Do these people know who I am!

Displeasure and irritation shot up in Ri Seongcheol.

Taking 2011 as the starting point, a mania for Jeju blew up among Chinese investors.

It was a wind that came when the rules on foreigners buying property were relaxed at the time.

It set off a hunger to own land and housing and the rest on Jeju, not only in Chinese investors but in ordinary people, for whom the island was near at hand and easy to live on.

The men with capital bought up Jeju land as fast as it came.

On top of that, a man who invested five hundred million was issued a visa allowing five years' residence.

Past five years he could apply for permanent residency as well.

It was a time when the Chinese Communist Party was tightening its hand on the country's new rich.

The money of a great many of the new rich, who had been watching for a chance, crowded to Jeju.

Five hundred million! For a sum that was nothing much, it was the best of chances to get permanent residency in a safe country like Korea.

Coming into 2015 the mania grew fiercer.

Property prices on Jeju shot up past all holding.

Among Koreans themselves a craze for living on Jeju blew up outright, and they moved to the island as though they had lost their minds.

Capital, and a mania on top of it, until Jeju was fit to sink under the weight.

At present the property boom has had its force knocked out of it a little, what with the THAAD business and regulations of every kind.

But there are still a great many people from the Chinese mainland who want to invest in Jeju, quietly, late as it is.

Ri Seongcheol, who lives in Korea on the privileges given to the Joseonjok, came over to Jeju and made a fortune.

At first he came in and out of the Republic of Korea as a bundle trader. Now he is a man worth hundreds of billions, treated on equal terms with a…