A Nation Where All the People Learn (7)

In the Pyeonjeon, Sejong roared with laughter and said.

“I sent Kim Jang-ik to Sungkyunkwan as a professor because he raised his child so admirably. I believed he would likewise educate those who will become the officials of the future.”

My father is certainly an exceptional man.

But because I was reborn after living in twenty-first-century Korea, the influence my father had on my personality was almost nonexistent.

Ordinary people are born without a sense of self, grow older, and develop their personalities under the influence of their parents...

I, however, had already possessed the mind of an adult when I was born.

I spent my childhood with the process of personality formation that other people underwent as they grew up omitted entirely.

That was why someone like me could grab my father when I was three years old and vehemently insist that he improve the treatment of the slaves.

But if I ever voiced this fact, people would point at me and call me a madman—or, worse, an ungrateful wretch who did not even know the grace of being raised by his parents...

'You just have to assume that whatever is good is good and let it go.'...