"Everyone, imagine this.
What if you had so much money that you spent 3 million won every month just on buying rubber bands to bundle your bills?
What if even the money gnawed away by rats amounted to trillions of won every year? It sounds like something out of a movie, but it is the record of a man who actually existed.
That man is 'Drug King' Pablo Escobar."
"He controlled 80% of the global cocaine market and became the 7th richest person in the world according to Forbes.
He even acted like a 'righteous outlaw' by building houses for the poor.
However, the golden walls he built were forged with the tears and blood of tens of thousands of people.
'Silver or Lead,' that is Justice crumbled before his cruel rule that refusing bribes would result in death."
"We Koreans cherish 'family' above all else. Escobar, too, deeply cared for his family.
One cold night while he was a fugitive, he burned 2 billion won in cash as firewood for his daughter shivering in the mountains.
That immense sum, which seemed capable of buying everything in the world, ultimately burned up into a mere handful of flames at that moment.
It was the most expensive firewood, but those flames could not protect him.
In the end, he met his end alone on a shabby roof in his hometown the day after his birthday."
"We always We dream of 'success.' However, Escobar's life asks us: 'Does endless wealth obtained through wrongful means truly set us free?' It was no different from having lived his entire life in the most magnificent prison. The fact that true authority stems from respect, not fear, and that true happiness blossoms upon our own sweat, not the tears of others. How about we take some time today to re-examine the direction of our lives through Pablo Escobar's fiery, yet futile, life?
