[Episode 125] Landscape of Nuri
Cho Il-chul took his resignation letter out of his arms and put it down.
Siwoo Lee, looking down at the white envelope with the letter of resignation, sighed deeply.
“May I ask why you are resigning so suddenly?”
“Now I want to try something independent.”
“It’s independent… … .”
“I handed over Gyeonggi landscaping to Chairman Inje-hoo and was the Scarecrow representative for 5 years. I no longer want to make money for others with my abilities.”
From Si-woo Lee’s point of view, Cho Il-chul’s choice seemed foolish.
It was because I thought I was overestimating my abilities too much.
When looking at the personal information of Cho Il-chul, he was not a very outstanding person.
“Looking at the CEO’s eyes, it seems like he will leave even if I catch him.”
“sorry.”
I didn’t know it would have been better.
As Eunsoo Jin said, gambling addiction is a scary thing.
Even if he started a new company, the result would be the same.
‘It is said that people who are addicted to gambling do not even recognize their families. And I’ve actually experienced it.’
It was Kim’s grandmother’s son.
He was a disobedient person who even gave up on his grandmother’s funeral because he was drowning in gambling and struggling from debt.
Obviously, seeing it before, Jo Il-chul’s eyes were dazzling.
But now his eyes looked somewhat cloudy.
They look like they are anxiously waiting for something.
“I will fix your resignation.”
“Then the severance pay… … ?”
Perhaps the biggest reason he decided to resign was obviously severance pay.
Although he is currently the representative of Nuri Gyeonggi, it was a system that could not steal the company’s money in any way.
‘Perhaps it is an excuse to set up a new company.’
Jo Il-chul tries to enter the fire pit by himself.
Even if it was dried up, his eyes turned and it seemed that he would not break his stubbornness.
“Director Jin Eun-soo, please come in.”
Mu-yeol Lee, who was standing behind Si-woo Lee, opened the door to the representative office at Si-woo’s instructions.
Jin Eun-soo, who was waiting in front of the door, nodded and went inside.
“CEO Cho, please calculate and pay severance pay.”
“Okay, sir.”
At the sound of paying severance pay as it is, Jo Il-chul’s expression filled with joy.
I didn’t expect Lee Si-woo to be obedient and pay severance pay.
I thought they would negotiate to reduce their severance pay with all sorts of excuses.
That said, in fact, there was no need to worry about his severance pay at Nuri.
Ishiu knew that too.
‘Because it’s better to deal with it neatly than to come out later. You don’t have to raise a problem later to save money.’
After thinking about it, Siwoo Lee stood up and held out his hand.
“You have worked hard all this time, CEO Cho Il-chul.”
“thank you. I hope that the representative will do well in everything he does.”
“Ah, and if you have any successors from Gyeonggi Landscaping, please let us know. We have to deal with their severance pay.”
“About 30 employees of Gyeonggi Landscaping will leave the company together.”
Shi-woo was not so sad.
The arboretum hasn’t even started in earnest yet.
The trees needed to form the arboretum also do not need to be relocated.
However, we had to be wary of the employees who had been working in the existing Gyeonggi landscaping field leaving at once.
‘If CEO Cho Il-chul is organized, the employees who follow him must also be organized.’
After all, their retirement funds were not put into Nuri’s funds.
When it was originally a game landscape, you can pay it with the money you earned.
“Now, the relationship between me and the CEO is over.”
Lee Si-woo, who released Jo Il-chul’s hand with a remorseful expression, bowed politely.
Even though he was the scarecrow representative, he had no intention of denying that he had been working for Gyeonggi landscaping.
Jo Il-chul also bowed at Lee Si-woo’s polite greeting.
‘Can a young guy who doesn’t know anything about landscaping really lead a landscaping business? I just have to pretend I’m getting ready for a new business. When this little bastard calls me back, then I’ll be able to take full control of the game landscape.’
It was enough for him to just play at the casino using the money he received as his retirement pay.
Cho Il-chul thought that it would be finished in two months.
He was convinced that Siwoo Lee, who didn’t even know how to landscaping, wouldn’t be able to operate it properly.
As Jo Il-chul left, Si-woo closed his eyes.
“CEO, can you recommend a representative suitable for Nuri Landscape Architecture?”
Lee Moo-yeol was secretly looking for a person who could take charge of the Nuri landscape.
According to Jin Eun-soo’s instructions, he had been preparing for Lee Si-woo while keeping a secret.
As soon as Jo Il-chul’s resignation was processed, Si-woo Lee woke up with a bitter expression at the sight of recommending a person.
“What kind of person are you?”
“A total of three people were selected. As long as the representative makes a decision, we will approach it immediately.”
As if waiting, Lee Moo-yeol brought documents containing the data of the three people from his seat.
Looking at the documents of those who will be nominated as representatives, Siwoo Lee put on a bitter expression.
“Who ordered it?”
Looking at the three characters, not one was related to Lee Mu-yeol.
The hometown was different, and there were no elements that overlapped with Lee Mu-yeol in the personal information.
That meant that Lee Moo-yeol received someone’s instructions and recognized the representative candidates.
“Director Jin ordered.”
“The investigation was conducted without my knowledge… Tell the other employees to take care of the severance pay and ask Director Jin Eun-soo to come in right now.”
At the sight of Si-woo Lee, who had a hard expression on his face, Mu-yeol Lee hurriedly lowered his head with a stern expression.
And with Lee Moo-yeol’s delivery, Jin Eun-soo entered the representative’s office.
“I must have asked you to leave it alone, right?”
“As someone who takes care of the CEO, I thought it was necessary to prepare for the variables.”
“Director Jin.”
From the beginning, Jin Eun-soo argued that Cho Il-chul was not suitable for the position of CEO.
Now, due to the intelligence of the prince group, he cannot even try to commit corruption, but the second Jang Seong-wu can come out the moment he is released.
“I know why you are mad at me. However, I am a person who works for the CEO.”
“It’s not that I don’t trust Director Jin. Please don’t listen too sadly.”
Si-woo Lee, who softened his hard expression, continued speaking softly.
“Yes, got it.”
“Now that I have a lot of work, I can’t take care of everything about the company. However, it is my responsibility to represent the affiliates. It is my exclusive right.”
It’s absolutely not that I don’t understand Jin Eun-soo’s heart.
However, at least the representative of the affiliates had to be decided by Si-woo Lee and gave instructions.
“Only ahead of my heart… I violated the representative’s authority. sorry.”
Whether you like the company or not, you had to have a system.
It is necessary to decide whether it is possible to report as a candidate for preemptive action.
Lee Si-woo clearly instructed Cho Il-chul to see.
I didn’t give such an order without thinking.
“The person who will be the representative of Nuri Landscape Architecture has already made a decision. However, it took time, so I just left CEO Il-chul Cho alone.”
Jin Eun-soo’s eyes widened at the words that he had already made a decision.
I didn’t know that Si-woo Lee, who was busy enough to not have 24 hours a day, was even paying attention to selecting the representative of Nuri Landscape Architecture.
“I know that the CEO doesn’t have time… … .”
“But there is a problem. I still haven’t been able to convince the person who will be the CEO of Nuri Jojo. You are so strong in refusal that I keep trying to persuade you.”
After merging with Nuri Jojo, Lee Si-woo has been clinging to one person for a whopping three months.
“Who do you think is the right person?”
“Lee Min-koo, the former CEO of Seo Il Kyung-kyung.”
Jin Eun-soo’s eyes narrowed at the word “Seo-il’s landscape”.
He was a person who entered the landscape industry at a young age in his 20s.
However, due to all kinds of disturbances and tricks from the original landscape companies, the company called Seoil Landscaping was dismantled.
Although he was a failure, he was young and talented.
“If it’s Seoil Jojo… Are you talking about a company that went bankrupt two years ago?”
“You know.”
“In the landscape industry, stories related to Seo-il are famous. I was still looking for the subject of Seo-il Cho, but there was no information at all.”
“I also had a hard time finding it. It’s hidden deep in the mountains where I can’t even figure out where it is.”
It was very difficult to find him, who lost his business at the age of 31 and returned to being a natural person.
As a result of Jang Han-seo’s hard work, he found his whereabouts.
But he politely declined, saying he had no intention of coming back to the world.
“There is a saying, “Samgochoryeo.” I’m going to visit you about three times and ask.”
“CEO, don’t do that, looking for representative candidates… … .”
“I have no intention of entrusting the position of CEO of Nuri Cho to another person unless it is former CEO Lee Min-koo.”
Park Soo-beom recommended one person to Lee Si-woo, who was worried about who to appoint as the representative of Nuri Cho.
And that was Lee Min-goo.
After listening to Park Soo-beom’s words, Lee Si-woo found out about him.
When I had time on a Saturday, I visited him once.
“I heard that Seoil’s landscape was destroyed and huge debts were created. Even if we succeed in bringing in former CEO Lee Min-koo, isn’t that debt a problem?”
He was a failure.
And he is a coward who runs away without taking responsibility for the things he is responsible for.
Can a person with no sense of responsibility be appointed as the representative of Nuri Landscape Architecture?
“That is just a rumor. I heard directly from CEO Lee Min-koo that he had dealt with all the debts that had to be paid off while closing the business.”
“I paid off all my debts, so why am I locked up in the mountains?”
I guess it was probably because of my distrust of people.
When he went to Gangwon-do to meet him, Lee Min-goo returned to being a natural person and was farming even ingredients.
He went on a Saturday night and stayed with him until Sunday day, but he showed a firm appearance despite Lee Si-woo’s persuasion.
“I was betrayed by the person I trusted the most, so that distrust won’t go away easily.”
Shi-Woo made a sad expression on his face.
How would you feel if you, too, betrayed even one of the directors?
I thought it might be difficult to trust people.
‘I’m still young, but I can’t let that talent rot by being stuck in a mountain.’
* * *
At the age of 31, he turned his back on the world.
The company he had worked hard for for 10 years disappeared overnight due to the betrayal of his best friend.
When I was imagining happily with vague expectations that it would go public soon, the news of bankruptcy suddenly came.
‘It felt like the sky was falling.’
Thanks to the forged accounting books made by a friend, Lee Min-koo had the illusion that the company was growing day by day.
They had been friends for 10 years, but their relationship as a friend was of no use for money.
I woke up several times a day thinking of the guy who had borrowed loans from all kinds of banks and fled abroad with the money.
Even two years later, Lee Min-goo resented his friend.
“Hello, Mr. Lee Min-koo.”
Panting, I saw a man who came up to the place where Lee Min-gu was staying.
There was 20 kg of rice on the man’s shoulder.
“Why are you here again?”
“Last time, I just came up empty-handed and got it and ate it.”
It takes two hours to reach the mountain.
Lee Min-gu looked at the man named Si-woo Lee, who sat down with the rice down.
After that, the two men struggled to climb up and put down the box containing daily necessities.
“It has been a long time since I climbed such a steep mountain, sir. Whoops.”
“Oh, I almost died.”
It was the weekend, but Lee Mu-yeol and Kim Seo-hwan, who were performing Si-woo Lee, put down the box and stretched out.
Lee Min-gu, who looked at the three tired people, sighed and went down to the river.
When he brought three water bottles soaked in cool water and put them on the floor, Kim Seo-hwan hurriedly opened the lid and drank.
“What would you do if you were weaker than the CEO?”
“Oh, I don’t know. Don’t talk to me because I’m crazy right now.”
Lee Moo-yeol shook his head when he saw Kim Seo-hwan lying down again after drinking water without hesitation.
He politely greeted Lee Min-gu, who brought water without a word.
“Thank you for the water.”
“No, CEO, I think I said my intentions better than that last time?”
It was Siwoo Lee who came to me out of nowhere and asked me to take the position of the representative of a landscaping company.
I told him I refused, but he came to me out of nowhere.
“I am now in a position to persuade the CEO more earnestly than before.”
Now, Siwoo Lee couldn’t back down any longer.
As Jo Il-chul suddenly threw away his position, he had to convince Lee Min-goo, who could take responsibility for the Nuri landscaping.
“My intentions remain the same.”
“Until you accept, I am not going down the mountain.”
Lee Si-woo, who looked at Lee Min-goo with firm eyes, gave a faint smile.
I had no intention of going down the mountain until I really convinced him.
“Don’t be rude, and don’t come here anymore. If you come again, I will change my residence.”
“There’s no way you would give up on this place that you’ve been caring for and decorating for two years because of me. If he really thought that, he would have left when I came.”
