"Your brain changes when you're disrespected." The god of studying resumed activities after 3 years... How to study English.

YTN Radio (FM 94.5) [YTN News FM Wise Radio Life]

□ Broadcast date and time: January 17, 2025 (Fri)
□ Host: Park Gui-bin Announcer
□ Castor: Gong Gong Kang Sung-tae

* The text below may differ from the actual broadcast content, so please check the broadcast for more accurate information.

◆ Announcer Park Gui-bin (hereinafter referred to as Park Gui-bin): Wise radio life 2025 New Year's plan The second part of the grand operation to escape from three days! For you who planned to study, I am CEO Shin Kang Sung-tae of the top 0.01% of the CSAT in 2001. In the new year, we're planning a long-awaited special. Today is the second episode. For those who have planned to study, I have prepared time, and I also use expressions such as "a monster born by the entrance exam." He has become a national study mentor. We have Kang Sung-tae, the representative of the god of study. Welcome.

◇ Kang Sung-tae (hereinafter referred to as Kang Sung-tae): Oh, hello. Nice to meet you.

◆ First of all, happy new year.

◇ Kang Sung-tae: Yes, thank you. May you be blessed with all things good.

◆ Since it's been a while since you've been here, can you say hello to the camera in front of you?

◇ Kang Sung-tae: Yes, I'm Kang Sung-tae, and I'm going to start my activities again after 3 years. I'll pray that you're always healthy and happy than happy new year.

◆ Park Gui-bin: Yes, stay healthy. The CEO took a break from the activities he's been doing for three years because he's been focusing on something different. I think a lot of people are looking forward to it because you're promoting now. You heard that song before, right? the magnificent music

◇ I don't have earphones right now.

◆ Park Guivin: We invited our CEO with very grand music.

◇ Kang Sung-tae: Thank you.

◆ Park Gui-bin: Top 0.01% of the 2001 College Scholastic Ability Test!

◇ Kang Sung-tae: I'm embarrassed. It's already 20 years ago.

◆ Park Gui-bin: No, even if it's 20 years, if it's the top 0.01%, I think I'll keep saying this even 50 years ago.

◇ Kang Sung-tae: The college entrance exam was a little easier then.

◆ Park Gwibin: What are you talking about? Many people know you as a study mentor for the whole nation. Do you still study now?

◇ Kang Sung-tae: Ah, I'm studying really hard these days.

◆ Park Gui Bin: What are you studying?

◇ Kang Sung-tae: What kind of article was in The Times. Human concentration dropped to 8 seconds.

◆ Park Gwibin: How many seconds was it originally?

◇ Kang Sung-tae: I'll look for it originally.

◆ Park Gwibin: Yes, I see.

◇ Kang Sung-tae: The goldfish is 9 seconds. But students are worse. I'm so addicted to phones these days, so I'm trying to figure out how to help me concentrate, and I'm making an app that helps me concentrate, that is, artificial intelligence.

◆ Park Gui Bin: Now an app that helps you concentrate?

◇ Kang Sung-tae: I actually made it, but the AI camera reads people's attention. So I'm studying like a senior in high school these days because I have to use artificial intelligence technology to make donations for the pure concentration time and the concentration time.

◆ Park Gui-bin: I think you're going to study a lot. There are many types of studying, but if a person's concentration is 8 seconds, doesn't that mean that he or she can't concentrate for 8 seconds? You're saying that you're focused for 8 seconds and then you're easily distracted, right?

◇ Kang Sung-tae: That's right. Of course, the results of the study were in the Times, but it wasn't a very thoroughly planned study, but when we look at these shorts or reels, what is eight seconds actually? It's kind of serious if you look at something and move on right away.

◆ Park Gui Bin: Okay. Everyone, since you've contributed, please focus for at least 8 minutes. If you do it for more than 8 minutes or 10 minutes, I think you'll get to the bottom of it today. First of all, we always prepare for this corner. I'll quickly do that and go. Please say something in OX first, and I'll talk about the interview. Let's get started. No. 1 New Year's resolution, English study begins with payment.

◇ Kang Sung-tae: X

◆ Park Gui-bin: Study number 2 is born with a brain.

◇ Kang Sung-tae: O

◆ Park Gui-bin: No.3 What can increase the effectiveness of studying is physical time VS quality concentration or choice, even if it is short.

◇ Kang Sung-tae : unconditional concentration

◆ Park Gui-bin: How to study number 4 is more important than preparation or review?

◇ Kang Sung-tae: It's a review.

◆ Park Guivin: 4-1 study place dark silent reading room vs moderate noisy study cafe?

◇ Kang Sung-tae: If you have to choose, it's a study cafe.

◆ Park Gui-bin: No. 5, preliminary high school senior, please pay attention. If you study properly from now on, you can study at Seoul National University?

◇ Kang Sung-tae : This is wishful thinking but O

◆ Park Gui Bin: All right. Let's start the interview. First of all, since our special episode is a grand plan to get away with three days of determination, should we tell them one of the principles so that studying doesn't last three days?

◇ Kang Sung-tae: That's right. It hasn't been long since the new year started, but to tell you a little bit about what I'm doing right now, I'm playing Squid Game with my subscribers. In the squid game, there are losers every time you play, and you survive like this. So if you concentrate for at least 10 minutes a day, you will survive. If you don't do it, you'll die.

◆ What happens when you die?

◇ Kang Sung-tae: Oh, I'm just out.

◆ Like a game?

◇ Kang Sung-tae: I'm doing that, but that's at least 10 minutes of pure concentration a day.

◆ Park Gui-bin: One principle is concentration.

◇ Kang Sung-tae: Yes, yes. But what I want to tell you is that you can do it for 10 minutes a day and think, but we decided to do it for 10 minutes how much these students did, but I actually just took the statistics. I gave an hour, 51 minutes, and 9 seconds.

◆ Didn't you concentrate for a very long time?

◇ Kang Sung-tae: So it started very small, but I've seen a lot of students so far. But if you look at these students, the problem is that they will study during the new year and vacation, they will almost conquer the earth when they plan. I bought a lot of math workbooks this vacation because I said I'd solve 15 math workbooks, so it's a new book when I start school next time.

◆ Park Gui-bin: It's a new book. It's a new book.

◇ Kang Sung-tae: Yes, but it's like dieting, but if we catch too much, we get tired even before we start, and now we feel burdened. But I'm going to work out at least 10 squats a day. But what's interesting is that people start small. Then, it is expressed as behavioral inertia, and you tend to continue doing it.

◆ Park Gui-bin: Even if you start small, you get bigger and bigger.

◇ Kang Sung-tae: So, for example, if you run on the playground only once instead of 15 laps, you want to try it again, but if you have a condition, and if your body gets heated, you can run two or three more laps at first.

◆ [Park Gwibin] So that's what concentration is like. Of course. You said that if you start with a short concentration at first and continue, you will have more and more time to concentrate. Let's answer the OX questions one by one through interviews. My regular goal for the new year is actually to study English. Because even after graduating from school, adults also think that we need to speak English in our daily lives, but we always pay for online lectures or some platform. I have to learn from someone. Can't I teach myself this?

◇ Kang Sung-tae: I believe it's for sure.

◆ Park Gui-bin: You said X from the previous payment, but you can teach yourself?

◇ Kang Sung-tae: The reason I can tell you this is because I'm actually the author of the best-selling English conversation book in a year. But you don't have to listen to my lecture. Seriously, what do you say?
◆ For those who listened to it, it was a bit like

◇ Kang Sung-tae: I can teach myself, and I even taught myself.

◆ Park Guivin: Really? How can I teach myself? You can just buy a book and read it.

◇ Kang Sung-tae: Let me tell you one thing that I've experienced. I also recommend it, but there are a lot of foreigners, but I actually go. In my case, I go to Myeongdong. There are a lot of foreign tourists these days. The mask showed a foreigner looking at his phone. Then I run right over and tell you right away. What can I help you with? Can I help you? They ask me like this. Then what happens is that the conversation might continue, but there are times when I can't hear you well or I can't talk like this. Then in a way, it's a vulgar word.

◆ Park Gui Bin: That's right. I said I'd come first and help you.
◇ Kang Sung-tae: I'm being humiliated on purpose. That's how your brain changes.

◆ Park Gui Bin: The brain changes?

◇ Kang Sung-tae: It motivates me. So, when I encounter foreigners to talk to them like that, I wonder if I really studied English for 12 years. It's very stimulating. To tell you a little more, if we want to study English properly, we go abroad to study or study languages. But the reason I'm going is that I'm not going to take a lecture. Korean lectures are much better for lectures. To be honest, I'm going there to be uncomfortable. If we don't feel this much discomfort, we have to do something to survive, and if we don't feel this much discomfort, we feel ashamed and embarrassed, the brain itself doesn't change.

◆ Park Gui-bin: Then let's be uncomfortable if I set my goal for English for the new year. Do I have to set a goal like this?

◇ Kang Sung-tae: Once you're that uncomfortable and stimulated, our brain tells you the brain story, but actually, when we learn, how the brain changes its structure. When you have a certain ability, the process doesn't change because it's just comfortable. So even if you look at the evolutionary process of mankind, it's really consuming a lot of energy that changes the brain.
◆ Park Gui-bin: I see what you mean.

◇ Kang Sung-tae: You have to have that kind of impact.

◆ Park Gui Bin: Okay. You can study English like that. The second study brain is born with it. No, I thought you would definitely say x. You just have to try. Is it hereditary?

◇ Kang Sung-tae: This head is born with

◆ [Voiceover] It's despair. I think a lot of people will be in despair.

◇ Kang Sung-tae: Yes, I'm sorry. From the morning,

◆ Park Gui-bin: No, it's not that. Please release it. You have to solve it well.

◇ Kang Sung-tae: Yes, yes, yes. In any area, how much are you born with? It could be an athletic ability, but what I want to say more is that it changes. Even now, in a way, the structure of the brain can change. I told you on the premise of this. I told you that learning changes our brain conditions anyway, so that's called neuroplasticity. But it has been scientifically proven that it changes, and I think it can be sufficiently covered through methods.

◆ Park Gui-bin: First of all, I admit that studying brains are born with genetics, but it can be different with acquired efforts. Of course, you want to say this, right?

◇ Kang Sung-tae: Just thinking about it, for example, I play golf. But it's not the right way. If you continue in the wrong way, no matter how natural you are, you can't play well. The same goes for studying.

◆ Park Gui-bin: The way to study is also important. And as I said earlier, if you work hard while increasing your concentration time, of course, you will be able to do well. So, in the third question, you chose concentration rather than physical time to increase the effectiveness of your study.

◇ Kang Sung-tae: Yes, yes, yes. That's right.

◆ Park Gui-bin: But don't students who study all day get better grades?

◇ Kang Sung-tae: But I've been sitting all day thinking about grand music and listening to idol songs

◆ There's a song that's banned from taking the college entrance exam. If you keep singing something like Ring Ding Dong,
◇ Kang Sung-tae: You can't say that on the show, but it stuck in my ears from the moment I heard it.

◆ Park Gwi-bin: I'm in trouble. You shouldn't think about that now. Okay. That's why concentration is important. And is reviewing more important than preparing for study?

◇ Kang Sung-tae: Yes, of course, I want to emphasize that review is important.

◆ Park Gui-bin: If you prepare for it, you can hear it better when you learn from someone, right?

◇ Kang Sung-tae: Oh, that's right.

◆ Park Gui-bin: Why is review more important?

◇ Kang Sung-tae: If you don't review it, you just didn't watch it. I didn't watch it once.

◆ Park Gwibin: How many times do I have to watch it? How many times do I have to review it?

◇ Kang Sung-tae: It depends on how familiar I am, but it turns out that it's five times on average.

◆ Park Gui-bin: Yes. I'm surprised many times today. I was surprised that it was genetic, and you have to review it several times and five times.

◇ Kang Sung-tae: But each person has different abilities.

◆ Park Gui-bin: Concentration is basically important, but physical time is needed, right?

◇ Kang Sung-tae: Of course we need physical time. But concentrating itself requires time, but I'm emphasizing that concentration is more important than the two.

◆ Park Gui Bin: Okay. It's important to review and about five times.

◇ Kang Sung-tae: Yes, but when you review it, you don't have to look at the whole thing, but you have to keep looking at the things that I don't know.

◆ [Park Gwibin] You're right. So when you review it for the first time, the area you see every second, third, and fourth time will be narrowed down.

◇ Kang Sung-tae: That's very important. Because when the actual contributors go to the CSAT site, they pick and dance only things that I don't know and take a paper with them. If you look at students who are not good enough, they bring all three years' worth of books.

◆ When I was in school, my bag was heavy when I went to take a test.

◇ Kang Sung-tae: I used to go to take the CSAT every year. I actually enrolled in the Office of Education and observed students in the morning, and I saw a student who brought a carrier, not a real three-year book. I'm just taking everything because I'm nervous.

◆ Park Gui-bin: I see, I have to put my carrier in the back anyway, so I can't carry it in. And isn't the study cafe a little noisy?

◇ Kang Sung-tae: This has also been scientifically identified. The place with the best grades is the test site. It has already been revealed that the students who studied in the same environment as the test site actually performed well.

◆ Park Gui-bin: So you're saying that the test site isn't that quiet?

◇ Kang Sung-tae: That's right. It's not that dark, and when you go to the test site, you see it in winter. In November, there are students who cough and students who shake their legs, and the supervisor keeps turning to the side.

◆ Park Gui Bin: That's right. It bothers me. If you walk around next to it,

◇ Kang Sung-tae: He's walking around quietly, but he gets sensitive, so

◆ Park Guivin: That's right. It gets sensitive.

◇ Kang Sung-tae: The more similar the training, the better. I even did a mock test at a food court to train it.

◆ Park Gwibin: Oh really? At a food court?

◇ Kang Sung-tae: He said that he would not panic in any environment.

◆ Park Gui-bin: No, I understand why you became a god of study. It's time for us to wrap up the first part, but we've received a lot of questions because we're not even halfway through. Yes, CEO, we can do it for about 10 more minutes until the second part. After 11?

◇ Kang Sung-tae: Can I sleep here tonight? Talking about studying is fun for me, but is it okay for the viewers?

◆ Park Gwi-bin: Yes, you made enough time today. After 11pm, I'll try to answer your questions. Right now, we are conducting a grand plan to escape from the New Year's resolutions with CEO Kang Sung-tae, who is a trust in studying.


◆ Park Gui-bin: I'm talking to you, CEO Kang Sung-tae, the god of study, who planned to study for the second part of the Grand Operation to escape on the 3rd. It's time for those who plan to study this year. He kept smiling after hearing this earlier. Have you tried this before? You haven't, have you?

◇ Kang Sung-tae: Oh, this quiz?

◆ Park Gui Bin: Yes, the answer to this quiz is

◇ Kang Sung-tae: I've always done it.

◆ Park Guivin: Really? You did this?

◇ Kang Sung-tae: No, the students are so busy. Not only is it almost impossible to take a test without doing this, but I think all tests are like this after all.

◆ Park Gui-bin: Yes. But there are people who do it in advance. So there are a lot of people who have a lot of free time and sleep before exams.

◇ Kang Sung-tae: But I can tell you more about the reality than anyone else when it comes to CSAT, but you can think of studying in advance to do this effectively in that short time later.

◆ Park Gui-bin: I don't think that's the right thing to do.

◇ Kang Sung-tae: So that's the most important time when the test is imminent.

◆ Park Gui-bin: What I really cram for is that there's about a week or two of that exam period. Unit 1, Unit 2, Unit 3 is not organized on the last day, but it's the first time I've seen it on the last day. Unit 1 and Unit 2... Things like that. Isn't this it?

◇ Kang Sung-tae: Didn't you just say the answer?

◆ Park Gui Bin: What did I say?

◇ Kang Sung-tae: Yes, I'll pretend I didn't hear it. That's right. There's another way to do that.

◆ Park Gwi-bin: Oh, you've done that before. There are a lot of questions, so I'll gather some of the questions from earlier and solve them. The listener said, "Prince, please look at the screen. ’ Yes, you just looked at the camera. The listener said, "I'm already yawning because I'm saying it's a study method." ’

◇ Kang Sung-tae: I'm sorry about this.

◆ Park Gui-bin: No. I think this is definitely a reflection. What should I do?

◇ Kang Sung-tae: What sin did I commit in my past life to cause so many people pain?

◆ Park Gui-bin: Not really. If many people tell me to study, it's basically boring and hard. There is a contribution to resolve those things now. "Fan ID" said, "Studying? I turned on the radio to get healing, so I'm so nervous. How do I contribute after hearing evaluation and hearing voices? ’ Since we're releasing SAT in the form of a national English listening test,

◇ Kang Sung-tae: I'm still like that. I still have nightmares. Since I've been studying, do you know what I set as my alarm when I wake up in the morning? I set it as a listening test. I wake up even when I'm sleeping. Once, I woke up thinking that I was asleep during the college entrance exam. It's very effective.

◆ Park Guivin: I'm just going to lose sleep.

◇ Kang Sung-tae: But we also talked about English conversation. I also studied English with this. That's why we start by listening to the alarm clock in the morning. It starts with English. The beginning of the day turns it on every day.

◆ Park Gui Bin: Is it good?

◇ It starts in English every morning, so

◆ That's why you're good at English.

◇ Kang Sung-tae: This is also a very good tip.

◆ Park Gui-bin: I see. That's why I always keep my ears open. The listener said, "I can't keep up with the grades of my hard-working friends, so studying is not my cup of tea, but I am now a teacher who teaches children. ’ You know people like this are really good at teaching, right? I will learn well today and teach you how to study. The listener said, "How do you know that I made up my mind to study English this year, and what should I prioritize between memorizing words and conversing? ’

◇ Kang Sung-tae: I can start both. I think it would be good to start with the word first.

◆ Park Gui Bin: From words to word field. "Fan ID" said, "What kind of words do I have to say? Do you buy words in your daily life or word books? ’

◇ Kang Sung-tae: Actually, the reason I told you the word is that you have to have a word in the end to spit it out. I can't do it even though I don't know any words. But I want to recommend etymology map. If you know an etymology, the research result is actually done by Professor James Ice Brown at the University of Minnesota. There are 14,000 English words from 33 etymologies of English, so there are many Korean words that came out if you know Chinese characters. Since there are many things to know, there are 33 because native speakers also learn through such etymology. So the etymology map is like a mind map, which is a collection of etymologies on one page.

◆ Park Gui Bin: Where can I buy it?

◇ Kang Sung-tae: If you search it on the Internet, there are some that I made. Some of them have been selected by the meritorious people. There are about 300 etymological maps. Now, the etymology and basic words are connected.

◆ Park Gui-bin: That must be very important. Because English is very important, not just the words we memorized. If I know the etymology, I can know the nuance, right?

◇ Kang Sung-tae: You have to study the nuances separately, but

◆ Park Gui-bin: I'll cancel it.

◇ Kang Sung-tae: It's a lot of fun. I can do it now knowing that there is such a history and origin.

◆ Park Gui-bin: It's good to study words first and use etymaps. "Fan ID" said, "You're born with a study brain?" I'm sorry, son. ’ You don't have to be sorry. You just have to work hard.

◇ Kang Sung-tae: The reason why I'm teaching you how to study is because I'm actually like that too. Even if I work really hard, my grades don't come out, so that's why I became interested in studying methods and started to promote them.

◆ I think it'll be a bit of strength for you guys. The listener said, "Five reviews of genetics. That's why I didn't study. ’ You threw something too big today. Genetics and five reviews. But I can do it. You said this. Pre-secondary high school seniors told me to come to Seoul National University if I study properly from now on. Is it possible? It's the beginning of the year,

◇ Kang Sung-tae: To be honest, I've been assaulting so many facts in the first part to give you hope in the latter part, but I've actually seen countless cases of public contribution. To tell you an extreme case, all of these students were rated 8th and 9th. It was the so-called Novae. Novase, so he was the one who was discharged from the military.

◆ Park Gui-bin: So someone who's been studying for a long time?

◇ Kang Sung-tae: I forgot everything and did it, but it was 8th and 9th grades, but what happened in a year was that there was a case where I got 1st grade this year except for one subject. actual contribution mentor

◆ Park Gui Bin: What's your secret? I'm sure people like that know because you're a contributor.

◇ Kang Sung-tae : in the spirit of the soldier

◆ Park Gui-bin: What is military spirit? Are you sure you'll do it? Can I do it? What's military spirit?

◇ Kang Sung-tae: The military's mind is literally like that, so it's not just that I want to study, it's that I'm preparing a device that I can't do. For example, there is a mentor who has contributed to that. After making this plan, let's share the plan now. And if you can't keep this, you can get 100,000 won.

◆ Park Gui Bin: The money is going out.

◇ Kang Sung-tae: Making a device. If you make yourself in such an environment, I don't think there's actually any willpower.

◆ Park Gui Bin: That's right. It's very difficult for a person to continue to strengthen their will. To be honest, 2025 entrance exam is just around the corner. It's half past January, and I have a test in November. The key strategy of entrance examinations must be remembered. Can you pick one? This year's test takers should focus on listening to this.

◇ Kang Sung-tae: I don't have much time for the first time when it comes to entrance examinations, so the first thing I want to tell you is the previous question

◆ Park Gui Bin : Previous issue

◇ Kang Sung-tae: I've been talking about the CSAT for over 20 years now. It can be considered that 80% of the CSAT test comes from the existing type. So it's all in the previous questions. So, in fact, all experts will emphasize this. And if you add a little more, most of the contributors who have contributed for the last three years or five years have memorized the previous questions. And the previous questions and the mock test of the Korea Evaluation Institute in June and September also give hints about new types. So this year, it can come out like this, so prepare for it, but many students still have free questions from the previous exam, so I don't look at it like this because I can see it all the time.

◆ Park Gui-bin: The previous question is important. I hope you take care of your entrance examination strategies, and I have to wrap it up now, but today's time was too short for what I was going to talk about with the god of study, so I wanted to talk about this today, but I couldn't. Anything you say at the end is fine.

◇ Kang Sung-tae: This is actually how I used it when I was about to cram, and it's actually scientifically proven, but I use sleep when I cram.

◆ Park Gwibin: What do you mean?

◇ Kang Sung-tae: What proved to be that I remember what I saw before I went to bed. Because there is a process that converts to long-term memory while sleeping. But in addition to that, as soon as you wake up, you watch what you saw before you go to bed. Then, it's much more memorable. So no matter how much you cram, if you see it the day before, you have to sleep overnight. So, watch something important the day before before you go to bed and go to bed. Then, as soon as I wake up, I watch it. So before you go to bed, put it back and forth and try it. You'll feel it's effective.

◆ Park Gwibin: Everyone, try it. I was on Kang Sung-tae's representative side of studying for the second part of the long-awaited plan for the New Year's plan for a wise radio life on the 3rd. There's still one more episode left. Kim Hyun-woo, the head of the Happy Asset Management Research Institute, who planned to become rich on Monday, January 20th. Please look forward to it. Until now, I was CEO Shin Kang Sung-tae of Study. Thank you, CEO.

◇ Kang Sung-tae: Thank you.