—Next in the news. President Seong-ho Kim of Ilhyeon Securities has been dismissed. At today's extraordinary shareholders' meeting held by Ilhyeon Securities…

That very evening the extraordinary meeting concluded, Seong-ho's dismissal and the change to the Buy Korea fund's investment ratios were disclosed through the press.

From the moment it had been announced, via public filing, that an extraordinary meeting would be held, the market had been anticipating a situation like this. But even a thing foreseen isn't therefore without its shock.

However you looked at it, Seong-ho had created the Buy Korea fund, and the Buy Korea fund had been the detonator that opened the stock market into a boom — so the change to its investment ratios and Seong-ho's dismissal were quite enough to bring a shock to the market.

Once the news aired, current-affairs programs took up the matter as their headline topic straightaway.

—What investors are most curious about right now is what the index will do tomorrow, immediately. Reporter Kim, how do you think tomorrow will go?

—Calling the direction of the index is no easy thing. But looking at the current flow, I'd say the probability of the market rising is fairly high, wouldn't you think?

—A high probability of rising?

The anchor wore a puzzled expression as he put the question to the reporter.

—You're saying that with Ilhyeon Securities in a state of turmoil, the market will do well?

—It may be hard to understand. But given that President Seong-ho Kim, who had run things conservatively all this while, has been dismissed, there's the expectation that the enormous sum of the Buy Korea fund's eighteen trillion won might give the market a lift — so a rise is anticipated.

—So you mean the funds that had been dammed up from KOSDAQ will come flowing in and lift the market once more.

—Yes, that's right. Talk to this effect has been confirmed through an Ilhyeon Securities official.

The reporter glanced down at the paper in front of him and said,

—An Ilhyeon Securities official stated that the decisions made at today's extraordinary meeting…