Besides, I had no intention of answering any calls from that number.
‘The union decided to wait for a call from Chairman Sung Yo-han, and how Dokgo-jin handles it.’
No evidence was found to directly attack him. I had to approach it from a different perspective than Dokgojeong and Dokgoeul.
‘I’d rather be the bait.’
According to Dokgo-gap, Dokgo-jin told his sons to take care of the work. Now that his two sons are in prison, he would have to have a single father take care of it himself.
‘I decided to hold hands with Dokgogap, so he won’t attack me.’
But how to bend the arm inward.
If I thought my chances of winning were small, I had to be mindful of the possibility of betrayal.
‘It would be a great benefit if I could be on my side for sure.’
What he wanted was to succeed Dokgo Group. In order to drive out all the people of Dokgojin from the Dokgo group, a great war had to be waged.
It was not impossible to grow competitors by pouring money, but not all affiliates’ rivals were appropriate companies like Daehan Market.
In particular, in the case of oil refineries and credit card companies, many of them already belonged to affiliates of large conglomerates, so it took a lot of time for me to dig into them.
However, if Dokgo-gap was definitely on my side, it was enough to take over some of the management rights while putting Dokgo-jin in prison. He would know better than I how to devour a company without an owner.
‘Do chaebols have no family in front of their ambitions?’
If I had to give up my family to achieve my dream, I would give up on my dream and endure it. He was an unusual person for the Dokgo family, but he was also a people that could not be understood.
I’m about to go to bed with my org chart done again.
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I got a call from the cell phone I gave to Sung Yo-han.
‘I got a call sooner than expected.’
I didn’t think it would be polite to wait too long, so I called right away.
“hello.”
{Who are you?}
“How about switching to video call first?”
I walked into an empty room.
***
After the phone call with Kim Jae-gu, Chairman Sung Yo-han fell into deep thought.
‘I thought it would be more condescending because the financial assets alone were at least 7 trillion won.’
He just spoke plainly about what he had to say. In terms of assets, he was rich enough to be in the top 10, but he did not show much money.
In addition, Kim Jae-goo’s face value, confirmed through video call, looked like he was in his 30s. As if he hadn’t suffered at all, his white face was a bonus.
‘Am I really the president of Taesan Group?’
According to Sung Yo-han’s intuition, Kim Jae-goo was not moving under the direction of others. He thought for himself and answered unexpected questions appropriately.
Rather, Taesan Group seemed closer to Kim Jae-gu’s boss. After meeting Kim Jae-goo, I improved my image and won a contract with Daehan Market.
‘Is this the snake’s temptation? Or is it a revelation from God?’
Kim Jae-gu offered him an alliance. He said that he would dismantle unions that only knew their own interests, and that those who committed sins would be punished.
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Jaegu Kim sent Brother Dokgo to prison. There was nothing wrong with them because they deserved to go to jail.
But what will breaking the coalition do for Kim Jae-goo?
‘Is it because of Dokgo-jin?’
Then it got complicated.
Sung Yo-han closed his eyes and was lost in thought. I wondered if it was a loyalty test, but when I saw Kim Jae-gu’s face, my doubts disappeared. Because it was the same as the one I saw on the TV program.
‘Catch this? Don’t you?’
It was better to stay in the coalition to get even a little more money, and to get out of the shadow of the older generation, it was better to join hands.
‘It would have been nice if Kim Jae-gu’s power was greater.’
If there was no one in his camp to oppose Lee Yu-san, it was clear that the odds of victory would drop. And Seol Gyeong-taek was the best person to stand against Mt. Lee.
‘If it’s a conditional subscription, I think it’ll be fine.’
Unlike Lee Yu-san, Seol Gyeong-taek was a person who was far from corruption. If I could convince him, it was worth thinking about holding hands.
***
I received a call from St. John.
{If Congressman Seol Gyeong-taek is with us, I will join him.}
As the chairman of a group, his nose was quite high.
‘Seol Gyeong-taek…’
Approaching Seol Kyung-taek to bring in one of the presidents, Yo-han Sung, was bigger than the stomach. Because the opponent was a big man who was aiming for the next presidential candidate even though he was first elected.
but.
‘Since there is a member of the National Assembly on the other side, it would be nice to have one on our side as well.’
It was clear that if Seol Kyung-taek was recruited, he would be able to keep Lee Yu-san in check, but it was also true that he was a big player for me to contact.
‘Who should I contact through?’
In order to properly defeat Lee Yu-san, who was being discussed as a presidential candidate, it was necessary to defeat him. Presidential elections to be held in two years. It would be nice to find someone there to push me.
‘There’s nothing wrong with building relationships in advance.’
Unlike other chaebol groups, I did not benefit from loosening regulations. It would be nice if the stock trading fees were lowered, but even now, individuals are hardly paying fees.
‘I’m thinking of moving the base to the US.’
The capital left in Korea exceeded 7 trillion won, including the account of the best property. In addition, there are many complicated procedures such as reporting to the tax office to invest money in a Korean account, so we decided to call an American account.
It was convenient to invest my capital in the US in Hugo Evans as he took care of the process.
‘Seol Gyeong-taek…’
He began to investigate Seol Kyung-taek, whom he only knew about as an opponent of Yu-san. Since he was a celebrity, information about him was all over the internet.
‘It’s a very unusual history to make a lot of money with a startup success with bare hands.’
Seol Gyeong-taek was an engineering student who graduated from Seoul National University’s Department of Computer Science and went to MIT Graduate School. After that, he made a lot of money by creating an IT startup in Silicon Valley.
Thanks to entering the early stage of the market boom, it was easy to become famous, and the media reported extensively that it was the American dream.
He ran the company until his mid-40s, then suddenly withdrew from the front line and sold the company. The money would have been enough to buy American citizenship, but Seol Gyeong-taek returned to Korea.
‘After that, I went into education.’
In order to nurture IT talent, he set up an academy and gathered famous instructors to open online lectures. It was a losing business, but he did his best.
After nearly 10 years had passed, his academy was called the Coding Academy.
‘Then the politicians. It’s a society where everyone can seize the opportunity to become rich…’
Seol Gyeong-taek was an admirer of the American market. He thought it was most important to invest in and nurture competitive startups.
So after returning to Korea, I invested in many domestic startups. He also invested 100 million in Im Hanul’s Meta Molds.
‘Meta Molds!’
It felt like a clue had suddenly been released. Since he is a shareholder in Meta Molds, I didn’t know if I could create an opportunity to meet him by calling a shareholders’ meeting.
‘I’ll have to organize what I’m going to say first.’
First impressions are more important than anything else. As he was an important person, it was clear that he would be liked only if he was properly prepared.
My fingers tapping the keyboard got busy.
***
Seol Kyung-taek’s face stiffened as he sat in front of the man who servilely smiled. Tendons twitched in his forehead.
“What are you doing?”
“If you give us your strength, we can pass the employment flexibility bill.”
He subtly pushed the box on the floor towards him. It was a box full of 50,000 won bills.
He approached Seol Kyung-taek with the hope that if he could convince him, he might be able to become a member of the coalition.
Among the academic and blood ties, the head of household was also blood related.
“You suddenly sit down at a family dinner and say something very embarrassing.”
“Dad. Don’t do that, let’s listen.”
The man suddenly intruded into a meal with Seol Gyeong-taek’s son and daughter-in-law. I missed the timing to kick him out because he greeted me so warmly, saying that he was my son’s alumnus.
At first, he hid his intentions and talked, but only after the meal was ripe and the drinks were exchanged several times, he finally revealed his true colors.
When he called somewhere, men in black suits entered the room with cute gift boxes. Seol Kyung-taek’s bodyguards blocked it, but the trouble was that his son persuaded him that it was his gift and opened the door.
‘This is a bribe for me.’
Seol Gyeong-taek frowned and looked at his son. He smiled and opened his mouth.
“Look at that. You won’t regret it.”
No matter how much money you have, it’s not enough. The man had already decided to give his son a large sum of 300 million won and asked him to make a place with Seol Kyung-taek, and he accepted the offer with a smile at the thought that 300 million won would come into his bank account.
‘I wanted to buy a new sports car, but it worked out.’
Since I entered middle school, I had never worried about money, so I didn’t have a clue. There was also some resentment towards her father, who reduced her financial support after getting married.
Seol Kyung-taek jumped up from his seat.
“I go first.”
“Where are you going? You should take this.”
My son whimpered and lifted the gift box.
Seol Kyung-taek frowned.
“Can’t you put that down?”
“Don’t do that. We’re the only ones here.”
“Even walls have ears.”
“Where are the ears on the wall?”
“There are no secrets. Daughter-in-law, do you think the same?”
The daughter-in-law lowered her eyes as sparks suddenly jumped at her.
“no.”
“What will happen to me if you step out of there?”
the son resented
“But… I have to do my father’s president, but what if I get caught up in this amount of money?”
Even so, it was said that the amount was not enough.
Seol Kyung-taek frowned.
“Be prepared to disown me for even a penny.”
“father!”
He strode away from his son, who was shouting at him. Before he could go out, his feet stopped. A blush appeared on the son’s face.
“Have you changed your mind?”
“I’m going to do the calculations, so just pay for the extra. Of course, you have to do it with your card.”
Facing Seol Kyung-taek’s burning eyes, the son lowered his eyes and pursed his lips.
‘They invested tens of millions of dollars in people who were not blood relatives, but they didn’t even take care of their sons…’
“Let’s pretend I know.’
Seol Kyung-taek left the room without even paying attention to the man who brought the bribe. An aide quietly captured the scene on video.
***
When I investigated Seol Kyung-taek, he was not the one to be bribed. If so, I had to approach it from a different perspective.
‘It’s good that I’m not someone who is swayed by money, but if it’s not money, how can I recruit them?’
What was especially important was the formation of consensus. It came to my eyes that he made a lot of angel investments.
‘Shall we go to Silicon Valley and make some investments?’
All that was left was money, but money could buy experiences.
‘There is one expert who knows well in this field.’
I have a lot of people
When it comes to investing, it was Brayden Harper. As a professional investor, it was clear that various information would gather around him.
So, you must have done some angel investing.
‘They gave me the latest information infrequently.’
I didn’t like having too many bad habits, so I reduced the frequency of giving information to once a month. My thoughts are me, but so that the gains are not large.
When I looked at the scale and presented a guide to the amount of investment, he began to know me as a god of stock investment.
‘If there is a god in stocks, it’s my grandfather, not me.’
When I thought of my grandfather, I remembered the orchard I started making next to the grave. The work to create a pear orchard was also progressing step by step.
In agriculture, the expert was also a person who had been cultivating the farm for many years. A man who learned the know-how by helping his parents pear farming for 15 years. Hired Yu Tae-gi as an employee.
‘It took a while, but.’
400,000 won per month. And I decided to take care of the performance pay generously. He declined the offer at first, but readily accepted the offer when he was told that he was planning to expand the Korean pear market overseas.
‘It’s not stealing the pie, it’s because the pie is growing.’
No one wanted to do something that threatened their parents’ farm by helping someone else’s farm. He has a strong sense of filial piety and has helped his parents with farming since he was 18, so it was all the more so.
‘Besides, it’s much easier to work.’
The Carver Company’s agricultural tools have automated many tasks that were previously done by human hands. Thanks to this, we were able to extract the highest efficiency with a small number of people. It was like an American company, a country with high labor costs.
‘These days, the labor cost in Korea is not cheap.’
Thanks to this, the rate of young people leaving the countryside has accelerated, and foreign workers are said to be filling the gap. I heard that now even their eyes are high and they refuse to do things that do not pay.
An era was approaching when farmers without proper skills could no longer make a profit.
‘Foreign crops are so cheap that they can’t compete in terms of price…’
Small farms either grew specialty crops, stopped farming, or depended on subsidies. And Korean pears were a decent crop.
‘Farming should be viewed as a long term, so it will take quite a while for the results to come out.’
As for the variety, it was decided to plant a mixture of several varieties including Shingo. According to him, wait two years and the ship will begin to open.
It was thanks to the purchase and planting of relatively large seedlings, but two years seemed far away.
‘Still, white pears will bloom in April next year.’
I felt better when I thought of my grandfather who would be happy to look down on the village from the oxygen. We told those who continued to have friendly relations with our family that they could come back and live there once the construction was finished.
Instead of completely demolishing the village, it was decided to rebuild it by repairing it.
‘Because it’s still a place with memories.’
I was thinking of remodeling the old store and managing it neatly. We decided to make a dormitory for employees working in the orchard to rest, and a lodging for those who came to experience farming.
Of course, all the construction work was given to Taesan Construction.
‘I’m on the same boat, so I have to do this much.’
In preparation for an emergency, a bodyguard from Titanium Security was attached to Chairman Cheol-Hyun Lim. Perhaps because he was the president of a company, before I could even speak, he offered to pay the bodyguard’s ransom himself.
I didn’t have to accept it, but I accepted it because I thought it would be better for a long-term relationship.
‘It’s been less than a year since I was released from prison, but I really don’t know about human affairs.’
He was driven to the edge of hell. I was determined to really die if things didn’t work out.
I knew that my parents were having a hard time because of me, but I gave up on that feeling. I can’t drive a nail through suicide into the hearts of those who sacrificed everything for me.
I also remembered going to my grandfather’s grave with a bottle of soju.
‘My life has changed since then.’