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To Yoo Hyekyung, the sky was always a 'close place.' With her father as a captain on international routes and her mother as a flight attendant for a foreign airline, her daily life was always spent between the departure and arrival gates. Watching the runway through the glass, seeing countless planes take off and land, was her greatest joy. Hyekyung's uncle was an aircraft mechanic, a veteran who could pinpoint a problem just by listening to the engine sound. Whenever young Hyekyung visited the maintenance hangar at the airport where her uncle worked, she would hold her breath standing beneath the massive aircraft. "A plane must receive the most love on the ground before it can rise into the sky." These words from her uncle taught Hyekyung the 'value of invisible effort.' Hyekyung's aunt was an air traffic controller. The sight of her aunt organizing the flight paths of dozens of aircraft with a single, calm voice was another shock to Hyekyung. "The sky is vast, but there is no room for mistakes." Her aunt's words taught Hyekyung the weight of the word responsibility. As a child, Hyekyung felt all these scenes were simply 'cool.' But as she grew older, she realized. The sky does not let just anyone up. The sky does not tolerate a single mistake; it is a space where a moment's judgment changes hundreds of lives, and behind someone's elegance lies endless training and pressure. That was when Hyekyung realized. The sky is not an object of admiration, but a target of challenge. So, instead of just dreaming, Hyekyung began to prepare. She memorized aviation radio terminology, studied route differences based on weather changes, and restarted every time she failed in the simulator. Because she loved the sky, she became stricter. Because she wanted the sky, she became humbler.