I am a web developer with 4 years of experience. I am also a developer who has a common inferiority complex (?) about my education.

That's why graduate school has been an object of envy for me since I was in school. After graduating from a 3-year junior college and Korea National Open University, I graduated and worked, and it gradually faded away.

There are a few reasons why I haven't been able to go to graduate school while I've been thinking about it.

1. Graduate school is expensive.
Yes, graduate school is incredibly expensive.
It usually costs around 6 to 7 million won per semester. Even if you're working, you have to spend most of your salary on tuition.

2. I don't have time.

Yes, I don't have time.
I have to work while going to school, so even if I apply for night classes, if I have to work overtime... I'll end up like the meme above. I've been thinking about it for a long time, but I haven't been able to put it into action for these two reasons.

But I decided to go to graduate school after much deliberation, thinking that if I just thought about it this way, I would regret it later.

Since I have to work while going to school, I looked for graduate schools focusing on the following:

• Graduate schools with low tuition
• Graduate schools that offer weekend classes

As you can see, I started to think about the two reasons why I couldn't go to graduate school.

The graduate schools on my final list were Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, and Kookmin University.

Seoul National University of Science and Technology and Seoul National University of Science and Technology are national universities, so their tuition is relatively low, at around 2 to 3 million won, but they offer night classes on weekdays, so there is a risk that I might not be able to go to school due to distance.

Kookmin University has the advantage of offering weekend classes, but the tuition of about 7 million won was too burdensome for a junior developer. Everyone wants conditions 1 and 2, but it was difficult to find a graduate school that met them.

Since most of the application deadlines were already over, I wanted to aim for enrollment in early next year, but I wanted to take the challenge quickly after I made up my mind. While looking around here and there, I found the perfect graduate school for me.

It's Dankook University's Graduate School of Information Convergence Technology Entrepreneurship.

All classes are held on weekends, so it has the disadvantage of not having Saturdays, but it's a good condition for me because I'd rather be relaxed than be uncomfortable going to school on weekdays. Secondly, the tuition was solved within my expectations because I could receive a government scholarship of about 40%.

The results came out today, two days after the interview (non-face-to-face due to Corona), from the application.

I finally got accepted into the graduate school I've wanted to go to for years.

It's going to be difficult to juggle work and school, but I've had experience juggling work and school while attending Broadcasting University, so I think I've had some kind of preventive injection.

I think many developers are considering specialized graduate schools due to Corona, and orientation, classes, etc., are likely to be non-face-to-face, but through the graduate school challenge, I will share the information I have experienced with many people.