Choi Tae-seong, who claimed he earns 20 billion won a year from private tutoring... "Tore up the high-value contract" [You Quiz][Byeolbyeol TV]

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History lecturer Choi Tae-sung revealed the story behind his decision to turn down a lucrative scouting offer.

On the 11th, history instructor Choi Tae-sung, who has a cumulative student base of 7 million, appeared on tvN's "You Quiz on the Block."

On that day, Choi Tae-seong revealed that he had received an extraordinary recruitment offer from a major private education company in the past. He recalled, “The signing bonus was an enormous sum of money that I could never have earned in my entire career as a teacher.”

Choi Tae-seong revealed, "If such an offer had come, I intended to firmly say that I would uphold public education. But it turned out my name was already written on the contract."

He then added, “In the final moment when I was about to write my full name, fear set in. Once you sign a contract, your life changes, right? I wondered whether that life could truly be happy,” revealing that he had been deliberating for a week before signing the contract.

He said, "In the morning, I thought I should resign, but when I went to school and met the students, I felt, 'This is the life I had dreamed of.' I couldn't eat or sleep. By the sixth day, a handful of my hair had fallen out."

In the end, Choi Tae-seong said he made up his mind after learning about the life of independence activist U-dang Lee Hoe-young. "I asked myself, 'How should I live my one life?'" he stated. "As I thought that my life had meaning and that I could make a small contribution to society, tears came to my eyes and I tore up the contract."

Since then, Choi Tae-seong has left the classroom in 2017 and continues his activities by offering history lectures for free.

Meanwhile, Choi Tae-seong appeared on the JTBC program "Knowing Bros" in March of last year and sparked attention by stating, "If my annual revenue were to enter the private education market, it would exceed 20 billion won," adding, "I want to make money too. I want to live in Tower Palace and drive a Mercedes-Benz."

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