(1)June 25, 2019, 213 PM ·image text translation
(2)Making 80 million won in 8 months.
(3)At the age of 25, I was in debt for 30 million won.
(4)It was a debt from the clothing business.
(5)It was too much money at the time.
(6)It wasn’t going to work out if I told my parents.
(7)As soon as I say it, I don’t care if it’s my dream or not.
(8)I should have been dragged home right now and lived the life my parents wanted.
(9)So I didn’t tell anyone around me.
(10)He moved to Seoul with his entire fortune of 340,000 won.
(11)I had a vague idea that there would be something to make money in Seoul.
(12)First of all, I had to find a room, but there was no room I could get for 340,000 won.It rains a lot the next day.
(13)I found a room while carrying an umbrella and carrying a carrier.
(14)I usually went to goshiwon, but no matter how cheap it is,
(15)I had to pay more than 350,000 won.
(16)When I saw about 12 rooms, I was so hungry.
(17)It’s raining outside. Go home now.
(18)I thought it would be realistic to ask for help.
(19)However, if I did that, I thought I would never be able to pursue my favorite dream or do anything I wanted to do again, because the moment I got help, I would not be able to achieve true independence.
(20)And I remembered that I opposed people around me when I said I was doing the clothing business with the money I saved from my part-time job, so I didn’t want to go back as it was.
(21)I wanted to go back with my own success.
(22)I slept in a sauna and found a room for 3 days.
(23)It was a room in a goshiwon that costs 240,000 won a month.
(24)It wasn’t a room, but a storage room used in a goshiwon.
(25)All the internet wires in the goshiwon were on.
(26)The shoe rack that I used to use before is all in here, too.
(27)It was much narrower.
(28)But I thought it was a relief.
(1)First, I unpacked, cleaned, and ate.image text translation
(2)The goshiwon gave me free rice and kimchi.
(3)What I ate in my life was the worst out of rice and kimchi.
(4)Maybe it’s because it was a cheap place, but the hygiene was so bad.
(5)Now that I think about it, it was more difficult to eat than to stay in the room.
(6)Still, I was thinking about what’s for free.
(7)There was a rooftop at the goshiwon.
(8)I liked the rooftop. The view from the rooftop in downtown Seoul is really cool.
(9)There were very tall buildings and buildings, and people who lived in those places
(10)I thought about what kind of food to eat and what kind of life to live.
(11)I thought it was a very different height from what I am now.
(12)It was like heaven there and hell here.
(13)But if you go up to the rooftop, you can see the night view with the cool breeze.
(14)I thought it was somewhere between heaven and hell.
(15)I still remember the night view at night, so I often visit there.
(16)Anyway, how can I repay my debt for 30 million won right now?
(17)Will I be able to pay back the target time in 8 months and 8 months?
(18)First of all, I started the delivery service.
(19)After a few days, besides being physically exhausted,
(20)I’m going to gather them up.
(21)I thought it was meaningless to come to Seoul.
(22)I’ve been looking for something else.
(23)by chance
(24)I saw an old man selling glutinous rice cake on the street.
(25)At first, I thought he was just a guy who sells rice cakes.
(26)There were always a lot of people where he went for a few days, and the line was long. I ran into him more than 10 times in a month to see if he came here regularly, and I thought it would be money.
(27)I’ve been chasing you for a few days, telling you what I’m doing, and barely listening to you.
(28)Here’s the bottom line.
(1)You can take off the sticky rice cake for 1,000 won and sell it for 3,000 won.image text translation
(2)I’ve been working here for 20 years, and I own a factory.
(3)The monthly income was over 10 million won a month.
(4)At first, I thought it was a lie, but when I saw the number sold, I thought it could really be.
(5)I’ve been following him for a whole week to see what he’s wearing.
(6)On the way to work early in the morning, on the way to lunch, on the way home, on the way home early in the morning, at the restaurant,
(7)While eating, he said, “Where are the most people and where people buy the most?”
(8)What people buy the most and how they sell it to sell the best.
(9)It’s been 20 years since I found out what to say to make people the best living.
(10)Anyway, the conclusion is…
(11)If you bring it for 1,000 won and sell it for 3,000 won, you’ll have 2,000 won left, so you’ll sell 100 a day.
(12)200,000 won for noodles.
(13)That’s what I thought.
(14)It looked easy to sell.
(15)There were people who bought two at a time, and they bought several at restaurants and bars.
(16)There seemed to be some people who came quickly, four or five at a time.
(17)I don’t know what I put on it. I bought 100,000 won worth of rice cake and the next day,
(18)I went out on the street to sell.
(19)I couldn’t sell it for a day.
(20)I was so embarrassed that I couldn’t say a word.
(21)I couldn’t sell any the next day.
(22)The next day, too.
(23)I don’t think I should keep doing this.
(24)He approached people and talked to them and started selling them.
(25)But it was hard to sell one a day.
(26)I was embarrassed, but I worked harder because I became stubborn.
(27)There were many times I walked more than 14 hours a day.
(28)I went into a restaurant and sold it.
(29)No one bought it for me easily.
(30)It’s been about a month.
(31)At least I had almost run out of money, and I was anxious and so anxious.
(1)More than anything, I was desperate. I don’t have money right now.image text translation
(2)It was all the more frightening to go down after wasting time in Seoul without paying off the debt.
(3)Being alone in a warehouse-like room every day became increasingly depressing.
(4)compared to people who work for decent companies.
(5)I felt like I was the only one who lost his way.
(6)For the first time, I thought I wanted to die.
(7)The amount isn’t the problem, but he looked so hateful and ugly.
(8)When a person is having a hard time,
(9)When things don’t go well even if you work hard, as much as it’s unfair and unfair,
(10)I heard that you lose your motivation to live, but that’s exactly the time I spent.
(11)I think I got it.
(12)I think I’d rather do it again with the courage to die.
(13)At that time, I stayed near Seoul Station.
(14)Go to the tallest building in the neighborhood, and everyone who goes to work there
(15)He’s my guest.
(16)So I didn’t tell them to buy rice cakes.
(17)I should cheer for them. That’s what I thought.
(18)I went out around 6 a.m. in front of the building at 8:30 a.m.
(19)He laid out a mat and bowed loudly, shouting like this every day.
(20)”Good luck today, everyone!
(21)I really wanted to die when I first bowed on a mat. I was embarrassed.
(22)But I shouted even louder because I thought I should do it with the courage to die.
(23)I was scared. I was scared.
(24)My legs kept shaking when the temple lasted for two hours.
(25)And from 11 to 1 o’clock, I make flyers.
(26)I’m going to explain why I’m doing this, and I’m only going to ask people for flyers.
(27)I gave it away.
(28)The leaflet says,
(29)I will be the best clothing businessman in Korea.
(30)Now I’ve been through this kind of failure.
(31)To prepare for the business again, right now,
(32)It was about selling rice cakes.
(1)And from 4pm to 8pm, during the rush hour,image text translation
(2)I opened the mat again and bowed deeply.
(3)Thank you for your hard work today!
(4)Every day, at the same place, at the same time,
(5)I went out every day.
(6)A day or two has passed and a month has passed,
(7)I couldn’t even sell five.
(8)I was desperate again. If I can’t do it, I’ll die.
(9)They continued to sell rice cakes on the spot.
(10)Three months later, I sold 40,000 won worth of goods, and nothing else was sold again.
(11)At that time, I was reckless, scared, lonely, and sad,
(12)I wanted to go all the way.
(13)It’s not the line that others have made.
(14)Until the end of my efforts, I won’t leave any regrets.
(15)I cried almost every day in the goshiwon room. But if you give up now,
(16)I clenched my teeth because I thought that all the time I had tried was meaningless.
(17)I was really desperate. Even if it rained, I went out with an umbrella.
(18)the day of the eighth month old
(19)One day a man in a young suit came up to me and said,
(20)”Can you give me a moment? Our CEO wants to see you”.
(21)This is 100 per cent true and it was eight years ago.
(22)I didn’t know what was going on and I wasn’t interested at all.
(23)But I couldn’t afford to waste my time.
(24)But he politely came to me three times and asked me to do it.
(25)It was the secretary of the president of the building I was bowing to.
(26)I took a few employee cards and followed them in.
(27)There was a person with white hair who looked very rich.
(28)And as soon as he saw me, he said,
(29)Now that I’ve taken your time,
(30)I’ll pay you back your time.
(31)Take off your shoes, change into sneakers, and hold a box of rice cakes.
(32)I’m going to go around and sell it to the staff.
(33)I’m going to show you a video, and you’re asking me to give you an hour.
(34)It was a request.
(1)And I saw the video that the CEO played for me.image text translation
(2)The chairman really changed into sneakers and went around the building to sell rice cakes.
(3)The content of the video is that a young person does sales
(4)It was the best operating profit video in the world.
(5)It was about making a lot of money and succeeding.
(6)When the video ended, the chairman came in and told me.
(7)He gave me his personal business card and said he wanted to work with me.
(8)You don’t need college or academic background.
(9)And after a long time, he said this.
(10)Young people these days don’t know what’s really cool.
(11)Good shoes, good suits, good car rides.
(12)I know it’s cool.
(13)You’re the coolest young person I’ve ever seen.
(14)He said he’s been watching for eight months.
(15)At first, he kept bowing in front of someone else’s building.
(16)I was trying to get rid of him because he’s crazy.
(17)The staff brought the flyers and found out why they did it.
(18)At first, he said he left it because it was fun.
(19)But he bows every single day.
(20)They cheered for people leaving work, so one day, I saw them…
(21)You can feel your heart moving.
(22)I’m starting to think it’s amazing.
(23)I’ll quit in a month.
(24)I’ll quit in two months.
(25)You’ve been bowing every single day for 8 months.
(26)I really wanted to hear why you did that.
(27)And I told you why I did that.
(28)The chairman said,
(29)If you try to die, you end up living.
(30)I spent this time because I wanted to start the clothing business again at that time.
(31)He politely declined and returned the CEO’s business card when he came out.
(32)I gave you a cheap business card made of my paper and said,
(33)If you need rice cake at work, please contact me!
(34)And as you walk out,
(35)I cried a lot.
(1)It was different from the tears I shed at the goshiwon.image text translation
(2)It’s not because I’m lonely or pitiful, but because I’m living my life so beautifully, I don’t think that someone who’s succeeded in living it first
(3)I felt like he was rooting for me.
(4)You can just say that you’re right.
(5)And a month has passed.
(6)I got a call from an unknown number.
(7)I got a call saying that I need a large amount of rice cake for the entire company.
(8)I got a call asking if I could meet the quantity.I was able to supply and sell 80 million won worth of products.I think the CEO bought it for me.I paid off my debt and had a dreamlike time.
(9)Since then, I’ve tried the clothing business again, and I’ve failed in the end.
(10)However, there will be many moments when we fail.
(11)I think I learned how to overcome and overcome failures.
(12)I don’t know how I should live in the future.
(13)I learned how to live and how to live.
(14)I came to believe in my earnestness.
(15)You may fail, but you will overcome it and overcome it.
(16)I came to believe in myself.
(17)If you’re in any desperate situation reading this, don’t give up.
(18)I wish I could trust your earnestness.
(19)And if you want to achieve your goal, you have to be desperate.
(20)A man who is not desperate cannot beat a man who is desperate.
(21)And in life, there’s a desperate moment for everyone.
(22)To achieve that, you have to believe in yourself to the end.
(23)You believe in yourself.
(24)Supporting yourself for your desperation.
(25)I’m sure you’re lonely and scared,
(26)You might cry because of difficulties.
(27)So that it can turn into tears of joy.
(28)I hope you can take a step forward tomorrow without losing.
(29)We can all bloom.
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