I pondered how great the sin of the people living in Noah’s time must have been for God to judge them with a flood. In Genesis 6, we learn of sexual corruption through the account of the ‘sons of God’—whose exact nature remains unknown—seeing the beauty of human women and marrying them as they pleased. They were the Nephilim, a race of giants who were mighty warriors and famous figures in ancient times. The fact that God saw the world as corrupt and filled with violence suggests a compelling interpretation: they deliberately continued producing Nephilim to rule the world through violence. This was a sin of rejecting God’s rule and attempting to rule the world themselves, which is why God judged them. This is also connected to the sin committed by Eve. The record states that Noah, who walked with God, along with his three sons and daughters-in-law—eight people in total—survived aboard the ark, written with the Chinese character for “boat” (船). They obeyed God by building the ark, preparing for the day of judgment. It is estimated they spent about 70 to 80 years constructing it. The scorn, humiliation, and grueling process of building the ark they must have endured during that long period is almost unimaginable.

On June 26, the contents of a letter exchanged between Ambassador Morse Tan, who returned to South Korea after a press conference on South Korea’s fraudulent elections at the U.S. Press Center, and President Yoon Seok-yeol, who is in solitary confinement in a Seoul detention center, became a hot topic after the visit was canceled. Ambassador Mostan’s message of encouragement and support for President Yoon, a devout Christian, was touching, and the content of President Yun’s letter was learned from the perspective of the war against the globalists through a YouTube lecture by VON News representative Kim Mi-Young. However, the news that President Yoon was held in a 2-pyeong solitary confinement cell in sweltering heat with no air conditioning, no diabetes medication, and only a 500-ml bottle of water was a scene of human rights repression, and it was questionable whether it was in fact inducing his death in prison. But in fact, the hardest thing is the total isolation of solitary confinement, which I can relate to having spent several months in a room in an apartment during a bout of depression in the past, and President Yoon already knew, as did Dr. Victor Flankl, who survived Auschwitz, and as I realized while delivering parcels, how to get through that lonely time when, paradoxically, you don’t want to see anyone.

In the midst of this, Trump’s letter to South Korea, which was recently released by White House spokesperson Caroline Levitt, stated that he would impose a 25% tariff on all goods from South Korea starting August 1. As VON News CEO Kim Mi-young explained, this tariff policy should be viewed from a political perspective rather than an economic perspective, and I completely agreed with her statement that politics is above economics. In fact, Korea’s economic development began when it joined the GATT trade agreement in 1967, and it became the current economic powerhouse through exports by lowering tariffs among the members of the free trade bloc under the protection of the United States. After that, China, a communist country, became the world’s manufacturing factory through market opening after joining the WTO, and Russia no longer had to ration bread due to market opening policies after the collapse of the Soviet Union. From that perspective, the foundation of Korea’s economic development was the liberal democratic system and the guarantee of national security due to the U.S. military presence.

They hacked into the election system, subverted the rule of law, illegally detained the sitting president, shook up the liberal democratic system that had protected South Korea, and were rapidly destroying the country from within with a number of radical communist policies. For example, their populist policy of giving cash handouts to the entire population induced inflation, and their policy of restricting real estate lending to Koreans actually drove up real estate prices. We also realized that behind the scenes, the government was effectively siphoning off the country’s budget into local currency and encouraging foreigners to buy real estate in the country through domestic entities. In this context, the US tariffs, which directly hit South Korea’s economy with a high proportion of exports to the US, were like a torrential downpour.

We realized that this was not a unilateral US tariff policy, but a punishment for South Korea for violating the principle of economic reciprocity among free market countries. Moreover, politically speaking, South Korea was one of the countries that hacked the U.S. election system during the 2020 U.S. presidential election, and the IP address of the Seongnam City Gymnasium in Gyeonggi Province was even publicly disclosed online, leaving South Korea with no room to make any excuses to the United States. Furthermore, with the shocking revelations by Morse Tan that Lee Jae-myung had been sent to a juvenile detention center as a child due to his involvement in a group rape and murder case, South Korea was morally unable to avoid criticism from around the world. From the perspective of Trump and Americans, if they were to view South Korea and its “fake president,” they might even consider immediately withdrawing U.S. troops from South Korea and terminating the Mutual Defense Treaty between the United States and South Korea.

I was more surprised that people were not surprised that North Korea’s nuclear waste was flowing into the Seoul metropolitan area, that tens of thousands of people were affected by sudden real estate restrictions, that gender equality policies were exposing young people to homosexuality and drugs, that Korean small and medium-sized enterprises would be forced to lay off workers due to deteriorating profitability due to U.S. tariff policies, and that the gap between the rich and poor would become even wider as reckless issuance of government bonds depreciated the won and increased liquidity in the market created an asset bubble, but I was worried about people in their 40s and 50s who still didn’t realize the situation. And I thought that the churches that had lost their vitality would not tell the truth in the eyes of the world, so that more people would leave the church and become divided than during the coronavirus. But I believed that the hope lay in the awake 20s and 30s, and that they would rebuild Korea 2.0 through the startups and businesses they founded. Even as the economic waves hit Korea and many people were drowning, there would be those who would look to the brass serpent of salvation that God had given.

Woken suddenly by the sound of rain at dawn, I prayed briefly for President Yoon Suk-yeol, who is currently at Seoul Detention Center. As I asked God how to prepare for the massive downpour about to hit the South Korean economy, the thought that came to me was to prepare a business ark. I wanted to learn from those who had invested in dollars ahead of time during the past IMF crisis when the financial industry collapsed, leading to a chain of corporate bankruptcies and many self-employed individuals going bankrupt, or those who invested in US stocks and cryptocurrency during the COVID-19 period. And while continuing the war against the globalists behind the election fraud alongside South Korea’s 3.5% patriotic citizens, I resolved that just as President Trump and President Yoon Suk Yeol are living their respective times, I too must live mine. So today, I rose at dawn, wrote my blog, and began the day energetically while listening to the sound of rain.