002 : regress
Tok. Tok.
“Chansu, wake up. I will take off the plane.”
“Ugh!”
Someone shook me awake, so I opened my eyes.
what? am i alive
Where else are you?
I don’t think it’s a hospital, is it?
“Son, can’t you stand it and sleep?”
“… who… who?”
“Ugh, no matter how many times you wake up, you can’t even recognize your friends? Speaking with my body, I am Lee Sam-bok, the 28th generation of the Chungmugong faction of the Deoksu Lee clan. child.”
A young man I had never seen before introduced himself like a joke while pinching my cheek.
He called himself Lee Sam-bok.
In an instant, Lee Sam-bok, vice chairman of Daese Group, came to mind.
He was a nobleman who was proud of being the direct descendant of Admiral Yi Sun-sin.
Somehow, even the thick horn-rimmed glasses and the mole on the left cheek were the same.
No matter how similar they are in appearance, is there any reason for a young man to imitate a nobleman well over seventy? It’s not like a joke…
‘What… what… this face!’
It was very embarrassing to see someone for the first time pretending to be a friend, but my face reflected in the nobleman’s glasses was more spectacle.
I was so surprised that I looked around and saw my reflection in the glass door of the front door on the other side.
Someone other than me was standing there.
‘What is this?’
“Wow!”
Suddenly, as if I had been hit hard in the back of the head, my head felt like it would break, and I unknowingly rolled on the floor and vomited.
“Hey, Chansu-ya, what’s wrong? Did you eat something wrong?”
“Oooh!”
A young man called a friend supported me, but I kept regurgitating gastric juices.
Unfamiliar memories began to engulf me.
From the memory of a young child with a strange face selling newspapers in the early morning market, the memory of crying over the loss of a single mother in a cold winter, the memory of getting a job at a woolen company, but the president who was speculating in stocks going bankrupt and running away…
It was like a dwarf inside my head, spinning black-and-white film at an unbearable speed. It was a documentary that compressed someone’s life.
The documentary said only one thing.
‘You are Woo Chan-soo. Woo Chan-soo, one of the four major conglomerates in the 1990s, who was once an idol of salarymen, fell into an immoral swindler!’
I mean.
It was embarrassing, but my crazy face against the window and the vivid sensations in my limbs were not a dream.
He was really telling me that I was Chan-soo Woo, the chairman of Daese Group. It means that he was reborn as Chairman Woo Chan-soo in his youthful days.
“Who is there? Help. Help! Aww!”
“Ugh! get out of the way I am a doctor.”
“Sir, save my friend. This bastard ate something wrong and suddenly vomited…”
“Hey, can you hear me? Take a deep breath. Deep breath!”
There must have been a doctor somewhere at the airport, and someone put pressure on my chest.
At first it was difficult to breathe, but after a while it really became easier to breathe.
“Uhhhh”
The vision, which had been blurred like a dream, gradually brightened.
“Has your friend ever fallen from a high place? If so, please go to the hospital.”
“No, it was time for the flight so I woke him up and he rolled on the floor vomiting.”
“okay? Difficulty breathing while falling asleep and having a heart attack… This is a shock phenomenon that occurs when falling from a high place or being crushed by a heavy object.”
It was in a previous life that he died from being crushed by a pile of concrete.
It seems that the aftermath of the previous life also affected the reincarnated body. It was absurd, but the fact that I was reincarnated into a new body didn’t bother me at all.
I didn’t know that human beings are creatures of adaptation that could be realized in this way.
“Uhhhh”
Breathing returned to normal.
His whole body was limp and it was difficult to move, but his vision and hearing were clear.
“Shock?”
“Occasionally, even if you experience extreme stress or lack of sleep, this phenomenon appears…”
“Haha, this guy deserves it. I lost my single mother the year before last, the company I was working for went bankrupt, I robbed all of my savings to prepare for studying abroad, and even now, I barely bought a plane ticket to London, relying on my Oxford pass. Poor bastard… You must have suffered a lot.”
“… It sucks. Lay your friend in a comfortable place and make sure to drink plenty of water. If you take a break and go to the hospital to get fluids and rest, there will be no problem.”
“thank you. Teacher. Take a look.”
When it was just the two of us left, Lee Sam-bok suddenly hugged me and burst into tears.
“Hehehe, poor bastard.”
“It’s gross… you bastard… let it go.”
“Lean on it, I’ll give you strength. uh huh.”
“Let it go.”
I pushed Sambok with all my might.
It was more comfortable. No matter how soon after reincarnation, it was embarrassing to be held in the arms of a black man.
I sat with my back against the wall on one side of the airport.
‘Is this Gimpo Airport?’
Looking at it while leaning against the wall, it looked like Gimpo Airport.
The atmosphere that had been buzzing because of me just a moment ago quickly subsided, and there were only people who were busy moving.
There was nothing more important than getting on a plane at the airport.
“What day is it today?”
“It is January 11th. Did you forget the departure date?”
“What year is it?”
“Are you crazy?”
“I am a person who has died. What year is it?”
“It’s 1965.”
It wasn’t the 70’s, it was 1965, before I was even born. Exactly 57 years ago, it returned beyond half a century.
“Sambok.”
I called Sambok, who was leaning against the wall next to me.
Maybe I really became Woo Chan-su, and Sambok felt familiar to me.
“Why, you bastard? How many times have you surprised people? Mother’s death, company bankruptcy, heart attack…”
“It’s not a heart attack, it’s shock.”
“Sibeol bastard, you’re good.”
“I will do business. I’ll be back in a week at the latest, so write your resignation and wait.”
“What?”
“Write your resignation and wait.”
“What are you talking about? Our company is not bankrupt. And it’s been less than a month since I was promoted to chief.”
Sambok made a puzzled expression, but it didn’t matter.
Originally, in history, when Chairman Woo started Daese Group, you were also with him.
When Woo signed a contract outside, Vice Chairman Lee Sam-bok was in charge of the maintenance of the Daese Group.
The two of them were more than friends, they were like real brothers, and they did everything together until the trending group collapsed during the IMF.
“You did. The reason why your name is Sambok is that your fortune is overflowing with good fortune, good fortune, and good fortune for officials.”
“Yes, according to my mother, a dragon fortune teller said that. Before I turn 30, I will meet a nobleman and achieve great success. I said that I would be a seller who would not be envious of a full-time man.”
“Didn’t you ever think that the nobleman was me?”
“… you… you are very sick… yes, let’s go to the hospital right now. Forget about studying abroad and refund your plane ticket. I don’t even have living expenses, so if I go to study abroad, I’ll only starve to death.”
“I am fine. And I’m going to give up studying abroad. I am leaving to win an export contract in Singapore.”
I really didn’t think about studying abroad.
All I could do was meet the opportunity that made Chairman Woo Chan-soo successful.
“Singapore?”
“Yes, Singapore! I’m supposed to change planes there when I go to London. You can go to work and come back.”
In the original history, while Chairman Woo was on his way to London, he signed a huge contract in Singapore.
Since the cost of living was not enough, what I tried to save even a small amount of money hit the jackpot.
It was said that he tried to win a contract under his own name and sell the contract to a domestic trading company at a premium, but it was an outrageous yet creative idea.
It was the beginning of the work, but somehow the contract amount exceeded hundreds of thousands of dollars, and he decided to give up studying abroad and become an entrepreneur.
To be honest, at the time, Chairman Woo said that he did not know that the amount of export contracts was so large that it would be difficult to deliver even if the factory was operated at full capacity for a year.
When I joined the Daesae Group and was training new employees, I heard the story day and night, so I remembered it intact.
It may have been a bit of an exaggeration, but it was an undeniable fact that Woo alone won a large contract in Singapore.
Hold on. Hold on.
“What are you doing?”
“I’m going to stab my friend to see if he’s out of taste.”
Sambok pressed his finger against my cheek.
“No kidding. I will definitely get the contract.”
I grabbed Sambok’s arm and put on a hard expression.
The guy who was looking into my eyes gradually hardened his expression.
You’ll realize I’m not joking.
“Crazy… wasn’t that a joke? When did you make connections in Singapore?”
“I just received a revelation from heaven during the shock.”
“… Wanna die?”
“Just kidding, our company is out of business, but there are some existing customers worth contacting. That man must be in a very difficult situation as supplies are now cut off. The contract comes unconditionally.”
“Well, that sounds like a possibility. All right, I’ll decide whether or not to resign after looking at the contract you’re getting. Can’t you both sit on the sidewalk?”
After seeing the results, Sambok clenched his fist and said he would resign.
Yes, you should look at that.
“great. Instead, take out the deposit for your room in advance.”
“… crazy…”
“I promised.”
I grabbed Sambok’s fist and shook it wildly.
I woke up, dusted off my clothes, and checked my plane ticket.
The only luggage was a leather bag at most, so it was like a bare body.
“Are you really okay? Can I get on the plane?”
“I feel like I was born again after throwing up. Cheer me up.”
“go for it.”
“Yes, fighting.”
I felt so refreshed that I wondered when I would have vomited.
The waves of memories that came in ignorantly also subsided before I knew it.
**
Korea Immigration Office.
Once I got out of here, it was no different from overseas.
“passport! Airline tickets!”
“Here it is.”
“Hold your face.”
“Yes.”
The immigration officer with a stiff expression looked at my documents and face in turn, then stamped my passport.
He will also be leaving the country as a student, and isn’t the acceptance certificate issued by A University in the UK enclosed?
Chairman Woo said that he spoke English quite well, but when I saw the pass, I had no choice but to believe it.
“Have a good trip, next person!!!”
“thank you.”
My heart was overflowing when the immigration screening was over.
‘Can I do well?’
It was absurd to leave the country as soon as I was reincarnated, but I had to leave now to seize the opportunity.
If you give up a single passport, you have to wait a year to be reviewed again.
“nice.”
can you do it well? rani…
Is that what you call a question?
It was ridiculous.
It’s not good, you have to change everything.
A 21st century man came to the 60s, what can he not do? Isn’t the Republic of Korea in this era a developing country that has grown over 10% a year?
It was a time when the mainstream unemployment, which was no different from a hole-in-the-wall shop, grew into a mainstream group in just a few years.
Of course, it’s unfortunate that I couldn’t start with my major field of construction or heavy industry, but there’s no way I couldn’t do what Chairman Woo, a newcomer to society in his 20s, did.
It won’t be that difficult to seize the jackpot opportunities one after another in the midst of fiery growth.
My body trembled with a pleasant tension.
I can change everything.
We can change all the wrong choices of the popular group that were covered by the success myth.
A big group that has neglected to develop technology can be brought to the right place.
I can do it. I am a completely different Woo Chan-soo.
“Let’s go, to Singapore!”
