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Main Ideas

A Perfect LEET Result

Lee Jin-woo says he answered all 70 questions on the LEET correctly: 30 in language understanding and 40 in reasoning. He took the exam not to prepare for law school, but to test and demonstrate his study approach on a difficult exam.

A History of Struggling with Korean Reading

After leaving high school, Lee had difficulty maintaining a study routine. Although he later studied consistently for the CSAT, his Korean score remained around grade 7. He struggled to follow long sentences, sometimes forgetting the subject by the time he reached the predicate. Eventually, he wondered whether he was simply unsuited to studying.

A Turning Point Through Disconnection

After a difficult period in his life, Lee took a long walking trip around the country, covering roughly 30 km a day for about three weeks. He describes the trip as a period of isolation from his usual distractions.

While waiting to go paragliding in Danyang, he read a short explanation of how flight works. He says the meaning and structure of the passage seemed to become clear in his mind. To test whether the change was real, he tried reading past CSAT questions and found those easier to understand as well.

Change Is Possible, but Not a Guaranteed Shortcut

Lee believes reading ability can improve, but he does not claim that everyone can achieve a perfect score through the same experience. His point is that distractions and habits can suppress a person’s existing abilities. Removing those barriers may reveal potential, but further practice is still necessary.

Later Improvement and Continued Training

Lee says he eventually improved substantially in Korean and earned a perfect Korean score on the CSAT. He stresses that the walking trip did not complete the work. It helped him feel that his thinking had become more receptive, after which he continued training his reading skills.

Reading-Comprehension Practice

• Turn text into mental images. Try to represent ideas visually instead of leaving them as abstract words.
• Map relationships. For philosophical or logical passages, use arrows to show cause and effect, and Venn diagrams or similar sketches to represent categories and inclusion.
• Draw when necessary. Sketch relationships that are difficult to picture. With practice, you may not need to draw everything.
• Use structural cues. Pay attention to conjunctions and other signals that show how ideas connect. These can reveal a passage’s organization and help you anticipate how its argument develops.
• Build concise representations. Express the passage’s meaning in your own words or with a simple diagram. Lee says this helped him represent ideas more efficiently and remember new information.
• Read actively, not just more. Think through what you read, whether it is on paper or another medium. Merely looking at text without processing its meaning is not enough.
• Separate removing obstacles from learning the skill. Reducing distractions may help reading ability emerge, but it does not replace deliberate training.

Speakers and Sources Featured

• Lee Jin-woo — The guest, discussing his education, reading difficulties, study process, and LEET result.
• The interviewer — Asks about Lee’s background, exam results, and methods.
• A judge friend of the interviewer — Mentioned in an anecdote about whether a perfect LEET score was possible; not heard as a speaker in the subtitles.