1979, Manager Kim is Inheriting Dictatorship! - Chapter 102



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Episode 102

[Current points: 204,900pt]

[Would you like to pay 100 points and remove the blinds?]

I used the points to open all the blinded content related to Yoo Ho-geun.

‘But this isn’t a future that was specifically changed because of me, so why is it blinded?’

When information viewed on a smartphone is blinded, it usually corresponds to a situation in which the future has changed from the original history.

But clearly, that information is about the wealth his ancestors acquired by betraying their country during the Japanese colonial period.

Well, this was all blinded, even though it was something from the distant past and had nothing to do with the history I had changed.

“What? Since it’s open, let’s take a look.”

[Yoo Ho-geun, known as Yoo Byung-jun’s hidden grandson, showed thoroughness in hiding his grandfather by burning all of his family register. However, although he hid his grandfather out of shame, he inherited all of his grandfather’s assets. Among his assets, several buildings, land in Chungcheongnam-do, and land near Gaeseong were all inherited from his uncle Yoo Ho-tae, who inherited Yoo Byung-jun’s assets.

Most of the wealth of Jeongmi Chil-jeok’s member Yoo Byeong-jun went to his second son Yoo Ho-tae, whom he had always adored.

Yoo Ho-tae was a man who was greedy for money and had no shame.

After unification, he quietly filed a lawsuit to make some of the land near Kaesong that used to be Yoo Byung-jun’s land his own.

One thing is that Yoo Ho-tae’s children all died young, whether it was because of Yoo Byeong-jun’s karma or his own karma.

Therefore, since Yoo Ho-tae had no children to inherit when he died, he left all his property to his nephew Yoo Ho-geun, whom he had always adored.

And after Yoo Ho-geun inherited the property from Yoo Ho-tae, he burned his ancestors’ genealogy as described above and thoroughly hid them.

However, when Yoo Ho-geun died in 2022, his children began to fight over his assets, and it was revealed that most of the assets were acquired by Yoo Byung-jun through his pro-Japanese activities in the past. However, by the time this fact was revealed in 2022, too much time had passed, and as the assets had been inherited multiple times, it became more complicated to prove whether the acquisition of these assets was really due to his pro-Japanese activities. Ultimately, these assets became virtually impossible to recover.

The reason the blinds were processed was probably because of the land near Gaeseong.

If unification had not occurred, the land of Kaesong would not have been found, so history would have flowed differently than originally planned, and because of that, most of the information was blinded.

However, I couldn’t take my eyes off Yoo Ho-geun’s grandfather’s name even then.

‘Was Chief Editor Yoo Ho-geun’s grandfather Yoo Byeong-jun?’

I wondered who he was to hide his ancestors, but I never thought he would be so famous.

Yoo Byeong-jun.

He served as the Minister of Agriculture, Commerce and Industry of the Korean Empire, and was the worst traitor who sold out the country as a pro-Japanese collaborator long before the Eulsa Treaty.

Although he was not as famous as one of the Eulsa Five Traitors, he was also one of the Jeongmi Seven Traitors and the worst and most vicious traitor. Although he was less famous than the Eulsa Five Traitors, the person who committed more actual treasonous acts was none other than Yu Byeong-jun.

Only then did I understand why Yoo Ho-geun had been hiding his ancestry so much.

Since the worst traitor was his grandfather, he probably wanted to live his whole life in hiding.

However, if his ancestors wanted to live in shame and hiding, they had to deny everything about him. It was absolutely unacceptable for him to shamelessly try to protect the vast fortune he had acquired through pro-Japanese activities.

I clicked my tongue as I reread the editorial written by editor-in-chief Yoo Ho-geun.

“Tsk, so that’s why you wrote something like this… … .”

He was the worst kind of journalist he could be, writing to protect his own property.

* * *

I made a dinner appointment with Yoo Ho-geun the next evening at a small bar in Jongno.

When I arrived at the bar a little after 8 o’clock, opened the door, and went inside, Yoo Ho-geun was already sitting at his seat.

He sat there with an arrogant expression on his face, and when I came, he didn’t even get up, just nodded his head to greet me.

“Welcome, Mr. President.”

“Nice to meet you. I’m Kim Jung-guk. Nice to meet you.”

I was a little annoyed by his arrogance, but I sat down and shook his hand and said hello.

He accepted my handshake halfheartedly and immediately started talking to me aggressively.

“This is Yoo Ho-geun. I never thought you would call me directly like this.”

“I never thought I would have an exclusive interview with a journalist like this.”

“If you called me today to try to persuade me in some way because of the article I wrote, you are sorely mistaken. I… … .”

“Don’t worry, that’s not why I called you. I just called you because I have something to tell you, Chief Yoo.”

He looked at her expression and it seemed like she was still feeling uneasy.

But still, when I sit down, he picks up a bottle of liquor and tries to pour me a drink.

“First, I’ll pour you a drink first.”

I picked up my glass and then quickly put it back down on the table.

‘It’s funny to drink with a person like this.’

“Okay. Before I came, I wanted to have a drink and have a nice chat, but now that I’m here, I just can’t seem to get into that mood.”

Yoo Ho-geun’s face crumples as if he is displeased.

“Is that so? Then let’s get straight to the point. Why on earth did you call me today?”

Yoo Ho-geun pours the bottle of alcohol he had been drinking into his own glass and pours it into his mouth.

Then he speaks to me with an expression full of fighting spirit.

“Even though I am like this, I am the editor-in-chief of the Seoul Morning Newspaper. Even if you are the President, you cannot act so rudely!”

I laughed at his nonsense and said to him,

“Haha, that’s right. Editor-in-Chief Yoo Ho-geun… You are Yoo Ho-geun, the editor-in-chief of the morning edition of Seoul, and also the grandson of Yoo Byeong-jun, a member of Jeongmi Chil-jeok.”

As soon as the name Yoo Byeong-jun comes out of my mouth, he spits out the alcohol he had in his mouth.

“Phew… … !!! Kkeuk… … !”

Then he put his glass down on the table and said nothing.

“Judging by your reaction, I think it’s true.”

After a while, he pours another glass of alcohol into my glass, downs it all in one go, and begins to speak to me as if he has made up his mind.

“… Did you conduct an investigation with the National Intelligence Service?… You said that the National Intelligence Service does not use it for domestic politics… … .”

“How could that be? Even without the National Intelligence Service, it wouldn’t be difficult for the president to obtain this much information. And this property. It wasn’t inherited directly from Yoo Byung-joon… … .”

He stops me before I can say anything else.

“What, what do you want? If it’s an editorial or an article, then starting tomorrow, we’ll be friendly…”

“You can write articles as much as you want. However, please return the property you inherited from your grandfather to the country. If you add up all of these, including the five-story building in Jongno, several other buildings, and the vast land in Chungcheongnam-do and Gaeseong, the property is more than you can imagine.”

Yoo Ho-geun comes to me to negotiate, looking flustered.

“How can you say you’re giving away all your assets! First, through negotiation… … .”

“There will be no negotiations regarding the recovery of pro-Japanese assets. In any case, all assets will be returned when the law is enacted. Please donate them to the country in advance. If you donate them before the law is enacted, we will hide the fact that you are Yoo Byeong-jun’s grandson.”

-bang!!!

Yoo Ho-geun slams the table and speaks to me in a trembling voice.

“If this continues, our Chogan Seoul will not be able to go well either! Are you thinking of going to war with our Chogan Seoul? If you become enemies with us, even President Kim, it will not be easy to run the country in the future! Should I tell you who the real owner of the Republic of Korea is who controls the Republic of Korea?”

This time, when Yoo Ho-geun is cornered, he makes a threat that doesn’t work.

Actually, it wasn’t that scary of a threat.

I’m not afraid of the media writing only bad articles about me and the government day and night.

I was not afraid of such threats because I believed that if the government did a good job, the people would understand the sincerity no matter how many bad articles there were.

But apart from that, I found it extremely unpleasant that journalists, who should be pursuing the truth, were making such threats for their own benefit.

‘This should give me a little bit of a wake-up call.’

I threw the glass in front of me next to his head.

The glass hit the wall next to his head and shattered into pieces.

-Tink!

A shard of glass flies past his face.

Yoo Ho-geun’s eyes waver at the sudden situation.

I pushed him in an angry voice before he could come to his senses.

“Shut up! Is that what you’re supposed to say as a journalist? Go ahead and do it. I’ll make your boss go through what happened 20 years ago. Do you want me to tell you everything about how your boss acted when we met 20 years ago? Have you forgotten who I am just because I’m being polite to you? I’m Kim Jung-guk! Kim Jung-guk! You bastard! I started out as the chief of the Central Intelligence Agency and became the president for 20 years! Let me make you realize who I am!”

Yoo Ho-geun answers with a barely trembling voice.

“So, are you threatening the press right now?”

“Intimidation? Yes, it is intimidation. But you know, if you didn’t want to be intimidated, you should have listened when people treated you with the minimum level of human treatment.”

I took out a cigarette and handed him the lighter.

It was an action that clearly showed who was in the upper hand here.

He took the lighter from me and lit a cigarette, trembling.

I said, blowing out smoke from my cigarette.

“Whew, there are two paths left for you. You can give up all the wealth your grandfather acquired through his dirty pro-Japanese activities and live quietly in the mountains. Or, as I said earlier, you can go back and wage war against the government. However, in that case, I don’t know if Jogan Seoul will remain.”

Only then does Yoo Ho-geun come to his senses and kneel down, bowing his head and apologizing.

“I’m sorry… Mr. President. I think I lost my mind earlier. Please forgive me just this once… .”

I spoke to him while finishing my cigarette.

“I can’t believe that someone like you can work as a journalist in this country. Isn’t the media trying to pursue the truth, but rather use their influence as a weapon for personal glory? You’re not even qualified to be a journalist! Choose quickly, which side are you on!”

Yoo Ho-geun hesitates for a moment, then speaks to me in a voice that seems to have given up on everything.

“Okay… … I will submit my resignation to Seoul tomorrow morning. I will also liquidate all my assets and find a way to return them to the country. But please don’t let the fact that my grandfather is Yoo Byeong-jun be hidden… I am so scared that my son and daughter will find out about it… … .”

“If you were ashamed of your grandfather’s actions and wanted to hide them, you shouldn’t have inherited his property either.”

When you think about how many people suffered because of Yoo Byung-jun’s pro-Japanese activities, his current words are truly shameless.

“sorry…….”

“Whew, I would like to dig up your grandfather’s grave too, but it’s probably not a proper grave anyway, so let’s skip that. If you want to keep even one house, tell me right here and now which descendants of the anti-national traitors among the upper echelons of Seoul are there?”

“All right…….”

The descendants of traitors in Seoul who were not even mentioned in the information on their smartphones began to come out of his mouth.