It was now the middle of summer, and natural disasters occurred on random dates. The torrential rain from Typhoon Olga in the Korean Peninsula failed to cool down the stock market. In the past, the Korean KOSDAQ[1] market had gone crazy as the dotcom boom in New York occurred. 

After the Russian financial war last year, I had placed ten billion dollars in the Jeon-il Group. Things had changed for the better when the money had been all thrown into the Korean KOSPI market and it had indirectly bolstered the market by increasing the amount of capital held in Korean hands. There were major fluctuations in the market as the stock price exceeded a thousand points in a single day, so it was a significant change, especially in this era. 

Daehyun Securities rushed to launch the ‘Buy Korea Fund,’ which exploited patriotism by appealing to citizens to purchase domestic stocks before foreigners swept them away at...