188. Detect (1)
After the interview with Bill Gates, Hoyoung rose to stardom.
Of course, it wasn’t that he wasn’t famous before.
He was famous enough when he returned to Korea after successfully completing his presentation at ECEC.
However, the popularity was mainly on the Internet, and most of the people who recognized Hoyoung were in their 20s and early 30s who enjoy computers and internet communities.
But then and now cannot be compared.
Nowadays, TV is the main content consumed by the people of Korea.
The ratings of popular TV dramas exceed 30% and 40%, and the ratings of the 9 o’clock news of public broadcasting also exceed 15%.
Some people saw the interview with Bill Gates on the main broadcast, and in particular, as the 9 o’clock news featured an interview with Bill Gates and an article about Ho-young, it was almost impossible to say that there were few people in Korea who did not know Ho-young.
“Hmm···. Yun Ho-young…”
Cho Hee-chang’s eldest son and current CEO of Myeongseong Electronics, Jo Jung-sik, was smoking a cigarette in his office reading a newspaper.
It was a thoughtful expression for anyone to see.
He, too, knew long ago that Yun Ho-yeong was a great person.
No, it would not be an exaggeration to say that he is the one who is using Yun Ho-young the best right now beyond what he knows well.
Now he couldn’t hide the uneasy feeling in the back of his heart.
He thought of Hoyoung as ‘a helper with outstanding abilities’.
However, the now-known Ho-yeong was not a person who could barely explain it to that extent.
He is a key figure in Korea’s two most popular companies and the only man recognized by Bill Gates.
In addition, Jo Jung-sik knows that he has one more amazing spec that people in the world don’t know about.
‘I’m even a representative of Gaia Investment.’
The enormous adjectives attached to Hoyoung were enough to disturb Jo Jung-sik’s mind.
smart-
“CEO. I have a few words to tell you.”
Just then, Cho Jung-sik’s secretary knocked on the office door.
Cho Jung-sik said as he extinguished the cigarette he was smoking in an ashtray.
“come in.”
“Yep.”
Cho Jung-sik’s secretary opened the door and entered.
“Did something happen?”
“Not like that.”
“then?”
“A guest has arrived. But we couldn’t decide whether we should let them in…”
“Guest?”
Jo Jung-sik put on a puzzled expression.
He told the secretarial staff to make their own decisions and to distinguish who to meet and who not to meet.
It was because he thought that distinguishing them properly was one of the most important tasks of the secretary’s office.
That is why the secretarial staff do not report this to Jo Jung-sik unless it is a dire situation.
“who?”
“I am Jo Nam-sik, the vice president.”
“A man’s meal?!”
Jo Jung-sik asked the unexpected name in a loud voice.
“That’s right. They say they have something to share.”
“Hmm···. tell them to come in.”
“All right.”
In the short time when the secretary left again and Jo Nam-shik came in, Jo Jung-sik frowned and was lost in thought.
Thanks to Ho-young, Jo Nam-sik tasted a crushing defeat at the last shareholders’ meeting, and after going abroad to cool off for a month, he told him that he would focus on semiconductors.
And Jo Nam-sik has actually been concentrating on work so far.
But there was just one thing that bothered me.
He never came to see Jo Jung-sik.
He used to have the employee directly below him do things that he thought he should report directly, and of course, there was no personal contact at all.
But now that he came and suddenly came without contact, I couldn’t guess what he was coming to say.
While he was thinking about it, Jo Nam-shik opened the door and came in.
“brother. how have you been doing? No, should I say CEO?”
“Do whatever you feel comfortable with.”
“Then I’ll continue as brother.”
Jo Nam-shik walked to the sofa without even accepting Jo Jung-sik’s consent and sat down.
“What did you come for?”
“haha. Can’t the younger brother come to see the older brother? Even if that’s not the case, can’t the vice-president come to meet the CEO?”
“The vice-president who came to see the representative usually does not sit down without permission.”
Jo Nam-shik laughed.
“okay. Let’s say you came today as a younger brother. Is that okay?”
Jo Nam-sik’s attitude was very friendly.
However, Jo Jung-sik was rather wary of him.
Because Cho Nam-sik had never shown him this kind of attitude before.
“As you like. What the hell are you talking about? I think you are asking the second time now.”
Jo Nam-sik did not answer Jo Jung-sik’s words this time either.
He just stared at Jo Jung-sik’s face.
“If you’re here to play, will you leave? As you know, I am very busy right now.”
Jo Jung-sik said with a frown.
Then, Jo Nam-sik started giggling to himself.
“Suddenly, what are you doing right now…”
“That’s really funny. funny.”
In an instant, Jo Nam-shik erased the smile from his face and spoke coldly.
“What is funny?”
“Look at this and tell me.”
Jo Nam-sik jumped up from his seat and walked to where Jo Jung-sik was sitting, took out a piece of paper from his pocket and threw it at Jo Jung-sik’s desk.
“what’s this?”
“Did I just tell you? See and tell me.”
At Jo Nam-sik’s determined attitude, Jo Jeong-sik opened the paper on the desk.
“This, this?”
“brother. Actually, I thought my brother had finally come to his senses. But that’s not it, you were possessed?”
Jo Jung-sik’s hand holding the paper began to tremble.
“The owner of Gaia Investment is Yoon Ho-young himself?!”
“okay. I finished all the basic research in the US, left the details to a professional company, and returned to Korea. And today, I received a fax saying that the investigation was over.”
Jo Jung-sik could not easily accept this situation.
“If you don’t know, Hoyoung Yun is an agent of Gaia Investment. He said that to me too. It’s because you don’t know how much Yun Ho-young is working hard to persuade Gaia Investment for me.”
“Oops… Fool.”
“What?!”
Jo Nam-sik looked at Jo Jung-sik with eyes filled with hatred.
“What did you say now? No matter how close we are, is that something to say to my brother?!”
“That’s something I can’t say to my brother. But that’s enough for you who are eating away at our reputation. why. can you do it one more time? this climber? you are cheating now You’re being tricked by Yun Ho-young!”
Jo Jung-sik couldn’t answer Jo Nam-sik’s insulting remarks.
“Think carefully. What did you do to me, or to our reputation, by joining hands with Yun Ho-young!”
“me···. I···.”
“Now Ho-Young Yun is playing with us. know? brother… me! No, all of our reputation! Was it an inevitable choice to become president? That’s not even funny, really. What are you going to do with the reputation of making all the rags?”
Jo Jeong-sik was very confused right now.
All the plans he had planned and executed using Gaia Investment so far passed through his head like a kaleidoscope.
If Hoyoung is the owner of Gaia, it means that he has been playing in Hoyoung’s hands until now.
“How can I believe you? Aren’t you doing this just to tickle someone?”
“Interstitial? under! Do you know how hard I went through just to do something like that? Did you travel abroad for a month after the last AGM? I was in America then. And I was looking for the owner of Gaia Investment in America.”
Jo Nam-sik took a few steps to see if his swelling rose up at the moment, then continued.
“The more I went through so much trouble and looked for the owner, the more there was only one answer. Gaia Investment is Yoon Ho-young’s company. No, to be honest, Yun Ho-young hardly ever made an effort to hide it? Do you know how stupid I was?”
Jo Nam-sik continued to speak in a vulgar tone throughout.
But for Jo Jung-sik, it didn’t matter at all what he was talking about.
To be more precise, in his current state, he hadn’t even heard of it.
“Oh, what about your father?”
“If you ask me if I told you this, of course I did. I’m not an idiot who takes advantage of a fallen father to hand over our stake to someone else like anyone else.”
Even though Jo Jung-sik knew that Jo Nam-sik was talking about himself, he couldn’t find anything to say.
He suddenly saw Jo Nam-shik.
His brother’s face like a poisonous snake.
He felt a flash of light.
‘Could all this be Jo Nam-shik’s conspiracy?!’
As he said earlier, the moment he realized that all of this was Jo Nam-sik’s trick to separate him and Ho-yeong, he began to calm down as if the blood in his body cooled down.
“okay. I know what you’re talking about. Let me find out for myself.”
“What?”
“Then go now.”
“brother! Did you really hear me right now?! I don’t even have enough time to make a response as quickly as possible, even for a minute or a second. Are you asking me to leave?”
Jo Nam-sik said in a tone that was really frustrating.
However, Jo Jung-sik did not want to see Jo Nam-sik like that.
‘If you look at what this guy has done so far, it’s no exaggeration to say that this is all a lie. I can’t go over to Jo Nam-sik like this, I have to listen to Ho-young’s story.’
After organizing it in his mind, he once again issued a congratulatory order to Jo Nam-shik.
“okay. get out. I’ll find out everything on my own and then contact you.”
“I didn’t know it would be to this extent, even if it was lacking in humans. okay. let’s go out now It’s no use even if I get down on my knees and beg for it later.”
“It’s not going to happen, and it remains to be seen who will kneel before then?”
“under···. Where, do whatever you want!”
bang-
Jo Nam-sik couldn’t overcome his anger and closed the door as hard as he could, leaving Jo Jung-sik’s office.
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– boss. It seems that Jo Nam-sik of Myeongseong Electronics eventually figured it out.
“okay. How did he find out?”
– I used a simple ignorant method. It is said that he went around almost all the companies where Gaia Investment’s shares were mixed in large quantities, asking who the owner of Gaia Investment was and whether Asians had ever been here.
“this···. So in the end he got the answer.”
– That’s right. It seems that Jo Nam-sik started investigating the boss as a target. Since there weren’t that many Asians doing business in the US, the answer must have been easy.
“Hmm···. okay. What answer did Jo Nam-sik hear?”
– that···. Most likely you’ve heard that a good-looking Asian has been there.
“smith. Please, I told you to stop saying I’m handsome.”
When Hoyoung finished speaking, only Smith’s laughter could be heard over the receiver.
– One of the biggest characteristics of a boss is that he is handsome, but there is no other way to explain it, right? Anyway, I told the officials to answer like that when someone asked, and in fact, some people said they answered as they were.
“Ugh···. Yes, it was really hard. Thanks to you, things will work out the way I thought.”
Hoyoung took a deep breath.
In fact, Hoyoung deliberately leaked Jo Namshik’s identity.
When Jo Nam-sik disappeared after the last extraordinary general meeting of shareholders, Ho-young did not trust him at all, so he tried to track his whereabouts.
As a result of the tracking, it was found that Jo Nam-sik had left for the United States, and he expected that the scheming would somehow follow him.
Hoyoung had instructed Smith to tell Smith if anyone was looking for the owner of Gaia Investment, just in case.
If Jo Nam-sik can be sure that he knows his identity, then it is because he has thought of ways to maintain the leadership again.
And the predictions were surprisingly hit.
Jo Nam-sik was looking for the owner of Gaia Investment in the United States.
– But why the hell are you doing this?
“Whoops. Smith, you know what?”
– What do you mean?
“People only see what they want to see. And I only think what I want to think.”
Smith couldn’t answer because he couldn’t guess what the hell Hoyeong was trying to say.
Hoyeong must have noticed that too, and smiled to herself and continued.
“It doesn’t matter if you still don’t know what I mean. When the time comes, you will come to know about it.”
– Hmm. Okay. For now, let’s go that way.
“yes. Thank you. I’ll call you later.”
After hanging up the phone, Hoyoung laughed alone.
Ho-yeong was sure that within Myeongseong, there would be conflicts and worries about trivial things by now.
Turrrr-
Just then, Hoyoung’s phone rang again.
“hello?”
– Mr. Hoyoung! I am an adjustment.
“ah! Are you the boss? You haven’t heard from me lately?”
– I’m sorry. I’m busy these days… But can we meet now? There are things I want to check, and there are things I want to share.
“good. Shall we meet at the cafe on the first floor of the Koryo Hotel?”
– yes. I’ll leave right now. Then see you later.
Jo Jung-sik didn’t know what was so urgent and hung up the phone right away.
Ho-yeong guessed Jo Jung-sik’s condition now and smiled with a repentant smile.
