Yoon Hye-jung teacher explained why she turned down a scouting offer worth 100 times her annual salary.
On the 28th broadcast of You Quiz on the Block (directed by Heo Kang-seok, writer Lee Un-ju), episode 329 featured Yoon Hye-jung, the god of Korean language who has been wings for 2.5 million test-takers.
Yoon Hye-jung, who recorded 100 million cumulative views as EBS's top Korean language instructor for the college entrance exam for 19 consecutive years, is a 22-year veteran active teacher also well known for an appearance resembling Girls' Generation's Yuri. In response, Teacher Yoon joked, "Those weren't things I said. When I search online, I sometimes see those kinds of comments. I'm very pleased."
Yoon Hye-jung said she even turned down a scouting offer in the private education sector that was worth 100 times her annual salary. She recalled, "They offered good conditions I had never thought of before, but first of all I am a school teacher and I had no intention of going into private education, so I said, 'I have no intention at all.' But later when I thought about it, it was an amount equal to 100 times my salary. I realized I had turned down something very large."
When asked about regrets, she laughed and said, "Strangely, it doesn't really shake me. Actually, I came to Gangil High School last year, and when I arrived the students were amazed. The teacher they'd seen on screen had become their homeroom teacher. When the students asked why I didn't go into private education, I answered, 'I didn't go because I wanted to be your homeroom teacher.'"
She also spoke about living as a top instructor and an active school teacher. Yoon Hye-jung said, "Actually, most of the EBS instructors are active school teachers. I go to school at 7 a.m. to prepare class materials. I teach from first period through seventh period. When regular classes end at 4 p.m., there is still a lot to do. I stay at school to handle duties, and then carve out time afterward to prepare lectures and shoot."
She continued, "I film EBS two or three times a week, and when I film I record four lectures of 70 to 80 minutes each. As a result the running time is long, but the preparation time is very long too. On top of that, since I'm the mother of two children, to handle all of this I have no choice but to cut back on sleep. Because of that, it feels like I only slept one day a week, on Friday. I work very intensely," she said, drawing surprise.
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