English certificates carry a credential value in themselves, but people often use them as a clue to infer someone's consistency and sincerity.
The school someone entered and graduated from, along with grades, may seem to signal intellectual ability in themselves, but people also use them to infer alertness and cleverness.
But in truth, that is an old story now.
Because of the polish applied by countless passionate star instructors in places like Daechi-dong, problem-solving ability itself has effectively become mass-mediated.
This is the weight we now carry, created layer by layer by an education market that left education behind and kept only advancement, and by an immoral society composed of morally self-justified people who pursue private livelihood and legitimate economic gain within capitalism.
The burden produced by the advancement market is now extending its presence into the job market.
Academies and communities related to IT portfolios pull out job seekers' strengths, polish their problem-solving ability, and make them look extremely plausible, almost like exam-prep answer books in the old advancement system.
Through this process, young people entering society come to believe that social problems always have correct answers and solutions. So when they face situations where structure, roles, and problem definition are ambiguous, they do not reflect first on their own ability to recognize and solve problems. Instead, they begin by doubting the capability of the company or the organization. It resembles an old academic scene all over again. Just as some local-school teacher might once have been judged inferior to a famous academy teacher from Daechi-dong, employees at unstable companies now fill in their own answer sheets by benchmarking the articles and launched services of star instructors from prestigious backgrounds.
