chapter 13
13. Collusion
The Great Collapse was soon over.
But no one was relieved. Of course, short-haired people would have a smile on their faces, but it seemed like they couldn’t laugh openly either.
『The shock of the 99% crash… Suspension of Korean virtual currency mana trading』
『The market capitalization of 59 trillion evaporated, and even Bitcoin collapsed due to a chain shock』
『An American YouTuber who praised Kwon Ye-sol also lost 10 billion won… A sea of tears for investors around the world
A sea of tears. Now that the price of each mana is less than 400 won, it was good enough to shed tears.
To be honest, even 400 won was a market price applied only to some exchanges. The 1st and 2nd exchanges in the US and Korea had already stopped trading Mana, and there was even talk of delisting. That’s what investors were crazy about.
[Suho. My uncle Why aren’t you answering the phone?]
[Couldn’t you have warned me in advance? It’s not just my money. I went in with the money I earned from washing the dishes at my dad’s restaurant. I lost more than 200 million in principal, but I still can’t believe it, so I checked and checked again and then contacted me.]
[7 Billion went away in one day. But I feel strange because I think you’re laughing.]
Seong-Min Moon, as well as an alumni, relative, and reporter who didn’t even know he was a mana investor…. And even an unknown person was complaining to me about his situation.
I was just silent.
‘Even if I tried to soothe it, it would be rather poisonous. It could be worse than that.’
Giving trivial consolation to someone who lost 99 percent in one day wouldn’t be helpful. If I didn’t respond, people would be angry about being ignored, but it was better than being messy.
‘If I was afraid of being criticized, I wouldn’t be able to do this.’
One surprising thing at this point was that my term as a member of the National Assembly had not yet begun.
Although an opening day event is scheduled sooner or later, it was doubtful whether it could be carried out safely. Some of the politicians involved in Manacoin were already terrified.
It’s not an exaggeration, it seemed like he really felt a threat to his life.
“I only played real golf… !”
One of them, there was a large female congressman who came to me and pointed a finger at me.
Re-election named Seo Su-jin, who has a constituency in Yongin. I was the main character of the golf entertainment photos that I secured and leaked through Moon Seong-min.
“I heard that there are many difficulties.”
“Difficulties? You said it was a grievance, Congressman Lee Soo-ho? Do you know what I’m getting into? Why am I like this just because of one round… !”
“To say that you only played golf, you played with the 2nd place in the KPGA money list. Go Yerim Pro. After we finished, we even ate together. In terms of money, it would be tens of thousands of won.”
“That’s because Go Ye-rim himself wanted it.”
“Did my friend, who is too busy touring, really want to play golf with politicians and businessmen? I heard from Go Ye-rim himself, but he said that he had no choice but to respond to the request of the main sponsor. I heard about it firsthand because I have been friends with professional Go Ye-rim since childhood.”
“… ….”
“This is not something you would do to me. If you feel unfair, you can explain yourself.”
It seems that this has been refuted enough, but Congressman Seo Su-jin is still angry.
Her face was openly resentful.
It feels shameless to be offended by the subject that was warmly received, but… There was a high possibility that the party was really unfair.
At best, entertainment golf, meals with professional golfers and handsome male celebrities, and some gifts. It was obvious that this much would be considered nothing. I just received a ‘greeting’, but you would think that I was being driven as trash.
“It’s like they’re talking about internal gunfire between the same party…. This is why you shouldn’t bring men into politics.”
There was no reason to listen to this, so I just kicked him out. People who were openly angry were rather easy people to keep in check.
The problem was that the giants were keeping their composure even in the midst of this urgency.
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“At first, I thought I was getting severance pay in advance. I also needed funding for the contest.”
Park Ha-sun, who was sitting in the Pyeonghwa Party’s representative office, muttered calmly.
A small body and a face that looks like a wart.
It seems a little outward, but Park Ha-sun was the leader of the ruling party. Except for a few people, including the president, he is a man of power who has no one to put on the top.
The first time she had a relationship with Mana Coin was the year before last when she was preparing for her party’s primary, the season with the most political funds.
While I was looking for money, a child named Kwon Ye-sol approached me, so I accepted it.
Actually, at first, I only intended to receive legal donations. Although he changed his mind after checking the amount of money he was rolling.
The amount collected so far is over 15 billion in coins alone. Of course, I didn’t eat it alone, but spread it evenly to the lower ones. Because it’s safe to share.
I didn’t do much in return.
‘I just set up a folding screen a few times, to be honest.’
Representative of the ruling party in a country comparable to Korea. Even indirect help from a high-ranking politician helped Kwon Ye-sol attract investment. She was very well liked, especially by those outside of the gummers who knew something about the realities of Korea.
When I was in the middle of the day, I thought there was no possibility that it would be a problem. Algorithm-based stablecoins seemed to have their own continuity. As it is a coin created with the purpose of absorbing the biggest disadvantage of virtual currency, instability, at least I thought there would be no collapse.
Let’s help out safely and unobtrusively and scrape in a little profit.
That was Park Ha-sun’s simple plan. I planned to spend a rich old age after decorating the end of my career with the funds collected from Kwon Ye-sol.
The crack in that plan occurred last month… It was, after all, right after the general election.
“That, CEO Park. Could you arrange a meeting with an official from the National Pension Service?”
I still vividly remember the words of Kwon Ye-sol.
As soon as I heard the word national pension, I almost spat out a curse word, “What a b*tch,” But I managed to hold it in and listen. He didn’t make an unrealistic proposal to buy coins with a pension fund, but it was no different in that it was a crazy proposal.
“There is a venture capital firm that I trust very much. Can you induce the national pension to invest in it?”
Crazy b*tch. Naturally, Park Ha-sun refused. No matter how much he is the representative of the ruling party, it was suicide to touch the pension fund. Although the amount itself was not large, it is a problem in itself to invest a pension fund in a company recommended by a coin dealer.
‘In the end, that b*tch knew from the beginning that mana would break down…. I should have noticed something strange earlier.’
From then on, Park Ha-sun did her best to escape from the planned disaster.
At first, he tried to stop losing Kwon Ye-sol, but that was impossible. It was because he was paid too much to cut cleanly.
He did his best to obliterate the traces, but it was impossible to completely hide them from the world. Article 58… No, Article 59? Wasn’t it a super-large disaster in which that amount of market cap evaporated? When Kwon Ye-sol opened her mouth, her political life was also over.
In the end, Kwon Ye-sol has to be saved in order to survive.
Park Ha-sun made a plan for this and executed it again.
Fortunately, the situation surrounding Mana Coin has been unfolding the way she wants. It’s not perfect, but it’s manageable.
“How is Lee Soo-ho’s friend, Dong-tae?”
This was a question posed to Kim Min-ji, the chief secretary of the party representative.
Unlike the idiots like Seonggi-nam who took her around as a bag mochi, Kim Min-ji was a real close friend. It was so thrifty that even 200 million won was put into it in the form of splitting political funds. It wasn’t because he really cared for Kim Min-ji, but because he wanted to put shackles on it.
Thanks to that, Kim Min-ji faithfully followed Park Ha-sun’s orders even after the incident broke out.
“Maybe it was because the opening was right around the corner, they were interviewing for an aide. We are thoroughly examining all applicants to see if they have a suspected disease.”
“I guess so. They’ll think we’re cheating.”
“… Me, but the representative?”
“Tell me.”
“Aren’t you overdoing it? I just need to crack down on Kwon Ye-sol and her friend.”
Park Ha-sun just burst into laughter at this innocent statement. Ye-Sol Kwon, just thinking of that young face brought a smile to my face.
“Rep. Minji Kim, no, it’s Minji. If you left it to her, we would all be dead.”
“What… ?”
“Do you know what Kwon Ye-sol was thinking? After the mana explodes, they proudly say that they can make up for the defects and create a new coin called mana 2.0…. I thought it was a smart thing before, but it turned out to be a psychopath.”
“No, something like that.”
“It’s best for me to step in and fix it. That way, at least one person gets hurt less.”
Only then did Kim Min-ji agree as if he couldn’t help it. Even so, he remembered a look of uneasiness. Maybe it’s because things have gotten too big.
To be honest, Park Ha-sun wasn’t completely calm either.
“Me, CEO. It seems that the mana price is 1 won…”
1 Won.
Even Park Ha-sun did not know that the coins, which had taken up to 90,000 won each, would be reduced to pieces of toilet paper. He just thought he’d be doomed 90 percent of the time. 90% And 99.999% Differed in weight. Do you think there is something unrealistic about it?
However, since it was the worst situation, we had to proceed as planned.
If you give up now, sooner or later you will be swept away en masse under the name of ‘Kwon Ye-Sol Gate’ or ‘Mana Coin Gate’.
How did I get to this point, but I didn’t want to collapse now.
“Tell Ye-Sol Kwon to carry out the agreement. As soon as the new National Assembly opens, it should be timed to explode.”
“Yes.”
This decision could have hurt Lee Soo-ho, but there was no other way to protect the safety of Park Ha-sun and many other stakeholders.
Right at this point.
Delisting procedures for Mana have begun in earnest on all virtual currency exchanges at home and abroad.
In Korea alone, the lives of at least tens of thousands of people were collapsing in real time, but Park Ha-sun could not afford to pay attention to that.