A Chairman Who Has No Regrets - Chapter 20



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Chairman Without Regrets Episode 20 – Hey, you can go to college too.

I could roughly guess what kind of conversation my little sister and mother were having.

My younger sister must have told her mother that she had changed her mind, and my mother must have just hesitated in regret.

When I think about it that way, I can understand how my little sister and mother look now. My little sister has a face full of regret and sorrow, and my mother has a face full of apology.

“Hello, Mother!”

David greets me cheerfully and jokingly. He looks at me as if asking who my mother and younger sister are.

“This is David Kim, a teacher at the New York English Academy.”

At the introduction I gave, my younger sister lowered her head and my mother looked at my younger sister and me.

“Should we sit down, Mom?”

“Uh, yeah, okay.”

My mother turned around and sat down next to my younger sister, and David and I naturally sat across from her.

My little sister stares at me as I sit across from her and speaks with her eyes.

‘If that’s what it was going to be like, then why did you say something like that?’

I almost burst out laughing because it seemed like he was saying exactly that. You have to listen to what Koreans say until the end, and you have to find out everything about the situation, but my younger sister seems to have narrowed her vision because she feels sorry.

“Why is the academy teacher here?”

In response to his mother’s question, David taps my shoulder and says,

“I heard that a student from Jeon Gang came to our academy? He said he was taking a level test to register.”

“Level test?”

“Oh, it’s kind of like an entrance exam, Mom. It’s to determine the students’ level and assign them to appropriate classes.”

“Ah, it’s like a test.”

“Yes, that’s right.”

The mother glanced at her younger sister and continued speaking.

“Did Kang-i do well on the test?”

“Oh my, Jeon Kang is a top class student at our academy, no, he’s just the best. There’s probably no student in our academy who speaks English better than Jeon Kang.”

“is it so?”

The mother’s lips lifted up and then lowered again. What parent would dislike praising their child? However, in the current situation, it seemed like she couldn’t laugh heartily.

“Oh my, Kang, you didn’t go with your mom… Is that why you wanted to go to the English academy so badly?”

No, that’s not true at all.

Our mother misunderstands again.

I couldn’t help but feel disappointed that you thought that all the times I helped out at the store, acted cute, and gave massages yesterday, it was all because of the English academy.

The little sister sitting next to me was looking at me with eyes filled with betrayal.

‘I was crazy for believing that.’

He had eyes that said just like that.

“No, I told you, Mom, I’m good at English.”

“Yes, Kang-i studied hard on his own all this time… Mom didn’t even know that and didn’t even think about sending him to an academy…”

No, why is the story flowing like that? I felt like I ate about 100 sweet potatoes because I was so frustrated.

Is it always the heart of a parent to want to do something for their children? I don’t have a child of my own, so I can’t really understand the heart of a mother.

But, one thing.

I could clearly see that my mother felt sorry for me and my younger sister right now. Her right arm was leaning toward my younger sister across the table, perhaps holding her hand or stroking her thigh.

The mother who advised her younger brother to give in felt very sorry about it.

“No, I don’t want to go to an academy because I’m good at English. But this teacher keeps making a fuss about me going to his academy.”

David looked at me for a moment as if he found my words ridiculous.

When his little sister and mother’s gaze fell on David as if asking what he was talking about, he coughed loudly and spat out the words.

“Yes, that’s right, Mother.”

“yes?”

“The students in this class have demonstrated skills that far surpass the maximum score on this level test.”

My older sister suddenly intervened.

“He speaks English well?”

It’s a face that shows complete disbelief.

“There’s no way that’s true. He always memorizes words in a strange way···”

Maybe the soundproofing was bad because the room was small.

Certainly, at that time, I had memorized English with ridiculous pronunciation.

“No. I thought that the student from Jeon Gang had studied abroad after taking the test. His literacy and reading skills, and his conversation skills – there was nothing to criticize.”

“No, that’s not possible at all.”

The younger sister continues to deny it.

The mother maintains a mysterious expression on her face, pleased yet unable to fully express her joy at the constant praise she receives from her child.

“Oh my, you keep talking when the teacher says something!”

“No, that’s right. I know how much he studies every day, so it’s weird that he’s suddenly good at English.”

“What? So you’re saying your little brother can’t do it?”

“No, that’s not what I mean···”

My little sister turned her head quickly, glared at me, then turned her head again to look at David.

“I often go around the academy district in Nowon-gu. I’ve never heard of a teacher like you at a New York academy. Are you the teacher there?”

Now, the little sister is even suspicious of David.

It may seem like an exaggeration, but I couldn’t help but laugh because I knew that all those doubts came from my own thoughts.

Besides, in my opinion, David has the appearance of a bit of a conman.

At this time, he was wearing a tailored suit that was unusual for a private academy instructor, his hair was slicked back with pomade, and his hair was dyed brown.

It wasn’t an incomprehensible reaction.

If you just look at their appearance, there’s nothing to say even if you say they’re from the Yata tribe or the Orange tribe.

“Huh? Really? Is this your first time seeing it?”

“Yeah, this is the first time I’ve heard that there’s a teacher who studied abroad? Many of my friends go to academies in New York, Mom.”

Before he knew it, his mother was looking at David with a suspicious look. David opened his mouth without showing any sign of embarrassment.

“Hahaha- I’ve only been in Korea for about a month now, so maybe the students don’t know me. And I don’t teach middle and high school students, I just teach practical conversation classes.”

His mother tilts her head as she glances over David’s shoulder at the Royal Salon of Daewoo, visible through the small gap in the door.

“Hmm.”

The suspicious gazes of my mother and younger sister do not go away.

It’s all my fault, my shortcomings.

My family still doesn’t seem to trust me when I say I’m good at English.

I tapped David on the arm and spoke English fluently, although my mother and little sister couldn’t quite understand.

“I didn’t mean to embarrass David, but this is what happened.”

David shrugged and answered in English, to my rhythm.

“No, I’m having fun with the current situation. And I have another question.”

“What is it?”

“Are you sure you have friends?”

“I told you it exists?”

“You can’t believe it? You’re such an unlucky person.”

Pick a laugh.

“But David is no pushover either.”

“Well, I admit. Is that why I’m attracted to you? You’re strangely similar to me.”

“Hey, that’s something my mother would get really angry at if she heard that. I’m much better, right?”

“Why is this happening? This is the body of a woman standing in line.”

My mother blinked, as if she didn’t understand what was happening, and my younger sister opened her eyes wide and looked at me with a surprised face.

“That’s ridiculous.”

I made a finger gun again and shot it at my little sister, speaking in English.

“What makes you nonsense? Can’t you even trust your own little brother?”

The younger sister quickly turns her head to her mother and speaks.

“Mom, did you go to the academy without telling me?”

“What are you talking about? I’m just thinking about sending my child to an academy.”

“You speak just like foreign actors! Or are you an announcer?”

“Is our Kang-i that good at English?”

“It’s not that you’re good at it, you just seem like a foreigner! Mom, Sujin, you know that, right?”

“Ah- the friend you were talking about who tastes good?”

“She’s not good at English either, and she always brags about studying abroad.”

Only then did my mother open her eyes wide and look at me.

“Oh my – my kid worked hard, didn’t he? He speaks English better than kids who studied abroad?”

Is that how it is?

David suddenly intervenes.

“Huh? Student Soojin? Are you talking about that student who goes to Jeonghwa Girls’ High School? The short student who wears red glasses and pretends not to speak Korean?”

The little sister opens her eyes wide and answers.

“Oh! That’s right.”

“Ah- That student is no match for the students here at Jeon Gang. How can you compare a student who only hangs around LA’s Koreatown to a genius like Jeon Gang?”

“Really? Really? But I heard he was in the US for two years.”

“Hey, all I did was go to a language school for two years.”

“Is it true that my younger sister, Sujin, speaks English better than that guy?”

“You saw me talking to a student from Jeon Gang.”

I shrugged and said in Korean.

“Do you believe me now, Mom? I told you I’m good at English. The school test was just a mistake, a mistake, too easy, so I skimmed through it and wrote it down wrong.”

A brief conflict flashed through my mother’s eyes. She must be thinking about where she should spend the money if I don’t have to go to the academy.

Expectation began to form in the little sister’s eyes. Perhaps it was hope.

“Son… Are you really okay with not going to the academy?”

I feel my little sister’s eyes looking at me with warmth as she asks my mother.

“Yeah, I’m fine.”

I can feel my little sister liking it as she slightly bites her lower lip.

My mother seemed very disappointed by what I said. It seemed like she wanted to do something for me.

“You did so well on your own… It would have been easier if someone had helped you….”

My mother speaks as if she is blaming herself.

And then again, the little sister bit her lower lip with a different meaning than before.

Now, I felt it was time to get to the point without further delay: how to kill two birds with one stone.

A way to simultaneously resolve the endless generosity of my mother who wants to send me to an academy and the regret of my younger sister who desperately wants to go to college.

Cook, cook.

I poked David in the ribs.

“mother!”

Then David started to step forward cleverly.

“yes?”

“Please send all your students to our academy!”

“No, I… If you don’t like Kang, I don’t want to force you to do it.”

“There is a system where excellent students like Kang can attend private academies for free, Mother.”

I could sense that his mother was focusing on David, perhaps because he was worried.

“is it so?”

“Yes! Excellent students like Jeon Gang-sang are a great help to the academy, so we provide education completely free of charge.”

“Oh my! It’s free?”

“Yes, that’s right.”

The mother reaches out to David, then hesitates.

“Oh my, but I guess I can’t force my child to go when he doesn’t want to.”

Oh, my.

David glances at me.

I was equally confused.

I thought my mother would be happy if I told her that the tuition was free, and that the money would help pay for my younger sister’s college tuition. Was I wrong?

‘Please do something about it.’

David sends me a distress signal with his eyes.

I shrugged, wondering how David would cope.

David frowns for a moment, then opens his mouth like a snake with the face of a conman that would make his mother and younger sister suspicious.

“Oh my, Mom, I forgot to tell you that.”

“Huh? What did you say?”

“Our academy scholarship system not only provides tuition support, but also provides scholarships to students who achieve excellent grades to support their future.”

“A scholarship?”

The mother and the younger sister look at each other. Oh, this is a good temptation. This might not be two rabbits, but three rabbits.