The Age of the 21st Century Magazine

Just like there was a preeminence in life that Poten would explode.

There is a dark age in life for everyone.

No, in the first place, there are those who have been chosen, even though there are those who did not exist in the Dark Ages.

And the most unbearable phenomenon for those who come to the Dark Ages is Murphy's Law.

This is because the probability of being struck by lightning is magically continuous.

In response, most of them are homeless, but some choose to commit suicide extremely and others commit crimes. Some people come back to religion and endure misery and become incredibly strong.

And hope belongs to a pretty special case that is hard to find.

The last day of November outside Seoul is very chilly as opposed to the summer.

Hope ended her convenience store work early in the morning and entered the alleyway where the general market ended after buying dry dishes from a covered market full of red Chinese signs.

In the back alley of the market there is a place called the Southern Village, where there are many shipbuilders and Chinese.

In the kitchen on the cement floor facing the side room, there is a briquette furnace with arches that contain round briquettes that are very hard to find in the countryside right now, and the plastic piping that connects to it connects to the side floor, allowing it to withstand the winter.

Instead, the squeaky, poisonous smell that briquettes emit permeates the room from the kitchen where the furnace is installed, so if you don't ventilate it, it's often hard to wake up when you sleep and wake up with poison gas.

One of the places where they are attached is where hope lives. When he finishes his convenience store part-time, he settles for a break here, and in this poor place he lives because of the money.

At least Shinrim-dong studio, which is one of the cheapest rents in Seoul, also has to pay a deposit of 35 per month for 300, because using a gas boiler breaks heating costs by at least 20 per month in winter.

This cost more than 50-60 won a month, so the studio was barely able to afford the hope of earning less than 1 million won a month.

Moreover, I was unable to avoid the desperate life because I had to collect 4.7 million won of tuition in a semester alone.

For this reason, Korean hope is to live alone on a foreign island where Chinese and shipbuilding peoples gather.

Hope leaned into a narrow, narrow kitchen full of briquettes, shredded a new briquette with a briquette tong into a cylinder, and placed it on a briquette furnace, filled with clumsy chunks of water from the past expiration date that had been brought from the convenience store.

The briquettes are insignificant firepower, even compared to conventional household stoves, but they still have the advantage of being able to cook all kinds of foods with a steady fire.

Moreover, it tastes amazing when you grill a stuffed sturgeon or squid on a briquette that is sometimes eaten as a savory food. Expensive beef or pork ribs, of course, may taste better, but living in poverty does not afford such expensive food.

Hope washed a few times with two cups of rice in a plastic basket to cook, then covered the lid of a pot filled with unidentified local food and went into his room.

I took a thick cotton blanket I bought in the general market and entered the bottom of the neck, so the briquette hasn't burned properly yet, so it looks cold on the floor with ice.

The briquette-boiler was cooled while it was in the convenience store. If the boiler is cooled for a long period of time, briquettes should be grinded 2-3 times a day because the bottom piping will wave when the weather is cold.

At least three briquettes cost 1500 won less than a bag of confectionery, so there are only a few places to install a gas boiler in each room, compared to a gas or kerosene boiler that needs to be given hundreds of thousands of won a month.

With the exception of sleek rooms, fluorescent lights on the ceiling, the only electronics in the room are cell phone chargers, used laptop computers purchased to learn school specialties, and the most important small cooker. Used Kuku Pressure Rice Cauldron purchased with quite a lot of money is a thankful companion who solves his two meals.

Hope put the rice washed in the kitchen in the cooker, and then plugged the folded phone into the charger where the battery was discharging, and turned on the laptop for computer programming.

If you want to access the Internet in the neighboring villages, the fast, high-speed frenzy that you can install without even coming in is a slow local cable modem. At least, because you had to give it to KRW 19000 per month for three years, the hope of living on rent was using Egg wireless Internet with 30G wifi that could be used for 10,000 per month.

Due to the wireless capacity limit of 30 gigawatts, to download and view free IT video courses from Stanford University or MIT on Apple iTunes, you need to plan your usage very carefully by downloading it in SD-quality and weighing the migrations.

In addition, the iTunes program called Rat Poison was sometimes downgraded because his laptop was a second-hand laptop of Taiwanese msi with an xp window, rather than a MacBook with OSX.

So unless it's an important video, most international university open courses download pdf or audio courses and go into the stackoverflow sites that developers frequently visit to solve their questions.

As I watched the java in the stackoverflow, I heard a buzzing sound from the kitchen while I was working hard to acquire related know-how. Hope ran over the blanket that was covering her body and picked up the pot with a wig.

When the smell of salvation is smelled, the mouth stinks.

Though made of unidentified materials, the multi-year know-how of living in its tracks has allowed the unidentified to possess the knack to spin.

In a bowl, rice from China was made from a mixture of crude rice, sorghum and soybeans. Malnourished rice is a valuable ingredient in poor diets to prevent illnesses that may result from malnutrition.

I tried to cook a spoonful of rice, and the folder phone that was plugged into the charger rang. When I got the call, it was my mother.

“Yes, Mom, how are you? ”

“So, son, how are you? I haven't heard from you in a while. ”

“And your father?"

“... ”

Instead of answering with a sigh of silence, hope found something strange.

“Mom?"

“Phew... Phew."

Instead of answering, I only heard her crying on the phone. Instinctly, I couldn't tell what happened to my father.

“Tell me what's going on instead of crying. ”

“Argh... there. Your father rolled high and injured his back while he was drinking. My lumbar spine is completely broken.”

“So? Are you in your dad's hospital? ”

“Yeah, so... boom, boom."

“Say yes. ”

“Fortunately, I was able to complete the primary surgery successfully and remain stable...”

I didn't feel the urgency to bring out what to say to my mother who couldn't bring up the hospital bills.

I remember my father, who had been so fond of drinking since he was very young, shaking the house and boiling it in his mother.

“I like people. ”

That's what the father of hope used to hear. However, if the words on a topic that is not a large corporate liquor manager are limited to liquor friends, it is in line with the sound of catching a hoe.

Ten years older than homosexuals because of a father who forgot a lot of money, such as not eating a business and not even a mother's coma, but couldn't stop drinking until he was three or eight years old. At least, when she was young, she still looked worse.

If I got one good thing from my parents, I only got two balls of rice thanks to my mother's beauty gene, but I still got my appearance against him... Oh, and one extreme patience from my father.

So, because you drank too much to lose consciousness, you broke your back at an age when you were getting sick, and on the other hand, the situation is vague, even though you don't have enough money to know the reason why you shouldn't get paid.

I didn't want to die even though I had a hard appearance, but I couldn't help but sigh.

“Phew! Did you try to settle your mom's hospital bills? ”

“I-it's...”

“Tell me."

“The cost of the six-person room, the cost of surgery, the cost of examination, etc., came to 7.6 million won. ”

Hope suddenly got angry to the end of the head, but I couldn't blow it up with my phone.

He briefly covered his cell phone's receiver with his hand and then drowned his breath. Repeat a long breath for a while, calming his voice as he stabilizes his breathing, and speaking to his phone.

“Mom."

I couldn't answer on my phone because I was so sorry. Hope continued the conversation.

“.... ”

“Well, there's less money than I thought. I have that kind of spare money, and I'll put it in your bank account. Don't worry. Haha... I might do something bad again. Don't worry. I have a son. What?"

“... ”

“Then I'll hang up the phone because I have to go and make some money. Then be healthy."

“Ah, son.”

Hip!

Whoo!

Hope closes the folder on her phone before it gets more emotional and takes a big breath.

In the meantime, I saved almost all the money I was aiming for before returning to school, and things started to blow up like a devil's prank. With their trembling hands, I took out the account that I had hidden in the corner of the room and checked the balance.

KRW 87.67 million 18

The back seat balance seemed to symbolize his mood was KRW 18. The remaining amount was KRW 87.67 million with a one-year tuition fee.

Fuck 18 18 18.....

This is how we saved up. Isn't that the money you saved after college to join big corporations like Samson, Hyundai and Elju and live confidently that day?

Phew!

When I looked at the account, I couldn't even find any steak or rice that smelled delicious on the table. It just seemed crazy.

I sat there for a while holding the bank account until the steam cooled down, and then I thought I should settle the case first. I forcibly crumpled the cooled rice into my mouth and headed to the bank.

Balance 272,000 KRW 192

Plus the intermediate settlement and calculate the cost of hospitalization in the future and even the cost of living of the mother and pay KRW 8.5 million. This is the money left in the account.

272,000 won 192...

I had to pay 250,000 won in rent, including administrative fees, next month, but I honestly didn't get a clue what kind of work to do now.

Student loans had already been cut by almost Max before enlistment, so there was nowhere to go and a lot of money to spend.

“Phew ~ ~ Should I run an entertainment business? ”

It's only three months to the next semester's opening, and it's too tight to set a semester fee of KRW 4.8 million right away. Besides, it's winter, so it's hard to get a job on the construction site.

The first thing that comes to mind is the karaoke assistant or host sea.

Now that you can earn several times more than your own income, 181 is the right height line, and if you take advantage of your pretty handsome appearance, you still think you can do more than usual.

As venture bellies grow in the old town, so do high-income female owners.

I have seen few male seniors or acquaintances on that side through the press room, so it is very difficult to resist such temptation in this situation.

“Yeah, I'm starving right now, but shut up and let's make a dog out of it. When you're covering for cold food or hot food? ”

When I had no choice, I decided to call the sidewalk in the vicinity of Gangnam to find a job as a male assistant.

While hope was moving towards this extreme choice, a few blocks away from his bank there were people who were so rich that they could build a tower with money that they thought it was a completely different matter from hope.

Reviews

There are a lot of people who don't empathize because the situation is so extreme.

Ironically, this episode is an adaptation of someone's true story. Sometimes it's hard to believe that something weirder is happening in reality than fiction. If that's who you are, your dark days are here. Of course, it's up to you to figure out how to get away with it.

Hope and Murphy's Law: Dogs are on the agenda when they eat, but Murphy's Law doesn't obscure that.