Breaking the Cartel (2)

About 51% of South Korea's population lives in the Seoul metropolitan area, including Seoul itself.

That's why people half-jokingly and half-seriously say that we may not be living in the Republic of Korea, but in the Republic of Seoul.

The policies I'm planning to implement will be judged this way by later generations too.

'Kim Dae-bung turned Joseon into the Republic of Hanyang!'

"Chief State Councillor."

Hwang Hui swallowed hard after hearing me.

It was true that I was holding a huge stack of proposals for the Hanyang Development Project.

Even so, I honestly felt a little aggrieved by Hwang Hui's reaction, which seemed to say, ‘Oh no, what major undertaking is he launching this time?’

No, it seemed people often thought of me as some kind of demon who churned out work.

I was only a lowly junior fourth-rank official—how could I become the Demon of Overwork...