“Hey, let’s keep in touch when we leave.”

“Yeah. Boot camps friends forever.”

Yoon Hyungseok felt his eyes feel hot.

He gave up on going to college and jumped into the apparel sales business. Unlike his initial plan of getting a small store in Hongdae, his friend and he started an internet sales business. As he was quite confident in his face and figure, he also acted as the fitting model. He created the site, and thanks to his friend’s experience with marketing, he gained quite a lot of profit in just one year.

He would wake up at early dawn, get some clothes from Dongdae-mun, take photos, package clothes, and pick up customer inquiry calls for the whole day, but he didn’t feel that exhausted since he felt proud that he was building up his foundation. When the business gained stability, and he even expanded his warehouse and hired employees, he got his draft notice. Hyungseok chose to enter the military service without hesitation. Until the day he was drafted, he thought that military service was nothing compared to selling clothes. He only thought about playing boy scout for two years and about how to continue his clothes business.

The impression he had of the military broke on the first day.

“You are not here to play around!”

Why was it so scary when that came from someone younger than him? It wasn’t just that either.

“Get out of your Civies.”

When he stood in a daze because he didn’t know what that meant, the instructor shouted at him to change his clothes. When the other recruits next to him started taking off...