Chapter 11: KAIST Admission Application – Amae Shizuko

KAIST admissions are held twice a year.

Once in the spring semester for early admissions, and once more in the fall semester for late admissions.

Now that spring is in full swing, of course, the first round of overseas documents currently coming in were from late admission applicants.

“Hmm? Japan……?”

One of the admissions officers tilted his head.

Most of the late admission applicants were foreigners or black-haired foreigners.

Even among foreigners, most were from India or Southeast Asia, and occasionally from Northern or Eastern Europe,

but almost none came from places like England, France, the United States, or Japan.

Maybe if they were just visiting as exchange students, or vice versa.

“……But I never expected an application from Japan.”

Well, sometimes these things happen.

Besides, it’s hard to imagine now, but 10 years ago, Hallyu was said to be a craze.

“Well, Japan is a representative Hallyu trend area…………… Huh?”

But if that’s the case, why did they apply to our school?

Whether the gender is male or female, it’s the same.

Hallyu is a culture that is representative of women’s tastes, and for men, it’s for insiders (popular people), right?

But they applied to KAIST?

If they really applied because they like science and mathematics, Japan already has nearly 20 Nobel Prize winners in

science. There’s no reason to study abroad.

“……I really wonder why.”

It’s meaningless to keep wondering while looking at the envelope.

If you’re curious, just tear open the seal and check the personal statement.

If you still don’t understand, the professors will ask questions during the interview.

“Let’s see…………… Hmm? Weren’t there just other documents below? What, what’s this thickness, is this all one

document………… Ugh?! Wh, What is this heavy?!”

The application documents for this school were originally a bit thicker than others.

But even so, it wasn’t this much.

What kind of high school student sends a document like a 36-volume set of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms as

an entrance portfolio?!

“Oh my, Mr. Park. What are you struggling to bring? Instead of all at once, just divide it into several trips….”

“Gasp, gasp…………! Th, This…………… ha, one person’s! These are all one person’s documents…………”

“Ye, Yes? This is all one person’s…………?”

“Oh my…………! What is all this? Did something else get delivered by mistake?”

The other admissions officers were also astonished by the volume of the documents.

“Is, Is it a bomb? It’s also big………..”

“Hey, Team Leader, what are you talking about…………… Th, Mr. Park? Can you open it?”

“Haha, yeah, yeah. It’s not like it was delivered from somewhere like Pakistan, it’s right next door in Japan. Haha.

Hurry up and open it. What are you doing? Mr. Park?”

“……Then I’ll open it.”

‘You bastards, open it yourselves. I’m always the one who changes the water cooler…………… It’s true that leaving

Korea is the only answer.’

Mr. Park, the admissions officer, grumbled inwardly, but silently followed their orders.

Because this was Korea.

A party of female colleagues who have colluded with the 86th generation boomer boss.

The moment you defy them, you can think of your job as over from that day.

‘I don’t know why they would leave Japan and come to this hell, unless it’s Southeast Asia……..?

-Riiiip.

He opened the seal, which was almost like a parcel.

Only then did he see what could be called documents, pouring out.

It was the overwhelming amount, but

the names written on the front of the envelopes were all unusual.

Experimental Proposal on Ultra fast Quantum-Enhanced Sensing

Theory on Weak Measurement-Based Quantum Entanglement Certification

Research on the Possibility of Hacking Bitcoin Using a Google’s Quantum Computing Chip, Sycamore

“Wow, are these all proof of excellence?”

“What are all these English words, how are we supposed to read them………….”

…………They’re all papers and independent research reports.”

At his words, the other admissions officers could only show similar expressions of difficulty.

Usually, they don’t send these.

They just send easily recognizable awards, such as Olympiads or Superintendent’s Awards.

Wealthy families send in that a high school student has filed a patent, but it’s obvious that they paid someone to

make it.

“It seems like there are quite a few private education institutions in Japan that make things and do performance

evaluations for money.”

“Japan is the origin of private education! It used to be worse than us! It all spread to our country, and that’s why

we’re in this mess, tsk tsk.”

‘The team leader is starting his mindless anti-Japan again…………… Still, it must be true that someone wrote or made

it for them. No, maybe they wrote it themselves. They just made all the content.’

None of the admissions officers thought that a student did this directly.

Children from wealthy families create specs that don’t exist.

That’s how they go to good schools and prestigious universities.

Employment was just a different way of doing it.

This is Korea.

Now, even elementary, middle, and high school students know this if they are Korean.

Admission Application – Amae Shizuko

Personal Statement – Amae Shizuko

“Huh? Shizuko….. was it a female student?”

“Oh my, how do you know? You haven’t even looked at the picture yet.”

“Ah. No, th………… I just thought so from the name.”

“Wow~ Do you speak Japanese? I thought you looked like you would be good at it.”

‘You b*tch.’

“Hahaha, ramen. Come to think of it, it seems like there’s a special ramen dish on the east side for lunch today. Let’s

quickly finish checking the personal statement and go eat lunch.”

-Riiiip.

And so, a certain Japanese applicant’s admission application and personal statement began to be dismantled.

Let’s just hand over the rest of the strange materials written in technical terms like quantum whatever to the

professors.

‘No, the team leader will obviously say, ‘Why are you bothering the professors, let’s just reject it at our level’.’

Besides, after hearing that it was ‘Japan’, the team leader’s face showed what he was thinking.

“Going from a country where people studied abroad to a country where people come to study abroad…… Hehe. The

world has changed a lot. Let’s see what kind of Japanese kid this is.”

-Slide.

The team leader first checked the envelope that said admission application.

The other admissions officers also joined him next to him.

The first thing they saw was a 400X600 ID photo printed on the document.

“To repay the debt we suffered during the Imjin War and the Japanese colonial period… Uh, uh?!”

Even if it’s a foreigner, it was clearly said to be Japan, so it should have been at least a black-haired foreigner with

buck teeth.

But it wasn’t black hair from the start.

“Uh, silver hair…………? No, only the bangs are slightly black…………”

It was different from white hair.

It wasn’t that the color was lost due to aging.

Color, rather than absence of color, it is light.

When colors are gathered and mixed, it becomes black.

Therefore, if you lose color, the color is just an empty white.

“Oh my, look at her eyes too. Sparkling………… It’s like looking at stars.”

But light was different,

It, which knows how to shine on its own, becomes brighter as more colors are added,

and the gathered light eventually becomes white light.

Such,

as if all the starlight of the night sky was gathered and painted on her hair,

all the admissions officers couldn’t speak easily.

Even though it was just a printed photo,

Amae Shizuko’s appearance had an overwhelming something that was not swayed by mere resolution.

“…….”

Even,

“A, An angel…… exists…….”

to the extent that the team leader, who was disparaging her as a Japanese kid, lost his mind.

“……Team Leader?”

“Uh, huh?! Ha, Hahaha! Th, This is why Japanese, no, Japanese women, Japanese…………? Ha, Anyway! Look at this

hair, this is why Japanese kids are no good? Look at the dyeing! What kind of delinquent is pretending to be a model

student and coming to our school…”

“But it’s too natural for dyeing, or maybe she’s mixed race… Oh my, there’s a doctor’s note attached?”

“Marie Antoinette Syndrome………… Including albinism and whitening, melanin pigment…… Team Leader, it seems

like the reason her hair is silver and her eyes are blue is because of an illness. The family relations certificate also

shows that she’s not mixed race, and it’s not congenital but acquired eye disease……?”

“Sob?!!”

“Oh my, oh my, how terrible. Marie Antoinette Syndrome is actually derived from the fact that the French queen

became like that before she was executed? How terrible………… What kind of things did she go through to become

like that at such a young age………… Except for her bangs, even her eyes have turned white……….”

“Sob………?!!”

For some reason, the team leader felt like he had become a piece of trash, and his chest tightened.

“Ar, Are we choosing entertainers?! Uh, No matter how they look, they have to be good at studying! And creativity!

Personality! Whether they are a talent suitable for KA, KAIST is what’s important……!”

No one said anything, but the team leader excused himself and quickly tore open the personal statement envelope.

With an expression that he would find a flaw no matter what, he looked at Amae Shizuko’s personal statement.

“Ah, Team Leader. First, I’ll translate………….”

Since most of the late applicants are foreigners, the personal statement was obviously written in English.

But the team leader couldn’t speak English, so another young admissions officer always had to translate it for him.

Recently, it’s become much easier thanks to GPT, but anyway, if he didn’t do that, the team leader wouldn’t be able to

understand the content………….

“Huh?”

But, for some reason, the team leader was looking at the personal statement.

It seemed like there was no problem reading it.

‘Could it be that he can speak English but pretends not to because he’s lazy, no, just to bother me…………! Huh?

What, Ha, It’s written in Korean?!’

And it was handwritten and printed.

It was like an appeal that she was Japanese but could speak Korean as well as a Korean.

Not only that, but the pretty handwriting that was obviously from a female student,

made the viewer feel a warm feeling for some reason.

And,

ᅳSlide.

“Te, Team Leader?!”

“Sob………”

The team leader, who was reading the personal statement, suddenly started to cry with hot tears.

“……Pass, she passes. This child…………… Amae Shizuko………… must pass…………! Sob!”

“Ye, Yes?!”

“……Otherwise, I swear on the heart of Hongik Ingan that I have no right to show my face!!”

“Yes……?”

I wondered what nonsense the team leader was saying.

“No, what the hell is the content of the personal statement………….”

So I opened Amae Shizuko’s personal statement.