[047]Utilizing special skills
“You…! You didn’t just stab it, so why did you put the letter of intent?”
Lee Hak-jae shouts as soon as he opens the office door and enters.
Oh Se-hyun bursts into laughter as she sees that and packs her bag.
The eyes looking at each other were hot and cold.
“Anyone who is old enough to eat this now… Please kill your temper.”
“Don’t talk back!”
“If you’re doing this after watching my broadcast, watch the interview again and get angry. I came up with the idea after seeing the grandson trying to help his grandfather.”
“what?”
“Go back and bounce the abacus again. You made a profit. Oh sure, you’ll have to spend a little more money. However, it will be much more advantageous when persuading the judges.”
All Lee Hak-jae looked at Oh Se-hyeon with a blank face.
“I’m busy… I have a meeting with creditors.”
Watching him leave the office, Lee Hak-jae came to his senses and took out the phone.
“Come find Miracle Oh Se-hyun on the air. I’ll have to see it again when I go back to the president’s house.”
Sitting in the back seat of the car, Lee Hak-jae felt the weight of the heavy laptop on his knees and repeated the interview video several times.
It didn’t take long to figure out what was helpful.
If Chairman Jin and Se-Hyun Oh are separated, they are competitors who suddenly intervened, but if Se-Hyun Oh, who grasped Chairman Jin’s intentions, intervened, it plays a role in amplifying public opinion.
Lee Hak-jae covered the laptop and burst out laughing.
“Heh heh, this is true. Suddenly, I became a three-dollar without a back and forth.”
As if noticing that his laughter was a laugh that had found an answer, the driver sped up the car and ran toward Chairman Jin’s house.
Upon entering the study after clearing his throat, Chairman Jin was deep in thought.
“President.”
“It’s Hakjae. I don’t think this is something to be angry about. I think it will be a good fire starter…….”
“Yes. CEO Oh’s intention was also to become firewood.”
“what? Did he say it himself?”
“That’s right. Do-joon said it was a collaboration between the two of them to help the president.”
Chairman Jin’s mouth dropped wide when the name of his grandson was mentioned, but eventually burst into laughter.
“Uh heh heh. Oh my God… Everyone is busy stealing my money with red eyes, but my grandson even mobilizes an American investment company to help me? Is there such an admirable guy!”
Lee Hak-jae waited for Chairman Jin to stop laughing.
You have to cook when the firewood burns. If you miss the time, only ashes remain. There is a lot to do.
“Tomorrow, I plan to explode the accusatory articles of Miracle Investment all at once. It should be plastered with provocative words such as the dangers of speculative capital, corporate hunters who only think about money, and the outflow of national wealth.”
“and?”
“I plan to send our people to each broadcasting station’s discussion program. They recruited five or six economics professors and emphasized the same tone…”
“The name Daehyun is also included?”
“yes. The Daehyeon Group has already secured enough steel mills, but to take over is only to be seen as aiming for the land of Hando Steel. Isn’t the real aim to build and sell apartments…? If you throw just this much, it will naturally be dismissed as a bundle.”
Chairman Jin hit his knee.
“okay. That’s right! The timing of this is exquisite. It was a bit difficult to peel Daehyeon from the beginning, but Oh Sehyeon opened the door and even gave me a chance. The back of Chairman Joo’s head is tingling. haha.”
“But there are also problems. We need to raise the acquisition price a little bit.”
Perhaps because of the money, Chairman Jin stopped laughing.
“Why did that bastard Oh Se-hyeon even say useless things?”
2.5 trillion.
The acquisition amount disclosed by Miracle Investment.
This amount will become an absolute value and will hold the ankle of Sunyang forever.
In addition, if Daehyun Group writes 2.3 trillion won, it will be difficult to write less than 2 trillion won.
In order not to be embroiled in a dispute over preferential treatment, it is necessary to spend more than 2 trillion won to stand the cause of the creditors.
“It couldn’t have been helped. If you want to emphasize that it is an overseas speculative capital, it will be more effective if you show how to spend money. How could a real bidder say such a thing?”
“First of all, let’s see the atmosphere until the final bid. If it seems impossible, set it to 2 trillion won.”
“yes. Then I will call the public relations team and prepare.”
“okay. Good job.”
Chairman Jin, who was left alone, had a light heart that seemed like he could fly away. I felt 10 years younger thanks to the joy of a bright grandson.
* * *
Sammi Group, the 26th largest conglomerate group with total assets of 2.5378 trillion won and sales of 1.4925 trillion won, was unable to block a bill of 1.119 billion won, and on March 19, the final bankruptcy has been
The Republic of Korea, which did not know that it had not even started yet, focused its eyes and ears on the trial of the two former presidents rather than the economic crisis.
But I’m not interested in either now. All I cared about was the freshman welcome party tomorrow.
I went to class a couple of times after the entrance ceremony, but it wasn’t too uncomfortable.
Perhaps because of the interview for the college entrance exam, everyone glanced at me, and not a single student spoke to me, just huddled together. Some of my seniors even came to the lecture room to see me and then disappeared.
I felt like it would only get better if I went to the welcome party and talked to my classmates. No one knows me anyway, so it wouldn’t be a bad idea to prepare a small event.
The next day, I arrived at school late in the afternoon, listened to a lecture for a couple of hours, and moved to the cafeteria of the student union hall, where the welcome party started at 6:00.
The number of law students approached 400, but less than half attended.
Every year, half of those who pass the bar exam are at Seoul National University. It was rare for them to attend school events all the time, as they were all looking forward to passing the bar exam at the same time they entered school.
Have you over-prepared for the event?
As I sat down at a table in the corner of the restaurant, the kids around me glanced at me again. I guess it was a surprise that I attended.
There were several bottles of soju and beer on the table, and a pot and a fire plate were placed on the gas burner. It looks like he’s trying to grill pork belly.
The place where they were noisy was the seniors, and the place where the awkwardness flowed was the freshmen.
If I had only memories of the third generation of chaebol in my head, would I have come to a place like this and sat awkwardly?
When you want to ask yourself someone grabs the mic.
“Nice to meet you all. I was in the class of 1995…….”
After the introductions of the 3rd year students and the professors, the new students began to introduce themselves.
He passed the microphone, saying things like his own characteristics or nicknames that could be imprinted on his high school, seniors, and classmates.
It’s a good time even now.
Most of the freshmen are from the provinces. It is not a world where the children of wealthy families in Gangnam, Seoul, take all the prestigious universities to themselves, but rather an equal world where you can enter a prestigious university if you are good at Gaecheon and have top grades in local high schools. till now.
When my turn came around and I stood up and grabbed the microphone, the whole student cafeteria froze and the whispering stopped, and everyone’s eyes were fixed on me.
After bowing his head in greeting, he looked at the head of the department and said.
“Seniors. Can I speak at length?”
“huh? Ah… that’s right.”
“thank you.”
I bowed my head once more.
“A lot of you probably already know me. Fortunately, I am Jin Do-jun, who has a rich grandfather. Thanks to that, I got to this position easily.”
Some laughed and some were expressionless. Everyone knows that it’s not a place you can come in just because you have a lot of money.
“I want to be friendly with my classmates and seniors without hesitation, but it is not easy. So, I want to make use of my specialty.”
Everyone showed their curiosity when they said that they were using their specialties.
“Seniors. Is giving small gifts to classmates and seniors a crime of bribery?”
The head of the department was startled by my sudden question, but answered with a stutter.
“That’s not it. Bribery is whether or not there is a price, but in this case, the price that a senior or a classmate can give is only the abstract intangible price of friendship.”
“okay. Then, if you give a professor an expensive gift, does it constitute a bribery crime?”
Professors burst into laughter and one professor shouted.
“It’s unfortunate, but it works. Professors hold the weapon of grades. Because grades are not abstract. haha.”
“Fortunately, the.”
The restaurant was full of laughter. Now, the students also changed their eyes full of anticipation because of the word gift.
I laughed and took my phone out of my pocket.
Everyone was surprised again.
If you were a third-generation conglomerate, you would have thought that you would have a cell phone, but it is still unfamiliar for a college freshman to carry a cell phone.
I quickly dialed the pager number and waited.
At the entrance of the restaurant, men in suits pushed a cart full of boxes.
“To be honest, I learned my specialty from my grandfather. Buying favor with a gift. And the gift will always exceed expectations.”
As the men handed the boxes to the students one by one, everyone let out a scream of exclamation.
“This is a cruiser laptop that will be released next month. It is a Pentium MMX class and has an Intel chip. The RAM is 128MB and the hard drive capacity is 6GB. It also has an 8x CD-ROM…”
No one listened to my explanation.
Everyone was busy opening the laptop box and even the professors were busy looking around.
I had no choice but to put the mic down and wait for this moment of excitement to pass.
# # #
“What? 200 new laptops?”
“yes.”
“Hey. Do you know how much it is?”
“The selling price is around 3 million won, so it must be around 600 million won.”
“You’re giving it to the kids? Just to buy some favour?”
Grandpa looked at me with surprised eyes as if he was dumbfounded.
“I buy favor and make it my side… and also do a lot of advertising.”
“what? advertisement?”
“A notebook carried by a Seoul National University law student, Korea’s best talent gathering place. Rumors will spread throughout the school. It is not only carried by office workers, but also the image of a laptop that college students can have.”
Grandpa pondered my intentions and tilted his head.
“It’s hard to be an advertisement with just that. Only in school anyway…”
“I have to hit the follow-up.”
“Follow-up?”
“You missed the timing for the new semester because development was delayed. It’s a special student discount academy event. I also shoot some commercials with Seoul National University in the background.”
In the grandfather’s head, he was already drawing an advertisement image revealing the main gate, the symbol of Seoul National University.
He did not miss this moment and delivered the decisive blow.
“If it’s a waste, I’ll live with my money. You know that about 600 million is a pittance to me.”
“This guy! Are you going to make this old lady into a small person?”
He opened his eyes once, then changed to a gentle expression again.
“By the way, Do-joon. Why only 200? Aren’t there about 400 students in the entire law department?”
“I heard that about half attend the freshman welcome party. It should only be given to those present.”
“Why is that?”
“It is equal. Those who attended and those who did not attend. Because it can’t be the same. Those who can’t attend should be beaten on the forehead and made to regret it. Rewards always make it clear that only those who follow me can get them.”
Grandpa hit his knee.
“That’s right! A carrot is more effective than a stick to move a horse. Uh-huh.”
* * *
The welcome party for freshmen was more exciting than ever. It was also felt that he refrained from drinking for fear of losing his laptop.
And Kim Yoon-seok quietly approached me and handed me a note.
It was a list of those who refused my gift.
These are worth watching once in a while.
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