'School is also for friendships and networking': Lee Teng on whether education is still vital now

He attended Nanyang Technological University and an acting school in Shanghai, but Lee Teng feels that school is not solely for accumulating knowledge.

Expressing that he studied accountancy to satisfy his parents' preference for job security, Lee Teng said: "I didn't know what to do when I was in my twenties… but I found accountancy pretty boring as I dealt with numbers the whole day." "Whereas kids these days, if they're interested in NewJeans, they can just type in the group name to find all music, videos and information related to them. We had relatively limited information about celebrities in the past."

He explained: "I acted in theatre way back in my school days and it got me interested in show business. So I told myself that I have to go back to a clean slate and rekindle my passion for acting."Lee Teng summarised that he learnt about enunciation and body language during the course, and there were high expectations of enunciation. "I used to speak with a strong Taiwanese accent, always speaking with a drawl. I already changed it a little .

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