[President-elect Min-gu Noh, the Mayor of Yongin and the Governor of Gyeonggi Province gathered together to seek out measures for supporting Ilhyeon Electronics]

[The transition committee proposed a corporate tax reduction to Ilhyeon Electronics, and stated that it would give favorable consideration to further tax relief in proportion to the degree of job creation]

[It is understood that the transition committee summoned the heads of the banks and conveyed its view that, should Ilhyeon Electronics request loans, matters should proceed in the direction of accommodating them as far as possible]

Talk concerning Ilhyeon Electronics' large-scale semiconductor investment poured out of the news day after day.

This was not an investment costing a penny or two; it was the largest investment to be undertaken since the founding of the Republic of Korea government, at a hundred trillion won — and accordingly the transition committee showed a very high level of interest in the matter.

Whether Ilhyeon Electronics really would invest, and if it did, whether it was truly right that the investment would be a hundred trillion as stated, were questions about which they made contact every other day.

That was the measure of how many people were watching this matter with interest and close attention.

And in proportion to the height of the interest, noise came pouring out as well.

[Ilhyeon Electronics — is a hundred-trillion investment realistically possible?]

[How far will Ilhyeon Electronics' bluster go on?]

[The Republic of Korea, played for a fool by Ilhyeon Electronics' bluster]

The press began, little by little, to paper itself over with negative articles.

And in the end this negative talk came through by way of the television as well.

—I believe Ilhyeon Electronics is overreaching.

—Overreaching? What sort of overreach do you mean? Are you suggesting that the problem is the sheer size of the sum being invested?

On a current-affairs program too, talk concerning Ilhyeon Electronics' investment was under way.

The economic expert nodded at the host's question and answered.

—That's correct. The sum Ilhyeon Electronics is now saying it will invest is an investment beyond the size of the…