Chapter 253 – Part 2. 1993

“Chief Kim, what happened to the last time I asked you to investigate Kim Hee-kyung?”

Inside the Jangseong Group chairman’s office, Chairman Jang Gun-ho looked at Director Kim Seung-ho and spoke.

“Here’s what I researched.”

Chief Kim Seung-ho set down two file folders on the desk as if he knew Chairman Jang Kun-ho’s intentions.
He was such a capable figure that you can see why he was able to become the head of the planning department of the Jangseong Group at such a young age.

“Why are there two file folders?”

“The above is the contents of the investigation on Kim Hee-kyung. Currently, he is the chairman of Kim Hee-kyung Food and runs two franchises, Kim Hee-kyung Tteok Skewers and Kim Hee-kyung Chicken. The scale is bigger than expected, and each franchise already has more than 1,000 franchisees. It had a very groundbreaking, unique item and marketing method. And what’s amazing is that they built such a large franchise in less than three years. As we investigated, we were also surprised.”

“Hmm. Okay?”

“Her children are 2 boys and 2 girls, including Lee Seong-jin, and the youngest is now 3 years late. She is currently separated from her husband. Her husband is the managing director of Future Construction.”

“Hoo. She says she’s separated from her husband… Funny.”

“However, during the investigation, I found out one peculiar fact. So it took a long time to investigate that part.”

When Chairman Gun-Ho Jang sent a curious glance, Director Seung-Ho Kim opened another file and spoke.

“It is about Lee Seong-jin.”

“Lee Seong-jin?”

“Yes. As a result of the investigation, Kim Hee-kyung Food and Mirae Construction were both companies created by Lee Seong-jin. Items such as rice cake skewers and crispy chicken were all developed by Lee Seong-jin. In addition to this, Heekyung Distribution, an MRO company, Mirae Health and Mirae Construction, a health food company, and Good World, a wet tissue company, were all founded by Seongjin Lee.
Seongjin Lee owned most of the shares in all companies. If you look here, they are summarized in a table. I had at least 50% to 70% or more. In a word, the actual owner of all these companies was Lee Seong-jin.”

Chairman Gun-Ho Jang looked closely at the points pointed out by Director Seung-Ho Kim.

“What’s even more surprising is that all of these companies have zero debt. Sales are also huge if you look at the table here. Even if it was a large company, it was sales and profits that could not be handed down at all. I could understand why I was invited to the last Blue House luncheon. Despite running the company like this, Seongjin Lee went to the last Olympics and won a gold medal, and is currently attending school.”

Chairman Gun-ho Jang was surprised and interested as he listened to Seung-ho Kim’s explanation.

“Recently, Seongjin Lee established an entertainment agency and took over a securities company. And he figured out, albeit unofficially, that he also has a debt collection company called Future Credit Information.”

“Haha. That’s great. You mean all of this was accomplished in less than three years?”

“Yes. That’s right. As we investigated, we were honestly surprised to the point that we wondered if Lee Seong-jin was human. And as a fact that I learned while researching, it seems that I have a relationship with Jang Gwang-sik, who has recently been cautiously speaking out in the political and business circles.”

“I heard about Jang Gwang-shik. Isn’t he the unofficial figure who made President Kim Hyun-sam become president?”

“Yes. That’s right. It is a cautious conclusion we came to during our investigation that the person who manipulated Jang Gwang-sik from behind might be Lee Seong-jin.”

“What the hell is this guy doing?”

“As a result of our planning office’s analysis, we came to the conclusion that it could become the most threatening force to our Jangseong Group in the next 10 years. Of course, there is no comparison now.”

“You mean that? Look at this, Chief Kim. There is an old saying like this. There is a saying to keep your friends close, and keep your enemies closer.”

Chief Kim Seung-ho waited silently for the next words to grasp Chairman Jang’s intentions.

“What is Jaeyoung doing these days?”

When the word about Jang Jae-young, his son, suddenly came out of Chairman Gun-ho Jang’s mouth, Seung-ho Kim was a little taken aback.
It was because Jang Jae-young, who had returned from the United States, was doing the same thing as before, hanging out with women without doing anything special.

“That.. That.. I’m working hard in business class.”

“Hehe. You don’t need to side with your son. Do you think I don’t know what he’s doing?”

“I’m sorry… I’m sorry. President.”

“Some bastard builds a big company with his bare hands in less than three years, but some bastard is going on a spree with the money his father earns… Eh…”

Director Kim Seung-ho lowered his head as if he had become a criminal himself.

“Shouldn’t Jaeyoung get ready too?”

Chairman Kun-ho Jang looked out the window and spoke as if he were talking to himself.

“Chief Kim, call Jaeyoung.”

“Yes. All right.”

“Heh heh. Kim Hee-kyung. Had a son like this, could you be so confident in front of me? This makes me want it even more.”

As time passed, a knock was heard and Jang Jae-young carefully opened the door and entered the chairman’s room.

“Father. I… I’m here.”

Chairman Gun-Ho Jang is not very tall, but Jae-Young Jang always felt infinitely smaller when standing in front of his father.

“Sit there.”

Jaeyoung Jang carefully sat down on the sofa.

He came in as a female secretary who was prettier than a talent, put down a fancy coffee cup in front of Jang Jae-young, said hello, and left.

Jaeyoung Jang carefully raised his cup and took a sip of coffee while looking at President Gunho Jang.
I didn’t drink because I wanted to eat, but strangely, I was thirsty when I was in front of my father.

Chairman Gun-Ho Jang brought a file folder, threw it in front of Jae-Young Jang, and sat down on the sofa alone.

“Look, then talk.”

“Yes.”

Jang Jae-young took a deep breath and calmly began to read the document.

In the file above, it was about a beautiful middle-aged woman named Kim Hee-gyeong, and behind it was about a person named Lee Seong-jin, who seemed to be the woman’s son.
Seeing the documents about Lee Seong-jin, Jang Jae-young was unknowingly amazed.

“Hey. Incredible.”

“Okay. Why do you think I showed you these documents?”

“For now, I know about this woman. She wouldn’t be interested in a woman running a small, obscure company like this for no reason.”

He was definitely his father’s son.
Jang Jae-young also had a lot of greed for women, because that was what he learned from watching his father, chairman Jang Gun-ho.

“However, I have no idea about the person named Lee Seong-jin behind this. It just made it clear that this guy was great.”

“Don’t be honest. I want that Kim Hee-kyung. So I ordered him to investigate, and I found out that Lee Seong-jin was amazing. To be honest, I want to take him as my son-in-law and hand over the entire company.”

When the word that he would hand over the company came out, Jang Jae-young’s face hardened in an instant.
Jang Jae-young was convinced that the Jangseong Group would one day become his.

There are younger siblings under her, but they are all girls.
He was the only male in the family, and he was the eldest son.

That’s why I’ve been complacent and lived a life of revelry and debauchery until now.
Even if you don’t make an effort, you can become your own because you didn’t have to go the hard way.

But now, the father said that he might hand over this whole company to someone other than himself, his son.

Jang Jae-young looked at Lee Seong-jin’s picture once again.
If the contents of the document were true, it was true that he had abilities that he could not possibly match.

“Ah… Father. Give me a chance too. I will definitely take care of this matter. I will bring this woman named Kim Hee-kyung to her father.”

“Hmm. Okay? Good night. Don’t give it a chance Show what you can do.”

“Yes. All right. I will not disappoint you.”

Jang Jae-young let out a sigh of relief.
It wasn’t even a job to bake and boil a woman like this.

“And Jaeyoung.”

“Yes. Father.”

“Be friendly with that guy named Seongjin Lee.”

“Yes? What is that?”

“I mean, make it yours. No, make it your limbs. If a guy with this level of ability becomes your limb, wouldn’t you be able to make this group of generals bigger in the future?”

“Oh~!! I see what you mean.”

“Okay. Think carefully about what to do and tell Chief Kim if you need anything.”

“Yes. All right.”

Jaeyoung Jang greeted Chairman Gunho Jang and left the room.
After a long time, the desire to compete flared up.
His head started spinning violently.

Jaeyoung Jang was never stupid either.
It would be more correct to say that he had been hiding his true face until now.

Chairman Jang Geon-hoe knew that, so he didn’t say anything even if Jang Jae-young caused problems until now.

And what if the young guy causes some trouble? If the lower classes caused a problem, that would be a problem, but for the ruling class like themselves, even if there was a problem, it wouldn’t be a problem at all.

Rather, he believed that he could rule the country called the General Group later when he dominated and ruled the lower classes to such an extent that it became a problem when he was young.

Chairman Jang Gun-ho himself was young and hadn’t stolen so many women, even the wives of his company executives. But now, as chairman, he has become one of Korea’s top conglomerates.

In the past, when Chairman Jang Gun-ho was in the position of managing director, he met the executive’s wife at the company’s year-end party with executives and their wives.
Jang Geon-ho approached the wife, took her on the spot, and took her upstairs to undress her.

The executive who came to find her wife saw Chairman Jang Gun-ho sucking his wife’s breast in his room and quietly closed the door and left.

The executive pretended to be ignorant to maintain his position while leaving his wife, and while asking her to take good care of her, she spread her legs and did all sorts of bewitching things.

Chairman Gun-ho Jang believed that he could rule the kingdom of the general group well only if he took out the lower classes and dominated them like that.

So, he left Jang Jae-young alone until now, and now he intends to teach him how to become a king.
And even if he followed wrongly, he was confident that he would make his son king.

Chairman Gun-ho Jang lifted a cup of tea and sipped it, laughing.

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Currently, Seong-jin was sitting in her luxuriously decorated office, looking at her documents.

It was the office of the president of a securities company whose acquisition was completed a while ago.

Beside Seongjin, an elderly man continued to walk through her papers and explain while sweating profusely.
He was a competent president recruited from outside by taking over a new securities company.

Originally, the securities company had to complete the acquisition two weeks ago.
However, when the acquisition was about to be paid, the Financial Supervisory Service suddenly investigated.

The former boss and his subordinates swindled illegal profits through insider trading.

At that time, most of the employees of securities companies were engaged in individual transactions with multiple accounts under borrowed names.
Of course, since illegal internal transactions were rampant, the company’s profitability was bound to be poor.

So, the investigation by the Financial Supervisory Service began, and Seong-jin’s acquisition of a securities company was all-stop.

Embarrassed, the president of the securities company tried to hand over the company while reducing the acquisition price by 3 billion won.
She was trying to rob her hands and leave before the investigation by the Financial Supervisory Service was carried out in detail.

Sung-jin negotiated renegotiations through her lawyer and Mirae Mutual Credit Finance and Finance Director, and she was able to acquire the brokerage firm for 23 billion won by cutting an additional 2 billion won.

And it was to change all of her executives and recruit a new president next to her.
In the process, Kwang-sik’s elder brother used his hand on her superiors to cover up the investigation by the Financial Supervisory Service.

“Hmm. The current situation of the company is very bad. Boss, have you prepared a countermeasure for this?”

“Yes. First of all, it seems that internal employees’ borrowed-name accounts are the most problematic, so we have identified a list of employees who have borrowed-name accounts. President.”

Seongjin was also called Chairman here.