Dear Comrade Leader Episode 145
About the time Jeong Yang-gu was embracing these disturbing thoughts, the phone installed in the conference room rang.
Looking at the indicator, it was the number of the secretary’s office in the North who was serving his father, President Moon-Young Jung.
– Bosses, this is the secretary’s office. It’s the end of the year soon. How are you doing?
-Something? Did something happen to your father?
-no… … Sooner or later, a proposal from the e-North came in, asking the bosses to come to Pyongyang. clerk’s room… … So, it’s like the presidential secretary’s office, but looking at the stamp stamped there, it seems that North Korea No. 1 has officially invited the presidents… … .
All the brothers in the modern family lost their expressions and looked at each other’s faces at the voice of the secretary’s office staff heard through the speakerphone.
“what? Could it be that the words we gave to our father got into the No. 1 ear over there? Don’t you mean that you’re going to kidnap us all because my father isn’t enough?”
“If you cross the truce line, you can’t come back, right?”
“Everything, calm down, even though the current leader is a blue-eyed young man, he doesn’t go out like that, right? Don’t you even watch the news? … … There, what is the general secretary for to see our brothers? But wouldn’t you have told me about the general purpose?”
Still, the eldest son was asked by Chairman Yang-gu Jeong on behalf of everyone’s questions, but the answer that came from the speakerphone was still vague.
-I’m going to conclude a trade agreement with China from North Korea soon. The working-level negotiations are almost over already, and I think it’s at the level that North Korea’s No. 1 and Jiang Zemin just need to meet and get a stamp… … .
“Huh, what kind of free trade between the red-backed and underdeveloped countries that are the farthest from freedom… … So yes, by the way?”
-At that time, North Korea was visiting China with a delegation of local businessmen, and I would like the presidents to attend with Chairman Chung.
what?
The faces of the sons and daughters of the modern family came up with a ‘?’ expression on their faces.
Is this the sound of Seo Taiji and the boys playing gayageum?
“No, why would we go there? If you’re going to take the general secretary, you have to bring the businessmen of your country. Why are you taking us?”
“No, listen, it could have been better. What does your father say?”
-that is… … There are only a few days left to live, but for the Lunar New Year, he says he wants to spend at least one more year in his hometown, Tongcheon. No word other than that… … .
damn it
A grumpy expression appeared on most of the brothers’ faces.
I said it back and forth, but isn’t this the story of going up in the end?
Although they all hold one position, such as president, director, etc., within the modern group, the influence of the father and the old Chairman Moon-Young Jung in the company is at an absolute level in modern times.
The family pungsang of the Jeong family, which emphasizes family harmony (of course, regardless of whether it actually happens), it was clear that if he did not attend, it would be firmly stamped.
“… … I must go.”
“Are you serious, brother?”
“My father is calling, so I have to go. So what are you going to do? Everyone clear the schedule and get ready. Since the beginning of the year, there has been a place to drink Maotai.”
“I would rather think of it as a good thing. Well, on this opportunity, I’m looking forward to the 1.3 billion market that has been incorporated into the capitalist world. Shouldn’t our modernity move forward to the continent in the future? If it wasn’t because the politicians were struggling to establish diplomatic ties because of his crackdown on democratization or something, I would have bought a plane ticket to Beijing in advance right away.”
“Yangheon, do you think this hyung didn’t even think about it that much? Of those 1.3 billion, how many people can afford a new modern car? A year’s GDP coming out of that huge piece of land is just barely beyond this stinky Republic of Korea. … 10 years from now, it’s still a long way off.”
“Then why are you going?”
At the words of Yang-Jun Jeong, director of Hyundai Heavy Industries, President Yang-Goo Jung shrugged his shoulders as if he was asking what he was asking.
“That’s right, only East and West Han go to see oil fields. Still, our modernity played a big role in that, so why not give me a look? From what I have heard, the US is also trying to import North Korean oil… … You are the best in heavy industry, whether it is at the level that it will come out in a few decades or if it is a Saudi-level jackpot… … .”
“I’m sorry, but I don’t know for sure. They also designated and managed it as a top-notch national secret… … Besides, where do we drill technology and experience? British oil company engineers dig to dig, drill to dig, well. And we couldn’t even go to a mining site that we weren’t in charge of. I want to mobilize even the military base to block access… … .”
“It is natural for the North Koreans. The Goryeo Ilbo was making a fuss about removing the truce line and building a ‘peace pipeline’ or something while doing a big deal or something. Let’s take a look at how much they fly, and whether they’ll be digging for decades or years to come.”
At Jeong Yang-gu’s words, Hyundai Electronics CEO Jeong Mong-heon raised his eyebrows and asked Jung Mun-young’s 5th son.
“… … What if you only have a hammock for decades? So what are you going to do?”
“Then it’s been super-emergency since then. don’t you know About half of these Korean companies are owned by foreigners. Not foreign capital. … From then on, you will have to worry about the North Korean oil capital. If you do it wrong, they could buy the country altogether, leading to unification.”
They said, “Oh no,” they looked at each other with bewildered faces, but since the industry is a business, Yang-gu Jeong, who is well aware of the modern superpower of oil, still looked disturbed by himself.
Of course, the oil-based economy has a weak foundation and collapses easily if there is an opportunity, and that opportunity has never come before.
In addition, if the upper-class eats up all the profits from that oil alone, or does not have a visionary leadership to develop future growth engines, it is impossible to avoid being ridiculed as a country with poor oil money like Saudi Arabia.
Of course, President Yang-gu Jeong never met the young general secretary Kim Jeong-hwan in person.
However, if the new general secretary resembles his father and half-brother, looking at the behavior of the Kim family so far, I guess that in the future, North Korea will become a Brunei-type state in which the supreme leader literally raises the people as full-fledged slaves who only feed them. did.
‘From now on, even if I was in that friend’s place… … .’
Foreign threats must have been alleviated by taking the pro-American route.
If you die, you have to make money from manufacturing, which is far less than the dollar you earn from digging for oil.
With the reform and opening up, foreign capital has been brought in only enough to not interfere with oil extraction, so Jeong Yang-gu thinks that the only thing he has to do is to spy on the information on the recoverable reserves of the oil fields as much as possible and decide whether to purchase more shares in Hyundai Heavy Industries accordingly. did.
If it’s true, it’s a rice bowl that I covet too much to leave my brother eating alone.
Their thoughts came two months later, when they crossed the armistice and met Kim Jung-hwan, who was rumored in Korea, in person in Pyongyang’s secretary’s office.
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“Heh heh heh, it’s really an honor to meet you like this, Secretary General. Our modern group, on behalf of the businessmen of the Republic of Korea, greets the general secretary… … .”
“Hello, what’s the use of saying hello to a stranger with a smile when you tear your old father’s heart apart and the brothers bite and bite and fight all the time? After all, those who call themselves chaebols don’t seem to have different manners from the common people in the south?”
“… … !”
Shortly after the dawn of the New Year, 1994, they headed from Seoul to Pyongyang in a car that had come down from the North.
After visiting Pyongyang for the first time in their lives, and being surprised by the buildings going up from here and there, they arrived at the party’s Finance and Accounting Department building where Jeong-hwan was waiting.
At the cynicism of the supreme leader of North Korea, who was expected to have a formal interview in the secretary’s office, the second generation, including Jeong Yang-gu, hardened their faces in an instant without even thinking that they had misjudged something.
What they heard right now… … ?
Among them, it was not the second son, Yang-gu Jeong, who came to his senses first, but Yang-heon Jeong, president of Hyundai Electronics.
“General Secretary, I don’t know why you were so angry, but once you hear what our modernity can provide to the North… … .”
“You’re talking about ‘our modernity’ as if the company has already become your own. If anyone hears it, would they already know that the children, not the comrade Moon-Young Jung, already shared the company?”
In fact, at first, Jeonghwan had no intention of calling them and shouting like this.
Although the shares can be acquired, people and technology cannot be bought quickly, so I thought that I would give them a glimpse of the first trade agreement in history, so to speak, an FTA as an oil painting and appeasement scheme.
And later, secretly, I tried to threaten vaguely that the North Korean side could take over the stake in the modern group if they came out uncooperatively… … .
However, he changed his mind when he heard a report that they had brought golf bags from a hotel in downtown Pyongyang where the second generation, including Jeongyang-gu, stayed.
Even if you don’t know the total reserves, you would of course know that oil came out, but you didn’t know that you were managing it without such tension.
In the world, there are people who listen with words, and on the other hand, there are people who need to put their fists or guns in front of them to recognize their ears.
It was clear that Jeong Mun-young’s sons still knew the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea as a country in the past, where the only means of intimidation that could be inflicted on others was the use of multiple rocket launchers or armed commissaries.
“The old father is taking on new challenges even at the age of seventy to lead the company, but the children are only thinking about splitting up the land that the father and the employees devoted their youth to reclaiming in a warm home. Now I know what it is.”
“General Secretary, what the hell… … .”
“Anyway, enjoy the role of the owner of the company to the fullest. when you can In the future, the masters of modernity will no longer be comrades. At first, I also tried to respect the management rights of the comrades by seeing the face of Chairman Chung… … If you can’t understand it, you’ll have to beat it with a stick.”
“… … What do you mean? It’s management… … .”
It was Yang-Jun Jeong, director of Hyundai Heavy Industries, who realized the meaning of Jung-Hwan’s words among the modern visiting group still standing without knowing the English language and asked a quick question.
I received a report from dispatched engineers who were dispatched to Myeongcheon to mine, saying that the reserves may be higher than expected.
Looking at the confidence of the general secretary now, it might not be ‘more than expected’ but ‘more than expected’.
Jeonghwan slowly opened his mouth, admiring his face, which was starting to feel a bad feeling.
‘I’m not in a position to say anything about the act itself, but I’m not in a position to say anything… … .’
That was the story when I had the ability to protect the loot I got at the end of the bone brothel.
If a politician doesn’t know that the people are afraid of it, and a merchant doesn’t know that money is scary, shouldn’t it be said that it is pathetic?
“The modern group equity structure is… … Construction takes a part in Heavy Industry, Heavy Industries takes back a part in Electronics, Electronics Securities shares in part, and Chairman Chung and his comrades own a part of the stake in Construction and control the entire group with a small amount of stock. You call it a circular shareholding?”
“… … Yes, but no matter what… … .”
“I just bought 1 million shares of Hyundai E&C from the Korea Stock Exchange through President Choi here. Now, the 5% stake in Hyundai Engineering & Construction, the core of modern group governance, is owned by the state-owned investment company of the Republic of Korea.”
When Jeonghwan opened his mouth, Choi Seungil, who had been standing next to him like a Jangseung, waved his satellite phone and shrugged.
Looking at the faces of the modern group family, such as Yang-gu Jeong and Yang-heon Jeong, who quickly became earthy, Jung-hwan slowly entered the ‘main point’.
“How much cash do you have available right now? Maybe you don’t know, but the distribution of cash sales is small, and the mobile communication sector is still untouched, so it’s like the oil refining industry… … With that, will you be able to fight the Republican oil money in earnest in the future? Hang on, if you take this opportunity to plant the flag of our Republic on the top of the office building in Gyo-dong, Seoul, it will be very worth seeing. Isn’t it?”
“… … Are you threatening me now? From the Blue House, the Korean government will not stand still. Our friendly stakes such as Korean banks, executives and employees, and minority shareholders… … .”
“Then, of course, it’s a threat. And I just said that it was a friendship stake, and no, half of the companies in South Korea can be bought out within three years, so be careful with your mouth. Even if there is still a trial production period for about a year, if the party orders this place, we do not have to comply with the Labor Standards Act.”
“… … .”
“Now you are not meeting a simple political leader, but a manager of a huge capital who can buy your company out of the box in an instant and for cash. So get your attitude right. To both me and your father.”
Of course, if such a thing actually happens, the Korean government is likely to close the stock exchange and declare the Second Korean War for the sake of the country’s survival, but the original threat alone is a terrifying law.
a moment of silence.
The faces of the owners of the modern group, such as Yang-gu Jeong and Yang-heon Jeong, changed to all-natural colors, and then, unexpectedly, the youngest director of Hyundai Heavy Industries, Jeong Yang-jun, was the first to speak.
“I’m sorry, General Secretary. It seems that we made a mistake in our judgment. Please forgive us for our rudeness.”
“Okay, let’s start the conversation again from the beginning. Two days later, the flight to Shanghai leaves, and I believe you won’t bring any golf bag or anything else.”
“Shanghai? From what we hear, to Beijing… … .”
“Ah, I guess you haven’t heard the detailed schedule yet. The main itinerary for this visit to China will be in Shanghai. It is the political base of the Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Jiang Zemin. If you look at the future of China there, you will definitely see why modernity benefits from working with this republic and not with south Korea.”