In the bitter winter of 2008, former investment banking star Bai Shangyu was reborn as a low-level worker in South Korea. In an era of chaebol monopolies and entrenched class divisions, he brought with him more than a decade of business knowledge from the future and began his fight back from a rundown exam-prep dormitory by the Han River.
With his precise predictions of the financial crisis, the tech boom, and the capital markets, he risked everything in crude oil futures to build his initial capital. Using a “neural interaction algorithm” as his ticket in, he opened the doors of Galaxy Capital and maneuvered among chaebols such as Nine Star, Gyeongseon, and Geosan. From acquiring digital copyrights and investing in the variety show The Runner to founding Star Entertainment and Ruixin Semiconductor, he positioned himself perfectly for every coming opportunity.
Facing a chaebol-led siege, internal betrayal, and attacks from public opinion, Bai Shangyu used his farsighted business acumen and ironclad methods to thrive across chips, entertainment, finance, and industry, building a business empire of his own. This is the story of a lowly nobody challenging the chaebols, a legend about using memories of the future to overturn the rules of reality. As the wheels of fate begin to turn, who will emerge as the final winner?
