Listen to Lee So-ra's The Wind Rises.

Listen to Lee So-ra's The Wind Rises.

When I finished my doctoral dissertation at the end of 2004, I really didn't have a single penny. Dr. Kim of the Small and Medium Business Research Institute contacted me when I had used up all the cash services. Tears welled up. They contacted me because they thought it would be difficult to see it as a major.

I started going to work from Ilsan to Yeouido on January 3, 2005. Since I don't have money, I have to use public transportation, but I feel suffocated when I take the subway. It was a place as comfortable as my house, but I was embarrassed. ... Now that I think about it, I think it was a mild panic disorder. When I take the bus, it was hard to go back all the time.

I had no choice but to drive my car around because I didn't have it. When I looked for the cheapest parking lot in Yeouido, the parking lot at Saetgang Dunchi in front of KBS was 50,000 won per month. The winter road I walked after leaving the lab at 10 p.m. was cold and lonely. Someone sent me a gift to congratulate me on my degree. It was Lee So-ra's CD. I brought my CD player and played it on my way home from work.

I wondered what this is about. When there was a sharp wind and tears flowed from my eyes, I froze. I sat on the stairs going down to the blunt point for a long time because my pulse was loosened. I felt that I had endured and made it this far after the IMF, and I felt sorry and scared about my life, which I couldn't see. I didn't feel like my eyes were freezing as I looked at the car running on Olympic Boulevard across the river. Everything I was forced to endure felt like it was collapsing in an instant.

When I listen to this song after that, I can feel the wind of that time. I feel like I've spent 20 years like that.