[In-It] Things you can’t know from the CSAT scorecard

 Not long ago, the news of comedian Kim Min-kyung was a hot topic.

She, who is familiar to us as 'delicious guys', suddenly became the national shooting team.

The beginning of the amazing butterfly effect was a derivation program of delicious guys called 'Yongdongdung'.

It was about Kim Min-kyung learning weight training, swimming, and challenging various exercises with the intention of eating a lot while taking care of health.

But isn't it the instructors' flagship for every challenge?

When I went to learn weight training, the trainer teacher exclaimed, "It's ridiculous ability," and went to learn Pilates.

While doing so, her eyes were wide open...

She was called 'talent that the sports world took away from the entertainment world'.

Among them, she stood out the most.

At the urging of her production team, she passed the International Practical Shooting Federation's Level 4 live ammunition qualification test last June, and she was soon selected to compete in an international competition in Thailand. .

It was something that neither her viewers nor herself could have imagined.

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One netizen said this.

"Actually, we just haven't found it, but there may be Yuna Kim and Heung-Min Son among us. Each person has one hidden natural talent, but there are only those who have discovered it and those who have not."

Ms. Kim Min-kyung, who has lived for 40 years, has she ever thought of herself as having national team-level shooting skills?

there wouldn't have been

What we are good at, what talents we have, and the potential within us, in fact, we do not know ourselves.

Watching Minkyung Kim's shooting scene, I remembered his father shooting an arrow last week.

I went to a tourist spot near the city center, and there was an archery field.

I wanted to try it, but I kept hesitating so I pushed my back.

Then he was watching from the second floor balcony with his mother.

Looking at my father, the only old man among young people, my mother and I were more worried about whether we would be good at archery because we heard that archery requires a lot of strength.

But what

Aren't you the one who got the most hits out of 20 or so?

My father said this as if he was surprised by himself. 

I also had a similar experience.

I am now 38 years old.

As I thought about it before turning 40, I realized that I had no hobbies at all.

I wondered 'what would I have liked...', so I started looking through old records such as student records and Cyworld.

But when I was 18, my dream was to become a dancer?

I was startled.

Because for the past 20 years, it has been called Bakchi by others.

'It's strange... I can't be like this?'

I'm old and I'm embarrassed, so I couldn't bear the thought of going to an academy and got one-on-one tutoring.

The teacher said something like this.

"Dance requires two things: technology and expressiveness, but it's natural that technical skills are lacking since we're beginners. I want to see some expressiveness," he said.

All of a sudden, they turned off all the lights in the dance practice room, played a piece of music, and asked them to move freely.

can it be

I'm a beginner, and someone else is watching... The teacher said that to me when I was creaking.

"Close your eyes, pretend no one is there, and just move as you feel the music."

I just didn't know and just moved.

Maybe 3 minutes passed.

When it was over, I opened my eyes softly, but weren't there tears in the teacher's eyes?

“Why, why are you like that?”

The teacher said so.

"Why...why didn't you dance earlier?"

The ability to express the emotions of music, such as sadness, joy, and sadness, is as excellent as that of professional dancers.

Then he asked me if I had no intention of dancing seriously from now on even though it was too late.

Since that day, I have been dancing steadily.

I don't have myself

However, I felt a new hope that there is an unexpected possibility within me, and that I had not known it at all for 38 years, but that it definitely existed.

The hope that 'maybe even at the age of 45, 52, or 67, I can discover my potential that I don't even know about'.

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Why did I tell you a long story from Minkyung Kim's story to my father's story?

Because I wanted to tell these stories to the examinees.

The counseling center is crowded with people in their 20s and 30s throughout the year, and November is the only month that is crowded with teenagers.

"I ruined the exam. I don't know what to do next. I'm so disappointed in myself. I'm so sorry to my parents."

I'm talking about various things.

It wasn't until a few years after I became a counselor that the consolation of "It's not the end, it's the beginning. Your life won't be decided by this single exam" didn't work very well.

Maybe, they need 'proof' that they can see and feel rather than 'language' like consolation or encouragement.

forty years old

Some people discover new possibilities at an age when half of their life has already passed, at an age when, from the perspective of the examinee, 'the age when it seems that the course and direction of life have all been decided'.

And it's not a very special story, but a proof that there are quite a lot in our lives than we thought.

I thought he was a funny person, but in reality, he is a comedian with a national team level motor skills.

An old man who has been an office worker all his life, but is more talented at shooting an arrow than anyone else.

A 38-year-old man who has been sitting in a chair as a counselor all his life, but can make someone cry when he gets up and moves to the music.

If you look around, you will definitely find such neighbors.

I wish more of the lives of such beings were revealed.

And I hope that their lives will be conveyed as one message to the test takers.

The seeds of possibility are clearly present in all of us ordinary people.

And that there are more hidden in the life path beyond the age of 20 that everyone will walk alone in the future than the race called CSAT, where everyone has been running in one direction.

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