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Chapter 1227: Spiritual Nanyang People (Second update, please subscribe)
When the white swan roars down into the air at Seoul Airport, someone always looks up at it.

The Borneo Air logo is clearly visible on the white swan. What is the most popular postcard in Korea? It is the postcard with the white swan printed on it.

The C717 White Swan carries the dream of Koreans - to go to Southeast Asia!

Go to Southeast Asia!

As long as you arrive in Southeast Asia, your destiny will change.

“We are still so backward!”

After the plane stopped, Kim Yong-chul muttered to himself as he looked out the window at the simple airport. When he saw the words "Seoul Airport" written in Korean on the top floor of the airport, a hint of contempt appeared in his eyes.

Really, they still use Korean. It really is a hopeless country.

Thinking this in his mind, Jin Yongzhe stood up and carried his suitcase off the plane. There was no boarding bridge, only an ordinary boarding ladder.

It's so backward!
When passing through customs, although Kim Yong-chul was holding a Korean passport, from the moment he got off the plane, everyone cast envious glances at him because of the metal plate on his chest - Nanyang University.

That's the best university in the world!
Under the envious gazes of the people, Jin Yongzhe walked out of the airport. As soon as he left the airport, someone came over and asked in fluent Mandarin:
"Sir, do you need to exchange Korean won? One South Asian dollar can be exchanged for 3500 Korean won!"

"4000! If possible, I'll change it to 10 yuan!"

Kim Yong-chul looked like he understood the market situation, but the other party was only willing to offer 3650 won. There was nothing he could do as this was the airport and this was already the highest price. However, Kim Yong-chul only needed some change.

10 Nanyang dollars can be earned by just eating three days of dishes in a Nanyang restaurant, but in Korea, it is equivalent to several months' income for many people.

Of course, it is also enough for Kim Yong-chul to pretend to be a rich man.

After exchanging the money, Jin Yongzhe hailed a taxi - Rongguang Car. Although the car is small, it is very popular in East Asian countries because of its cheapness.

"Sir, you were able to be admitted to Nanyang University. That's amazing! If you were in ancient times, you would definitely be the top scholar!"

As soon as we got in the car, the taxi driver couldn't help but praise us. After all, there are not many Koreans who can go to Nanyang University. They must be the best. Even Seoul National University cannot compare with them.

"Ah."

Nodding, Jin Yongzhe looked out the window at the shanty town of Seoul and couldn't help muttering:

"After all these years, Seoul is still in such a state, like a beggar's den!"

"Yes, everyone lives like a beggar,"

The taxi driver also complained:

"After so many years, people still don't have enough to eat. If I can get into university, I will definitely go to Nanyang to take a part-time job."

After getting admitted to university, I went to Nanyang to work!
This is simply unbelievable, but this is the fact - Nanyang gives 8000 work quotas to South Korea every year. These people do the dirtiest, most tiring and heavy physical work in Nanyang, but even so, a considerable number of these people are college students!

South Korean college students can only go to Southeast Asia to clean sewers and work on plantations!

But even so, such jobs are still sought after. Every year, more than 100,000 people sign up to go to Nanyang. In order to be able to go to Nanyang, they work hard to learn Mandarin, or Chinese, every day.

"I see you speak Mandarin fluently!"

Like many Korean students studying abroad, Jin Yongzhe is accustomed to using "Mandarin" to refer to "Chinese", because this makes him feel subconsciously superior, as if by saying these two words, he has become a Tang person.

In reality, this is almost impossible.

"Oh, sir, don't you know? At least half of the people on the streets of Seoul now speak Mandarin. There's nothing we can do about it. Everyone wants to go to Southeast Asia. Women want to go, and men want to go even more. Even if we can't go to mainland China, it's still great to go on merchant ships or fishing boats in Southeast Asia."

The taxi driver thought for a moment and then said:
"Even if you follow a construction company from Southeast Asia and go overseas to do construction, you can still make a lot of money."

In fact, Nanyang gave Koreans many opportunities to make money, or rather, gave their group of little brothers many opportunities to make money.

For example, in the past few years, a large number of Nanyang construction companies have begun to go overseas - to Europe, the United States, and even to Africa to undertake many large-scale construction projects.

This is especially true in Africa. Last year, with the independence of many African countries, those countries immediately began to use the aid provided to various countries to build large-scale projects. Some countries even planned skylines like Manhattan beyond their capabilities.

Anyway, everything is borne by European and American countries, and of course the Soviet Union and the entire Eastern Bloc, who are all using money to win over those independent African countries.

It is also because of this that those countries have sufficient funds to carry out infrastructure construction, and the Nanyang Construction Company, which has always been famous, will naturally not let go of this piece of fat meat and has gone overseas.

However, not many Nanyang construction workers are willing to go to Africa and other countries to carry out overseas projects. After all, they have to say goodbye to their wives and children. In this situation, Nanyang construction companies have hired construction workers from South Korea, Japan, Siam and other countries. These foreign construction workers are not only cheap, but also abundant in number, unlike Nanyang - even until now, Nanyang's labor force is still extremely scarce, after all, all walks of life need labor.

As a result, while Nanyang Construction Company was taking on a large number of overseas orders there, they also hired a large number of workers from Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, Siam and other countries, and hired them to carry out infrastructure construction in Africa and other countries.

In this process, construction companies in Southeast Asia made huge profits, and the workers earned salaries that were unimaginable in their own country. Of course, the export of labor also enabled the economies of those countries to develop to a certain extent. After all, for those countries, these remittances are extremely precious.

However, when hiring workers, Nanyang construction companies follow a principle, which is "Chinese first" - all workers must be able to speak French for the sake of ease of management.

Of course, this is only a superficial reason. The most fundamental reason is to promote Chinese. To promote a language, it is necessary for the language to become profitable.

Working overseas is the biggest bait. Almost all Koreans can see how men working overseas change their families with their sweat.

They can earn more in a month abroad than in a year in Korea. Not only do they make money overseas, but they also bring better intentions to their families and many new home appliances, which makes them the envy of their neighbors.

It is for this reason that everyone is eager to work overseas, and in order to get such an opportunity, they all start learning Chinese.

During this learning process, Chinese even seems to be replacing Korean, even this taxi driver speaks it fluently.

This would have been unimaginable a few years ago, but now it is a very normal thing in Seoul.

Soon the taxi drove into the city. Sitting in the car, Jin Yongzhe listened to the South Asian pop music coming from the radio while looking out the window.

Compared to a few years ago, Seoul has undergone some changes. For example, the signs of shops on both sides of the road are mostly written in Chinese characters.

"Well, Chinese characters are still more beautiful."

Kim Yong-chul couldn't help but have this thought in his mind. Like many Koreans who went to study in Southeast Asia, he had unknowingly become a "pro-South" person who only believed in the South.

In his eyes, everything in Southeast Asia is perfect. And what about South Korea? It's just a poor, backward country with no hope at all.

If he wasn't a government-sponsored student who had to return to South Korea after graduation, he wouldn't want to go back to this damn place at all.

But what choice does he have?
However, the only thing that makes Jin Yongze feel fortunate is that in the past four years of his study abroad, he studied in university while working in Southeast Asia. Over the years, he has saved up some money. Perhaps that amount of money is not worth mentioning in Southeast Asia, but in South Korea it is enough for him to live a rich life.

Just like now, after the taxi stopped in front of the hotel, Jin Yongzhe got out and carried his luggage into the hotel.

When he was in Nanyang, he was just a waiter in this kind of high-end hotel, but what about now?

He can become a guest of this hotel - all for just one Nanyang dollar!
Earn money in Nanyang and spend it in Korea!
This kind of life is so comfortable!
However, Jin Yongze was only enjoying it temporarily. After all, as a government-sponsored student, he had to report to the Ministry of Education after returning to China, and then the Ministry of Education would arrange a job for him based on his major.

This job is most likely to be in a government agency, but it is also possible to work in a company or university.

Anyway, from now on he can only earn a pitiful, even extremely low salary here like an ordinary Korean.

"Wait a little longer, wait a little longer. As long as I can get through this ten-year service period, I will definitely find an opportunity to return to Nanyang."

All government-sponsored overseas students must return to their home country to serve for ten years before their contract can be terminated. For a top student like Kim Yong-chul who graduated from Nanyang University, he was not willing to return to South Korea at all.

However, according to the agreement signed between Nanyang and South Korea, Nanyang will not issue residence visas to these people before their service period ends, so they have no other choice but to leave Nanyang.

Of course, because of this, they have some complaints against the South Korean government. After all, if it were not for the agreement between the two countries, they could have stayed in Southeast Asia, in that paradise.

However, even they themselves don’t know... In fact, this clause was proposed by Nanyang in order to encourage these international students studying in the United States to return to South Korea. Only when they return to South Korea can they become the backbone of South Korean society. After all, most international students studying in the United States will not return to South Korea.

When these students who study in Southeast Asia return to South Korea, they will become cutting-edge figures in various fields. In this way, the pro-South faction will enter various fields of the country and eventually become the leaders in those fields, and then the pro-South faction will naturally become the mainstream of the country.

Just like now, Jin Yongzhe only has resentment towards South Korea and nostalgia for Southeast Asia...

Looking at the city outside the window and the dilapidated buildings, Jin Yongzhe couldn't help complaining.

"Shit, it's been so many years, and South Korea is still in this state."

The thought of having to stay in South Korea for the next ten years filled his heart with resentment towards this country.

"Shit, I hope time goes by faster. It's only been ten years."

Like many people who have just returned from studying abroad, Jin Yongzhe simply regards the next ten years as a transition.

(End of this chapter)