86 episodes. It’s odd, it’s a family.
‘No, let’s take a break and talk.’
My body is tired from consecutive flights, so my head is weak.
“Mom, we’ll talk about it tomorrow. I’m tired today, so I’ll go to bed early.”
“Uh, yes, yes. I got it. The futon is spread out, so you can wash up and go to sleep right away.”
“yes.”
“Son, I’ll use the bag well. My son worked hard. Whoa.”
My mother cast a bang on me, and my father and sister quickly put spoons on them and said thank you.
Tens of thousands of won is not a small amount of money, but considering the money I earned in Australia, it was not a huge amount, but I was proud of it.
‘I feel better than when I spent billions of dollars.’
It’s odd, it’s a family.
***
next day.
When I opened my eyes, it was already 11:30.
I slept really ignorant of the world.
When I left the room, the family was gone to their respective workplaces, and side dishes were placed on the kitchen table.
– Son, Depasa Mura.
There is a note from my mother in which only the words to be said are written on the post.
I skillfully put the soybean paste stew on the gas stove, cover the rice bowl with plastic wrap, and heat it up in the microwave.
It’s over when only the rice and soup get warm.
I quickly ate a bowl of home-cooked food I ate in a long time.
‘Oh, I missed you. This salty taste.’
It’s not like Australia doesn’t have Korean food.
No matter where you go, there is always at least one Korean restaurant and you can have a simple hammock.
But this soybean paste stew is different.
In particular, our mother’s doenjang stew is made with soybean paste and cooked to the extent that the soup is made by itself, so it is difficult to feel this salty taste anywhere.
To put it exaggeratedly, you can eat a spoonful of rice just by looking at the taste of the soup by slightly moistening the soup without using a spoon.
That’s why if you wrap it in lettuce and eat it, it’s like eating ssambap again.
“But what day is today?”
I looked at the calendar next to the table and confirmed that today is Thursday.
Tomorrow or Saturday is the perfect time to meet friends.
These guys are now working on the front line of their livelihood, so they left a short text message and went out to the living room and became one with the sofa.
It’s been a long time since I’ve watched a variety show and giggled, and a text message came in.
“yes? Are you Jessica?”
Of course, I checked the text thinking that it would be so.
“……!”
I automatically got up from lying down and read the text on the phone screen again.
– Mr. Jin Yu-seong. Please contact us when you return to Korea.
It was Kang Jun-ho.
How did you send a text message today after it arrived yesterday?
Did you check the immigration records?
‘Call me? Don’t you?’
Chew it and I’ll call you next time.
Whether it was visiting Inham or texting him as soon as he arrived in Korea, he showed his will to meet with me.
“Hmm, hmm.”
I cleared my throat and pressed the call button.
-hello?
“Chief Kang. I’m going.”
– It’s been a while, Jin Yu-seong. I think you saw the text.
“Yeah, I heard that you came to Inham, so I came to Korea and tried to contact you, but I got a text message.”
-Are you in Seoul now?
I know that I have entered Korea, but you don’t even know that I am in Changwon.
Is it because you don’t use GL nupple carrier?
“No, I’m back home.”
– When are you coming to Seoul?
“Well. I think it will be up in a week or so. Maybe it will be later.”
-Then I will schedule a visit to the Changwon plant next week with the managing director, so can I see you for a while?
“What are you doing?”
– Let’s meet and talk. The manager wants to meet Jin Yoo-seong.
I leaned back on the sofa and held the phone in my hand.
“Chief Kang, do you know that I am a subordinate who comes and goes?
– The manager told me to set up a meeting date, so I didn’t know what to expect. Please forgive me.
“Then tell Mr. Koh to call him directly. Hang up.”
You look at me like a pawn, Mr. Park.
– Come on, wait a minute.
“Why? To intimidate you like you did back then? Do whatever you want.”
Any illegal activities in the past?
I’ll be in this country soon, so what does it matter?
It doesn’t matter if such a minor offense reaches Australia.
There is a strong back that is as strong as the GL group.
– Uh huh, absolutely not. Conversely, the manager wanted to apologize to Jin Yoo-seong.
“Yes? Apologies?”
What kind of dog is eating grass?
-Have you had that slush fund before?
“…why is that?”
Miss, I’m scared.
Is this why thieves are saying please numb?
– He wants to apologize for that. So please take your time.
Are you trying to think of me once we meet?
Or maybe I’m not saying it now, but I’ve got some evidence?
– You are sincere. I would like to ask you to meet me first, as it is to reconcile and have a good relationship with Jin Yoo-sung in the future.
“I don’t think it’s worth doing that to me. Isn’t the manager going to be the head of the GL group? I don’t think you’re the one to bow your head down to me.”
– As you can see from the Sydney villa, Mr. Sangmu is not a person who treats people with respect. He doesn’t disparage other people because he’s the owner, or he doesn’t talk recklessly. At that time, things were really unavoidable.
can’t help it
There is no word more dangerous than that.
In any case, it’s an excuse you can use.
“Anyway, from my point of view, I don’t really want to meet you. I’m sorry, but I will decline. An apology counts as an apology.”
I have received enough compensation.
-Wait. At that time, the boss didn’t use coercive methods from the beginning, didn’t he? You tried to scout Jin Yoo-seong, but it didn’t work, so you did it that way, not because you had bad feelings.
“……”
-If you don’t believe me, and I can’t convey the manager’s sincerity with my explanation alone, I’ll tell you that you should call me directly. The manager will definitely call you.
“……”
It looks annoying, really.
Seeing you say it so firmly, I think you will be in touch.
‘Yeah, there’s no evidence that I ate the money, so let’s go see what his expression looks like after eating a shot.’
If you’ve given a counter punch, you’ll have to check whether the opponent has lost consciousness or just staggered before it’s finished.
“All right. I will leave time next week, so if you come to Changwon, please contact me at a convenient time.”
-Thank you, Jin Yu-seong.
“You’re welcome. The manager in the middle is having a lot of trouble.”
– No, it’s my job. Then we will contact you again.
“Yes, come in.”
I hung up the phone and lay back on the sofa.
“Sangmura Koh Sang-moon……”
It’s a strange banquet
If I had blown 200 billion, I would have been bitten.
Are you going to apologize to me in that situation?
‘Isn’t 200 billion a lot of money because it’s top-class among chaebol families?’
***
sizzle.
My parents closed the shop early today too and grilled pork belly in the evening.
“Mom, can the chicken shop close so early in the evening?
“I don’t know if it’s Friday or Saturday, but today I have a child on Thursday. So, I’m having dinner with my son after a long time, how about a day or so?”
Mom cut the pork belly with a familiar hand gesture and placed the cooked part on top of the sesame oil.
“Wow, it melts.”
“Son, have a drink.”
“Zep. Yes, Dad.”
I held a soju glass with meat in my mouth.
– Crackle.
When my glass was full, I was handed the bottle and politely filled my father’s glass.
“But son.”
“yes.”
“I think I’ll be back in a year, but did you come back so soon? It’s not that good since you’ve been to Australia?”
“No, it was really good. I had a lot of strange experiences.”
“Hahaha, how do you feel when you go abroad? Does your country seem cramped?”
“Well, Korea isn’t the only place where people live.”
It was definitely different from what you see on a square TV in Korea.
Should I call this real?
It means that the world we are living in now is not just Koreans, but various races and ethnicities.
Even in Korea, foreigners are walking on the streets. What does this mean?
Should I say that we live together?
As I cried, laughed, comforted, comforted, and exchanged emotions, I literally felt it.
This was different from having a conversation with a foreigner over the phone or e-mail while working at a company.
human smell? I mean, there’s something like that.
“I met a lot of really good people there.”
I started talking about the people I met there: Henry and Helen, Bobby and Chris, John and Sarah.
My father and mother sip a glass of wine and nodded their heads intermittently to listen to me.
But the older sister frowned and opened her mouth.
“Aren’t you lying now?”
“I say I’m going to lie.”
“It doesn’t make sense.”
“what?”
“What is that, Bobby? The president of a large company called Inham, let’s say how you got to know him because you worked for that company. But Henry? How far is the person who is the chairman of that media company?”
I can’t say that we met at the casino…
“Because it’s different from Korea. It’s completely different from the way my sister sees the president of the chaebol. Although Bobina Henry is the president, she buys spaghetti and wears clothes in the neighborhood.”
“Hey, no matter how foreign you are in freestyle, the president will be like that? Is it a child who misunderstood your boss? The president is the chairman, the chairman.”
“Oh, that’s right.”
Is this so unbelievable?
Noonan still hadn’t lifted his suspicions.
“Wow, noona, I’d faint if I knew how much I had in my bank account.”
“How much do you have to say that? Why do you have ten million won? Ahaha.”
Aww, that naughty snout.
“There are over two hundred billion.”
“You’re sullen and sullen. Did you go abroad and your lungs didn’t wind up and your bluff increased?”
– Damn it!
“Ah! Mommy is sick!”
“Gashina, do you want to tell me what’s wrong? What’s wrong with being sloppy and sloppy? I’m going to show you and saying yes, so the difference is a child?”
“The difference is who said it was the car! It’s me!”
I brought my laptop and showed me my ANZ account as my mother and daughter were fussing.
“What is this?”
“My Australian account.”
“One, ten, one hundred, one thousand, ten thousand, one hundred thousand, one million, ten million…… Hey, is this a fake site for hidden cameras or something like that?”
“What else? Is there such a thing? This is real, a real Australian account.”
Then my father glanced at me with his eyes wide open and his mouth wide open.
You recognize me as a former financier, heh.
“Ah… Ah, son. Where did you get this money from?”
In response to my father’s question, I told him that I received it while working as an outside director of Inham in Australia and as the head of resource development at Bearfax.
“What do you mean by all that? Are you kidding me with some scammers?”
My mother recognized the situation late because of the account written in English and spoke with concern.
“No, why would a scammer give me so much money? It’s real.”
However, no matter how much I explained, the three of them could not get out of the chaos.
‘Alas, you showed me too much money in haste.’
This is because it is at a level far beyond the sense of money.
So, I’m worried that I might have something to do with something big.
The problem was that the concept of money changed because it was too much money, so I didn’t think deeply from the other person’s point of view.
‘What about this…’
Then I saw someone appearing on TV in the living room.
I thought that if I mentioned that person, I would be able to trust him even a little bit.
“Father, mom, sister. See that person on the news over there?”
Their gaze moved to where my finger was pointing.
“I met that person in Australia. I have an appointment for next week. How do you feel?”
The charming older sister tilted her head and asked.
“Do you know the third generation of chaebols?”