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83 year old's college entrance exam challenge... "Grandma is going to college, too!"

2024.11.13 AM 06:35
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[Anchor]
Among the candidates for the SAT exam tomorrow (14th), there are challengers with various stories.

From a grandmother in her 80s who had to stop studying due to family circumstances, to a boy preparing for an exam in prison, reporter Choi Kyung-woo met with some special students.

[Reporter]
A cheer rally was held in front of the school gate of Ilsung Girls' High School in Seoul, a lifelong school attended by students.

"Mom is going to college, too. Ilsung Girls' High School, fighting!"

First and second graders will cheer up for seniors in high school who are late ahead of this year's College Scholastic Ability Test.

The principal prepared glutinous rice cake to mean 'stick to each other'.

A rice cake delivery ceremony was held to support 107 students taking the CSAT this year.

Among them, the oldest candidate is Lim Tae-soo, who takes the CSAT at the age of eighty-three.

After studying hard for two years, I have already received letters of acceptance from two universities through early admission, but since it is my first test since I was born, I will remember the contents of the class by organizing them in my notebook until the end.

[Lim Tae-soo / Oldest Suneung candidate: I raised all the students who couldn't study and sent them to college, so I'm having so much fun taking the Suneung right now. It's really good to learn in every way. Even if it's late, it's so much fun and good.]

At the Southern Seoul Prison, boys in blue prison uniforms are concentrating on their final studies.

I couldn't concentrate on the class and looked away because of the old saying, I kept studying from morning to night because I didn't want to miss even a single letter.

[Hong Jung-hwan / Seoul Nambu Prison Officer: 'My life is wrong now. You might think 'it's over', but it changes as you treat yourself as a prisoner and a boy trainee.]

[Bang Ga-bin / Volunteer (New Materials Engineering Department, Yonsei University): He has a bad posture (at first), and sometimes he looks lifelike. Even when I pointed it out now, I said, 'Yes, I understand. When I say 'I'm trying to fix it', the kids change while feeling rewarded.]

The CSAT classes are also in full swing from early morning in a classroom where about 10 North Korean defectors' families gather.

Neither the Korean language questions that I am not used to yet nor the math problems full of difficult formulas are challenging to achieve my own goals rather than comparing them to others.

[Kim Do-yoon / North Korean defector family student: My goal is to take the CSAT and enter college well so that I can demonstrate as much as I have learned.]

[Jin Hyung-guk / Yeomyeong School Teacher: I hope you do your best with the meaning of the process rather than the result and do your best to do well until the end. [DOYOON and MINA, way to go!]
The challenges of those who have overcome each story of
will also come to fruition in a day.

I'm YTN's facial expression Woo.

Reporter for shooting
: Wang Xion



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