A Chairman Who Has No Regrets - Chapter 83



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The Chairman Who Doesn’t Regret Episode 83 – Persuasion (3)

When I entered the real estate, not the store, Director Baek and the real estate owner were waiting for me, drinking tea, just like today.

“Was there another owner?”

When I brought up the main topic without any greetings, the owner of the fortune telling shop shook his head.

“doesn’t exist.”

“Are you sure?”

“Unconfirmed, unreachable, we have to assume there has been no contact.”

“Okay. Then shall we get started right away starting today?”

Director Baek suddenly intervened.

“Are you finally starting to look for the owner?”

“Yes, please take good care of the contract as well.”

I put a lot of thought into who to play as the first protagonist.

Among the people living in the shantytown, there are a few people I know, but there are still a few people I know who have already been resolved.

Among them, the two houses that came to mind first came to mind and I was worried. Since both houses were kind to me, I was confident that it would not be difficult to make it happen.

One house is the home of three siblings.

Another house is Taesu’s house.

After thinking about it for a moment, he nodded and got up from the sofa.

“Let’s go, I have a house in mind.”

The smiling face of Taesu flashes through my mind. A firm belief that he would trust me takes root in a corner of my heart.

The belief that you will be number one.

Belief that you will succeed.

The belief that they will give you money.

It doesn’t feel so bad to have a completely different kind of faith. I can’t help but laugh at the thought that Taesu will be kind to me no matter what I do.

It’s not that I don’t have some anxiety, but I’m learning in this life that I must first learn to trust and then be trusted.

I’ll just sit back and believe.

“What’s so funny?”

Were the corners of my mouth raised?

“Director, is there anyone who believes in you even if you don’t give them anything?”

He tilts his head.

Director Baek hesitates for a moment to answer. It seems that no one easily comes to mind.

There are some people that come to mind right away, and I feel like I’m living my life pretty well.

A mother looking at me warmly.

My older sister looks at me with a pretended scary look.

My little sister looks at me, wondering if there’s anything to find fault with.

At least these three.

This question came out naturally because I kept thinking that you would believe in me even if I didn’t believe in you first.

“Let’s go. I’m busy today too.”

I parked my car in a suitable place and walked through the shantytown that I had become accustomed to, arriving at the same place I had come to in the morning.

This time, the only difference is that it’s not the old lady coughing as she opens the door, but the one next door.

Why is it the house of the three Chang-Hyeon siblings first and not the house of Tae-Su?

Taesu, you will trust me.

Because you will know my true feelings.

I’m sure you won’t be upset.

Thump, thump, thump.

The door opened at the sound of a knock, and the one who popped his head out was not Chang-Hyeon’s three siblings, but my helper and the guys’ father.

“Hmm? It’s a river.”

“Yes, sir. Is today your day off?”

“Yeah, it’s a little late today.”

A face with bones touching each other.

That must be what a day off is like.

“Come in.”

“I have a camera too, is that okay?”

“Whatever Kang-i does. Thank you for this morning. Madam, your cooking is still delicious.”

“I’m glad you enjoyed it.”

Chang-Hyeon’s house, which we entered under his guidance.

That place, which was not very big, but smaller than our house, was not a good place for children to live.

The older and younger children are now growing up.

This is a time when girls may begin to mature a little earlier than boys, possibly showing signs of secondary sexual characteristics.

Now that my older child is in fifth grade, this cramped, one-room apartment will feel cramped and uncomfortable as time goes by.

“The house is a bit… small, isn’t it?”

At the old man’s words, Director Baek waved his hand and sat down on the damp floor.

“That’s how people live.”

Yeah, I thought he was just a clueless, ignorant person, but I guess that’s not the case. Well, he’s gotten a fairly high position, so even if he’s not good at socializing, he should be able to do the basics.

The old man brought out barley tea as if he was embarrassed. I took a sip and the sour taste may have gone away.

“Yeah, what brings you here? It doesn’t look like you came to get a lunch box.”

In response to the old man’s question, the real estate agent quickly hands over the contract and several documents.

“Please write this down.”

“What is this?”

“This is a document that puts the house you are living in under your name, and then sells it back to this young man.”

Dreaming.

The old man, who had been thinking for a moment, suddenly turns his head and looks at me.

“It’s not my house, so make it my house and sell it to you?”

“Yes, sir.”

“No… is that possible?”

“The paperwork is handled by Director Baek and the owner of Bokdeukbang…”

“Call me Kang Noya.”

“Yes, Kang Noya will take care of it.”

The old man still has a look on his face that says he doesn’t understand.

But soon, he bit his lower lip and put his thumb on the pearl that Kang Noya had held out, and asked me.

“Where should I stamp it?”

“Listen further.”

The man shakes his head.

“What can an ignorant person like you, who only does odd jobs, hear? You, a smart person, will know how to do it yourself.”

“Huh- right, my- right.”

Kang Noya shook his head as if he couldn’t understand.

“Oh my god, these past few days… the world is really in a mess.”

Even though he was nagging me a lot, he clearly pointed with his finger to the part where the old man needed to be concerned.

Handing over the documents kindly.

“Is there a Samcheolli real estate at the intersection over there?”

“Yes, sir.”

“If you bring the seal by tomorrow, it will be processed.”

“Then will this house really become my home?”

“You stamped it without even checking it?”

The old man scratches his head at Kang Noya’s absurd tone.

“That’s what the river guy does…”

“Oh, my. Are you stamping the seal without even asking about the price of the house?”

“What about the house price? Do you give me money too? Or do I have to pay the house price?”

“Oh my, this guy is the perfect person to stab in the back.”

An old man suddenly frowning.

I guess there must be some story of being scammed. I guess you can’t help but nod your head without even hearing the long story of a widower with three children.

“Kang-i isn’t that kind of person.”

“Tsk tsk, where do scammers go around with ‘scammer’ written all over their faces?”

“There’s nothing that’s going to be taken away anyway.”

“Tsk tsk.”

Noya looks at me, clicking his tongue.

“How much will you pay for the house? But it has to be small.”

I glanced at the old man.

“I’m fine, Kang-ah. We’re all just trying to live well in this shantytown, right? You don’t have to give it to me! I’m already getting enough.”

I took out the envelope I had prepared in advance from my bosom.

“No, but it is still an act of buying a house.”

“I told you, it’s done.”

The old man stubbornly refuses to accept it.

“Please buy the kids some crayons, mister. I didn’t put in many.”

The old man stared at the yellow envelope for a moment, then tapped my hand as if he was grateful, and took the money. He put it in his pocket without even counting it. I could feel his determination to be satisfied with the money, no matter how much he put in.

“So really, is this house mine now?”

“Why is it your house? It’s the young man’s house now.”

“ah.”

“Don’t worry, if you look at the contract here, it clearly states that your right of residence is guaranteed, so you can live as long as you want. Tsk tsk, you really are a person. Make sure to check when you stamp the contract, or you’ll get into trouble.”

“Ah, as expected.”

“When the real estate comes out tomorrow, we have to go to the district office together and take care of the remaining work. That way, the work will be finished for sure. If the government officials don’t delay it, it will all be finished by tomorrow.”

The old man suddenly gets up from his seat.

“Then let’s go now, old man. We have to finish quickly so Kang-i can do other things.”

“There are dozens of houses to visit today. Going back and forth, what a waste of time.”

“Oh, is that so? Hmm… I live hand to mouth…”

Director Baek quickly joined their conversation.

“The filming crew has to come with me tomorrow, so here is the consent form and the contract for appearance fee.”

An old man with wide eyes.

“Do you get paid by the broadcasting station?”

“Of course, you should be paid a certain amount of appearance fee when you appear on TV. It should be at least a daily wage.”

This is something I never even thought of.

Director Baek looks down at me as if he’s waiting for praise, saying, “How’s it? Did you do well?”

I gave him a thumbs up with a smirk. He nodded in satisfaction and signed the consent form and contract.

“I’ll pay you in advance. Do you have to come tomorrow?”

“Yes, I will run there before the city hall opens.”

I think the paperwork is almost done, so now I should take care of my business.

“mister.”

“Oh, yeah, Kang-ah.”

“Among those who are doing odd jobs, there are many technicians, right?”

“Technician? What?”

“Well, things like beauticians and construction workers.”

“A lot of them are skilled and powerful, right? Even if they don’t have any qualifications or anything, they all have experience and can do most things just as well as experts.”

“Would you like to get to know those people a little more?”

“why?”

“Soon, we will need more people like that in the shantytowns.”

The old man nods his head as if he understands.

“They said it was needed for a fairy tale village or something.”

“Yes, construction is needed.”

“You won’t have much money.”

“yes that’s right.”

“Okay, I’ll check out the people who are good and cheap. But since we have connections, I won’t beat them up.”

“Yes, I would like to ask many technicians for help.”

“okay.”

An old man who is burning with determination, as if asking to just leave it to him.

He seems like the type of person who would harm others, even if he got hurt wherever he went, so I think there are probably a lot of good people around him. He’s a person with a fair sense of justice, as he said he would protect the shantytown alone with a screen.

“And please spread some rumors.”

“rumor?”

“This house became my house, and I sold it for money, and I told the buyer that they could live in it as long as they wanted.”

“In the whole shantytown?”

“Yes, does anyone know?”

Definitely at that time.

There were a few more men there when the curtain was being built.

“Oh, don’t worry. I know everyone in this neighborhood. I’ve even helped them fix things here and there.”

“Yes, then please.”

“What’s the favor? We just want to eat well and live well.”

“We… yes, we.”

Have I become us to him? Has he become us to me?

What a curious word, the word we.

Because it makes me excited for no reason.

“Then I’ll get up. I’m busy.”

“Okay, okay, take care of it.”

**

Clink, clank.

The dining table at the home of Chairman Choi of Kyungseon Group, where the sound of dishes being cut is loud.

“Yeah, that guy’s going to be in the Lunar New Year special again?”

Choi Tae-woong nodded in response to Chairman Choi’s question.

“Yes, father.”

“That guy is really something, a training center for talented people? And he still makes them?”

“I’m doing it with my brother David.”

“Isn’t it amazing that a young kid can hang out with Chunshik, who has an MBA?”

“Yes, it is great.”

Chairman Choi took a sip of the soup and looked at Taewoong Choi with sharp eyes.

“But you fell in love with it so much that you even acquired the distribution rights? Just because it was a video or something?”

Choi Tae-woong raises the corners of his lips.

“I am confident.”

“Are you confident?”

“Yes, Gyeongseon Distribution. I am also confident that net profit will increase this year.”

“Just by distributing it and making a small margin?”

“father.”

At Choi Tae-woong’s call, he puts down his spoon as if to tell him to continue and leans back in his chair.

“It was my father who told me to hang out with Chunshik because I graduated with excellent grades from my MBA program.”

“That’s right.”

“Do you think that Chun-sik, who is a talented person that his father acknowledges, would have been bewitched by that guy and changed the signboard of a good academy into a training center? Would he have paid money to a shaman to perform a ritual just because he is good at talking a few words?”

“There’s a reason for everything?”

“Yes, would I have just trusted Chunshik and gone ahead with the job? I learned from my father that a credit is a credit and a life is a life.”

Chairman Choi nods his head, drawing a gentle line at the corner of his mouth.

“Yes, that’s what I taught you.”

“The first insight was to change the name of the academy to a training center.”

“What’s different?”

“The current government is reluctant to let the people learn. It makes sense because everyone protests when they go to college.”

“That’s right, even though the people who are supposed to work are smart, they shouldn’t be that intelligent. If they grow up, they’ll inevitably go astray.”

“Yes, if it weren’t for us and the mayor in that situation, Chunsik’s academy would have closed long ago.”

“Were we the shadows?”

Choi Tae-woong nods.

“In fact, even if you go outside the metropolitan area, you can’t find any scholars from private institutes. Even though there were a few private institutes here and there, they have closed down, so students who want to go to college are forced to come up to Seoul.”

“You did some research.”

“In that situation, we changed the signboard of the academy to a training center to avoid the government’s eyes. In addition, we added the word ‘global’, which the government is crazy about these days, and limited the subjects taught to English.”

“Hmm.”

Chairman Choi nods his head as if thinking about something.

“How clever, how clever.”

“A school district regulated by the government and suppressed by the regime is doomed to fail.”

“That’s right, I have a fire in my eye that would make even a bird fall.”

“So it becomes a video.”

“Even if the school fails, parents still want their children to go to college?”

“Yes, didn’t we select all of our new recruits as college graduates this time? And even that wasn’t enough, so we also selected high school graduates.”

“Because educated people are smart.”

Choi Tae-woong raises the corners of his lips.

“In such a situation, how great would it be to hear lectures by an English genius who won first place in a scholarship quiz, or by a high school senior who made a prospective student at a prestigious university unable to say a word? Don’t parents think so?”

“Tsk tsk, those who haven’t learned anything are so shallow in their thinking.”

“If you continue to dominate the Lunar New Year special like before, the video will sell like hotcakes. And the textbooks too.”

Chairman Choi nodded as if he understood.

“I don’t think there will be any loss.”

It seems he hasn’t felt the big ripple effect yet. Perhaps it feels like a small amount of money to the company.

“And all that money will be cash, pocket money.”

At Choi Tae-woong’s last words, Chairman Choi opened his eyes wide for a moment and then raised the corners of his mouth.

“Paha, did that mean something?”

“The general election is coming up soon. The more bullets we have, the better, right?”

“Hahaha, you bastard- you’re not just hanging out here having fun?”

“Father, I am your son.”

“Okay, do whatever you want, I’ll give you separate instructions.”

“Yes, thank you, Father.”