After 25 years of intensive efforts, microlensing is beginning to gain international recognition as a powerful method to probe planetary demographics. Due to the vision of Cheongho Han more than a decade ago, the Korea Microlensing Telescope Network has completed its commissioning year just at this moment. I explain how KMTNet is the first variability survey specifically optimized for microlensing. I discuss the power of the microlensing technique by its concrete accomplishments, and then discuss the KMTNet strategy to build on these accomplishments over the next five years. Finally, I discuss why KMTNet is the best complement to space-based microlensing studies, both present and future.