[Tsuwabuki]

Everything Nyororin said is basically what I thought was understood about normal business practices in other countries. Perhaps I should have been clearer...

...and in any case, I did speak conversational Japanese. As I said, I had become interested in it as a second language ten years ago. But really, it was a non-qualification. If I hadn't spoken any at all, it wouldn't have mattered. What they needed was someone with the right qualifications. That person was me. And I was in Korea. End of story.