166. betting
That evening, the date for the four men and women, Hoyeong, Ha Sumin, Miru and Kim Heejin, was the baseball field.
Today was the day of the 3rd round of the semi-playoff between LS and OB.
Ha Su-min has lived near Jamsil since she was a child, and since her father was a big fan of LS Twins from the days of MBC Blue Dragon, he often came to watch baseball.
Besides, Heejin Kim was also a fan of LS.
Although it is a case that she has been watching baseball since she got older, she used to visit the baseball field several times a year, and she ended up going with Ha Su-min, who has similar hobbies.
The atmosphere of fall baseball is in full swing at Jamsil Stadium.
Just before the game started, Ha Soo-min and Kim Hee-jin left for a while to buy beer and squid, while only Ho-young and Mi-ru were talking with their arms crossed over the fence.
When Hoyeong glanced at Miru, her face was already exhausted.
“Director?”
“yes?”
“Aren’t you tired, Director?”
“I am tired. I am okay.”
Miru smiled sadly.
As expected, Kim Hee-jin was not an average bet.
I thought he would be assertive and energetic, but after spending a few hours together, I felt exhausted.
“Because of Kim Hee-jin?”
“yes.”
Miru’s expression as she spoke with her eyes slightly lowered wasn’t too bad.
From Hoyoung’s point of view, he seemed to be enjoying himself as well.
Miru continued to look down and said.
“Still, he was more pure and fun than I thought. You have a good personality.”
“okay?”
“yes.”
I could see Miru’s face blushing very slightly, as if she had no tolerance for women like Hoyeong.
Hoyoung looked at him and laughed.
“Chief, do you look good now, considering that you said you were tired?”
“ha ha ha···. I don’t know either. First of all, because you are pretty.”
Miru shrugged her shoulders with an impudent face.
Hoyoung stared at him for a moment with puzzled eyes.
“By the way, I’m new to the baseball field.”
“This is my first time in Korea too.”
“Oh, has the manager been to America?”
“Yes.”
“I didn’t know you were interested in baseball.”
Miru shook her head.
“No, actually, it wasn’t my hobby, it was Brian’s.”
“ah! Is it Brian?”
“yes. Brian said he’s been a fan of the Texas Rangers for 30 years.”
“Aha, I said I was a Dallas native.”
Hoyoung briefly thought of Brian.
He was currently working as the head of general security for H&H America.
Occasionally, I heard from Smith how well he was doing his job.
“yes. How long he took me with him when he was my shooter… I wasn’t even interested in baseball. Whoops.”
Miru looked at the ground with vague eyes.
It seemed to remind me of working with Brian.
“Aren’t you interested in baseball?!”
Then someone behind him spoke in a high tone.
“yes?”
Hoyoung and Miru looked back in surprise.
Looking back, I saw Kim Hee-jin and Ha Su-min, both wearing their hats, standing with beer in each hand.
“I’m not interested in baseball, so why are you here with me?”
“Oh, that’s not it…”
“That’s not what it is. I listened carefully. Isn’t that right Sumin?”
When Kim Hee-jin asked Ha Su-min behind him for consent, Ha Su-min gave a big nod.
Hoyeong looked sideways at Miru with a troubled face.
Ho-young had a hunch that something interesting would happen if he didn’t help Mi-ru, but decided to help his chief of staff’s mentality.
“I was saying at the time that I had no interest in baseball. I like it now.”
“No, that’s right. When I was in America, I was too young to know the fun of baseball.”
Kim Hee-jin narrowed her eyes.
“Really?”
“sure.”
“I know. Now, take this.”
Procrastination sighed inwardly.
He couldn’t understand why he was so embarrassed by Kim Hee-jin.
“thank you.”
“no. Let’s have a drink.”
Four men and women with beer glasses in their hands.
Miru glanced at Hoyeong before drinking beer.
“Today, let’s have a drink together. You left your car at work and took a taxi to do that anyway.”
“All right.”
When Hoyeong’s words ran out, Miru took another sip.
“Kya! It’s cool. really.”
“Yes.”
Really the beer was very cold.
It was the first time he had been to a baseball field, and Ho-yeong did not know the rules of baseball, but he really liked drinking cold beer while feeling the autumn breeze among the hot people.
“I guess I’m going to start now. But, it’s a bit cold.”
Ha Su-min spoke softly and came closer to Ho-yeong.
Hoyoung smiled as if she was cute and held her hand.
“okay. It’s a little cold.”
That’s how baseball started, and Hoyoung thought that this was more fun than baseball.
.
“Sumin-ah! I thought I was really going down when I turned around with 4 runs in the 8th inning.”
“Me too, sister.”
A few hours later, in a bar in Sincheon, a busy street right next to Jamsil, four men and women were sitting at a table, ordering beers and talking about Seungri.
The match between OB and LS ended with LS Twins winning.
Hoyoung didn’t know much, but he said that this match was a semi-playoff, and the winning team would advance to the playoffs.
Their playoff opponent is the Myungsung Lions of Daegu.
The LS Twins have to go to Daegu for the playoffs with today’s win.
“I want to go to the next playoffs, but I can’t get tickets for Jamsil, and when I play in Daegu, I can’t go down to the provinces because of the schedule.”
“So are you? I don’t have time to go all the way to Daegu either. When you do it in Jamsil, is there any filming?”
Kim Hee-jin took out the portable calendar she had and checked the schedule, and her face turned red.
“ah! Do you think you can go on the last day?”
“okay?”
“Yeah, there’s a radio recording this morning, and nothing else after that.”
“Then may I come and see you? I don’t have a schedule for that day either.”
“so? Then, even if it’s a bit expensive, I’ll have to buy a scalping ticket.”
Hoyeong, who had only listened to it until now, tilted her head at the word scalping.
“Do you have a scalping ticket?”
“yes. The scalpers roam around the arena that day. You can buy it from him.”
“How much more do you charge?”
“If it’s less, you get two or three times, if it’s a lot, you get ten times as much.”
“They’re complete robbers.”
Kim Hee-jin let out a deep sigh as if she couldn’t help it.
“But I can’t help it. Because I can’t get a ticket if I’m not that kind of person. Well, I don’t know if we’ll play Game 5 or not.”
“If you do, you’d be better off not going to see Game 5 in Jamsil.”
“why?”
“Somehow, I have a feeling that the LS Twins will fall in Game 5.”
In fact, Hoyoung was curious about the results of the next playoffs a while ago, so he went to Gaia to see the results for a while.
Gaia told him that the LS Twins would fall, so Hoyoung tried to tell him that he didn’t have to go if he didn’t want to see Ha Sumin lose.
“I beg your pardon?”
Hoyeong’s words must have offended Kim Heejin, so she said angrily.
His eyebrows curled backwards, looking like he was genuinely angry.
“The 5th game seems highly likely for LS to lose.”
“Why do you think so?”
“The players at LS have already played a few games and have to stick to their reputations the very next week. Especially today, the players looked very difficult. I’m worried if I can play a proper game. Besides, I heard that Myungsung Lions players are very mentally strong. I don’t know if I have a few days off, but it’s going to be hard right now.”
“The morale of our team is at its peak right now. Don’t you know the saying that the winning team continues to win?”
Hoyoung nodded as if he knew everything.
“I already know that. That’s why I said I’d go until Game 5. We can somehow win the previous two.”
Ho-young doesn’t know baseball, but he told Kim Hee-jin everything he heard from sports news and newspapers.
Heejin Kim, a baseball fan, must have heard it, but she couldn’t immediately find words to refute.
“Then shall we bet?”
“A bet?”
“yes. I’m making a bet on the result of Game 5.”
“Myungsung Lions will win, Heejin will the LS Twins win?”
“Yes.”
Hoyeong barely managed to hold back a chuckle.
“Betting has to be conditional. What are the conditions?”
“Is there anything you want?”
Hoyoung looked at her carefully.
Then a thought passed by.
“Please shoot an advertisement for our company.”
“A company advertisement?”
“yes. That too with no guarantee.”
Kim Hee-jin’s eyes widened slightly, but quickly returned to normal.
“like. Instead, if I win, you will get a baseball season pass next year.”
“A season pass?”
“yes. So, Sumin and I have to go watch baseball together. And Miru here too.”
“Me too?”
“sure.”
Despite her bluffs, Hoyoung answered confidently.
At this table, only Miru was making a troubled expression.
“OK. I bet. It’s a bit childish, but the two people here are witnesses.”
“I don’t usually speak twice. Get ready to buy a season pass.”
“good. CF will schedule production as soon as possible. By the way, do you like H&H? Do you like Hermes?”
Heejin Kim was dumbfounded when she saw Hoyoung talking with a very relaxed face, but she also gave a courageous answer.
“You know you have to buy a season pass in the infield, right? Anyway, let’s see.”
“like.”
As if Hoyoung and Kim Heejin had made a promise, they drank beer.
Ha Su-min enjoyed watching it, but Mi-ru, who doesn’t know the future, trembled for a while, fearing that she might have to go see a baseball game next year.
‘Chairman’s choice has never been wrong, right?’
But soon after, seeing Hoyeong, who had never seen him lose a bet as if he were the son of God, he was relieved inside and only sipped beer.
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Three months passed quickly.
The result of the bet with Kim Hee-jin was, of course, Ho-young’s victory.
Kim Hee-jin coolly admitted defeat, signed a CF contract with no guarantee, and even finished filming.
Although Chronos 3 is about to be completed, there are still several months left until the release, so I took a Pantech advertisement for a folder phone advertisement that is about to be released rather than H&H.
“CEO Park. How is the reaction of the folder phone?”
“Very good. It is especially popular with young people in their 20s and early 30s.”
Hoyoung nodded happily.
The reaction of the CF starring Kim Hee-jin was also good, and the market reaction was indescribable.
There were even requests from Japan, Hong Kong, and Taiwan to export it.
“good. Please continue to work hard, and if anything happens, please report it immediately.”
“Yep.”
Park Young-yoon slightly bowed his head and left the chairman’s room.
There are only a few days left in 1993.
Hoyoung thought that now he should prepare active sanctions against Myeongseong Electronics and Jo Nam-shik.
Korea’s Internet computing network was already dominated to some extent.
Even when there was only one Eros, it had a huge impact. Hoyoung bought a clean apartment building and laid dedicated wires to make a huge studio.
A few months ago, they obtained hardware with more advanced performance, put Eros on top of it, and tied it together using the Internet.
So Eros only added 30 units, but the synergy was not calculated by simply multiplying by 30.
And the improved Eros caught some suspicious movement in a corner of the Internet.
Nam-sik Cho, who had not heard anything for months as if he had died, caught the situation where he was hiding in the dark and preparing something.
“It seems that they exchanged related information via e-mail out of concern about potential eavesdropping, but I would never have imagined that it would be more dangerous.”
Jo Nam-sik’s caution actually helped Ho-yeong.
“What Namsik Jo is preparing, I will ruin it right now.”
Hoyoung set a short-term goal.