Get Schooled / True Education — Chapter 72¶
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Reader page 1 — The children refuse to return¶
Yoon-jung rejects her father’s claim that raising her gives him permanent authority.
The female helper says she expects to see the “goblin auntie” or other members of the network again, but the confrontation’s result is clear:
Not one child chooses to return home with the parents.
The parents leave without regaining custody.
Reader pages 2–3 — Lim revises her assumptions¶
Lim admits that she once thought runaway children were generally rebellious.
The case has shown her that many are fleeing conditions adults would also try to escape.
She can understand part of the helper leader’s argument about self-determination, even though the woman used that argument to justify exploitation.
Na and the others discuss the danger of allowing any child to sever family ties on demand.
At the same time, the existing system often evaluates everything from an adult perspective and silences the child whose safety is in question.
Reader page 4 — Source-stated national figures¶
The chapter presents statistics about runaway youth and shelter capacity.
As stated in the scanlation:
- approximately 24,000 runaway reports are made each year,
- the actual number may be around 120,000,
- there are roughly 130 youth shelters nationwide,
- around 1,200 helpers or workers serve those shelters,
- and the annual budget is about 240 billion won.
The text compares that budget to the much larger national spending associated with low birth rates, describing it as approximately 0.6 percent of a 43-trillion-won budget.
These figures are recorded as the chapter presents them; they are not independently verified here.
Reader pages 5–6 — The center receives more children¶
New runaways arrive at the youth center.
Some traveled by train from Busan after hearing that the center was safe and would not immediately call their parents.
They ask cautiously whether the promise is real.
Staff welcome them, provide food and beds, and begin discussing education and placement.
The facility is already attracting more children than the original case involved.
Reader page 7 — Yoon-jung begins planning again¶
Yoon-jung looks healthier and more relaxed.
She discusses returning to school or continuing education and visiting Yoo-jung.
Other girls ask whether they can come too.
The recovered ability to plan is the clearest sign of safety. Earlier, every decision was about surviving the next night or customer.
Reader pages 8–9 — The helper enters prison¶
The female helper leader is incarcerated.
She says she was convicted of exploiting minors and arranging prostitution and received approximately three years and six months.
She continues insisting that the trial was wrong because she “helped” the children.
A scanlation note says adult and juvenile women may be housed within the same women’s-prison system in Korea. The note is preserved as source commentary rather than independently verified.
Reader page 10 — Han Yeri’s welcome party¶
Yeri greets the newcomer.
The helper misstates her name, and Yeri corrects her:
“MY NAME IS YERI, NOT YEORI.”
Yeri identifies her as the woman who abused Yoon-jung.
Other incarcerated girls gather.
They call the confrontation a welcome party and order the new prisoner to wipe the floor with one hand.
The woman who once controlled runaway girls through housing and debt now enters another rigid hierarchy at the bottom.
Reader page 11 — The agency leaves the youth center¶
Na and Lim thank the center’s staff for accepting the children.
The staff say they are glad to help.
Before the inspectors leave, a worker asks them to speak with a newly arrived boy.
His case is unlike the others.
He says he barely escaped death and was rescued by a fisherman.
His parents are good people.
The threat came from his entire neighborhood.
Reader page 12 — “The police won’t work”¶
The boy says police cannot solve the problem.
The people trying to kill him and his teacher are not one family or one delinquent group.
The neighborhood acts together and follows its own rules.
The chapter transitions into a rainy rural flashback.
Reader page 13 — A new teacher arrives in the village¶
Older residents sit together watching an old television comedy program.
They praise the past and complain that modern life has changed.
A soaked young female teacher arrives at a local office or community building and asks an official for help.
She says the villagers are threatening her.
Several men recognize her as the new teacher.
They offer an umbrella and say they will escort her because the houses are nearby.
Their politeness feels coordinated rather than reassuring.
Reader page 14 — Neighborhood law¶
One villager notes that the teacher graduated from a university in Seoul and probably understands national law.
He then says the neighborhood’s law is more important than the law of Korea.
If she breaks local rules, the neighborhood will punish her.
The umbrella falls.
The men surround the teacher in the rain.
The language turns a community tradition into collective authorization for violence.
Reader page 15 — “My neighborhood is crazy”¶
The boy in a yellow raincoat witnesses the attack.
He runs or cries out:
“MY NEIGHBORHOOD IS CRAZY!”
The female teacher is shown bloodied in the rain.
The boy begs the agency:
“HELP SAVE MY TEACHER!”
The chapter ends on the opening of a rural-community arc in which an entire neighborhood, rather than a single student or parent, claims authority over a school employee.
Chapter-level observations¶
1. The case produces a practical institution¶
The youth center does more than punish traffickers. It supplies the alternative whose absence allowed trafficking to flourish.
2. Source statistics frame the problem as national capacity¶
The number of children estimated to run away is far larger than the number formally reported, while shelter staffing and budgets remain limited.
3. Yeri becomes an agent of accountability¶
Her prison status does not prevent her from protecting Yoon-jung or confronting the woman who exploited her.
4. The next arc changes the scale of opposition¶
The agency is no longer facing a hidden bully or abusive household. The boy describes an entire community enforcing local authority through collective violence.