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afternoon a few days ago.
The car with Hoyoung on board passed Seoul and headed for Namyangju, Gyeonggi-do.
It wasn’t that far from Gangnam, but the scenery outside the car window was already lush and was quite different from the city.
Before long, the car stopped in front of a huge country house.
Ding Dong-
Hoyoung got out of the car and rang the doorbell.
“I’m leaving.”
Perhaps the owner of the house was out in the yard, and as soon as Hoyeong pressed the doorbell, the answer came right away.
The landlord’s voice was that of an old man.
“Who are you… oh! uh huh Aren’t you Chairman Yoon?”
“President. How have you been? It seems like I haven’t seen you in almost a year.”
“You’re the president. Now I am just a retired old man.”
It was Jo Hee-chang who greeted Ho-yeong.
Jo Hee-chang handed over the chairmanship to his son, Jo Jung-sik, and then moved to Namyangju after cleaning up.
Then, in Seoul, his face did not shine well, and he remained silent.
“How have you been?”
“me? haha···. I enjoyed being free for a long time. one···. After 50 years?”
“You seem to have lost some weight? It looks like you got a little burned on your face.”
“Because I have a new hobby. Can’t you see it over there?”
Jo Hee-chang pointed to a corner of the yard.
There was a vegetable garden in the yard, and even though it was still February, the green grass was growing green.
“Farming… Are you making it?”
“It’s embarrassing to real farmers to build it as farming, and it’s about a small vegetable garden. It’s at the level of playing house.”
It was larger than expected to be at the level of playing house, but Hoyoung nodded and moved on as it was not important.
“Come in at once. I think I know why Chairman Yoon asked to see me.”
Jo Hee-chang brought Ho-yeong into the house.
The house had been turned on in advance, so the warmth lingered.
Surprisingly, there was not a single servant in the house.
“Are you alone here?”
“Almost so. At first, there were a few kids who waited on me, but they were too busy, so I sent them all away. It’s about coming a few times a week to clean and go.”
Hoyoung drank the coffee that Heechang Cho made himself and looked around.
His residence, which was the owner of Myeongseong, the largest corporate group in Korea, even looked shabby in some ways.
“You’ll know when you’re older, how comfortable this is.”
Hoyoung seemed to be laughing, but he didn’t show it.
Jo Hee-chang would never know. If you judge only by the life Ho-yeong has lived, it is not that different from him.
“The reason I asked to see the elders today is…”
“Isn’t it because of Hanbo?”
“That’s right.”
Jo Hee-chang nodded.
“I thought it would be like this one day.”
“Whoops… Is that so?”
Hoyeong didn’t have a conversation with Cho Heechang, but he was sure he already knew what he was going to say.
Jo Hee-chang is also someone who has peaked somewhere.
There’s no way that he didn’t know how Hoyoung felt right now.
“I was sure you would dream bigger than now. I wish my sons were like this too.”
“The two of you are already doing a great job with each other.”
Hoyoung’s words were not exaggerating.
Cho Jung-sik did a better job as the chairman of Myungsung Group than I thought.
Hoyeong predicted that he would be better at defending castles than sieges, and he lived up to those expectations wonderfully.
Then who does the siege in the fame group?
That was Jo Nam-shik.
As soon as Cho Nam-shik took office as CEO of Myungsung Electronics, he started aggressive management.
It’s been more than a year, but even Ho-yeong was mistaken that he could see the development of Myungsung Electronics’ semiconductor technology with his own eyes.
As if he was trying to repay the humiliation he received from Ho-yeong, he worked like crazy.
“But, it doesn’t fit my last name.”
“ha ha ha. How the hell do you have to be good enough to wear the chairman’s last name? You’re not saying that America needs people like Bill Gates or Warren Buffett, right?”
“haha. I’ve never met those two, but I know someone better than them.”
“…”
Hoyoung was unable to speak.
It was almost obvious who the one person Jo Hee-chang was talking about was.
“Thank you so much for putting me so highly.”
Jo Hee-chang laughed with a giggle.
This is also a look that I couldn’t have imagined before retirement.
As the chairman of Myungsung Group, he was like a well-forged sword.
But now it’s just an old man who likes to tease young people.
“Hey, do you know about the grass called Dongcho?”
“Dongcho? Well···. I have no knowledge on that side.”
“haha. Finally, the word you don’t know came out of your mouth. Well, it’s not that important. The grass I’m growing in the yard over there is Dongcho. kind of something… It’s kind of like spinach.”
“Even in winter like now, green leaves are growing, so I watched carefully. I guess that’s why the winter dong in the name came in.”
“right. But Dongcho has one more nickname.”
“What is it?”
Ho-young responded with sincerity to Jo Hee-chang’s words.
It was because I didn’t think that someone the size of Jo Hee-chang would say such a thing without any meaning.
“It’s just unraveling. If Dongcho is planted in the fall, some seeds will quickly sprout and grow even in the fall, and some seeds will sprout in the midst of winter like this. And there are even seeds that don’t hear from you until spring, and then grow only when spring is over.”
“Ohh···. Is that so? Interesting.”
Jo Hee-chang smiled involuntarily as he watched Ho-young listen to the story with twinkling eyes, as if his curiosity was really aroused.
When you look at it like this, you’re just a curious young man.
However, Jo Hee-chang was not fooled by such a face because he knew Ho-young’s side like a snake inside.
“But the important thing is that this winter grass can do whatever it wants because it has the confidence to sprout at any time of the day.”
“okay.”
Hoyoung nodded with a more relaxed face.
When Jo Hee-chang saw Ho-young like that, he spat out words at once.
“You have the ability to do as you please. Then follow that heart as it is. Of course, our reputation will be with you. It’s because you’re confident. If the disposal of the steel mill operated by Hanbo is in need, we will first incorporate it into our affiliate. Even if it’s not, I’ve considered entering the steel business because of fame.”
“thank you.”
Hoyeong was truly grateful to Jo Hee-chang, who already knew everything Hoyeong wanted to say and told him in advance.
“Yes, it would have passed anyway if the board meeting was held and only you and Jeongsik kissed each other. Thank you for not being forced to deal with it like that.”
If what Jo Hee-chang said was true, it was true.
Hoyoung could have done it if Jo Heechang didn’t come out so cooperatively, if he wanted to do it by any means.
“And if you are going to take over another company… To be honest, it’s not even the first time, is it?”
“yes?”
“The Sampoong Group not too long ago. Are you going to pretend you don’t know while consuming that Sasang Pavilion and rebuilding it one by one, starting with the skeleton?”
After all, did you say that it is Junchi even if it rots?
Jo Hee-chang already knew that Ho-yeong was trying to tear the Hanbo Group in two, putting the construction side under him and handing over Je-cheol to fame.
“I’m not pretending not to know. Of course I thought you knew. I was guessing that even if you were here like this, news would come to you regularly.”
“haha. Even this old man needs to know what’s going on in the world. What···. Please discuss related matters with Jeongsik, not me.”
“All right. President.”
Jo Hee-chang looked at Ho-yeong with complicated eyes for a moment and spoke again in a voice dripping with water.
“and···. From now on, you don’t have to come to me to discuss matters related to fame. Please discuss with Jeongsik and Namsik.”
Hoyoung was slightly surprised by Jo Heechang’s words.
This is because Cho Hee-chang’s words were the same as saying that he would completely withdraw from management in the future.
Even though he was retired, he was the one who unknowingly exercised influence behind the scenes.
However, the declaration just now was his will to cut it off completely.
“All right······. old man.”
Ho-young, who understood Cho Hee-chang’s intentions, called Cho Hee-chang an elder, not president.
Hoyoung and Jo Heechang met each other’s eyes and smiled.
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Ho-yeong left Jo Hee-chang’s residence, and Jo Hee-chang looked out the window.
Suddenly, white snow was falling from the sky.
White snow was also falling on the copper plants in the yard.
After a while, white snow began to accumulate on the yard.
The same goes for his field, of course.
But Jo Hee-chang knows.
Dongcho will grow more through the white snow.
Also, when you want to bloom, you will bloom bigger leaves.
“Whoops… Is my time completely over now?”
Jo Hee-chang had a rather relaxed face.
The miasma that had engulfed his life completely disappeared.
“Why couldn’t I have lived here before?”
He said it self-deprecatingly, but there are facts that no one can deny.
The reputation he has grown has and will continue to have a tremendous impact on Korea, whether positive or negative.
In any case, he is a person who made a big mark in the modern history of Korea.
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Hoyoung started preparing to pick up companies that fell on the ground by affiliating with the Myungsung Group in earnest.
The most important thing was, of course, live ammunition.
No matter how well prepared they are, they cannot take over a company without money, so they started making cash step by step.
And the second most important thing was the acquisition negotiation team.
Companies that will go bankrupt in the future are 300% and 400% basic, and there are companies with debts exceeding 800%.
The debts of those companies were not in the hundreds of billions.
It was an enormous amount of debt that exceeded 1 trillion or 2 trillion won.
Hoyoung is not a philanthropist, and he cannot eat the debt as it is.
Therefore, it was necessary to negotiate the debt ratio with the creditors, and the number of people began to select and gather huge elites from all over the country and abroad.
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Almost a month passed quickly since I met Chairman Cho Hee-chang.
In the meantime, the Hanbo Group completely went bankrupt and entered court management.
Usually, the court receivership review takes about three months, but the bankruptcy of the Hanbo Group started court receivership in one month, perhaps because it was a big event that would shake the whole of Korea.
When a company goes into court receivership, its obligations for debts are suspended first, and property preservation dispositions are also entered.
However, the government did not leave the Hanbo Group alone.
[Evidence of corruption in the Hanbo Group owner’s family is revealed.]
[Hanbo Group’s monumental tower built by fabrication as a bribe. Turns out, it’s a building of thought]
The prosecution relentlessly attacked the Hanbo Group.
Of course, Hanbo did an act that deserved punishment, and he was undergoing a proper investigation.
However, Ho-yeong was well aware that the investigation was intended to reduce the reason for the bankruptcy of the Hanbo Group to the Hanbo Group, not the entire Republic of Korea.
That’s why Hoyoung didn’t bother to hide that he wanted to take over.
No, rather, he deliberately spread rumors through his channels.
It was clear that if rumors spread like this, the government, or at least the remaining people of Hanbo, would come to Hoyeong first as a measure to normalize Hanbo.
“Whoa…”
Hoyeong entered the house, tidied up her coat, and sat down on the sofa.
“It’s hard.”
And the whisperer spoke to himself.
The recent activities were distinctly different from what Hoyoung had done so far.
Up until now, Hoyoung has tried to stay out of the front as much as possible.
He was extremely wary of his face being sold and his name being known.
The reason was to maintain the mysterious image of Gaia Investment, from a very simple thought that as he progressed well, people who were jealous of him might harm him.
It’s because I’m in awe of the mysterious image of a human being.
However, recently, Hoyoung has been actively meeting many people with the face and name of Yun Hoyoung.
In the first place, it was Ho-yeong who showed his face here and there because Jo Jung-sik was there to introduce himself as a partner and chairman of the Hermes Group to the place where he was a renowned entrepreneur.
Of course, Hoyoung made a good impression on people with her innate conversational sense and impeccable manners, but these behaviors themselves were unfamiliar to Hoyoung.
What you’re good at and what you like are completely different things.
Hoyoung felt a tremendous fatigue that he had never felt while coding.
Brilliant-
Just then, Hoyoung’s phone rang, and Hoyoung quickly answered the phone.
“hello?”
– hello? brother?
“Yes, Sumin.”
A bashful smile oozes from Hoyoung’s face.
It was Su-min, not anyone, who comforted Ho-young, who was having such a hard time recently.
In no time, the two went from being respectful to being at odds with each other.
It might have seemed strange to someone to finally let go of the word in the yard where they were even openly dating.
“How was filming today?”
– Ahaha. Nothing happened. The first schedule after starting a public relationship is to shoot a Pantech commercial. I’m afraid I’ll look too foolish.
“haha. no. Pantech CEO Park Young-yoon is very strict, but if he didn’t suit his image, he would never have approved of it.”
– okay?
Hoyoung had a meaningless conversation with Ha Sumin.
It was Ho-young who realized for the first time that he could feel happiness just by sharing his daily life with someone.
– Oh by the way… I have something to tell you.
“What?”
– that is…
Ha Su-min couldn’t easily tell Ho-young, and after hesitating he spat out a single word.
And those words make Ho-young, who was spreading on the sofa, jump out! made it happen
– My father wants to see my brother… Can you make some time?