Chapter 138
TL: KSD
‘Being fired’ doesn’t just mean losing your job.
It carries a meaning far beyond ‘no paycheck starting next month.’
Getting fired means that all the long efforts, loyalty, joys and sorrows, time, and human relationships one has devoted to the company have turned into mere bubbles.
A financial crisis can break a person, but a mental crisis can render them unable to rise again.
Lim Yang-wook knew many people who were ‘unable to rise again.’
After the disbandment of the Publishing Management Task Force, Lim Yang-wook and his colleagues were thrown out of their nest at Baekhak Publishing and cast into the concrete urban jungle.
The cruel law of the jungle shows no mercy. Financial difficulties, divorce, serious illness, depression, difficulty finding jobs, jumping off the Han River bridge…
Of course, not everyone met an unfortunate fate. But some did. That is the cruel law of nature.