Anyone who has ever watched the sun rise in the early morning hours knows that it is darkest just before the sun rises, and then there is a glimmer of light, and then the sky brightens, and then the sun rises. For that moment, it’s as if the whole sequence of creation is happening all over again, starting with God saying, “Let there be light” in the beginning, dividing the waters to create the sky, gathering the waters together under the sky, separating the sea from the land, giving life to plants on the land, and creating the sun, moon, and stars in the sky. The moment of the sun’s glorious rise is a time of transition from darkness to light, from ignorance to enlightenment, from death to life.
I realized that my life had changed when I saw the sun rise at dawn every day. I used to wake up at dawn for early morning deliveries out of a sense of duty rather than pleasure, driving all over Incheon in my truck to deliver side dishes to customers’ doorsteps. The pressure of getting up at dawn every day, the fatigue of my body, and the uncertainty of how long I would have to do this, weighed heavily on my heart, and all I could think about was how much I wanted it to be Sunday so I could get a good night’s sleep. But somehow, getting up and leaving the house in the morning became lighter, and I started to enjoy the different delivery routes every day, and my heart seemed to expand little by little as I saw the vast sea and sky that greeted me as I crossed the Incheon Bridge after making a delivery to Yeongjong Island. Most of all, the moment when the sun rose over the horizon as the dawn grew brighter and brighter, I couldn’t help but stop driving and admire it.
And I realized that this was a process of becoming a new person, as it says, “being continually renewed in the image of the One who created him, so that he may come to true knowledge (Colossians 3:10).” I don’t know if it was the morning sun’s rays that renewed me cell by cell, or the reorganization of neurons in my brain due to the new thoughts I put into it every day, but what I do know is that I became an upgraded version of 2.0, a different person than I was in the past. My speed and absorption of audiobooks has increased dramatically, my ability to organize what I’ve read and fuse it with my own thoughts and the content of other books to create new thoughts, and my ability to act on them and turn them into action in my life has never been the same. My work at work has become more efficient, the scope of my personal business has gradually expanded, my relationships with people have been redefined, and my perspective on the world has begun to change. In short, it was as if the old man had died and the new man had become (Ephesians 4:24)
I went to Silicon Valley in the U.S. and realized that Korea’s culture of ‘fast and furious’ seems to have changed a lot on the surface, but in fact, there hasn’t been much change on the inside, because Korea has long since become a society that has no further development and innovation due to old ideological conflicts and uniform education. Among them, politics is the most backward, and the leading figures are surprisingly old-fashioned and frustrating to live with in 2024, and one example is that none of the politicians can speak English better than President Syngman Rhee 100 years ago. Korea is the most archaic society in the world, and the reality is that, as President Choi Do-sung of Handong University said, “21st-century students are being taught by 20th-century teachers in a 19th-century university education system.”
In addition, although the Park Geun-hye administration started investments and policies for startups in the name of the creative economy, in fact, rather than private investment, the government-led seed funds and government subsidies called blind money are flooding in, and the moral hesitation of founders in the startup field who are doing business with such subsidies is heard constantly. As a result, startup investments have been shrinking since 2022, and most startups that are not competitive in the market have been cut back or disappeared. And founders and investors who were lucky enough to go public (IPO) on the stock market have also been busy scamming, which was confirmed by the news that the management of Hive, the company that made a fortune with BTS, illegally siphoned off investments.
And it is sad to see some citizens who have already forgotten the memories of the last Moon Jae-in administration, which devastated the Korean economy with its failed real estate and fiscal policies and ravaged the country’s economy with its coronavirus quarantine policies, being incited again by anti-state forces to impeach President Yoon Seok-yul in the same way they impeached President Park Geun-hye. I was among those who thought it was logical that Christians, especially those who separate their personal faith from their political views, would unwittingly support parties and lawmakers who want to enact anti-discrimination laws or criticize Ahn Chang-ho, a left-wing evangelist-turned-lawmaker, for openly speaking about his faith. Just like the angry crowds in Jerusalem who shouted for Jesus to be crucified two thousand years ago.
Meanwhile, the country is in a state of anarchy, with a president awaiting an impeachment ruling from the Constitutional Court, an impeached or resigned prime minister, defense minister, interior minister, justice minister, auditor general, transport commissioner, central district prosecutor, and several prosecutors. At a time when the president is focusing the nation’s attention on organized election fraud by the opposition, including the National Election Commission, as the reason for martial law, the plane crash at Muan Airport shocked the nation. As I prayed for the pilot, who made his best fuselage landing to save his passengers until the very end, then crashed into the concrete wall he was hiding behind, killing him along with 179 others, I wondered about the inexplicable accident. The two survivors reported in the immediate aftermath of the crash were nowhere to be found, the footage of the crash from an overly perfect angle was suspiciously CG, the four minutes of dashcam footage from just before the crash disappeared, and the sudden questioning of the head of Muan International Airport at his home was also disturbing.
But coincidentally, on the day of the fraudulent election debate, an airplane tragedy occurred and the crowd was distracted by strange messages on the MBC’s random number screen, and during a period of national mourning, the acting Prime Minister, Choi Sang-mok, appointed two leftist Supreme Court justices, and the head of the Public Prosecution Service, who had previously defended an underage rapist, issued an arrest warrant for the president. That’s when I remembered the words “The thief comes only to steal, kill, and destroy” (John 10:10) and realized that the enemy of South Korea was trying to steal fair elections, kill innocent citizens, and destroy liberal democracy. I also realized that the corrupt and biased media was picking sensational headlines and amplifying rumors rather than the truth to incite the crowd so that the anti-state forces could impeach the president and then, if they came to power, reform the country into a de facto pro-China, anti-American state based on people’s democracy and a planned economy.
However, it was quite surprising when news recently spread that President Yoon Seok-yeol is the only South Korean among the 999 people followed by Elon Musk, who has over 200 million followers, and when Trump’s campaign to stop fraud in the 2020 U.S. presidential election, STOP THE STEAL, was mentioned again by Fox News in the U.S. due to the large number of citizens and Christians guarding the presidential Hannamdong residence in 2024. And on the day the state of emergency was declared, news that the military had raided the Election Commission’s training center spread, causing more and more people to awaken to the truth. This was possible because of the sacrifices and efforts of people like Min Kyung-wook, a former lawmaker who officially raised suspicions of fraud in the Yeonsu-eul district of Incheon, and Hwang Kyo-ahn, a former prime minister who resigned after taking responsibility for the defeat in the general election, and because the related documentary, The Cartel, received explosive views. I believe that this light is the light of life that will reveal the huge evil behind the candles that ignorant crowds like me, who were instigated by fake politicians and false media in the past, heard, and will set people free, and I wake up at dawn and prepare for a new Korea 2.0 with the rising sun.
We trust that God will do a new thing in his time, and will make a way in the wilderness and a highway in the desert. (Isaiah 43:19)
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