Chapter 329 – Part 2. 1993

A week later, the Blue House suddenly convened the presidents of the 30 largest conglomerates.
Right now, while paying attention to the Blue House, it is frantic that it is distributing borrowed-name properties, but when the Blue House suddenly calls the president, there is an uproar.

The title was a meeting of businessmen of the Economic Cooperation Group to participate in the President’s visit to the United States on November 17th.

Naturally, Sungjin was also invited to this event.

Kim Hee-kyung Food has not yet been formally reorganized into the HK Group, so Kim Hee-kyung Food has not entered the top 30 conglomerates. Have included

Sungjin was preparing for the transition to a holding company in October.
With less than two months to go, he accepted the offer because he wanted to be part of the conglomerate.

The meeting of the presidents of large conglomerates at the Blue House was cautious and heavy, as if walking on thin ice.
It was clear that President Kim Hyun-sam, who has received strong support from the public for the liquidation of Hanahoe and the implementation of the real-name financial system, called them today because of borrowed-name property.

None of the presidents who came here did not have borrowed-name property.
So, of course, I couldn’t help but notice the Blue House.

If the president openly said that he would carry out an emergency investigation today, there would be companies even in their 30s that would be destroyed and dismantled.

Since the president had not arrived yet, everyone was gathering and talking with each other with serious expressions.

When Seong-jin first appeared in the conference room, the old presidents looked at him in amazement while being puzzled.
However, since there were already rumors that he had a relationship with Jang Kwang-sik and the Blue House, the investigation into Seong-jin had already ended.

So, in a short period of time, the presidents got to know about Seong-jin, who built a large company, and no one expressed any dissatisfaction with Seong-jin’s presence here today.
You are probably surprised that Sungjin’s company has already entered the top 30 companies.

Seong-jin was leisurely sitting at the edge of the conference room, watching the aging presidents.

Then, Chairman Gunho Jang’s eyes met.
Chairman Kun-Ho Jang was wide-eyed at Seong-Jin’s presence here.

The person who knew the scale of Sungjin’s company better than anyone else was Chairman Gunho Jang.
Chairman Kun-Ho Jang thought that it was still difficult for companies in Sungjin to enter the top 30 conglomerates.

Still, he thought that the size of the company had grown bigger in the meantime, and Chairman Gun-ho Jang thought that Seong-jin was a great guy.

It was Chairman Jang Gun-ho who still reminded me of Seong-jin’s eyes as he was cutting a knife at the villa.
I was so angry that I wanted to chew Seongjin every time, but on the other hand, I also felt the fear that Sungjin would actually cut my throat with a knife.

So recently Chairman Kun-ho Jang doubled the number of security guards.
And women were also far away and did not go out well.
He even told Jaeyoung Jang to stay away from Sungjin.

And another thing, as a result of our own investigation during the recent stock market crash, we found out that Sungjin’s HK Securities held more than 10% of Jangsung Electronics’ shares.
When I first heard that from the head of the planning department, I was in a state of collapse.

It was no longer possible to openly attack Sungjin, who had become the major shareholder of Jangseong Electronics.

Although the group was thoroughly managed, it was a painful mistake to not respond quickly to the sudden situation of the real-name financial system and the National Pension Service.

That said, there are still many aides of the former chairman, the father, in the entire company.

Chairman Jang Gun-ho promised that he would carry out a very intensive personnel reform, even if it means completely changing the president.

It was Chairman Gun-ho Jang who felt uncomfortable just looking at Seong-jin.

Seongjin looked at Chairman Gunho Jang and bowed his head slightly.
Chairman Gun-ho Jang also unconsciously received Seong-jin’s greeting and just turned his head away in awkwardness.

After a while the president came in.
In a tense atmosphere, there was a briefing by the chief political officer first.

The reason for today’s gathering was a list of the presidents of large corporations to attend during the president’s visit to the United States, but when the topic of the real-name financial system came up, everyone had no choice but to burst into moaning.

And the President’s response…
The shock was evident on the faces of the presidents of large conglomerates under pressure from each company to provide funds for school lunches.

I’ll cover the borrowed-name property, so donate the fund…
This was not a problem that could be solved with a penny or two.

Everyone was busy running calculations in their heads about how much they had to pay.

“I… I’m sorry, Mr. President, but what level of money would be appropriate…”

The second son of Chairman Jung Joo-hyun, who inherited the chairmanship of Hyunjoong Group, raised his hand cautiously.
It was the Hyunjoong Group, whose chairman Jung Joo-hyun participated in the presidential election competition and was showing dislike to the president.
So I had to be careful with the words I asked.

“That’s what the presidents have to do. Ah~ I do not have borrowed-name property. Some groups have delivered news that they will appear in about 100 billion won this time even though they do not have borrowed-name properties.”

For a moment, the eyes of the presidents were focused on Sungjin.

“Ah.. This is not the group.”

At President Kim Hyun-sam’s one quick word, the faces of the presidents turned to the president again.

There was no sharp robbery like this.
I don’t know where there is a group without borrowed-name property, and I don’t even know if such a thing actually exists, but 100 billion won…

It seemed like he was suggesting a limit line by mentioning a group without a president.
If so, the group with the borrowed-name property was said to have a minimum of 100 billion won.

A dark shadow could be seen on the faces of the presidents.

“I must have told you earlier this year, right? I said that companies will never be alone in corruption. I hope everyone thinks well.”

Lastly, President Kim Hyun-sam exerted strong pressure and then got up and left.
Fortunately, the chief political officer did not leave and kept his seat.

Since then, the presidents have been busy approaching the senior secretary for political affairs and asking questions.

The senior secretary for political affairs started presenting guidelines to the presidents with a smile on their faces, and although the presidents were making absurd faces, they were showing a certain amount of relief.

In addition, when they said that they would entrust the construction of catering facilities to the company again and the operation of the catering business to the company, the faces of the chairman began to turn red.
If that was the case, it wouldn’t be much of a loss.

Or maybe it could have been more profitable for companies.
This is because if the donations to the foundation were taken as donations, the tax could be exempted.

Of course, with that excuse, the likelihood of continuing to pay the government as much as the money that appears this time is greater, but…

Seongjin sat far away and watched the faces of the presidents brighten and roughly calculated the amount.

Seong-jin had been staring at Chairman Gun-ho Jang since earlier.
Chairman Gun-ho Jang also had a facial expression that was not very different from other presidents.

Perhaps, among the presidents gathered here, the person who should pay the most contributions could have been Chairman Gun-ho Jang.

Seong-jin eagerly rolled her eyes and looked at the worried face of Chairman Jang Kun-ho, feeling better at the thought that he had fed him properly.

He threw the issue of school lunches to the Blue House, making rich chairman Jang Gun-ho worry about money.
Of course, Seongjin was preparing for her monopoly by making a kimchi company in the meantime, but…

In this way, the presidential meeting at the Blue House ended well, with some in a good mood and others in a mixed mood.

Naturally, Seong-jin decided to attend as a member of the economic group on the president’s tour of the United States.

Not in an office…

Now, Mrs. Hong Ra-gyeong was briefing her chief of staff and flipping through her papers.

“Hiya~ This guy named Seongjin Lee is really amazing. It seems that the opportunity was also very well-born.

“Yes. That’s right. Chairman.”

“He’s someone I really don’t want to miss. Thinking of having a fight with Jang Gun-ho, chairman of Daejangseong Group in Korea.. Ho ho ho..”

“If you use it well, I think you can achieve what the chairman is planning.”

“Ho-ho-ho. Iknow, right. If I do well, I might be able to become the president. And it would be possible for Sojin to inherit the Jangseong Group.”

“Yes. That’s right.”

What does this mean?
Since when did Mrs. Hong Ra-gyeong have such greed?

I feel like I need to watch a little more.

“So did you call Sojin?”

“Yes. It looks like it will arrive soon.”

After a while, a knocking sound was heard and Jang So-jin, who looked like a princess in the sky, entered the room.

The chief of staff said hello and left, and a female secretary came in and handed the tea to Hong Ra-kyung and Jang So-jin and left.

“Now.. Here is the timetable for Seongjin Lee’s second semester.”

It was definitely a great place.
The regimental course registration ended today, but Hong Ra-kyung already had Seong-jin’s timetable in his hand.

“And all of your education timetables are aligned with Seongjin Lee. Do you know what this mother is talking about?”

Hong Ra-kyung once again talked to Jang Ji-jin about her Sung-jin, and she even told her about her recent acquisition of a stake in Jangseong Electronics.

At Lord Hongla’s words, Jang Ji-jin couldn’t help but widen her eyes.

Seong-jin was four years younger than Jang So-jin.
However, the moving scale made it impossible for him to compete.

“You know very well what this mother is dreaming of. Because of your father’s affair, this mother has endured for over 20 years. But now that she is forcing you to live like that, she can’t stand it. So you should do well. From what I’ve seen, I don’t think you can find a man like Lee Seong-jin in Korea. It won’t hurt you either, so try twisting it well.”

Jang So-jin’s face turned slightly red.

Recently, at the group level, there has been talk about Jang So-jin’s marriage.

Of course, most of the positions were from other conglomerate families or influential families in politics and law.
It was a huge family when you look at all of them, but Hong Ra-gyeong did not want to marry his daughter, Jang So-jin, like that.

She was a daughter who was always sick and sick because her body was weak since she was a child.
Hong Ra-gyeong cherished her eldest daughter with all her heart, trying to save her life somehow.

Fortunately, the daughter escaped her serious illness and has already grown up beautiful enough to go to her wedding house.

She could understand that if she would rather use her healthy second daughter in her arranged marriage.

But as much as So-jin, her eldest daughter, she didn’t want to let Hong Ra-gyeong live the same life as herself.
It was clear that if she went into the daughter-in-law of a good family with that weak body, she would die of blood loss.

Hong Ra-gyeong, as her mother, wanted her to live happily while doing what she wanted to do as freely as she was exhausted.

However, after Chairman Jang Gun-ho recently returned from Germany, he started pushing out the old forces and gradually took control of the group.
And as part of that, the story of Jang So-jin’s arranged marriage was coming out.

No matter how much Hong Ra-kyung tried to tell Chairman Gun-ho Jang to let her live freely as long as she was lost, Chairman Gun-ho Jang did not pretend to listen.

Chairman Kun-ho Jang has been like that since he was young.
He openly flirted with women even though he was next to him as his wife.

When she brought the young bitch, Jin So-ra, it was as if the lid on her head had been opened.
So she let people go to kill.

But these days, even her son, Jang Jae-young, was messing around with women.
Hong Ra-gyeong said she was a father and a son, and her boys didn’t want to look like her, so she thought she was going to die.

Chairman Jang Kun-ho is now old and doesn’t hang around like he used to, but he recently found out that he was being manipulated by Seong-jin Lee’s mother, Hee-kyung Kim.
So, from then on, she had been paying attention to her man named Lee Seong-jin.

Then, I found out that Lee Seong-jin is increasing her stake, as if trying to engage in an all-out war with Chairman Jang Gun-ho.
And then, he had a plan in his head.