 5 September 1954. I didn't have a
father. He passed away about a month after my first birthday party. He
graduated from Gimcheon Middle School (Gimcheon High Normal School: established
in March 1931 with 5 classes in 5th grade) and graduated from Jinhae Higher Maritime
Training Center (Established in 1919 in Jinhae, the Jinhae Higher Maritime
Training Center became the forerunner of specialized educational institutions for
training maritime personnel in Korea. In 1945,shortly after liberation, the
Government established the Jinhae Higher
Merchant Maritime School modeled on this school, which became the basis f the
current Korea Maritime College in 1946, and in 1947 the school moved to Incheon
and renamed the National Maritime University.In 1947, the school was moved back
to Gunsan, North Jeolla Province. After
the liberation of August 15, he was the head of the shipping department of the
Korea Shipping Corporation, which was the first state-run company. It seems
that he was so fond of alcohol that it was short-lived. When I was younger, my
nickname was "Stone". He had a
child after 10 years of marriage,+
so he was named to roll around like a
stone and grow up well. My mother was beautiful. She lost her husband at the
age of 30, so there was a lot of sadness around her. He thought about remarrying,
but his siblings stopped him from taking care of me. When I don't see my mother
wearing a white jacket and a black skirt, I think of the times I was worried
that she had abandoned me and went to my in-laws' house. When I was a child,
there was a yellow ball called "Boksil"
in our house. My mother, who sold rice and side dishes at the small hole shop
attached to the house, was always busy, so there was always an older sister in
my house who helped her, and "Boksil" was my only friend. One day, when
he came home, he found that the neighbors had tied him to a power pole and beaten him
with clubs. It became an ingredient for Bosintang. I didn't ask why, and no one
explained it to me. The mystery was solved decades later. My close friend Kim
Dae-eun's younger brother is one year younger than me, so we can be called
friends or younger brothers, but since the eldest sons in the family play as
friends, Dae-eun, who is two years older than me and a year older than me,
becomes my friend, and Dae-eun's younger brother, Dae-sik, becomes my younger
brother. The younger brother, who dropped out of Seoul National University's
Department of Veterinary Medicine and went back to Yonsei University's
Department of English Literature after being discharged from the Air Force, was
the best of his siblings in his studies, and he was the son he cherished like a
jewel in the family because he graduated from Busan Middle School and Busan
High School. Like a typical water manager who is good at studying but not good
at interpersonal relationships, his younger brother also got a job at a large
company, but he adapted incorrectly, and immigrated to Canada after attending
an entrance exam academy in Busan. I opened an English school in Canada and
sent my children to prestigious universities in Canada and lived well, but it
was difficult to run the academy, so I came to Korea for a while. When he was a
child, he was bitten on the top of his mouth by our "Boksil" and left
a scar. "Boksil" had committed a sin that was deserving of death and
paid the penalty with his own life. My family's "Boksil" was often
beaten up by my neighbor's shepherd, and I concluded that the reason was that
there were no male adults in my house, and I thought that I should become an
adult quickly. Adults drink and smoke, so I had to learn to drink and smoke
quickly, so I started drinking with my
friends around me when I was 13 years old. The drinking skills I learned early
on, in addition to the family's weekly history, were enough to always clean up
after my friends even after I became an adult without getting up before others
at drinking parties. As I got married and had children, I haven't drunk that favorite alcohol for almost 40 years. I
was so afraid that if I left the world as soon as my father, my remaining
children would have to live in a world without a father like me.
THE
CHAPTER:2
Typhoon
"Sara" hit the statue of the deceased father on the morning of the
Lunar New Year's Day in 1959. In terms of human casualties and the scale of the
typhoon, it is remembered as the largest and most terrifying typhoon by Koreans
of our generation. The roof shook and shook as if it were about to fly, so I
hung the thick Manila rope (Manila rope natural rope) that my father used on
the boat to hold on, but in the end, the roof was blown off and our house was
destroyed in half, so I was designated as a typhoon victim by the government
and received a blanket with a collar pattern as an old product. At that time,
there were only military blankets in national defense colors. My mother kept the blanket carefully and said
that she would give it to me when I went to the funeral home. The blanket
served its life as a rug for a fireboard or as a base for ironing, and it was a
precious item in our family that revived the memory of Saraho in our house
until many years after our children grew up.It is sad to see a young boy who
weighs a rope and guards the rafters
because there are no men in the house at the young age of 6, but I will never forget the scary moment at that time.It was scary to see my high
school brothers throwing Molotov cocktails at the police box during the April
19 student uprising in 1960, but there
was no natural disaster as terrifying as Typhoon Sara. When we were young,
there was no electricity, no water, and no paved roads (Jeonpo-dong, under
Hwangnyeongsan Mountain on the east side of the Seomyeon Roundabout in Busan),
so many people died when intestines or cholera broke out. We used lanterns, oil
lamps, etc., and after the electricity came on, we also used dark yellow light
bulb lamps, but the electricity was often out, so we often lit candles and ate
dinner. When there was no running water, we used to draw water from a local
communal well and drink it, but tin water bottles were also scarce, so many
maidens carried jars on their heads to get water. I once heard a harsh curse called "a child
without an abdo" for breaking a jar of water. When I was very young, I
once carried a bite crab to fetch water. Water is scarce, so I used the
leftover water after washing my face to wash the rag and to clean the kitchen
floor. When I was in middle school, the water came into my house, and I remember putting a TV in my house when I was in high school.When we
were in elementary school, there was a TV only in stationery, and when we
bought school supplies, we had to collect several stamped tickets to watch the
stationery TV at least once. When Neil Armstrong landed on the moon for the
first time in 1969, I watched the scene with my neighbors on my TV. In an era
when telephone lines were precious, the cost of installing a white landline
phone for home use was about 2 million
won, which is the price of a tiled house.Unless it was a very rich house, the
refrigerator was something you couldn't even look at. We lived in an old tiled
house, and when it rained, water leaked from the ceiling, so we had to put
several pots and water bowls in the room as water basins, and when we lay down,
the sound of rats running on the ceiling was as loud as the sound of horses
running on the racetrack. My mother, who thought she would die if she didn't
have money, didn't buy a single piece of cake, so she lived with a cloth
wrapped in nails on the wall and hung clothes on the nail head under it, and
there was no cupboard in the kitchen, so there was no place for side dishes.
THE
CHAPTER:3
My
mother was also a member of the original skirt wind unit. When I was 6 years
old, he gave me a tutor.The teacher was a handsome bachelor teacher, and he was
the brother of a friend of my eldest aunt, Kwangja. He was a teacher at
Deokmyung Yeosang, but I am not sure if he was a full-time teacher or a
lecturer. I was too young at the time. I learned Hangul and Cheonmun from my
teacher, so I read all the textbooks
from the first grade to the sixth grade
textbooks of elementary school, and I also wrote my home address in
Chinese characters. At that time, everyone was learning from the scriptures
after entering school, so everyone couldn't even dream of tutoring by
themselves. I had no role model because I didn't have a father or an older
brother, but from the moment I started reading, books became my role model, and
books became my teacher. The Enlightenment History published a collection of 50
volumes of literature for boys and girls
from around the world, and the most memorable title was "Little
Gongzi" and "Little Princess." From then on, reading books
became my great pleasure. I had read all
50 literary collections and didn't have many books at home, so there was a
small children's library at a public children's daycare center near Cheil
Jedang's Busan factory near the Beomnaegol Rotary. I often went there to read
books. At that time, cars were very valuable,
so heavy luggage was mainly carried out by cows or horse-drawn
carriages, so cow dung and horse dung were common on the road. Forklifters were waiting in line in front of
the station, and when customers got off at the station, they carried their luggage
on the forklift and received wages.After
graduating from the summer school of Busan Mountaineering School in '89,
I climbed Mt. Seorak with my fellow school teachers, and until then, I didn't carry goods by
helicopter to the Heeungak Shelter in Daecheongbong Peak, and people were paid
quite a lot of money if they carried daily necessities such as ramen to the top
with a fork or backpack. We often say,
"If you don't have anything to do, you can do a reverse forklift,"
which came from the custom at that time. Speaking of domestic cars, until we
were in the fifth grade, there were only "Sibal taxis", which were
made by painting the body made by beating the drum box with a domestic engine
made by the three Choi Moo-sung brothers, and it was a means of public
transportation that could accommodate 6 or 7 people on a body similar to the "jeepney" in the Philippines.The main means of
transportation on the Busan arterial road from Yeongdo to the hot springs was
the tram. We used trams until we were in the first year of middle school.In the days when gentlemen
in suits were rare, I wore a suit and a red bow tie, and when my relatives had
weddings or my sister's friends had high school graduation ceremonies, I was in
charge of delivering bouquets of flowers to China. My aunt's house and my house
were attached from top to bottom, so my eldest aunt's brother and sister were
like brothers to me. My brother is 7 years older than me, and my sister is 14
years apart. My sister almost always carried me on her back, and she carried me
as her mascot every time we went on a date. She was beautiful and was popular
among men. It was all because of my sister that I fell in love with movies. At
that time, there were many movie theaters around Gwangbok-dong, and on movie days,
we usually met at bakeries, so we got a lot of delicious bread. At that time,
there was only one department store in Busan, Mihwadang Department Store, which
was attached to Yongdusan Park. It was
so popular that when I went to a department store, people didn't shop and only
followed me. The movies I saw on my sister's date were almost all domestic
films, and most of them were Western movies. At that time, Western movies were
the best entertainment movies. The scene where actor Shin Young-kyun came out as a stagnant in the movie "Widow"
and took off his hood became a hot topic in Chang'an much later after I entered
elementary school. The popularity of Shin Sung-il, Nam Gong-won, Lee Dae-yeop,
and Shin Young-kyun, who were young actors at that time, was unimaginable to
people these days. In 1972, when I was in my first year of college, I saw actor Nam Gong-won in front
of a Christian TV station in Jongno 5-ga, and it seemed that his face was
shining with such a handsome face. It is easy to guess how many women fell in love with his handsome
face even when he saw the same man. The famous anecdote of a top Hong Kong actress who
co-starred in the movie "Dalgi" fell in love with actor Shin
Young-kyun and confessed her love, but when she did not win love, she committed
suicide due to her heartache. Shin Young-kyun, a former dentist who graduated
from Seoul Dental University, is a devout Christian and a famous sad. Actor Nam
Goong-won also graduated from Hanyang University's Department of Chemical
Engineering and was preparing to study in the United States, but his family
situation became difficult, so he entered the film industry. His dream of
studying in the United States was fulfilled by his son, Hong Jung-wook, a
former member of the National Assembly and president of the Korea Herald. The
most famous of the old top star couples were Alain Delon and Romy Schneider,
who fell in love while performing with the unknown Alain Delon as a top star
actor from Austria, but Romy broke up with Alain Delon, married other men twice,
had a son, a daughter, and two children, but his son died in an accident at the
age of 14, and he also passed away at the young age of 43. He was engaged to
Arang Delon, whom he had raised, and dated from 1959 to 1963, but eventually
broke up, and it is believed that he could
not overcome the pain of that love until his death. Whenever I see all these
people, I think of Romy Schneider, who loved the unknown Kim Joo-hyuk, Lee
Mi-yeon, who married the unknown Kim Seung-woo, and Eom Eun-ran, who loved the
unknown Shin Sung-il. I ask myself if it is not the right ending in heaven to
give more blessings to actresses who have been too faithful to love and have
risked their lives on uncalculated love.
THE
CHAPTER:4
I
have a friend who has been with me since I was a child. This is Kim Si-hong. We
are friends even with my mother, and we have a house facing each other, so we
are old friends on stilts whenever we open our eyes, and we have probably been
friends since we were 1 year old when we
crawled on our knees.Si Hong was born in 53 and I was born in 54, so I couldn't
keep up, but my mother was very angry and I entered elementary school a year
early, and we became destined best friends. I was born in September 54, so it
was normal to enter elementary school in '61, but I ended
up in March '60. I became the first class of the first grade at Seongbuk Elementary School in Jeonpo-dong.It
was coeducational. A boy whose name I couldn't even remember was the class
president, and the vice-president was Kim Young-mi. The reason I remember her
name is because she was my first love.
Young-mi had a round flat face, a stylish appearance with bobbed hair, and she
was neatly dressed and beautiful, so she was really pretty. I tried to cut off
the rubber band and give it to Young-mi when other girls were jumping on a
rubber band to please Young-mi, but I couldn't win her favor. She was always
fresh. I don't think they took it well.
There were a lot of rumors about my liking for Youngmi, and Youngmi's cousin
knew about it, and my cousin, whom I met later in the bathhouse, told me that
Youngmi had gone to Gyeongnam Girls' Middle School. The Seongbuk Elementary
School we attended was a peripheral school, so our grades were not very good,
but it seems that only one student went to Gyeongnam Girls' Middle School and
Busan Middle School in a year. Busan Girls' Middle School and Gyeongnam Middle
School were located in Daejeon-dong, so they were not preferred schools in
Seomyeon. In our time, from the beginning of middle school admission, students
first applied to the school of their choice, took the entrance exam, filled the
admission quota in order of high scorers, and when the seat became vacant, the
next student went on to higher education. When you enter a prestigious middle
school, about half of them can go on to a prestigious high school in the same
category, and the entrance exam for a prestigious middle school is more
difficult than the entrance exam at Seoul National University. While attending elementary school, we competed
for first and second place in the entire school (except for girls), but at that
time, when you look at the school evaluation test, the grades of the entire
school were posted on the bulletin board in the hallway, so we knew each
other's grades. During my six years at
elementary school, there was a friend whose name was Bae Seung-woo. He was the
son of the head teacher, and he was a tall and handsome friend. Later, in the
second semester of the fifth grade, we also went to the election for the
student council president, but Bae
Seung-woo became the president and I failed. The funny thing is, I was ashamed that I had never campaigned for
the girls' class. We were co-educational for a while only in the first year, and
we stayed apart the whole time. There were no coeducational schools in middle
school and high school, so the situation of entering a classroom with only
female students was terrifying. When I was in elementary school, my nickname
was "Kashinae". I think it was because he had a pretty face, but he
wore glasses and was timid. Among my elementary school classmates, I was
reading a book together in the attic, and there was one who tried to kiss me. I
was really embarrassed and ran away, but even at that time, I was suspicious of
the child's sexual orientation. In our time, in order to go to a prestigious
middle school, we went to the homeroom
teacher's house for tutoring from the first year of elementary school.I had to set up a table
at my homeroom teacher's house and study until 9 p.m. without being able to
play. For six years. On November 22, 1963, when President Kennedy was
assassinated, I went to tutoring, and the
reason I remember that day is because I was seriously injured that day. A new
bus route passed through Jeonpo-dong, and the bus was so strange that I tied a
rope to the bumper at the back of the
bus and was playing carriage while saying, "Oh no, no, yya." It hurt
so much that I couldn't walk, but my bones weren't injured, so I gave a big
acupuncture to the acupuncturist on the Gaya side, and I was cured in one go.
When Mrs. Yuk Young-so was knocked down
by Moon Se-gwang's bullet at the August
15 celebration in 1974, I went to visit my 12-year-old cousin who was in the newlywed house in Gwangmyeong
City, and my bicycle fell and seriously injured my knee. After that, I went
down to Masan to cover the Masan Export Free Zone to participate in the MBC
University Student Broadcasting Contest, and I interviewed the old man who was
a farmer at the entrance of the Masan Export Free Zone, because 90% of the
companies in the Masan Export Free Zone are
Japanese companies. This is because the
Moon Se-gwang incident made Korea-Japan relations more subtle, and the scene
where the repercussions most directly affected was Masan. The old man thought I
was a spy and reported it to the Masan Police Station to get a reward, and I
was arrested by the Masan Police Station's Information Division and had to
prove my identity all night, and I was only released after being guaranteed by
Professor Son Yong of the Department of Journalism and Broadcasting, who was my
advisor at UBS at the time. My
preparations for the broadcasting contest were in vain, and I became a pathetic
existence in the splendid history of the Central Broadcasting Station. Because
my seniors and juniors have won many prizes in previous college student
broadcasting contests. Because I
couldn't continue the tradition. Choi
Don-seok, a senior from the 15th class of Jungdae Broadcasting Station, won the
award for "Let's Go to the Tower in Two Years," which dealt with the
construction of the Seoul subway, and Kim Kyung-wook, a junior in the 20th
class, won the award for a music program
that connects traditional Korean songs and chanson in the form of a letter
exchange between French chanson singer "Edith Piaf" and Korean
traditional singer "Lee Nan-young" with the theme I gave them.
THE
CHAPTER:5
In
my whole life in school, there was no one who gave me as much love as this
teacher. I must have felt sorry for a child without a father, but at that time,
I studied very hard and read less of his favorite comic books. I gave problems
on the blackboard during morning study time, and when the children solved all
the problems, I explained them on behalf of the teacher, and even studying
arithmetic was fun at this time. I was recognized by the teacher and carried a
halo that the teacher loved me. I think
I pretended to be very proud of myself. Many of the friends I studied with were
outstanding. I remember a friend named Son Moon-ki, whose father was a reporter
for the Chosun Ilbo, and a friend named Jung In-ho, who was handsome and smart.
In the second semester of the fifth grade, there was a graduation trip. Like
other regions, most of the graduation trips to elementary schools go to
Gyeongju, and I remember that on the last day, the children played a lot with
pillows in the inn room, and all the pillowcases were torn off, making a mess
in the inn room. I have a memory from the graduation trip to Gyeongju. Maybe it
was because it was close to the Pohang River, but they sold boiled snow crab in
front of the inn, but I had never eaten crab before. So I didn't know how to
eat it. I remember sucking the shell and
throwing it away. It's a waste that I didn't eat the crab at that time. Even
now, Pohang is far away and I can't go there often, so I want to go to Ganggu
at least once to eat that unfair big crab. When I was in elementary school, my
favorite places were the library and comic book. There was a comic shop on the
street of Seongbuk Elementary School where I attended. 90% of my pocket money was spent reading comic books. There was a
time when I stole a coin from my mother's clothes and was beaten to death while
looking at a comic book. The owner of the regular comic shop I went to was run
by Park Jae-dong Hwa-baek's father, who is famous for his gorilla cartoons on
the Hankyoreh drawing board. Park Hwa-baek's father was working as a teacher in
Ulsan and was not feeling well, so he ran a comic shop in Busan, but Park
Hwa-baek's mother and father were all good personalities, so they had to pay to
read comics. I didn't pay a few times,
and I stole it, but he forgave me generously and scolded me with kind words.
Park Jae-dong was one grade older than me, and I remember that he entered the
difficult Busan Middle School, completed Busan High School, and went on to
Seoul National University's College of Fine Arts. There were many children from
wealthy families in the tutoring team I was a part of, including Kim Moon-hyuk,
the son of the head of the dental department at the Red Cross Hospital, and
Park Byung-do, the son of the president of Songwol Towel, who later went to
Kaesong Middle School in Busan with me. Busan Middle School and Gyeongnam
Middle School ranked 1st and 2nd, Kaesong Middle School ranked 3rd, followed by
Dong-A Middle School and Dongnae Middle School ranked 4th and 5th, and then
there were countless schools. When we were in middle school, there were about
65 students in a class, so the total number of students up to class 10 is less
than 700. It's normal to remember faces, but I was so angry that I was teased by children
for being "thorny" when I was in elementary school, so I took off my glasses
after entering middle school. Since I couldn't see the blackboard, I couldn't
study properly, and I became a typical problem child. There is also the role of
my mother in this, but she gave up my role as guardian because she was tired of
investing in skirts when she was in elementary school. It was a time when
middle school teachers, like elementary school teachers, all invited their
children to their homes and had them tutored, which was their main source of
income. It was common to buy a house with the money saved by tutoring. When I was in the second year of middle
school, my homeroom teacher, Yang Ha, was in charge of English subjects, and he recommended tutoring, but when I didn't
tutor, he was upset, and when I received the fruit of love and didn't pay for
it on time, I was warned that my attitude was bad, and I remember being beaten by a teenager who was hit on the back of his desk by saying
that my attitude was bad.When I was in middle school, this small dragon had not
yet become famous, and all the big kids in the back row were more interested in
sports than studying, so they went to the gym to learn dangsu and boxing judo.
At that time, the term "watercraft" was not used, but the term
"taekwondo" was not used. I learned judo dangsu kendo at the deep
hall next to Seomyeon Academy, and I
remember that when I competed as a judo athlete as a school representative
during the Busan qualifiers for the Heavenly Sports Festival with the skills I
learned at that time, I went there for the fun of getting jjajangmyeon and
skipping class. It was possible because it was a school without a judo club. I was selected by the discipline department
for playing sports, and since my second year, I have been guiding students to
go to school in front of the school gate, so my classmates recognized my face.
Ahn Young-hwan, who was a physical education teacher at Baejeong High School in
high school, was a judo teacher who graduated from a judo college, so his
teaching skills were judo, and while preparing for the entrance exam at the
Railway Mudeokkan in the Ministry of Transportation, he continued to hone his
judo, and in his third year of high school, he defeated three opponents in the
judo certification examination and won the first dan of the Korean Judo
Association, and even now that he is an
elderly man, he is getting a lot of help in finding a job. When I went up from the first to the second
year of junior high school, I grew 12 cm tall
and weighed nearly 60 kg. They have
become bigger than adults, so they no longer have to be beaten, and on the
contrary, they have become something that school children avoid.
THE
CHAPTER:6
When
I took the entrance exam for Kaesong Middle School, my exam number was number
1. So I was more nervous than anyone else when I announced the successful
candidates. At that time, there was a written test and a physical education
test. It was a time when the success or failure of a question in the written
test was determined by getting it right or wrong, and adding one pull-up in the
physical exam was decisive. Fortunately, I passed the exam with my friends who
were tutoring by my homeroom teacher. The tallest building we attended was on
the second floor. I lived only in a single-story building for six years,
so I was not used to living in a
high-rise building. The Kaesong Middle School building is the latest building built by AID in the
United States, and the east building was completed in 1958 and the west
building was completed in 1961, so there was a hallway in the middle, and the
sunny outer side was used as a general classroom, and the sunny inner classroom was used as a
special classroom. Students who were not used to flush toilets often wiped the
bottom with newspaper and blocked the toilet, so it was not easy to use the
toilet. Also, a hotel where you can do special activities and take a shower on
campus It was a standard school building. For a while after I first entered the
school, the fourth floor where the library was located was dizzy and difficult to live on. It
was difficult to live on the 4th floor because
of dizziness similar to fear of heights.It was a time when there were few
two-way buildings around the Seomyeon
roundabout.It wasn't long before skyscrapers entered the Seomyeon roundabout.
This happened after the Seomyeon Busan High School was sold to the Lotte Group,
and then the Lotte Department Store and Lotte Hotel were built. When I took off
my glasses and couldn't see the blackboard, I lost interest in studying and
became immersed in the library's books. The library, which occupied almost the entire
fourth floor of the West Building, was an open library, with many reading seats
and a large collection of books. At that time, there was a monthly exam once a
month. It was a time when the grades
were collected and the grades were counted at the end of the year, so when it
was time for the exam, everyone had to study with their eyes lit up, but even
during the exam period, I sat in the library and only looked at liberal arts
books. There were two female librarians, and they were more concerned about me
than anyone else. From Goethe's Faust to Hermann Hesse's "Damian," I
read books that came my way, and I
also enjoyed reading youth magazines such as "Academy"
and "Girls." I learned about
works such as Kim Nam-jo's poems and Park Wan-seo's "Namok" through women'
s magazines such as "Yeowon" and "Women's
Donga". Later, when I met my housekeeper and wrote a love letter, I wrote
a lot of the poems I had read at that time. From middle school, he diligently
read literary magazines such as modern literature, and this habit continued
until he was 37 years old, when he quit teaching. Also, in 2014, I transferred
to the Department of Korean Literature at the National Broadcasting University
for a bachelor's degree, which helped me a lot when I studied. I also enjoyed
reading martial arts novels such as Waryongsaeng's Military Hyeop and
Jeonghyeopji, which were translated by writer Kim Hoon's father, Kim Gwang-joo. I read all the works of this teacher, and I
was amazed that he could write such an article at such a young age, and the
praise for him was great from the whole country, beyond critics and the Korean
literature world. I was proud that I had read a lot of liberal arts books, and I
looked down on the model students who were only eager to study the subject, and
even my friends who graduated from Busan High School and Pusan National
University School of Medicine. For language subjects such as Korean and
English, even if you can't see the blackboard,
It was a subject that could be understood if you read the textbook
diligently, so I got some grades, and I read a lot of liberal arts books and my
favorite social studies subject was also good. Music is also a subject I really
like, so I liked the practical music class of Kim Jin-hwan, who was a vocalist,
but my music theory grades were not good.
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THE
CHAPTER:7
When
I was in my second year of middle school, I had a school trip. I made a deal
with my mother and found a compromise by buying a guitar instead of skipping a
school trip. People from my parents' family liked music by nature. My maternal
family also enjoyed singing, but my parents liked music even more. It is common
for my cousins to go to singing competitions and burn pots and rice cookers as
prizes, and my cousin also loves music so much that she once dreamed of
becoming a professional singer. Song Yong-tae, who is two years older than me,
graduated from Anyang Preparatory High School and played the lead role in
"General Oh's Claw" as a founding member of the theater company Michu. After breaking up with CEO Son Jin-seok
Michu, he joined the 88 Seoul Arts
Troupe and became a musical actor, went to performances in Pyongyang, and won
the Korean Musical Grand Prize. He also received the Gangryeong dance and is
now in a position to train students with intangible cultural properties, and
also served as a professor at the Musical School of Cheonggang University of
Culture and Industry. When his cousin, who graduated from Korea University's
Department of Orthopedic Surgery, was serving in the Air Force at Gimhae
Airfield, he listened to music all the time at the Seomyeon Rotary Music Cafe,
and met and married his sister-in-law, who was in charge of the coffee shop
counter. Considering that he bought foreign audio even though he was a poor
newlywed family, I think everyone was
thirsty for music. I've been trying hard to master the guitar since I bought a
whole guitar in my second year of middle school, but I'm still not playing the guitar as well as I
would like to be.My best friend in my
music life is Park Pan-seok, a senior and friend of Seongbuk Elementary School.
With his excellent pitch, he used to imitate the melody part of a song he once
heard on the guitar, but he didn't know how to read sheet music. So he would memorize
the songs he heard on the radio and copy them on the guitar. Our favorite bands
at that time were "Ventures" and "Los Indios Tabajaras".
Park Pan-seok went on to the electrical department of Deokwon Technical High
School, and the two of us stayed
together for almost six years practicing guitar
during middle and high school.When Park Pan-seok was working in a
factory, he met his wife at a competition, got married, and had a daughter, but
they divorced. Like most people who love music, it seems that the reason for
the divorce was that he was incompetent in life. We didn't even know the
Beatles at that time, and among the Korean bands, only "Heaths" is
remembered. I only wanted to be good at playing the guitar, but I never dreamed
of professional training to study music theory or read sheet music. Even if I
enrolled in a guitar academy with no pocket money, I couldn't continue taking
the course because I didn't have the money. There were no friendly guitar
teachers, and even now, like most guitar academies, they only threw out
practice sheet music and had to practice on their own. The guitar may seem easy
to others, but it is never an easy or formidable instrument. Anyone can
practice a few simple chords and play a simple accompaniment, but the guitar is
a difficult instrument that requires a lot of effort and practice to become a
player of a certain level. Piano. It is an instrument that requires a lot of training.
THE
CHAPTER:8
The
second year of middle school is the peak of puberty. This is the time when
physical changes occur the most, emotional wandering is the most severe, and
the psychological distance from my parents is the greatest. I was the same.
From then on, I was silent and hardly talked to my mother. My mother's biggest problem
was that money was the top priority in all her problems, so she lacked
consideration for other circumstances. In front of my house, there was an army
transport unit under the Busan Logistics Base Command. My mother made a lot of money by buying the rice
that the members of the unit handed over over the barbed wire at a low price
and selling it at its own price. We lived in an old house in Jeonpo-dong, but
there were four hanoks and tiled houses, but I didn't have my own room until I
got married at the age of thirty-one, so I had to share a room with my mother.
My mother allocated the space that could be used as a living room for boarders,
and I always had to live in a training camp with other people that I didn't
want. When I moved from 1st to 2nd grade, Igrew
1 2 cm tall and weighed nearly 60
kg, making me bigger than the adults who were very messy. If you look at the
photos I took at that time, I am much taller than my friends who are one or two
years older than me. I have friends who entered middle school together in the
same neighborhood and went to school together for three years. They are Kim
Tae-so and Park Jun-tae. Tae-so's father was an officer who graduated from the
Japanese Military Academy, but he drove a truck, and Jun-tae's family was poor
because his father was old and did not engage in economic activities. Both of
them studied well, Tae-so graduated from Busan Commercial High School and
entered the First Bank, and Jun-tae entered Busan Technical High School, but
they haven't seen each other since then, so they don't know the news. Tae-su
didn't take care of his family because his eldest brother went to Dong-A
University Law School after he was discharged from the army, and even after
graduating from university, he didn't take care of his family to prepare for
the bar exam until he was 40 years old. In
fact, he had a lot of trouble working while being the eldest of four brothers.
There is an interesting anecdote that tells us how old I was. Younghee's older
sister from a small house was five years older than me, and after graduating from middle school, she got
a job at a woolen factory in Gyeongnam and was working as a female worker, and
in the summer I met my sister and her friend at Gwangalli Beach, and she said
that she was interested in me and asked me how old I was. I entered middle
school at the age of 13, and I was 14
years old at that time, and my sister's
friend was 19 years old, so we couldn't get along. Anyway, Since I was a child, I have been the object
of women's attention. Even when I went to a friend's house, my friend's younger
sister would point out me. However, I didn't approach a girlfriend first
because I thought how embarrassing it would be if I asked a woman out on a date
and was rejected, so I didn't get a girlfriend until I finished my fourth year
of college. When I finished middle school, I found the money I paid for my
school savings and held a grass bread eating contest with Tae-so, Jun-tae, and
me. It was a mini taiyaki with a little red bean paste in the flour dough, and
I ate 63 of them and came in second, and
then I learned for sure how foolish it is to bet on eating. Since then, I have
never tried to eat it in my life.
THE
CHAPTER:9
I
joined the literary class. At that time, the instructor of the literature class
was Mr. Kim Yang-ja, a teacher in the Korean language department. He was
beautiful and popular because he was a virgin teacher. One of my friends at
that time was Kim Bok-yul, who was commuting by train from Gijang Jangan-gun. I
remember being envious of him because he wrote poetry so beautifully. Also,
Father Cho Wook-jong, who is now a priest in the Catholic Diocese of Busan, and
then retired, was also in the literature class. I had no writing skills, so I
had never been praised by my instructor.
I wrote an essay about my participation in a classical concert at the
Daecheong-dong Daecheong Ceremony Hall that I received from Mr. Kim Jin-hwan of
the Music Department, and I was told to refine the writing because it was
interesting, but I remember being disappointed because there was no original
writing taste left after removing the harsh expressions. After graduating, I
heard that Mr. Kim had married an art teacher who helped me draw a lot of
illustrations when I was making the literary class collection. It was a life in
the literature class that made me realize that reading a lot and writing good
articles are completely different facts.
THE
CHAPTER:10
In
our time, the high school entrance exam was divided into the first and second
semesters. I applied to Busan Sanggo High School in the first half and then
failed, and in the second semester I applied to Dong-A High School and then
failed. I had no choice but to retake the exam, but there was an additional
recruitment from the assigned high school to create a special class for
students from excellent middle schools to go to college. Fortunately, I passed
the exam and was assigned to a special
class for class 10 of the first year. At that time, Baejeong High School was
under construction of a new school building, and only the left wing was
completed based on the middle body part, which contains the teacher's office,
and the main body and right wing were not completed. There were only window
frames on the windows, no glass windows, and no wooden doors on the veranda
side, and it rained in May, and the
classroom under construction was raining so much that the book stools were
floating in the rainwater. The children in the class were dissatisfied with the
school's measures, and after an extraordinary class meeting, they decided to
refuse the class, so they all packed their school bags and went home. I was
very timid then and now, and I was reluctant to go home without the teacher's
permission, so I remained in the classroom with some of the children. And the
next day, at the class meeting, the class president and some of the leading
children in the classroom pointed out that I was a spy who was blaming the homeroom
teacher for the work of the class. At that time, one of my close friends was
not feeling well and had to get permission to leave early often. It was misunderstood that he had a special
relationship with his homeroom teacher. All the children I was close to in my first
year at Baejeong High School had good family backgrounds, so as soon as the summer vacation ended, they
both transferred to Dongnae High School. One friend went on to the Department
of Cultural Anthropology at Yeungnam University and seems to have retired as a
curator at the Yeungnam University Museum, and the other went on to the
Department of Statistics at Korea University, but we don't know the news
because we don't keep in touch with each other. One of the students in my class
who accused me of being a spy at that time was a well-known person in the Busan
education world as a first-generation dismissed teacher who graduated from
Dong-A University's Department of Korean Literature and taught at St. Mary's
Girls' High School. So, I wanted to drop out of school and take the GED. Due to his mother's earnest dissuasion, he
stayed at school. Most of the leading children in the special class were
aspiring liberal arts students who graduated from Busan Middle School, so I went
to science instead of liberal arts in my second year. Because I missed science
and mathematics in middle school, I didn't
get grades in science, mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, etc. So I had
no choice but to prepare for the entrance exam only with my favorite Korean,
English, and social studies. I didn't have a father, I didn't have an older
brother, and my mother was completely ignorant and couldn't even go to the
school gate, so I had no choice but to prepare for the entrance exam and choose
a department on my own.The entrance examination guide magazine called "Going on to Higher Education" guides
the recruitment guidelines and elective courses of university departments, so I
received a lot of help in preparing for the entrance exam. I was not good at
mathematics, so I was thinking about Chung-Ang University in the early years
and the College of Foreign Languages in the later period, but there were
options for some liberal arts courses at Dong-A University and the University
of Economics and Economics, but I didn't want to go to Dong-A University
because it had just a short history.
THE
CHAPTER:11
I entered the university in March 1972 as a major in English at the Department of
Foreign Language Education at Chung-Ang University College of Education. At
first, I came to Seoul in November of my
third year of high school and looked for a boarding house in Sejeong, but after
joining UBS (UNIVERSITY BROADCASTING SERVICE), I moved to Heukseok-dong at the
recommendation of my seniors. The children who came to our department had to
enter the Department of English Education for their own reasons, but the
English Education Department of National University was as difficult to get
into even local universities as it was to the English Department of Seoul
National University, and most of the children who came to the College of
Education at private universities were only Chung-Ang University in the early
years. By the way, when we went to college, Sungkyunkwan University, Hanyang University and others were all late.
Most of the classmates were from prestigious local high schools, including
Yeosu High School, Jeonju High School, Gwangju Jeil High School, or Yongsan High
School and Baemyeong High School in Seoul. There were only two graduates of the
assigned high school, me and my classmates who entered the College of
Engineering. It was a time when there were preliminary exams, and people who
wanted to go to a four-year university could not go to college if they did not
pass the preliminary exam even if they had a billion dollars at home. In a way,
I think it's strange that a student like me who couldn't study in middle and
high school entered the English education department. I don't think I did well
in the main college entrance exam, and I don't think I did well in the
interview, but since I am the only son of a widowed mother, I don't think I
will skip tuition. It seems that the
professors chose me out of compassion. I'm a movie buff, so I watch KBS and MBC weekend movies every week,
and I also wanted to be a film director,
so if I had entered the theater and film department, I would have studied
really hard, but I went to the normal school because of the pressure of having
to make a minimum living as a teacher in order to support my single mother. If
I had gone to the music education department in the private sector, I would
have stayed in school, but I gave up music because I couldn't play the piano. I took
piano lessons in my first year of
university, and I took elective courses such as music history and harmony, and
I was contemplating transferring, but in order to become a music teacher, I had
to be an accompaniment to the piano in class, but I had no choice but to give
up the music education department because I couldn't turn my fingers.The reason I applied to UBS as a production
department was because of my hobby. The Department of Foreign Language
Education at Chung-Ang University had two majors, the English major and the
German major, and there were many excellent professors in the Department of
English Language and Literature in the College of Liberal Arts, so there were
only a few full-time professors in our major. There were Professor Kim Gu-san
majoring in English Literature and Professor Kang Hyung-ryeol majoring in
English Studies. In addition, in the Department of English, there were
Professor Lee Ga-hyung, a master of mystery novels, and Professor Kim
Byung-cheol of Hemingway's major.
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