Han Sang-beom Passes Judicial Scrivener Exam at 70 After Childhood Hardship

Han Sang-beom passed the judicial scrivener exam in February last year at the age of 70. Now 71, he recalled the moment calmly, saying it felt as if he had put down a burden he had carried for a long time and completed a lifelong assignment. Born the third of four sons and two daughters in an urban working-class family in Daejeon, he worked after elementary school as an errand boy at a university facility, delivered newspapers, and sold beondegi. Encouraged by his elementary school teacher, he passed the middle school entrance exam but could not pay the admission fee and gave up enrollment. He instead attended reconstruction school and vocational training school, institutions that taught middle school coursework or helped students find work. His story shows a long-held will to study carried into a late-life qualification. Source: rss.donga.com