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A special graduation ceremony was held today (17th). Students who started studying late have completed their junior high and high school courses, and learning is a dream in itself, and now they are starting to take on a new challenge.

Seungyeon Hong is a reporter.

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Eighty-year-old grandfather Lee Seung-dae had to stop his studies due to family circumstances after finishing
elementary school.

I retired after more than 30 years of public service, but my studies were life's work.

[Lee Seungdae/Busan Dong-gu (80 years old): (Heart) On one side, there was a great desire to learn. [I used to don't know much English, so it was dark when I was on the road with signs, car models, etc.]

He and his wife, Bok-soon Bae, completed three semesters a year from junior high school and received the high school diploma of their dreams in four years.

The elderly couple are accepted to a university in Busan, and next month, Mr. Lee will be a real estate student and Mr. Bae will be a university student majoring in herbal medicine.

[Bae Bok-soon/Busan Dong-gu (3 years old): I am so grateful that I feel like I have achieved my dream. I'm looking forward to (college life). I want to go and try hard.]

Of the 4 students in their 76s to 30's with high school diplomas in their arms, more than half (80) go on to college.

[Lee Seong-won/Pukyung Health High School teacher: Because I study because I want to, I don't have anyone in class. He finished all the studies in our classroom that he didn't learn as a child.]

More than 216 junior high school students graduated as well, including a grandmother who gave up her studies after being injured as a child and graduated from junior high school at the age of eighty.

[Coordinator/Busan Sahagu (121 years old): If you don't learn English, you don't know what CT is. I went to the second floor of the CT room. That's what I was too. I can't be so ecstatic.]

The students who showed themselves that there is no time for learning.

With the passion of learning in our arms, we embark on another challenge.

(Video Interview: Jung Kyung-moon)