The news reported a number of companies filing for bankruptcy and major domestic firms restructuring plans due to the aftermath of high-interest rates. They also broadcasted how major companies were urgently liquidating their foreign branch properties to save their head offices. Not a single day passed by quietly at the end of January 1998. Japan took Korea’s financial crisis as an opportunity and broke the fishing agreement unilaterally.

The exchange currency plunged to approximately 1,500 won, but it was just a temporary illusion created during the IMF negotiations.

My day began with reading the newspapers in the building’s mailboxes to confirm how history was changing with my intervention. The major flow had not changed from the previous history, but minor details such as things for personal gain were different now.

For instance, foreign firms were purchasing domestic real estate quicker than in history. It was because Jeon-il had advanced the opening date of real estate by half a year in exchange for large-scale investment, but I saw names I hadn’t seen in the domestic market in the past....