My Calling Is Profiler [EN]: Chapter 592

That curiosity didn’t last long.

Because Lee Kang-to gave up in just three days. Lee Kang-to, who seemed completely drained as if he hadn’t slept properly for the past three days, spoke very calmly.

“It was a mistake.”

“A mistake?”

“At first, I was just trying to silence him.”

He had planned to leak the questions using a camera, strategizing and waiting for the opportunity. And when the questions were finalized, he decided to leak them that night.

“Why did you choose that day?”

“I didn’t choose that day specifically. I was just going to keep trying when the deadline was near.”

On my side, turning on the room light would be the signal, and on the other side, they would send a signal with a flashlight. He was waiting for the chance to leak the questions like that.

“But I didn’t expect someone to suddenly appear.”

It wasn’t someone who usually came. Or rather, he didn’t know.

The victim was in charge of Korean language questions, and since he had already submitted all his questions, he had nothing to do but stay up all night, doing his own thing and having fun. He was the type of person known as a night owl.

“But…”

When you stay up all night, you get hungry. But you can’t ask for food in the middle of the night. Everyone would be asleep.

Even if it’s a hotel, you can’t order room service. How can you order room service when you’re locked in as soon as you enter?

But this office has snacks available 24 hours a day.

“He must have gone to get some snacks often.”

Park Do-joon clicked his tongue. Taking snacks to eat when you’re hungry isn’t illegal, and since they were naturally replenished, no one would have paid attention.

And the victim came to get some snacks and saw him leaking the questions, pressed close to the window.

“He was trying to call someone.”

He didn’t know if he was taking pictures with a camera, but he knew that what he was doing at that time wasn’t normal, so he was naturally trying to call someone… In his haste, he pushed him, and he fell over and hit the corner.

“It wasn’t intentional.”

Lee Kang-to lowered his head with a face full of regret.

“No, why on earth did you try to leak the questions!”

Jung Yi-yeon shouted loudly, as if she couldn’t understand. Lee Kang-to is a math teacher at a prestigious high school in Seoul. He doesn’t have money problems. If he had money problems, the National Intelligence Service would have already caught him.

As soon as the incident happened, the National Intelligence Service secretly investigated the bank accounts of the exam committee members.

“That’s…”

“Just tell me. I already know roughly what happened.”

“I wanted to become a star instructor.”

As expected, Lee Kang-to wanted to become a star instructor.

“They earn billions…”

As a high school math teacher, his salary is at most around 40 million won. It’s hard not to be greedy.

“I don’t understand. Why did you do that? This is already your third time being on the College Scholastic Ability Test committee, right? You should be able to become a star instructor.”

“…”

Lee Kang-to didn’t say anything to Jung Yi-yeon’s words. Park Do-joon explained instead.

“Being a star instructor isn’t all the same.”

“What do you mean?”

“A star instructor who lectures at a private institute and a star instructor who gives online lectures are completely different.”

No matter how big the institute is, a star instructor who lectures at an institute earns hundreds of millions of won. It could be 200 million won at most, but it’s hard to earn more than that.

Due to the nature of offline lectures, there is a practical limit to how much revenue can increase. The space where people can come to listen is limited.

“The times have changed, and the real money is in online lectures.”

“But?”

“What do you mean ‘but’? It’s obvious. It’s business. Who pays for the promotion?”

“Ah!”

What does the term ‘star instructor’ mean? It means someone who can accurately pinpoint the questions and explain them clearly. ‘Star’ means they can accurately tell and explain the questions in one go.

The problem is that such instructors are rare, but it’s not a talent that only one in ten million people is born with.

“Even if that’s the case, most people don’t know that.”

In order to let people know that someone is capable and teaches well, you have to spend money on promoting them. You have to spend hundreds of millions or billions of won, but what if it doesn’t work out as you want? From the company’s perspective, it’s just a waste of money, and everything is ruined.

“Why are there more handsome and beautiful star instructors these days?”

Is it just because they teach well? No. It’s easy to promote handsome and beautiful people. It’s natural to be attracted to good-looking people.

“In other words, an older, balding man is a bit… difficult.”

Lee Kang-to is bald and has the typical potbelly of a teacher. It’s somewhat disadvantageous for promotion. To overcome that, he has to teach at a genius level or be pushed with a lot of money.

“…”

Even though it was like he was being insulted, Lee Kang-to couldn’t get angry or deny it. Because it was true. He had looked into switching to a star instructor position, but he was rejected for the same reasons.

He doesn’t teach exceptionally well, and his appearance is too common, like a neighborhood *ajeossi* [middle-aged man], to invest in promotion.

“So you decided to leak the questions?”

“They said they would let me do online lectures if I gave them the questions. And…”

“They must have said they would promote you too.”

If he succeeded, he could earn 10 billion won a year. It’s not just about leaking the questions and earning tens of millions of won temporarily, but the company and the person involved could earn hundreds of billions of won over several years.

“Haa!”

At some point, academics become a business, and business becomes corrupt, corrupting academics. Jung Yi-yeon sighed without realizing it.

However, Park Do-joon didn’t care much. It’s not like he didn’t know about such things.

“So where is that place?”

“It’s Ajio Academy.”

“Ajio Academy?”

“Yes.”

Park Do-joon also knows about Ajio Academy. He doesn’t know it well, but he has heard of it. It’s quite successful online.

“You can testify to that in front of other people, right?”

Lee Kang-to slowly nodded. Park Do-joon picked up his phone and called the National Intelligence Service agents. And Jung Yi-yeon calmly explained.

“Explain in as much detail as possible if you want to get leniency for confessing.”

“Confessing?”

“That’s…”

Jung Yi-yeon smiled bitterly at those words. She couldn’t tell him that he had been deceived all along.

“There might be a chance if you do well, right?”

“The president of Ajio Academy has been arrested.”

The National Intelligence Service agent who came to see Park Do-joon said calmly.

“Why on earth did they do that?”

“Ajio Academy is in a state of capital impairment.”

Originally, Ajio Academy was one of the four major online academies and was once successful. However, although it was one of the four major online academies, it was the smallest in terms of size, and as a result, it gradually lost out in terms of money and lost star instructors and exam committee members one by one.

In that situation, it eventually reached a state of capital impairment, but the problem was that there was no way to reverse it.

“It’s true that even if you spend a lot of money on promotion, it won’t work.”

“That’s right.”

With products, you can make people think, ‘Should I try using it once?’ through promotion, and that’s not a bad thing. But in the case of the College Scholastic Ability Test, the student’s future is at stake, so they try to take classes properly in a proper place.

“But Ajio Academy, what was it again?”

“Exam trends.”

“Yes, they said it’s been wrong for several years.”

Then the students dropped out in droves. And as the rumor spread, the classes stopped selling. As the crisis came, they made an extreme and dangerous choice.

Park Do-joon shook his head at those words.

“…How foolish.”

“I don’t know why they did such a foolish thing. The star instructors who belonged to that place shouldn’t have been bad at what they did.”

“They’re figures from the past.”

“Figures from the past?”

“Exam trends change every time. Of course, you can predict it to some extent. But when time passes and the examiners change, it’s natural for the trend to change.”

But the people at Ajio Academy were people they had recruited in the past. And the new instructors from the new examiners went to new places.

“They don’t know each other, and there’s no way for them to contact each other.”

Of course, it’s not like they don’t know each other at all, but they have no choice but to fall behind compared to other places, and that alone is a dangerous thing in the industry.

“I see.”

“Yes, now that Ajio Academy is gone, the College Scholastic Ability Test will be conducted properly.”

Jung Yi-yeon sighed in relief. But at those words, the National Intelligence Service agent smiled bitterly.

“That’s…”

The National Intelligence Service agent suddenly smiled bitterly.

“Why?”

“The government has decided to change the exam trends. As Detective Park Do-joon said, those guys were already slightly changing the questions and lecturing.”

“But you said there are backup questions, right?”

At those words, Jung Yi-yeon tilted her head as if she didn’t understand. She said that if they used the backup questions, they could make the time in time. But suddenly postponing it?

“Haa!”

Park Do-joon let out a long sigh as if he knew the answer right away.

“I told you, exam trends are the direction of the College Scholastic Ability Test.”

“Right?”

“Then what do you think the direction of the College Scholastic Ability Test backup questions will be?”

“Huh?”

“Yes. Now that the trend has been revealed, the kids who took lectures at Ajio Academy have become incredibly advantageous.”

“Wait a minute! Then…?”

“To change the exam trends, you have to start all over again from the beginning.”

“No, then what about us? Can’t we just leave? You said the trends have changed too, right?”

“I already asked, but the Ministry of Education is strongly opposed. The shock from this incident is too great right now.”

If the College Scholastic Ability Test is postponed, then of course everyone here will also be postponed from leaving.

“Then how long…?”

“One month.”

“One month?”

“Yes.”

Jung Yi-yeon’s face turned pale at the unexpected words, and Park Do-joon asked calmly.

“Um, can I buy a few more console games?”

# The Space Called the Military

The original date of the College Scholastic Ability Test was November 21st. However, due to all sorts of emergencies, the College Scholastic Ability Test was delayed by a month and took place on December 21st.

“I went in in October, and it’s December… Is this real?”

“I went in when it was late autumn, and when I came out, it was winter.”

Park Do-joon and Jung Yi-yeon shook their heads as they got off the bus, as they had entered shortly after Chuseok [Korean Thanksgiving] and came out with Christmas just around the corner.

“But I learned a lot.”

“Like what?”

“Like I shouldn’t challenge you with fighting games.”

Park Do-joon shook his head as he looked at Jung Yi-yeon. He taught her fighting games because he was bored, but Jung Yi-yeon was a genius at fighting games. At first, her win rate was less than 10%, but later, Park Do-joon’s win rate dropped to less than 10%.

“Wow. Should I call this a vacation?”

“I guess so.”

As Park Do-joon and Jung Yi-yeon got off the bus and walked along, a man approached from afar. Then he handed Jung Yi-yeon a piece of white tofu.

“Congratulations on your release, sis.”

My Heavenly Job is Profiler