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Episode 77: October, The Cruelest Month

[Mr. Nayun, remember that you were taking a note test today? Please review the part that went out yesterday.]

As she got out of the car, she sent Kakaotalk.

Then a little later.

Kakao Talk-

A reply has arrived.

[Son Nayun: ㅠㅠ I'm in Seogwipon right now... Can I take the exam tomorrow? I will also buy tangerine chocolate!]

Citrus Chocolate? Isn't that sold in boxes of ten for ten thousand won?

I must have seen them stacked up and sold at Dongmun Market...

Anyway.

It seems that Purple Velvet went to Jeju Island today.

It was not unusual as it was the fate of an idol to cross the boundaries of city and province several times a day and digest the schedule.

However.

[Yes. No. Then I'll see you later.]

The problem is that he's thinking of avoiding the exam with that as an excuse.

There is now less than a month left until the exam.

As that day approaches in the blink of an eye, the Jeju Island event cannot avoid the sacred note test.

‘Unless there is a natural disaster.’

OK.

Kakao Talk-

[Son Na-yoon: ㅜㅜ It's okay. I'll buy you some chocolate though!]

She has sent her Kakaotalk saying that she will know sooner or later that she didn't expect much.

Looking at it, it seems that the effect of 'the man who reads malicious comments' still remains.

I smiled and sent a reply telling me to come up with caution.

He even put his cell phone in.

I had a busy time during that time.

Of course, Na-yoon Son's Korean history lecture I just contacted. It was because I couldn't open my eyes due to Lee A-rin's entrance exam preparation, Park Il-han's essay preparation, who moved to our academy from Jaesoo Academy.

In the meantime, my waist size has shrunk even though I haven't exercised because I've been working on a schedule that wastes no time to eat, let alone personal time.

As a result, September has already passed and October has arrived.

October.

The season of harvest and the season of abundance.

But for students, October is the cruelest month.

‘Second semester midterm exam.’

‘October mock exam.’

At the same time, the same important tests are held one after another.

‘The next 45 days until the entrance exam.’

Because it's the only time left.

As each day passes, the blood of the test takers dries out, and the mourning of the parents who watch it melts away.

That time is October of the entrance exam market.

For this reason, every year around this time, students and parents in fear knock on the door of the academy with the feeling of grabbing the last lifeline.

So October is the scariest and cruelest month for students.

From the academy's point of view, it's a month of abundance, where money comes in even if you don't sit still.

It is a time when the students come in and give out money even if they stand still.

And among them, the battlefield is the most intense and lively.

It's a re-education school.

The atmosphere of Jaesu Academy during this time is beyond imagination.

Because everyone here has fallen at least once.

Because things that couldn't be seen at academies or schools targeting active high school seniors often happened.

E.g.

"Hey! Did you take my notes?”

these things

As soon as I got on the elevator from the underground parking lot and went up to the academy, I heard someone scream.

When I turned around, I saw a crowd of people in one of the high school classrooms.

“No, what are you talking about? didn't you take it? Why are you catching a living person?”

“Don’t be rude, you XX! Either you or someone takes mine. When you say something nice, bring it quickly.”

“Do you have any evidence? If you have any evidence, bring it.”

"Ah-oh. Give it to me when you say something really nice.”

Apparently, someone took the wrong answer notebook from a repeat student in the same class or destroyed it altogether.

And it seems that the owner of the note who noticed that fact is chasing the retaker, whom he has not had the best relationship with.

All of them were caused by the combination of stress about the SAT and malice toward people.

In fact, this was only the tip of the iceberg.

There's a lot more to it than this stupid thing.

Hitting the back of a lucky colleague with whom I have been close for a year and diving.

Spreading bad rumors about a specific person in a study group.

Punch your fist for spilling coffee on yourself.

It was at the re-education academy of this period that things that would be considered nonsensical to non-renewing students occurred on a regular basis.

Unfortunately, these things are troubles with other people.

If you're careful, you shouldn't have to worry about it.

In fact, there was another main enemy tormenting the retrainees in October.

as soon as.

A fight with oneself.

I was hurt in body and mind because of the burden of taking the SAT.

A person who takes medicine and is taken to the hospital.

A person who eats three meals a day with porridge because of gastritis nervosa.

I cried while watching the mock exam.

Even people who show symptoms of anxiety and receive psychiatric treatment.

There are many people who are unable to overcome the internal and external pressures surrounding them during this period.

Because of this, people who are not well educated could not endure this period and moved to a place as a self-taught student.

Most instructors know the burden of retaken students, so after October, they did not engage in students' problems unless it was a dangerous situation.

When students come in for counseling, they do it with sincerity and comfort them.

There was nothing that stimulated or did anything like the beginning of the year.

Therefore, around this time of the year, I could often see the instructors comforting the crying students in the office.

Click-

When I opened the door to the classroom, I saw the instructors still giving advice today.

Obviously, there was a professional counselor on the first floor of the academy, but the number of students visiting there was not that many.

Even if you have professional counseling knowledge, students will be more trustworthy of the instructors who come face to face every day than the unfamiliar counselors.

But I had to be careful.

Because the situation and position of the instructor and the student were different, if the instructor made a mistake, the instructor's words could not be comforting to the student, but could become a dagger that cuts through the student's tender heart.

But then.

"Teacher···"

someone has spoken to me

It was a trembling voice.

Moment.

I realized that what was to come had come.

Then, the “100 warm words for retraining students” that Ji Sung-nim had passed on to me came to mind.

yes good

Even if all my fingers and toes shrink today, I will comfort you.

Let's turn our heads while strengthening our will.

there?

A strange female student is standing there with a pale complexion.

I looked again closely to see if I could have remembered.

It was a face I didn't know.

"who is this?"

when i ask

She opened her mouth with a weeping expression.

“Can I ask you for that private tutoring?”

* * *

“Look, in the case of non-literary texts, there is a high possibility that current affairs issues that have been an issue this year will be asked. For example, you should familiarize yourself with the main contents of the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, the 4th industrial revolution, and cryptocurrencies in advance.”

She said banging on the blackboard.

Then the students who were listening to me nodded and wrote down my words in their notebooks.

“And since last year, there have been a lot of passages on philosophy, but in fact, it is difficult to understand philosophical ideologies in the SAT exam room, so please…”

Maybe I'll miss out on what I said.

They followed my lectures while recording on their cell phones.

“For literary works, look at the works in ‘Nanso Gong’ once again. Because this year marks the 40th anniversary of the publication of Nanso Kong. The funny thing about this is that the Nanso ball was just asked in 2008, right? So···"They had been talking for 40 minutes without being able to properly drink a glass of water, but seeing their earnest eyes, they couldn't bring up the words to take a break.

Another 20 minutes passed like that.

“Now, let’s do this today. Tomorrow, I will organize the things we talked about today once. But do you know everything? There's not much left now, so why don't you just wait for me to feed you?"

After the lecture, he sighed.

Then the students nodded and looked at me.

Looking at their burning eyes, as soon as class was over, they seemed to be throwing questions at me like crazy.

“Now then, let me ask you a question.”

let me say

All the students raised their hands.

I smiled and looked at them. Among them was a female student who had previously talked about tutoring.

What she said to me in her office earlier wasn't like a request for advice.

The student who came to me with her nervousness and anxiety all over her body, said to me, a request for a special lecture for the SAT.

It was also meant to ask me for a small special lecture of about 4-5 people, not a general lecture.

I was nervous inside that I might be asking for a consultation, but at that moment, I felt my tension relieved.

It wasn't that I was avoiding counseling, but honestly, it was because counseling a student who had gone mental was a bigger burden than giving 5 hours of full lectures.

‘Honestly, no matter how much I study, I don’t think my skills are improving. There are only 45 days left... But I heard from a friend. Ask the teacher to listen...'

Apparently she had heard my story from the students in my class.

She must have asked me for a special lecture by another classmate who didn't have a face-to-face meeting.

After listening to all the students' stories, I accepted the student's request quite positively.

First of all, it's a class material, so I'll just use the materials of the class I'm in charge of,

Since the number of students taking a class is small, around 5, it is enough to use a small classroom or study room within the academy.

there

‘The tuition fee is quite good.’

The tuition they suggested.

2 million won per person per month.

Considering that the average tuition for a high school class in Seoul is about 1.5 million won a month, it can be seen that the amount is a bit excessive compared to the amount of effort I put in.

But even if I refused anyway, they were the people who would pay this kind of tuition to someone else to take the class.

Because it's more important to them to pay that money to get rid of some anxiety than to save money by leaving a little bit of anxiety.

So it would be good for them to take care of them as I can use USB.

‘Besides, there are things I have to do.’

I ended the lecture with the account balance slowly growing.

school takeover.

Only your own brand.

‘Mr. Kim. Aren’t you thinking of taking over a private academy?’

‘When I think about it, I think five years is too long. One year is enough.’

'...you don't disappoint my expectations. like. That’s what being young is like.’

It was just before the bold declaration I made to the head teacher half a year ago.

From now on, the name Kim Jun-young will no longer belong to me.

Because that's what a brand is.

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