"They're coming on stronger than I thought."

"Policy Chair, what are these bastards counting on, acting like this?"

"What do you think? They want to take control early. They've had a transfusion of foreign money, and they're flush with capital. So they're saying, bring it on."

"Doesn't that put us at a disadvantage?"

"A disadvantage... Hmph. When have we ever had the advantage? You know how relentless those capitalist bastards are."

Kang Ju-hui, Policy Committee Chair of the Daehan Federation of Trade Unions' Chemical and Petroleum Workers' Federation, smacked her lips over the documents.

She meant to cash in on Ana Chemical—TS Chemical now.

Exports to China had made the chemical business boom.

Rumors were spreading that the American financial crisis was about to hit, but Kang Ju-hui had no interest.

All her energy went into fleecing the capitalists further.

She didn't believe the pretty facade of coexistence and shared prosperity.

After failing at the bar exam interview, Kang Ju-hui had become a dissident through and through.

The humiliation and discrimination she'd suffered after hiding her education to get a factory job were burned into her bones.

A factory where unpaid wages and exploitation were everyday things, and so was sexual harassment.

There Kang Ju-hui had seen countless devils wearing human skin.

From then on, every chaebol and capitalist was the enemy.

Society had changed a lot, but nowhere near enough for her.

If it were up to her, she'd have thrown the capitalists out and run the workplaces herself.

But Kang Ju-hui knew perfectly well that would never happen.

Owners and workers just weren't equally good at running a business, and never had been.

So she'd chosen to suck the capitalists' fruit dry instead.

With a sharp mind and her connections, she studied her target workplaces closely.

Most weren't free of embezzlement or breach-of-trust problems.

She ran a two-track strategy: get the union to strike, and threaten the owners behind the scenes.

The crumbs that fell her way were considerable.

The organization recognized her ability, and on the side she collected fat consolation money and encouragement bonuses.

Kang Ju-hui…