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420 pages, Paperback
First published December 24, 2004
Ironically enough, Geumbok's affairs began by sleeping with a pastor spreading God's gospel, and the following year he was able to build a nice church in the centre of Pyeongdae. This was the law of tithing.
Two years after Geumbok began to roam the country, war erupted over the summer. The war divided the South from the North and continued for three years. During that time, there was no difference between the living and the dead. Death became so commonplace that it was no longer an anomaly. Swept up in hatred, southerners and northerners both massacred hundreds of thousands of people. People were herded together and stabbed to death with bamboo spears or buried alive or locked in buildings and set on fire. Countless women and children were killed this way. While concealing their true thoughts, people grabbed others to ask what their opinions were. Because there was only one correct answer out of two possibilities, the chance of survival was always fifty-fifty. This was the law of ideology.