5		Is Money an Evil Thing? The Chosun Ilbo. 27p. - Opinion Jul. 28, 2004 (Wed)  [Economy Focus] Is Money an Evil Thing? A notorious serial killer was caught a few days ago. One of the reasons of the murdering was hatred toward the rich people. The case seemed similar to a grotesque murder case happened in the past in Korea. In the case, murderers killed only rich people with slogan, 'Take things away from the wealthy people and kill them.'    Negative image toward the wealth Negative image toward the wealth in Korea is already beyond the alarming rates. According to the research of a consulting firm, anti-business emotion, which means anti emotion toward business people and wealth in our society, is the highest in the world. To say easily, a lot of Korean people consider that rich people achieved their wealth in unclean ways. 'Money,' which is a standard to decide who are rich and who are not, was created to make people more convenient. It was created to solve problems of bartering which made people inconvenient to carry goods to exchange. Historically, money has played a role as a cornerstone in development of capitalism. People made efforts and competed to make their lives comfortable and consequently, numerous inventions and convenient products were produced. However, soon, people disappointed to the money due to concentration and immovability of wealth, and unfair competition. Confliction and sense of futility was made by money, and finally, money became the subject that makes people jealous and people started to keep distance to it. To make money play its fundamental role, it must be recognized that it was created to make people's life convenient. Basic element to make people feel that money is only a tool to make our life convenient is to make them feel that they have fair opportunity and social regulation is provided for them to amass a fortune. Nobody can dare say that wealth is compensation of their efforts and they are proud of it, if people felt that the regulation of competition was unfair from the starting. Money should flow naturally under a principal of fair competition. Nowadays, improved systems are provided to build a frame of fair competition and appropriateness of accumulating money with adoption and modification of many acts and regulations. If these acts and regulations are a little more complemented and if rich people use their wealth in desirable ways, nobody would contempt money. Basically, all the people earn money to satisfy themselves. People pursuit wealth to make themselves and their family live more convenient life. Most of the rich people say that they put more efforts and worked more hard than others to make money. Needless to say, unfair inheritance of wealth and existence of an overnight millionaire of real estate should be banned. However, it is wrong to consider wealth accumulated fairly, as a sin.    It is important to accumulate wealth in an honest way   It is urgent to make up the social atmosphere to consider wealth positively. Money will play its fundamental role if we make it as a symbol of hope and desire, rather than leaving it as the subject that makes people jealous and the subject to keep distance. We should give our youth hope that they can be rich if they work hard, and teach them that accumulating wealth is not an evil activity and it is important to earn money honestly. We cannot achieve 20 thousand USD era of national per capita income if we keep consider accumulating wealth as a crime. Social atmosphere, in which people can drive the premium car MAY-BACH from Benz freely and honorably, should be made up soon. In addition, social atmosphere, in which people think that they also can possess MAY-BACH if they work hard, should be build. In such a society, everyone can drive MAY-BACH proudly.