With a population of less than 50 million, there are as many as 100,000 after-school tutoring institutions with an annual output value of 33 trillion yuan.

There are 25,000 training institutions in the small city of Seoul.

In order to cultivate an excellent next generation, 70 percent of South Korean family income goes to private education.

The monthly tutoring expenses for each child are approximately 2 million won.

In order to change their fate and allow their children to keep up with their studies, ordinary families are willing to borrow money and sell their houses.

Some people even borrowed money from loan sharks, and their mothers and sisters became prostitutes to support a child to study hard.

The result of crazy internal competition is an imbalance of educational resources, and graduation certificates from ordinary universities are like waste paper.

In this magical country, there are only two ways to change your destiny: take the civil service exam or join a large company.

In order to achieve these two points, one must be admitted to SKY, which means (S) Seoul National University, (K) Korea Chung-Ang University, and (Y) Yonsei University.

Of the more than 300 South Korean lawmakers, 90 percent are from SKY, and the same is true for chaebol companies.

Coupled with the serious senior-senior complex in South Korea, it makes it difficult for non-SKY people to blend in.

Other large companies only recruit top students from SKY universities. If you are a student from an ordinary university, how will others look at you? Wouldn't you become a "garbage" recycling station?

Even if you are lucky enough to be kept, it is only temporary because you will never be recognized.

Once a new junior joins, no matter how well you perform, you will be kicked out.

Under this unbalanced state, exam-oriented education is not competitive at all and cannot even reach the SKY threshold.

So, I can only make up for the missed classes and study hard.

If you want to get into SKY, you have to go to a good high school, and if you want to go to a good high school, you have to have good grades in junior high school.

If you want to get good grades in junior high school, you have to start from elementary school...

It is normal in South Korea for primary school students to master junior high school curriculum and carry out early career planning.

Once entering junior high school, sleeping four hours a day is the basic practice for top students.

In families that value education, children are either studying or on their way to cram school.

Sangyu, the boy from Yoon Hye-na's family, is like this now. He can't stop for a moment every day.

Fortunately, he has a good mother, so even if he can't make it in China, he can go abroad to continue making it.

With years of "involution" experience and strength, plus a few hundred million donations, it is easy to get into an Ivy League school.

It is said that the United States advocates fairness, is full of freedom, and even the air is sweet.

But what is the fact? Pick any city and look at the city center and the east and west districts.

Go to a community college and then go to a key or elite school in the city center to experience it.

There is no need to say anything, the facts are right in front of us.

"So, the current marriageable age has been pushed to 36, and the fertility rate is getting lower every year."

"It's bad enough to be a slave, why do you have to give birth to a child to continue being a slave...Are you willing to contribute?"

Lin Shiling looked at him curiously and asked, "Aren't you worried that there will be no one available in the future?"

Li Zhenyu laughed sarcastically and said, "Nuna, times have changed."

In the era of the global village, we still need to worry about having no one available. What a joke the Soviet Union is.

Otherwise, just open the factory in a third country.

Plenty of cheap land, almost free labor, and when your only remaining conscience is questioning whether what you are doing is immoral.

The locals will present you with banners and flowers, and you may even be boycotted by local businesses.

Why pay such high salaries for no reason? How can local companies like us survive?

Besides, if the day ever comes when the threat can no longer survive, the problem will naturally be solved.

Compared with the profits, what does the decline in birth rate mean? Don’t big companies have their own response plans, such as significantly improving employee benefits and cultivating family-style inheritance like the soldiers in the palace?

In order to solve basic survival problems and get more educational resources from the company, employees will naturally be willing to have more children.

If conditions permit, who can resist the reproductive instinct engraved in our genes?

In this way, the father is an employee of the company, and his outstanding children will take over his job when he is old and continue to contribute to the company.

As time goes by, the company will have more and more outstanding talents.

"So, this is the fundamental reason why the big chaebols have been investing in education in recent years?"

Lin Shiling was thoughtful and began to consider whether elephants should also get involved in education.

"Graduates from Central University have very good abilities and qualities. You can consider them if you need them."

Elite education means burning money. If Elephant is willing to invest, it can also reduce the pressure on the national pension.

"I will discuss this with the board of directors when I return, and we will have to vote before we can decide."

"Okay, let me know as soon as possible. There's more than one family that wants to enter, and the elephant is one of our own. If it's confirmed, I'll reserve a spot for you."

Lin Shiling thought it was a good idea, but this matter was of great importance, had a long payback period, involved a huge amount of money, and would last a long time.

I still have to discuss it with my father and sister and seek their opinions before making a decision.

After dinner, Xiumei and Xiuli insisted on going to the basement, where was the entertainment area, game room and private cinema.

Lin Shiling was cleaning the dishes in the kitchen. Today was the Chinese New Year and Zhenyu and his sister were coming again.

There are so many people around, and I don’t know what people will say if they see me.

She simply drove away all the servants in the house and let them go home to reunite with their families.

Leave yourself alone, cook for them, and spend an ordinary but unforgettable family dinner with them.

Although the relationship between him and me is no longer a secret in this circle.

But that doesn't mean Lin Shiling is willing to have all this exposed to the public, especially at this time.

If people discovered that I was having an affair with him, I would be a new-age female idol.

A talented writer and director, promoter and disseminator of South Korean culture, and winner of the Cornerstone Award.

None of them can compare to this private affair. The traffic and popularity brought by the open and secret struggles in the chaebol's backyard are tempting.

Lin Shiling may not care about her own reputation, but she cannot ignore the positive impact this reputation has brought to her family and the Elephant Group.

We must not ignore all the efforts Li Zhenyu has made to achieve what he has today.

If Li Zhenyu knew her thoughts, he would definitely laugh and say, "I don't care at all."

What achievements, what efforts...

To him, these are just the spice of life.

It's just fun to please himself, Li Zhenyu never thinks how important it is.

However, people often try to define other people's lives through appearances.

What is important and what is not important depends only on what they see.

What Lin Shiling saw was the value he created in the entertainment industry.

He mistakenly believes that these things are very important to him and to others as well.

Who would have thought that all he did was just to satisfy his own selfish desires?

(End of this chapter)