The Magician’s Memorial - Chapter 173



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The phone call with Cheon Min-jeong continued until the sun rose the next day.

It felt like less than an hour had passed, but the sun had already risen.

[uh? It’s already time like this. It’s time for me to go to work now.]

“Don’t go to work today, but work from home. “I will tell the department.”

[no! Still, I have to go to work. Then, I’ll hang up first.]

A crunching sound began to be heard beyond the phone.

I quietly pressed the end call button.

At that moment, fatigue poured in all at once.

“I can’t believe we talked on the phone for over 7 hours.”

In the end, I couldn’t sleep a wink and had to head back to work.

I took a nap in the car on the way to work, but my fatigue didn’t go away, so I lay down at my desk for a while and took a nap.

“Vice Chairman, are you okay? Should I at least call a doctor? “I’ll take you to the hospital right now!”

“You don’t have to make a fuss. “I’m just tired because I didn’t sleep well last night.”

“Then how about you leave work early today? Sleeping at your desk won’t relieve your fatigue. “Please sleep at a nearby hotel.”

“no. I have to sleep after work. “Please give me a cup of coffee.”

It woke me up by providing caffeine to my blood.

Then, I checked the personnel record card again and looked for talent.

When I was using my mouse as a habit, and tears were flowing from my eyes due to dry eyes.

“found!”

I finally found the talent I wanted.

It was also a talented person who already had an executive position.

I quickly called the head of the planning department and asked to meet with an executive with S-level management skills.

“Please call Seo Jeong-jun, planning and financial advisor.”

“All right. “I’ll call you right away.”

The planning director called Advisor Seo Jeong-jun via cell phone.

Meanwhile, I asked the planning director a few questions.

“But now you’re in your early 30s and you’re already an executive.”

“He was a person who worked at Samjin Group and was so bright that the chairman personally scouted him.”

“I didn’t know this person.”

“Actually, I don’t know if it’s okay to say this, but maybe it’s because I became an executive at a young age, so I’m going around the corner.”

It meant that he was on the verge of resigning.

How clever can he be, having risen to executive level at the age of 34?

Although the Taewo Group was pursuing change and innovation, it was still a group with a strong tendency toward bureaucracy.

Even if you say the right thing.

‘how old are you!’

With this one word, logical discussion was no longer possible.

So, I have no choice but to want to quit my job.

Anyway, I had no choice but to acknowledge my grandfather’s insight once again.

Even though he didn’t have the ability to see people’s information like me, he was a grandfather who recruited talent with S-level work skills.

“Nice to meet you! “This is Seo Jeong-jun, a planning and financial advisor!”

“welcome. Please sit comfortably.”

Advisor Seo Jeong-jun arrived at the vice president’s office.

I started the conversation by offering him a comfortable seat.

“Is this the first time we’ve talked like this?”

“That’s right. “I have seen the Vice President from afar, but this is the first time we have talked to him.”

It was definitely my first time seeing this face.

But it was also a strangely familiar face.

Is this the face I saw before my return, not my current life?

I had more conversations with advisor Seo Jeong-jun to find an answer.

“You’re having a hard time, right? When you become an executive at a young age, you are bound to receive a lot of envy and jealousy. “There was a time when I had similar concerns as Advisor Seo.”

“Are you also talking about Vice President? “I can’t imagine.”

“Even if he was the chairman’s grandson, how much glare would he have received since he became a company executive in his early 20s?”

“Still, the vice president has a strong background, but I do not.”

It was advisor Seo Jeong-jun, who seemed to have already left the company.

I found someone with S-level management skills, but I couldn’t let him leave the company like this.

“From now on, I will provide a strong background for Advisor Seo Jeong-jun.”

“Thank you for your words, but I am sorry. And please accept it.”

Advisor Seo Jeong-jun suddenly took out an envelope from his inner pocket.

The envelope had the words “Resignation” written in large letters.

Shouldn’t it be like this? It was advisor Seo Jeong-jun, who seemed to have no intention of remaining at the company.

“Are you thinking of quitting your job and starting a business?”

“I want to start a bio business. “In Korea, various businesses, including manufacturing, are active, but the bio business is still an unexplored field.”

ah! I finally remembered.

The moment I brought up the topic of bio business, I remembered who advisor Seo Jeong-jun was.

Before returning, he was the founder of a bio company that ranked first in market capitalization on the KOSDAQ.

I can’t believe there was a person like this in Taewo Group.

And I was so upset that the Taewoo Group could not accommodate such a talented person.

“I guess you’ve already made up your mind. “Even if I offer you a higher rank and salary than what you have now, he won’t change his mind.”

“sorry. If I had met the Vice President earlier, my thoughts would have been different, but I already had everything planned out. “I have no choice but to leave because I have colleagues waiting for me.”

A leader in the unexplored bio industry.

I couldn’t let Seo Jeong-jun, who had turned the company he created into a large corporation, leave like this.

“We’ve finished recruiting our colleagues, so I can’t hold on to them anymore. But you can’t start a business just because you have colleagues. “Have you finished recruiting investors?”

“… … I haven’t come up with an investment plan yet. “I plan to travel to various countries, meet with bio experts, conduct interviews, and then draw up an investment plan.”

“To travel around several countries, the airfare alone would cost hundreds of millions of won. “You could lose all your savings and severance pay within a year.”

“But it doesn’t matter. I am confident that I will succeed in the bio business!”

His confidence did not come across as arrogance.

Because I knew better than anyone else how successful he would be in the future.

“I am also confident in the success of Advisor Seo Jeong-jun. I just feel sorry for the difficulties they must experience in the process. So, I would like to make a suggestion.”

“What are you proposing?”

“Taewoo Group will invest in companies that will be started in the future. “If Taewo Group is burdened, I would like to personally invest.”

“We haven’t even created a company yet.”

“This is an investment made based on the person named Seo Jeong-jun, not the company. “I will invest 10 billion won on the condition that I own 40% of the company’s shares.”

“That’s too much!”

Rather than saying it’s a lot, it’s actually too little.

The bio company he will create will become a large company with a market capitalization of over 25 trillion in 20 years.

40% of 25 trillion won was 10 trillion won, which meant investing only 10 billion won and making 1,000 times more.

“Be sure to discuss your decision carefully with your colleagues. And the shares I acquire will unconditionally be shares that support Advisor Seo Jeong-jun. “It can also be specified in a contract.”

“Can you give me just one week?”

“I can give you not just a week, but even a month. In the meantime, I will not accept your resignation and will wait. And you don’t have to go to work if you want. “We will handle the business trip for you, so don’t be limited by time and think carefully before making a decision.”

“thank you. “It feels very reassuring to know that there are people who believe in me like this.”

Advisor Seo Jeong-jun bowed his head several times and expressed his gratitude.

I kept smiling until the end and tried to leave a good impression on Advisor Seo Jeong-jun.

“I never imagined that someone like that would be in the Taewo Group.”

With my return, Advisor Seo Jeong-jun’s life would have changed a little.

In my previous life, Taewu Group collapsed due to the foreign exchange crisis, so I probably would have left Taewu Group around that time.

However, rather than collapsing, the Taewo Group became stronger due to my intervention, and it seemed that Advisor Seo Jeong-jun was able to remain in the Taewo Group for a few more years.

“Please call the planning manager.”

The head of planning was called to the vice president’s office through the secretaries.

When the head of planning came inside, advisor Seo Jeong-jun asked him in detail why he was leaving the company.

“Do you know who the leader who harassed Advisor Seo Jeong-jun is?”

“I can’t say I bullied him, but there was someone I had a rivalry with. “I often clashed with Executive Director Ahn Sang-soo of the Management Support Department.”

“wait a minute.”

I checked Executive Director Sangsu Ahn’s personnel record card.

The personnel record card showed him as a capable person, but when I checked the details, I found out that he was a person who rose to his current position through political power rather than ability.

Of course, he wasn’t that weak of a person.

However, his ability was never comparable to that of advisor Seo Jeong-jun.

“Taewoo Group has a long way to go before it changes. “They are checked because they are young, and they end up leaving the company.”

“Like all companies, it is ultimately a pyramid structure. “In order to get to a high place, you have to fight and overcome your competitors.”

“Who’s going to say anything if we compete in a fair way? “The problem is using political power or faction to crush a flower before it can even bloom.”

“But things have changed a lot since the Vice President came. “There are fewer political fights than there used to be, and factions are no longer able to move openly.”

Even if you pull them out, weeds will continue to grow.

So, only by periodically pulling out weeds could Taewoo Group develop.

“Please bring a list of people who collaborated with Executive Director Ahn Sang-soo and harassed Advisor Seo Jeong-jun.”

“I will prepare it before I go to work tomorrow. But will there be any disciplinary action taken?”

“You can’t impose disciplinary action without proper justification. So, I’m thinking of giving out an award. “Who would object if a department transfer was ordered along with a promotion?”

“Speaking of moving departments, are you by any chance considering an overseas corporation?”

“Since your grandfather is very interested in Vietnam, wouldn’t it be okay to send him to the head of the corporation there? “Can an executive say that he doesn’t want to go where the chairman is?”

Taewo Group was putting a lot of effort into entering Vietnam.

Since this is where my grandfather, the chairman, lives, no one could neglect Vietnam.

However, Vietnam was a country with a very large territory, and there were remote areas where cars could not travel properly.

“We will take steps to prevent backlash.”

“And we need to provide executive training as well. “Please make it clear, Director of Planning, that executives who choose politics over competition to secure their positions will be sent to places where competition is not necessary.”

“We will use this incident as an example and make sure to pay attention to ensure that something like this does not happen again.”

My head was spinning.

Although I thought I had tried my best for several years to change, Taewo Group still did not change much.

Should I really become president as my grandfather said?

Then, do we have to change the executives who have fallen into self-centeredness all at once?

Are people the problem? Seating is the problem.

Once you reach an executive position, you are bound to become selfish in order to protect your position.

It was nearly impossible to reform this structure all at once, and in the end, there was no choice but to change the company’s atmosphere little by little.