Confession of academic complex Kim Nam-joo, the secret to raising the top 1% gifted? The whole living room is a book

Jun 09, 2025

Confession of academic complex Kim Nam-joo, the secret to raising the top 1% gifted? The whole living room is a book



Actor Kim Nam-joo confessed his educational view, recalling his poor childhood.

On the 9th, a video titled 「'Kim Nam-ju' was uploaded on the YouTube channel 'Lalalal, a beginner mother, and a senior mother, Kim Nam-ju, to learn how to educate her children'. While YouTuber Lalal appeared as a guest on the day, Kim Nam-joo told the story of her quitting as a city hall official in the past.

Kim Nam-joo said, `My house is so poor that I said I couldn't send it if I fell from my college years, but I fell. So I worked part-time as a city government official. I was 20 at the time, and a 31-year-old man liked me."




In response, Lalal said "I was 11 years older than my husband, but I was deceived because I looked young."

Confession of academic complex Kim Nam-joo, the secret to raising the top 1% gifted? The whole living room is a book
Kim Nam-joo said, `I quit and got a job at the judicial clerk's office, but I was Miss Kim. They say 'Miss Kim coffee tawa' and 'Do the magic trick' At that time, I realized it while I was playing Mapojil. I can't live by Miss Kim. So I asked my mom to send me a college. That's how I came out of a vocational college and did Miss Korea."

Kim Nam-joo said "I didn't originally dream of becoming an actor. My father died when he was three years old. I didn't even know my father's face. It turned out later that my father learned a minor role. You appeared in many works as a minor actor. I feel like my father has relieved your resentment through me."




Confession of academic complex Kim Nam-joo, the secret to raising the top 1% gifted? The whole living room is a book
On the other hand, Kim Nam-joo mentioned her first daughter, who boasts a top 1% grade.

Lalal, who recently gave birth to her first daughter, said "There are still a lot of difficulties. They don't even send me to the daycare center. I have to make a reservation for a daycare center and do something, but I just want to roll it on the ground and raise it in nature. But it's hard because there's no one to ask", he confessed his concern.

In response, Kim Nam-joo "Isn't private education too developed in Korea?" The reality is that it's too difficult for children's abilities, and Lalal agreed that "I don't want to do that because I'm going to study entering the gifted class from the age of 3 to 4." It doesn't mean that I'm being asked to do it. I hope you grow up properly."




In response, Kim Nam-joo is "That's right. That's the parent's dilemma. When my children grew up, I had books all over the living room. I was scolded if I didn't read the book."

Then "This is good and I have no regrets, but it's not like I did so well." They all have different standards," he said. "Mother loves the same way. There seems to be nothing right or wrong with a different way,' he advised.

Meanwhile, Kim Seung-woo and Kim Nam-joo's daughter Ra-hee reportedly received the top 5% of gifted students and the top 1% of students nationwide in the gifted test when she was in elementary school. Kim Nam-joo's daughter graduated from an international school in Songdo, Incheon, and focused on her studies at a prestigious boarding school in Massachusetts, the United States.

In particular, Kim Nam-joo appeared on tvN 'Uquiz on the Block' last year and drew attention by candidly saying "It's because I have an academic complex" as a reason for focusing on my children's education.



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