# 312
The Legend of Return
Chapter 312. Grandson of Habaek (1)
“We need to redefine the basic concepts of architecture that we have learned so far. Western architecture approaches by distinguishing between subject and object matter, mental phenomena and essence. On the other hand, Asian architecture, especially Korean architecture, begins with a monistic view that the phenomenon and reality are ultimately one. Throughout the Japanese colonial period, when Japanese architects without ideological roots were prevalent, western ideas and technologies were grafted together, resulting in the rapid development of erratic architectural techniques. Its representative architecture is the apartment building. It seems convenient, but it has lost the recognition and courtesy unique to Koreans. The recovery of that spirit should be projected into the Jangju Research Complex this time.”
‘What did that mean?’
‘What the hell is it?’
Watching the owner’s staff spitting out sounds like Professor Noh’s lecture, all of the design team’s staff, including Yoon So-jin, could not understand how the situation was going.
The representative of the construction company bowed his head in front of the owner’s staff to express his apology.
As one of the client’s staff warned, an hour later, an audit team from the group’s head office was dispatched and searched the office.
And two days later, the head of the team was cut off for bribery, embezzlement and neglect of duty.
Employees clenched their tongues at the rumor that the bribes received from beating subcontractors were close to 1 billion won.
He was a team leader who didn’t usually shoot rice or a cup of coffee.
He was a salty person who nagged the staff to save his coffee if he drank a few cups a day.
Everyone didn’t know that the small team leader’s liver was that big.
Even the managing director and CEO who were involved were kicked out of their positions.
He was the CEO of a construction company that survived the turbulent times of the TS Group by being recognized for its management skills.
However, they were cut together because of connivance and aiding and abetting the people around them under the name of alumni.
Many of the executives who handled their work in an old-fashioned way were simultaneously organized.
A second storm raged.
Most of the CEOs and executives of the construction company, who were made up of Ko Young-dae’s personal connections, took off their clothes.
The company suffered hundreds of billions of dollars in damages by taking bribes behind the scenes.
In a word, all the lines to grab and go up have disappeared.
The staff were agitated.
However, a temporary representative director was dispatched one day after the representative resigned.
In just a few days, the company quickly found stability, as if something had happened.
Talents from Daewoong Construction came in and took over the organization.
Yoon So-jin was promoted to section manager.
Personnel who were backlogged were promoted or demoted according to their abilities, skills, and personality.
It was fair to anyone.
The man who led the case was giving a presentation right in front of my eyes.
“In the West, architecture is recognized as an artistic object that represents beauty, grandeur and authority. On the other hand, Korean architecture pursues the overall order in which not only the building but also the surrounding environment and the front yard are harmonized. To put it simply, if Western architecture sees trees, Korean architecture recognizes forests.”
Like students studying, the staff dutifully wrote down the man’s lecture.
For several days, I studied hard about oriental architecture in depth.
As the evil of being the team leader disappeared, the atmosphere in the office became lively.
The one-size-fits-all design has disappeared.
As the constraints disappeared, creative ideas sprang from all sides.
We began to actively reflect the demands of the building owner or client.
Even though creation brought physical fatigue, it did not make him mentally tired.
The path of architecture that he liked and chose.
There was a lot of energy in the eyes of the staff.
“In Korea, a house is an extension of my body. The skill of the martial arts, the rough and crude quality of beauty It is a characteristic of Korean architecture that is difficult to accept in the West. It shows a unique architectural culture, like our own food habit of eating various side dishes at once.”
“Here, sir. I have a question.”
Gong Hye-jin raised her hand and asked a question to Tae-san Jang, who is known as the director of the client.
“Speak. Mr. Hyejin.”
‘Oh, Hyejin? He politely called me the manager!’
At the unknown discrimination (?) Yoon So-jin tasted a bit of sadness.
“If you apply what the director said, are you saying that the research center to be designed now is a traditional Korean style? But you can’t seem to find space, can you? Harmony between the research institute and Korean-style architecture and nature….. To be polite… It’s hard to imagine.
‘These days, kids talk nonsense~.’
Yoon So-jin was envious of Gong Hye-jin, who had something to say.
He also tends to spit out his personality with an angular personality, but it wasn’t to that extent.
I thought I was living as a timid person.
“That’s why I need your help.”
Jang Tae-san smiled confidently.
“Even words with the same meaning can have very different meanings depending on the tone. In that sense, we are asking for changes and attempts.”
“What do you mean?”
Deputy Kwak Joon-won, who had been living as quietly as possible since becoming a squid in a pretty boy, gathered up his courage after a long time.
“Do you know the difference between light and sunlight? The ground and the ground, the ondol floor, the fireplace veranda, the hallway floor, the walls of the living room, the walls, the chess alphabet, the composition and weaving of Chinese characters… Don’t you feel something about this difference?”
“…..”
The design team employees became dumb.
I understood in my heart, but I couldn’t organize it in my head.
It was completely different from the knowledge I learned at school.
I knew that monism and dualism were expressed and explained differently.
However, I couldn’t catch a cool penetrating pulse.
It seemed that only Jang Tae-san, who explained it with passion, knew what it was.
Jang Tae-san’s eyes are filled with blazing passion and joy.
Everyone was holding their breath and listening to the genius.
It was clear to me that none of the staff here could be the mastermind behind this design.
The range of knowledge was different.
“All of the Gothic Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo, Arts and Crafts Movement, Fascist Architectural Fauvism, Modernism, Free Postmodernism, and Classical Restoration, all of which we have learned and learned in school, must be organically reflected in the architectural design.”
Employees were in awe as they saw Jang Tae-san spreading more knowledge than a university professor.
It wasn’t just words.
Everyone raised their hands on the schematic blueprints that were pulled out overnight.
It was a blueprint that they could not pull out even if it took a month.
Jang Tae-san, who drew such a high-level blueprint overnight, was both a genius and a monster.
I had a meeting like this to understand him.
When you get addicted to the passion that Jang Tae-san exudes, something is drawn in your head, as if something is created out of nothing.
“Don’t get stuck in any thoughts. As William Morris once said, ‘Don’t keep anything in your house that is useless or not considered beautiful’ has nothing to do with us. A person’s mind always changes. There are times when a flower that you didn’t pay attention to looks lovely one day. A broad mind that embraces the beauty of such blankness is the core of Korean architecture. don’t you think so Chief Yoon So-jin~.”
‘oh! oh my god!’
Yoon So-jin’s face was red when she saw Jang Tae-san asking questions while calling her name.
“That’s right! What the director said is absolutely right!”
‘I’m not this kind of woman…’
I didn’t dare to say anything else.
He ended up becoming an ordinary general architectural designer standing in front of a genius.
She once looked down on all the buildings in the world, but now she has learned humility.
“Frank Lloyd Wright, a student of architecture whom most of you admire, once said: ‘Every great architect is an original interpreter of his time.’ I absolutely agree with this statement. Now, you and I are standing at the starting point of great architecture. Open your heart. If you think about what Chuang-tzu said in 《Soyaoyou》, ‘a new person lives a life in harmony with nature’, you will see the answer. This is what the client thinks.”
Jang Tae-san, who vomits passionately but does not spit.
The name of the great genius architect Frank Lloyd Wright, whom Yoon So-jin admires, even came up.
His Guggenheim Museum, which pursued nature and architecture, was still a masterpiece.
‘Can a human be that cool?’
The white horse prince Yoon So-jin had dreamed of since childhood was coming back in front of her eyes.
But I didn’t dare to approach it.
He was like a god forever young, and he was just an aging follower.
‘God is dead… Huh.’
Eventually, Yoon So-jin resented God for making her grow old.
“Based on Korean architecture, but do not abandon the creative spirit. Antonio Gaudí, who said, ‘Straight lines belong to man, but curves belong to God’ is just a human being like us. It was just a difference of opinion that made him a saint of Barcelona.”
All the employees were impressed by his charisma, passion, knowledge and wisdom.
Low feelings such as jealousy were abandoned long ago.
“The god of architecture is hidden in the details. I hope we all find that Korean detail and crash the Apple spaceship created by Steven Mathew in a beautiful way. If you do that… the owner will not spare you hot material rewards!”
“!!!”
It is said that it is the hottest material reward that touches the heart the most.
All the staff showed their will to fight vigorously.
Jang Tae-san, a director who spits out a billion-dollar bet with Steven Matthews.
It didn’t look like he would just throw a few hundred.
After Jang Tae-san moved in, the cafeteria menu changed to a hotel style.
All employees dreamed of it.
Without talking more or less, it would be a world worth living in if it were the way it is now.
***
“CEO….. Have you been living on your own lately?”
“Are you living somewhere else?”
I threw the blueprints to the TS construction design team and returned to the base.
It took about half an hour.
I wanted to quietly play a dispatched employee, but the situation was not good.
I didn’t have enough time, and I couldn’t just watch the cancerous existence that devours tissues from behind.
When the audit was conducted, all the irregularities that had been suppressed came to mind.
The president, who had been in office since the time of president Ahn Ah Construction, surrounded executives and high-ranking employees just because they were alumni.
Only 20 Billion Won of Corruption Revealed.
I quietly received my resignation letter and handled it at the end line.
Even after the company name was changed to TS, the construction business did not change internally.
I was also responsible.
This time, the bad guys made me vomit money.
Recovered all benefits including severance pay.
It turned out to be a good opportunity for one bee-baek-gye.
He warned Chairman Ha Kwan-woo.
Never look at them as Daewoong men, and ordered employees who harmed the group to be stern.
The second case has begun.
The dark evils of the Ahn Group, who were relieved, were expelled.
The Bible was right that new wine must be put into new wineskins.
I was looking at it as a human being, but the company work got tangled.
I have learned rightly that a businessman must be a hard-nosed executor.
In the meantime, the blueprint took shape.
I got the rough design.
The rest was left to the staff.
We had idea meetings one or two days a week.
It wasn’t until spring, anyway, that construction could begin again.
I wanted to create a guy who would impress Stephen Matthew.
He taught the skills of the building gods in small pieces so that they could not be seen.
It was in the process of nurturing talented people who would become the center of the group and the Korean architectural design market in the future.
Salaries and bonuses were generously paid.
They even laid out ingenious ideas that I couldn’t think of.
As many people’s heads gathered, it became more solid and perfect.
I felt the charm of an organization that shows the strength of many, not just one.
However, side effects (?) appeared here.
“CEO….. Is there another female employee who serves coffee?”
Following Do-hee’s question, team leader Yoo Se-ra showed a sad deer look.
“I see… I see another woman’s face… I think we’ll have a meal together?”
Kim Han-byul, whose abilities are developing remarkably these days, saw the future.
I had a dinner with the design team tomorrow.
“Ha ha ha….. I’m busy these days….. Then.”
Sera Yoo entered the office with the coffee she had prepared for her.
“Love has cooled…”
“Did you ever love us?”
It’s the chatter of beauties coming from behind.
They were like mature, horny daughters welcoming their father back home after a long absence.
“Winter will come soon.”
The scenery outside the window with a warm cup of coffee.
November has passed the middle of the month. Autumn has passed its peak and is about to give way to winter.
Tilik.
I turned on the TV in the office with the remote control.
Because of my busy life, I was indifferent to the stories of the world.
[We need to secure water resources. It is prudent to prepare for the future when Korea is designated as a water-scarce country by developing five major rivers. The Grand Canal project on the Korean Peninsula, which some argue, was withdrawn by the President in June. That’s why the current project is focused on securing water control and fresh water.]
[Don’t lie! Isn’t it about securing the size and fresh water! If you dig five meters deep, the entire river bed will turn over. When the waterway gets stronger, the natural healing power of the river disappears and the water trapped in the weir is bound to rot! Does it make sense that people use such water as drinking water! As the ecosystem of the river is disturbed, the river will die and the ecosystem will be destroyed!]
[Professor. Show a broader perspective for future generations, not shortsightedness. It is a water scarce country! However, during the rainy season, when there is localized heavy rain, all of that water disappears. That water is absolutely necessary in the spring drought.]
[Shortsightedness! Does CEO Jang Seong-hyo, who assisted President Choi Byung-bak at close range, have the right to say such a thing! Do you think your petty conspiracy will be hidden by establishing a false organization called the Korean Peninsula Grand Canal Research Society? You will definitely get sick! Our ancestors who were born and died on the Korean Peninsula will not forgive us!]
A heated discussion took place on TV.
Jang Seong-hyo, a close aide to President Choi Byung-bak and a former Seoul civil servant, head of the Korean Peninsula Grand Canal Research Association, shamelessly teased his mouth.
There were also intellectuals who were awake, knowing that everything was a go-stop version of making and playing, and that they were the people involved.
Still, CEO Jang Seong-hyo puts a steel plate on his face and shamelessly denies it.
It was trash that loyally served its owner, the Great Demon King.
On the other hand, the professor who was a familiar face and an anti-Grand Canal debater spoke passionately.
He is an intellectual who will be expelled from school shortly after this debate and will be monitored by the government.
It couldn’t be anything other than Choi Byung-bak and his gang, who were really naive and lowly.
In a business that cost tens of trillions of dollars, at least a few trillion would have been taken as commissions.
Choi Byeong-bak thought of the presidency as a rare business rather than serving the people.
Rats who harm humans should not have been given a chance to become president.
“I don’t know what the gods are doing….. They won’t catch that rat…”
He clicked his tongue as he drank his coffee.
Then…..
Faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.
Suddenly, with the light, the surrounding scenery changed drastically.
“!!!”
When I opened my eyes again, I saw the river floating in front of me.
No matter how you look at it, it looked like the Han River.
However, it was not the Han River I knew now.
The golden sands of the Han River, completely devoid of people.
“What is it?”
I didn’t expect it, but something happened.
“Sit down when you come.”
“???”
A savory voice from under your feet.
An old man wearing a wooden hat and a cloth was casting a fishing rod.
“Who are you?”
It was the god who summoned me even though he did not invite me, much less did not want to.
I was curious about his identity.
Shinseon slightly lifts the lampshade with his fingers and looks at me with thin eyes.
“I am… the only grandson of Habaek.”
“yes? Habaek’s grandson… Ramen… Huh!”
