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Updated: 2026-08-06
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Description 작품 소개
"Is poverty not a sin, but a disease?
...Did you truly believe that?"
Winner of the 2024 Millie’s Library 'Millie Road' Excellence Award, this highly anticipated novel returns after two years. Written by Jung Moo—author of The Blind Man's Mirror, which was named one of the 2023 Kirkus Best Indie Books—Poverty Therapist is a razor-sharp satire of modern digital capitalism.
Jung Gu-min, a 7th-year manager at a major conglomerate, throws his employee ID card down an emergency staircase, turns on a camera, and declares: "I'm quitting."
What begins as a simple resignation vlog quickly transforms into a salvation channel claiming to 'cure poverty.' To an anxious public terrified of falling behind in an era of skyrocketing inflation, Gu-min’s harsh, unfiltered tough-love becomes an instant addiction. With 500,000 subscribers, a 2-million-copy bestseller, and a penthouse overlooking the Han River, Gu-min rises to become the iconic mentor of his generation—a god who cures financial ruin.
"It's not about being stupid. If the readers simply 'feel' it's true, then that becomes the truth."
Behind this shining exterior lies contempt disguised as comfort and an Excel spreadsheet that converts desperation into raw cash. Pulling the strings behind Gu-min is 'Wangko,' an introverted hacker designing a cryptocurrency scheme. Driven by fanatical followers and algorithmic feedback loops, a massive pipeline of wealth begins to spin out of control.
Yet, what makes this novel uniquely chilling is its narrative perspective: it is told entirely in the first-person voice of the seller, not the victim. Readers are invited directly into the mind of a fraudster as he meticulously engineers a success story, transforms vulnerable consultations into marketable copy, and manipulates desperate people into viewing multi-thousand-dollar scams as 'self-investment.'
As Gu-min's unchecked sprint toward wealth reaches its peak, an anonymous whistleblowing YouTuber named 'Broken Nib' emerges, threatening to unravel the entire scheme.
At the exact moment you commented "This hits home" on a YouTube video, whose wallet did your desperation actually flow into? A dark, gripping exposure of South Korea's hottest scam begins with three simple words: "I'm quitting."
Author Bio 작가 소개
There are no expectations.