[Former Ana Group chairman Oh Seung-hyeok is reported to have been left fully paralyzed by an acute cerebral hemorrhage. Meanwhile, dozens of family members and current and former executives who took part in systematic embezzlement and breach of trust have come under investigation by prosecutors. According to a senior Financial Supervisory Service official, the sum is believed to range from at least one trillion won to nearly two trillion won.]

Time flew.

It had been almost two months since Ana fell.

After losing at Ana's shareholders' meeting, Chairman Oh Seung-hyeok had collapsed at home with a brain hemorrhage and undergone emergency surgery.

He was in the news every so often.

Between the spring and summer of 2008, Korea was in an uproar.

Citizens carrying candles poured into the streets over the Grand Korean Canal project and mad cow disease.

With his approval ratings falling, President Choe Byeong-bak issued an apology to the nation.

Even so, he stubbornly refused to let go of the Grand Korean Canal.

The rock-headed ignoramus wanted to cut waterways through the country and turn it into an island.

The ancestor-gods weren't about to forgive that.

Thanks to them, it mutated into the Five Rivers project.

In cahoots with construction companies, he took enormous bribes that never came to light.

A true rotten politician—he'd sell out his country and his own kin for money.

The corruption that came out ten years later, after the government changed, defied common sense.

He'd raked in congratulatory money from every side after his election, plus bribes from every kind of scheme—sums beyond imagining.

It earned him the nickname the Great Demon Rat—the man who'd emptied the nation's coffers.

"Choe Byeong-bak sure is lucky..."

The protests turned violent, and an early monsoon brought rain that cooled the candlelight fervor.

At the same time, the press garbage tried to muddy the waters with the Ana Group affair, which had broken right alongside it.

Public attention split in two, and the administration steadied itself.

From then on, the greatest con man under heaven prepared his thieving more covertly.

The Great Demon Rat was smart.