A Chairman Who Has No Regrets - Chapter 100



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The Chairman Who Has No Regrets Episode 100 – Each Bone Mind (6)

Kang Seo-ja is sitting at the table where she and Jeon Kang often enjoy tea time, diligently reading the pledge that Jeon Kang wrote himself.

“Ke-hack-”

As the dry cough continued to get worse, the life in her face seemed to fade, little by little.

“Horrorok.”

Whenever she has a cough, Kang Seo-ja has a habit of drinking doraji tea without fail. It should be hot, but she is so used to the process of drinking tea that she reads the pledge word by word without even nodding.

“I… amassed wealth not through land and houses in shantytowns… but what does accumulation even mean…”

When she comes across a word she doesn’t know, she opens up the Korean dictionary and looks it up one by one. She has been completely absorbed in the fun of learning Korean these days.

Old letters scattered on the table, looking like they could fall apart at any moment. Kang Seo-ja, who had read the letters from her husband who had passed away during the war a long time ago, had read them dozens of times, but she still read them several times a day. She thought of it as part of her study, but in fact, it was an expression of her loneliness.

Glance, glance.

She had been burying her nose in the dictionary and the pledge for a while, but she kept glancing toward the front door. There was no clock in the house, but she had a feeling that someone would knock on the front door soon.

Lately, I’ve been reading my husband’s letters less often. Now, there’s someone who makes me see those letters I’ve memorized even once less often.

Thud, thud, thud.

Her instincts were right, and someone was knocking on the door. It was the person who had made her glance at the front door so much. If there was one thing in common between her husband, who had died in the war, and the person knocking on the door now, it was that they were both men.

“The door is open-”

Was it an illusion that the color was returning to Kang Seo-ja’s face, which had been losing its vitality? When she shouted with a smile and no cough, Jeon Kang naturally sat down in front of her with stomping footsteps.

“Have you finished your homework?”

“Oh my, this little bastard, he started yelling at me as soon as he got here?”

“I’ve been so busy lately that I haven’t been able to check properly.”

“Are we almost done?”

Jeongang glances at the dictionary, pencil, and exercise book placed on the table and nods his head.

“Are you busy today too?”

Although it was a sudden question, Kang Seo-ja’s eyes, glancing at Jeon Kang, held a strange sense of anticipation.

Jeongang nodded with a small smile. He lifted the cup of doraji tea and averted his eyes as if he felt sorry.

“You know tomorrow is the scholarship quiz broadcast day, right?”

“Did you go to the broadcasting station at that time?”

“Yes, that’s tomorrow, Grandma.”

“Oh… Paul, is that okay?”

“Would you like to meet me at the restaurant tomorrow, Grandma?”

“Let’s wait and see… So tomorrow is the Lunar New Year holiday?”

“Yes, I’ll be resting for five days starting tomorrow.”

Kang Seo-ja nods her head, puts down her pencil, and falls into thought for a moment.

“Oh my, it’s rude to go to that guy’s house during the holidays.”

“All the neighbors are coming. Grandma, Chang-Hyeon’s family is coming too.”

“Is that so?”

“Yes, Hyorong’s grandmother will be coming too.”

“Really?”

“Yes, so Grandma, come visit too. Come and eat something delicious.”

Kang Seo-ja smiled and quickly turned her head away from Jeon Kang and said.

“No matter how much I draw, I can’t give you the land and the house?”

“Hahaha, yes. Grandma, you don’t have to give it to me.”

“Kehak- Then, I wonder if I should go to Watsuke once?”

“Please feel free to come.”

As Jeon-gang puts down the empty Doraji teacup, Kang-seo-ja picks up the teapot.

“I have to get going from the morning today. There’s a lot of work to be done today since tomorrow is a holiday, Grandma.”

“Granyaing…”

Kang Seo-ja answered in a very hoarse voice, then quickly raised her head and gestured for him to go quickly as she continued speaking.

“Oh, that’s perfect. Why were you so sleepy that you almost lost your breath while trying to hold it in?”

“Yes, Grandma, get some rest – and take your medicine well.”

“Hey, what’s with that long tongue of yours, you punk? Go away quickly.”

“Yes, Grandma, can I see you tomorrow?”

Kang Seo-ja followed him out the front door, nodding her head repeatedly, and waved her hand to send Jeon-gang away.

thud.

Kang Seo-ja, who had been looking at the back of Jeon-gang, who could not be seen beyond the heavily closed front door, sat down at the tea table again and read the pledge Jeon-gang had written. She diligently looked up any words she did not know in the dictionary.

**

After leaving my grandmother’s house, I headed straight to the orphanage.

“Assistant instructor!”

Kim Mi-hyeon, who greeted me brightly today as well, looked at the tray in her hand and it seemed like she was coming out of the classroom for the practical conversation class.

“hello-”

“Instructor David and student Choi Tae-woong are in the classroom. The assistant instructor is coming. I brought it over.”

“Yes, I will drink well.”

When I entered the classroom after knocking, there was a coffee cup in the seat where I always sat.

“Hey, why are you calling me out so early in the morning?”

“Most office workers go to work at 10 AM.”

David shakes his head at my words.

“Here it is, you pressed the button again and came in.”

I said with a shrug.

“And I understand that student Choi Tae-woong made the promise.”

“Anyway, I won’t say a word.”

Choi Tae-woong chuckles and taps David’s thigh, then looks at me with a smiling face.

“Have you seen this article, Assistant Instructor?”

The newspaper he handed me was the one I had handed out on the hillside in Sanggye-dong yesterday morning. In short, it was an article I could not have missed.

“Yes, I saw it.”

“They say it’s industrial rationalization… If you think about it in conjunction with the announcement made by Jewon Bank not long ago, it seems like the Imperial Group will have a hard time, right?”

Didn’t we already talk about this several times before? But Choi Tae-woong still seems to want to confirm it.

“It will disappear after the holidays.”

Choi Tae-woong nods quietly. The Gyeongseon Group probably already knows this. The dissolution of the Imperial Group is practically a done deal.

“Ha- Seriously, with just one word or one action, the 7th place in the business world would disappear…”

David shook his head. He must have guessed the reason since he had heard the conversation between me and Choi Tae-woong. It is even less convincing that David, who is quick-witted, did not notice.

Choi Tae-woong clicked his tongue and looked at me.

“I listened carefully to what the assistant instructor said and picked out a few affiliates of the Imperial Group.”

Choi Tae-woong handed me another document. It contained information on 21 affiliated companies under the Imperial Group. I glanced at the document and met Choi Tae-woong’s eyes again.

“Is this a request?”

Choi Tae-woong says with a smile.

“Please provide some service.”

It seems he wants compensation for what happened at the police station.

“Have you prepared enough money for the expenses?”

At that time, Choi Tae-woong clearly said that he would give a separate case because the consulting fee was cheap. I still haven’t forgotten that.

Choi Tae-woong also takes out a yellow envelope of money from his bosom with a look on his face. Even at a glance, it is clear that it contains a considerable amount of money.

“It’s five hundred. It’s prepared separately from the scholarship quiz prize money.”

His words sounded like he was saying that the scholarship quiz prize money was bigger than last time.

“Do you have any affiliates in mind?”

Choi Tae-woong quickly stretches out his fingers and points out a few of the 21 affiliates under the Imperial Group.

It is no exaggeration to say that the construction, trading, and shoe manufacturing sectors are the most valuable among the affiliates of the Imperial Group. Choi Tae-woong also points out several other affiliates.

“There are a lot. Seven.”

“I thought they might be nuts.”

A worry comes to mind for a moment.

I don’t covet any of the affiliates of the Imperial Group, but there was one affiliate that particularly caught my eye.

Ppex, the official sports shoes of the 86 Asian Games and the 88 Olympics. I also feel excited about that shoe brand, which is currently known worldwide for its good quality.

I stared blankly at Choi Tae-woong.

He is just a young man now, but in the future he will be the next chairman of the Gyeongseon race with connections.

“As expected, there are a lot.”

Choi Tae-woong nods his head.

“You’re saying the same thing as your father.”

Kyung-sun is quick-witted and good at tightrope walking. Was it natural for the chairman of such a group? If he covets all seven of the best, well, would he just sit there in the blue roof? The reason for forcibly destroying the 7th place in the business world ranking by calling it a bad company is not necessarily just a simple grudge.

“You have to give up what you have to give up.”

After a brief conversation, the dilemma was over. There is no way for me to get the Pfeiffer right now. I don’t have enough bullets.

If Kyungseon takes over Pfex, will he be able to manage it properly? I thought it wouldn’t be a bad idea to leave it for a while. As long as it’s not handed over to a different group, I think it would be okay for me to take it back later.

“Three of these seem like a good number.”

Well, I’m not a shaman, and since he asked me to take pictures of the prey and gave me 500 as a bonus, it wasn’t a business that I would lose money on.

“Construction, trading, shoemaking.”

We mainly selected affiliates that could create synergy by absorbing the weak or vulnerable parts of the Imperial Group.

Choi Tae-woong also nodded obediently, as if he had expected it to some extent. Did he hand me 500 in cash just to say a few words like this?

Of course, Choi Tae-woong would gain more by taking the real deal from the Imperial Group. Still, five million won in today’s times is by no means a small amount of money. It is an amount that far exceeds the annual salary of an average office worker.

“86 Asia, and 88 Olympics. I still remember the saying that there were good ideas for companies to make profits there, Assistant Instructor.”

Have you decided to trust me now?

I could instinctively feel that what he was talking about just now was the main point.

“okay.”

Choi Tae-woong asks me with a bright sales smile.

“How much will consulting fees be?”

I haven’t calculated it exactly yet.

“I will let you know within a few days.”

“Oh, I see. I understand. I’ll be busy with the Imperial Group for the time being anyway, so I hope it doesn’t get past spring if possible.”

Choi Tae-woong, who seems to be asking for a favor, but still wants to sit on my head.

This kind of appearance makes me not want to give up the brand called Ppex. Because he is a great person who always plays the role of a conglomerate with that kind of sense of superiority.

I nodded, recalling the adage engraved deep in my bones that people cannot be rewritten.

“Yeah.”

Since he and I are only connected through business anyway, I guess I can just calculate it thoroughly.

I picked up the envelope of money and moved my butt away.

“What? You’re leaving already?”

David catches me.

“I’m busy today, because tomorrow is a holiday.”

“Are you always busy like a goblin?”

“It seems like the schedule for promoting the Yangseongso is also included.”

“I can’t speak, I can’t speak. Where are you going?”

“Would you like to go together?”

“I?”

David looks at Choi Tae-woong. Choi Tae-woong nods and lifts his butt off the sofa.

“I’m busy too, so I have to go.”

“I see.”

“I think it might be difficult to find time until the settlement date next month?”

David nods.

“Okay, when did you come when I told you to and go when I told you to? You did whatever you wanted.”

“Finish it well and I’ll buy you a drink, hyung.”

“Oh- Something expensive?”

“okay.”

I naturally left the training center and got into David’s car.

“Where are you going?”

“Yeouido.”

“certificate?”

“yes.”

“Oh, you invest as soon as you get the money?”

“Yes, because money that sits still loses its value.”

David chuckles and steps on the accelerator.

“Come to think of it, how much did mine go up?”

It’s not yet time for construction stocks to boom. They will soon.

I arrived at the securities firm comfortably thanks to David.

“Here! Oh! How long do you want me to wait?”

“How many hours are you making me wait?”

“I came first! Why is he doing it first! Are you ignoring me because I’m a woman?”

A crowd reminiscent of a flea market.

David looks at me as if to ask if this is right.

“What? Why are there so many people here?”

“Well, it’s before the holiday?”

“Is that so? Oh, come on, how long have you been waiting for this?”

Before I could say anything, David approached his friend with a sense of humor, whispered something, and motioned to me.

Timing is always important when investing.

Kim Chun-sik is a really useful person who does such cute things that save time.

“Same place as last time, all of this.”

David’s friend was momentarily surprised by the envelope containing the five hundred dollars. He would soon faint when he found out how much the five hundred would amount to.

“Hey, you can’t put everything in one basket.”

David tells me an old stock market adage:

Pick, it makes me laugh.

Because I have never forgotten a single one of the investment market maxims that I have personally experienced and have engraved deeply in my bones.

Just looking at the fact that this securities company has become a flea market, I can tell that the prices of the financial stocks I invested in have already surpassed my ankles.

And soon, it will go over your head and pierce through the ceiling.

What should I do first on the day of stock liquidation?

“Let’s go.”

“Where now?”

“real estate?”

“Why real estate?”

“Let me look at the ground.”

“What? Land?”

Among our mother’s wishes.

Of course, there was a house where we could live happily.

I am deeply remembering my mother’s wishes, my sisters’ wishes, and my pledge, without leaving anything out.

I hope everything will work out for you.