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Published at 15th of August 2019 11:35:08 PM
Chapter 184
Gun-Ho was having a beer with Jae-Sik at the security office in his company . It was all dark outside .

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"You used to be very active in the literature club when we were in high school, and if I remember correctly, you also participated in making our school newspapers . "
"Yeah, I did . After graduating from high school, I went to college in Seoul and majored in creative writing . It was not one of the top universities, but I had a good life at that time because I could do what I enjoy doing . "
"That's right . I think I heard that you studied creative writing . "
"I even won the annual spring literature contest after graduating from college, which was held by a newspaper company in a province . At that time I felt like I could rule the world . I wanted to get a job in a newspaper company, but I found a job at a publishing company instead . "
"So you got a job where you can use what you learned in college and that was also what you liked to do with your life . "
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"As you know, a publisher is different from a factory like here . It was a small publisher with only three or four employees and it wasn't doing very well . "
"Hmm . "
"However, that publisher was publishing a few bestseller books at that time, so they could pay me even though it was not much . I met my ex-wife there too . "
Jae-Sik's voice started shaking when he talked about his wife .
"Have some more beer . "

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"Sure . "
Jae-Sik sipped his can of beer before he continued to talk .
"Did your wife work at the same publisher?"
"My wife was a poet . In order to make our livings, we both worked at the publisher as a freelancer doing proofreading and editing . "
"Hmm . "
"So we hit it off when we met . I was a chief editor at the publisher at that time . Unfortunately, the company could no longer find a good book that would generate enough revenue . Any subsequent books we published were sold less than 500 books at a maximum . "
"Does it cost a substantial amount of money to publish a book?"
"Our company usually published foreign books . So it cost more than 10 million won to do the translation, editing, design and printing work . "
"Wow, it does cost a lot . "
"That company eventually had to close its business . I couldn't find a job in the field afterward because the publishing industry wasn't doing well at that time . So I made a living by doing editing . However, I don't know what happened to me; I guess I had to stay in the field doing editing even though I wasn't making much . But, instead, I opened a deep-fried chicken restaurant with a loan . "

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"Hmm . "
"I put about 100 million won in that restaurant business including its premium . However, the restaurant strangely suffered from the beginning . Moreover, my wife became testy because of the customers who were rude and loud, and sometimes they harassed my wife, those low-lives . "

"Hmm . "
"She would have been able to take some stress that arose from the business if we were making good money . However, the business was suffering, and we were pressured by the creditors to repay the loan, on top of those abusive customers . My wife couldn't take it anymore . You know people who write like a poem, they are more sensitive than average people . "

"Did your wife invest her money in the restaurant too?"
"She did . She took out the money from her credit cards here and there and invested 20 million won in the business . I also used my credit cards in addition to loan from a bank and put about 40 million won in the business . "
"So, you started the business with your own cash of 30 million won . "
"I had a severance pay of 5 million won that I received from the publishing company's president . He literally cried when he gave it to me . And I borrowed 10 million won from my mother . I used those 15 million won in addition to my own cash—another 15 million won . "
"The debt was too high compared to your own investment fund . "

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"The debt grew like a snowball and we were behind our rent . It was that time when my wife eventually suffered a miscarriage of a baby; she asked me to divorce her . "
"Whew . I had similar life experiences . You had a harsh time . "
"I haven't heard from my wife for a while . She must still be suffering financially because of her credit card debt . She is probably having a hard life doing editing work . "
"Hmm . "
"When I eventually closed the deep-fried chicken restaurant, I was left with a debt of over 50 million won . I suffered for quite a while by the creditors before I became a person with a bad credit score . "
"Why didn't you apply for rehabilitation?"
"I did . With rehabilitation program, I was supposed to pay off debts according to a payment plan provided by the court . I was paying a certain amount of money to the court every month for several months until the accident happened . "
"An accident?"
"I was doing the editing work, but when I couldn't get enough work to make a living, I got a job in a delivery company . I think I worked there for about half a year until the accident . I was delivering a package and I had to make a quick delivery, so I made a U-turn where I was not supposed to do and then I hit a car that was coming from the opposite direction . I crossed the yellow line to make a U-turn . I guess something happened to me that day to cloud my judgment . "
"Hmm . "
"I am not good at physical work since I have always done office work like writing and editing . Moreover, I had a bad credit score . So it was really hard to find a job . I saw Jong-Suk working with machines and doing welding . He looks great . I know I can't do that kind of work . "
"So, you have 50 million won debt in total?"
"I have been paying for the debt until now . I think I have 30 million won left by now . Oh, I talked with the general affairs manager the other day about it . He said I would get paid 1 . 6 million won per month, and I can take the amount of basic living expenses out of it before it is seized . I think I can save some money then . "
"Saving money?"
"Yeah . My rent is paid by the company, and I can have my meals at the company . So, I think I can pay off the debt after ten years working here . "

"Right . The biggest expense that the people who don't make enough money is the cost of the rent . The people who don't have money have to pay for rent, and the people who have money receive that rent from them . That's the current economic system we are living in . Consequently, the gap between the rich and poor is getting bigger . Ten years are too long for you . "
"Well, it is still hope . It's a good thing that the debt is shrinking instead of growing . There is one thing that bothers me a lot though . I collected some funds from our friends from high school to make an alumni directory book . I couldn't make it happen even though I really was going to make it . "
"People don't make those types of directory book nowadays, do they? Many people don't want to expose their real address . "
"I know . So I was going to enter their e-mail address instead of physical addresses with phone numbers . I started collecting the necessary information and writing some stuff already like the history and path that our school took so far and news from our friends, etc . I still have the writings with me . It will cost 2-3 million won to complete it but I used that money to pay my rent because I was about to be evicted . I became an animal to our friends . "
Jae-Sik eventually burst into tears .

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