Lee Hyeon-Su stared at Kang Jin-Ho in sheer flabbergast.0

“Sir… Of course your mother would get furious after you explained things that way.”0

“...Why would she, though?”0

“That's what running a business is like, sir.”0

Lee Hyeon-Su wryly grinned. At least in South Korea, “running a business” was synonymous with “bankrupting one's family.”0

The mid-90s IMF incident led to a large-scale unemployment crisis in South Korea. Those two events were like consecutive death blows to people who had no choice but to risk their necks on starting their own businesses.0

Plenty of them were simply ill-prepared, and too many competitors jumped in to saturate the market at the same time. The result was the mutual destruction of everyone.0

It was never easy for people with zero experience to jump in and safely land in the cutthroat world of business. Unsurprisingly, that era saw seemingly an unending procession of business people going bankrupt.0

At least their situation would've been a bit better had they accepted their failures and moved on. Unfortunately, many of them got loans from banks and other shady places and even roped in their relatives, only to dig themselves even deeper into debt.0

Shortly after that, Korea was swept up in the venture capital startup craze. After that storm had come and gone, the South Koreans began thinking that running a business was no different from a gamble where you could instantly lose everything.0

As a result, countless Korean 9-to-6 workers dreaming of quitting their jobs and starting their own...0