When the currency crisis swept Asia in 1997, Korea also couldn’t avoid the typhoon. Korea necessarily held hands of the International Monetary Fund, but they asked tremendous change like restructuring and financial market opening in return. Then speculative capitals like Lone Star took over Korean companies and banks with legal and illegal methods and made huge profits in process of selling out them. At the same time, however, they left deep wounds that haven’t healed yet. Many people were angry with their greed and called them a monster. After a long time, Korea is startlingly becoming like them. There are about 200 private equity funds whose profits are mostly made from M&A deals. And also ordinary people are excessively interested in financial incomes like hedge fund because their labor can’t make them rich. A world where labor can’t be respected though it can’t be maintained without labor. How should we live there?

It is respectable who becomes rich fairly and legitimately in this capitalistic society. However, people know that being labor can't make them rich. Their distortional desire broke the boundaries between investment and speculation, and money has encroached value of labor. I made this documentary film to think together how we live in this world. 

- KONG Quee-hyun