[Ilhyeon Windows presents a new concept of the window]

[Ilhyeon Windows creates a world freed from electricity bills]

[Ilhyeon Windows' astonishing development shakes the whole world]

[Since the Third Industrial Revolution, Ilhyeon Windows is the first to show the world a blueprint for the Fourth Industrial Revolution]

Stories concerning Ilhyeon Windows poured out day after day.

Those who saw the articles thought, as people always do, that it was so much fuss.

In the end nothing ever actually comes of it, they thought — the particular bluster of the economic press — and they regarded it with an eye of disbelief rather than expectation.

Then a strange movement was caught on the exchange.

[Ilhyeon Windows: disclosure on rumour or report forthcoming]

Someone had filed a request for verification of the facts reported in the economic journal, and a disclosure had gone up saying that Ilhyeon Windows would answer it.

"You mean it's real?"

The men gathered at Future Asset's Myeongdong branch stood before the ticker board with cigarettes clamped in their mouths, talking about Ilhyeon Windows.

"How could it possibly be real? It's all rubbish. As if we haven't been had once or twice."

President Kim, who had held down the Myeongdong branch as its resident fixture since the days when it still carried the Ilhyeon Securities sign, shook his head with a face that could not credit it, and said,

"We've heard this kind of story till our ears wore out, haven't we?"

"That we have."

President Jo, who had been listening at President Kim's side, nodded and said,

"There's been far too much of it. Perpetual-motion generators, or somebody finding a treasure ship off some coast — it comes round again just as you're about to forget it. Will this one be any different?"

President Bang threw in a word of agreement as well.

"It's a business of dazzling people and making off with one big score."

"But that one big score seems to be working."

President Jo pointed at Ilhyeon Windows on the ticker board and said,

"At any rate, it went limit-up on the news that…