A Chairman Who Has No Regrets - Chapter 187



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The Chairman Who Has No Regrets Episode 187 – America is falling apart.

Choi Min-a walked so fast that it seemed as if she was breaking the ground, making you wonder what would have happened if she had worn heels and walked like that.

Since I had no expectations from her in the first place, it didn’t matter to me whether she disappeared or not. As expected of an age where you’re obsessed with appearance and pretty things, it’s no exaggeration to say that her role ended with me choosing a nice pair of shoes.

“The money is frozen.”

I got four pairs of shoes by just scratching them, so I’m the winner. By the way, Choi Tae-woong must have really liked me. He sent all the women to me, who was still young.

To be exact, I wanted to maintain a marital relationship and treat her like my family.

“Welcome.”

I could have walked around New York a little more, but even without high heels, my feet weren’t in great shape. It was my first time wearing heels and walking for a long time.

“Check in.”

When I spoke to the reception and handed over my passport, I was told that check-in was already complete. It seemed that Kim Kang-min had already taken care of everything in advance.

As expected of someone who is good at reading the moods of his superiors, he made me feel comfortable. I took the room key and went up to my room.

Certainly, unlike the luxury 5-star hotels of yesterday, the 4-star residence simply had a clean and modern feel.

Crunch.

As I looked around the room, I saw a decent kitchen and a built-in washing machine. I took off my combat uniform and suit, which had made me feel comfortable, with the thought that there were rooms like this even in the mid-80s.

I can’t even remember how long it’s been since I went out to the battlefield of the capital market wearing a suit. I tried to think back to when I felt this peaceful wearing a suit, but I couldn’t remember it.

It was fierce and brutal.

Swish.

I poured in some bath salts that I could see around me while soaking in the hot water in the bathtub. Looking at the bathroom that had everything I needed, I didn’t think it was a cheap room.

As memories of yesterday came flooding back, I put on a robe, left the bathroom, and walked toward the refrigerator, which I assumed was the minibar.

“Hmm.”

A man named Kim Kang-min comes to mind. If we talk about his sense, if we talk about his intuition.

Rattling.

When I open the door of the small refrigerator, the pleasant clanking sound of bottles hitting each other resonates.

“under.”

The refrigerator is packed full of glass bottles.

“I still like it.”

Kim Kang-min, a shaman famous for his wit, said, “Get out of here.” It’s not as expensive as yesterday, but there are still a lot of different kinds, so I think it’ll be fun to enjoy.

“It’s sparkling in the bathtub.”

I picked up the bottle containing the bright red liquid inside the clear glass jar and headed to the bathroom.

Swish.

The water in the bathtub wasn’t even half full yet, but I took off my robe and went inside.

The warm temperature smoothly circulates blood through my legs and buttocks, making me feel like past memories are coming back more vividly.

Knock knock.

I closed my eyes, turned my neck from side to side, relaxed my tense muscles, and did some light stretching.

Plaza Accord.

The world, or at least South Korea, has changed significantly in its wake. The oil prices that have fallen for several years have played a big part, but more than that, the Plaza Accord has ushered in an era of low interest rates and low yen, and we are entering what is known as the greatest boom period since Dangun, the so-called “three lows” boom period.

September 22nd.

It was the day the Plaza Accord was reached.

“About a month left.”

It’s not a lot of time, but for me, who already knows, it’s no exaggeration to say that it’s plenty.

The problem is.

“Kim Kang-min.”

Indeed he.

Are you bringing me the answers I want?

I’m just curious about that.

**

Ring ring ring ring.

Just as I was about to leave for work.

Choi Tae-woong frowns at the ringing phone.

“Take it.”

I thought it was somewhat similar to the scene at breakfast, so I answered yes and picked up the phone.

“I got a call.”

-Are you the managing director?

“Manager Kim Kang-min?”

-Yes, that’s right, sir.

Choi Tae-woong glanced at his watch and checked that it was midnight in New York time.

“Is there a problem? Isn’t it past 10 o’clock there?”

-Well, if it’s a problem, then it’s a problem.

Choi Tae-woong’s expression suddenly frowned at Kim Kang-min’s words. If there was a problem with Jeon Kang, who was watching him with such interest that he even sent his own cousin away, he would not be happy about it either.

And, Chairman Choi, who saw Choi Tae-woong’s face, turned around and sat down on the living room sofa as if he was interested.

“What is the problem?”

-I’ll stop.

“what?”

-I’m telling you that I’m resigning.

“Hey, Manager Kim Kang-min. Is the company a joke?”

-It wasn’t my job to monitor and report on someone in the first place.

“under?”

Choi Tae-woong, who had never imagined that he would hear the resignation of a manager directly over the phone, was dumbfounded. He had never thought that he would be in a situation like this, where the reporting system was also in disarray.

-Okay, I’ll hang up.

Choi Tae-woong hung up the phone nervously without even having time to reply.

“what’s the matter?”

“Oh, yes, father. It’s nothing.”

“It’s nothing serious, so why is this guy Sangmu getting angry?”

“Well, one of my employees in New York has given notice that he is quitting.”

Chairman Choi asked with an interested expression.

“Are you the kid who was attached to that guy?”

“yes.”

“Hahaha. What a funny guy.”

Choi Tae-woong held back his words because he didn’t know what his father meant by those words.

“There definitely seems to be something you’ll get really into, it’s fun.”

Chairman Choi clicked his tongue slightly at the sight of Choi Tae-woong still holding back his words.

“You still don’t know, you just think some insignificant employee quit?”

Choi Tae-woong, who knew full well that lying to his father meant nothing, nodded obediently.

“Yes, Father. That’s what I was thinking.”

“Hmm, it was far- it was far. Just when you think you’ve come all the way, it’s already so far away again.”

Choi Tae-woong felt like his insides were going crazy as he kept getting scolded for things he never heard before.

“The guy you’re so obsessed with is the one who took your people away.”

“Are you saying that Jeon Kang hired Manager Kim Kang-min?”

“Well, well, whether it’s employment or something else, we’ll have to look into it to find out.”

Chairman Choi laughed loudly and lifted his butt off the sofa. Then, as he passed Taewoong Choi on his way to work, he grabbed his shoulder and said.

“But our son, your eyes are fine, that’s fortunate. Since your father hasn’t moved in 20 years, you just have to learn until then. Right?”

Kind and gentle.

Even though he said that, Choi Tae-woong was by no means a person without any sense. What Chairman Choi was saying now was like declaring that the chairmanship would be his for at least the next 20 years.

“Yes, Father. I will learn a lot.”

“Yeah, I want to see him sometime too.”

“Yes, I will make room for you.”

“Okay, let’s go.”

“yes.”

Choi Tae-woong wagged his tail.

No matter what anyone says, Chairman Choi was his father.

**

Kim Kang-min quickly walked to where the car was parked. He scolded himself for not realizing it for half a day. Since the water had already been spilled, or rather, he had spilled it himself, it was time to go straight.

From the beginning.

What the boy named Jeongang wanted from me.

Subordinates.

If he needed someone with great ability, he wouldn’t have noticed it in the first place.

What Jeon Kang needed was not someone with great ability.

why?

That boy, Jeon Kang, was a person who was confident and proud of his own great abilities. And wasn’t Kim Kang Min already convinced by that from the morning? Those strange words, expressions, and eyes that made him unable to say anything.

‘A barking dog doesn’t bark.’

Having already experienced that indescribable moment, I couldn’t help but be persuaded.

Even the great chairman of the Imperial Group.

The chairman of the Kyungseon Group.

And Choi Tae-woong, the successor to the chairman, has never embarrassed Kim Kang-min like that. A boy 20 years younger than him has done something that the giants he already knows could not do. If that is not proof, then what is?

“America is going to fail.”

Kim Kang-min bursting out in laughter.

With that much guts, he could be confident. Now, Kim Kang-min could understand a little bit what Jeon Kang had said when he said that America was going to fail.

A person who boasts that the world’s most powerful country, which seems invincible, will fail.

I am that kind of person, what about you? Do you have the guts to bet everything on me? Kim Kang-min realized that he had asked that only after the forest of buildings had become dark.

Squeak.

Kim Kang-min’s car stopped a little roughly in front of the hotel.

Originally, I wouldn’t have hired a valet, but now, going to Jeon Kang was more important than paying the $1 valet fee.

‘Because on Wall Street, where every second counts, there are few things worse than fast food.’

Because the meaning of those words was also engraved.

Could he be a boy who saves money at any moment? Kim Kang-min shook his head. That person was not that kind of person.

Ding!

The elevator opens, and Kim Kang-min strides inside, reaches out and presses the floor number.

Boom boom.

My hands were shaking so much that I forced myself to press the desired floor by moving my fingers as if I was pressing a different floor.

Has there ever been a moment when you were this nervous? Kim Kang-min, who had always prided himself on being able to think sharply and rationally in any interview or situation, suddenly felt a strange feeling welling up in him, thinking that he could be this kind of person.

“haha.”

I laughed alone like a madman, so at least for a moment the tension disappeared.

Ding.

The elevator chime rang again.

Kim Kang-min swallowed hard and, with the face of a general heading out to battle, got off the elevator and stood in front of the door of the room where Jeon Kang was tied up.

“I was waiting, no. You must have been.”

According to Kim Kang-min’s predictions and forecasts.

It seemed as if Jeon Kang had known that he would come. What kind of appearance would Jeon Kang have been waiting for him, who had let go of the world he knew and the golden rope he believed to be his lifeline?

“I keep getting excited.”

Kim Kang-min hummed softly and rang the doorbell.

-yes.

A bright voice answered from somewhere.

“This is Kim Kang-min. Dear shareholder.”

-Come in.

It seems that he already knows that he has the key, so instead of opening the door to the guest room, which automatically locks when closed, he instructs us to come in.

It’s not the environment in which one is born and raised that matters, but the person. Thinking that way, Kim Kang-min opened the door to the guest room to meet Jeon Kang, who he thought was born to command others.

Unlike yesterday, I saw Jeon Kang with his back to me, looking out the window, which was obscured by the tall trees of Central Park, rather than overlooking the forest of buildings in New York.

With strides.

Kim Kang-min, whose heart was about to burst, was nervous, but he tried not to show it and walked confidently.

Then he bent his waist 90 degrees, revealed his entire body to the whole world, and spoke.

“I want to become a person who serves the Lord.”

In his words.

Jeon Kang raised the corners of his lips.

“It was better than I expected.”

Somehow, Jeon Kang’s Korean pronunciation felt awkward, but Kim Kang-min did not raise his head. Permission had not been granted yet.

“Do you have any regrets?”

“No, there isn’t. I already informed Executive Director Choi Tae-woong. I will resign.”

“That’s fast, really.”

Kim Kang-min could feel that permission had been granted. And the moment he raised his head, he was able to meet Jeon Kang’s eyes, which were blankly open.

“uh…”

Before America falls.

Is my life ruined?

Kim Kang-min felt a cold sweat running down his face.

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