＜ Secretly Strongly 03 ＞
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Meanwhile, I was on my way to the guesthouse on the top floor by elevator.
Hyeon-joon suddenly asked an unexpected question to managing director Cha Eun-ho.
“But, sir.”
“yes?”
“I have a question. So, dinner here won’t violate the Kim Young-ran Act, right?”
Then, Executive Director Cha Eun-ho gets puzzled.
“Professor, what do you mean by that?”
And at that moment, Hyun-joon is Oops! I thought. Come to think of it, there was no way that Executive Director Cha Eun-ho, who had no enemies at school, knew that.
In the end, as soon as Hyeon-joon got off the elevator after a while, he asked Director Cha Eun-ho for his understanding and called the school to check.
Office staff who haven’t left work yet.
So, as a result of researching through the employee, there was no particular problem with the meal after the board of directors because he ate as a director of the board of directors, not as a university professor.
However, such phrases must be included in contracts related to outside directors.
Hyeon-joon frowned and pondered, and fortunately remembered that such a phrase was included in the contract.
Based on such a contract, he received approval from the school to concurrently serve as an outside director.
Then there is no problem.
In other words, there is no problem at all even if you eat dinner provided by Ilshin Group.
I was worried for nothing.
However, as a university professor, this kind of worry was perhaps unavoidable.
University regulations and even laws.
getting tighter and tighter
However, I had no choice but to keep that as a university professor.
Of course, if you don’t like this, you can just leave the university professor position.
It was still true that such a job would be of great help in forming various personal connections.
So, if this was a meal that was not allowed, I was just going to participate in the dinner at my own expense.
This is because there are a lot of high-quality contacts that Ilshin Group picked and picked, especially those who are spread out in politics, the media, and the business world.
It was because he himself had such a membership (outside director), so he could fully enjoy this position.
and after a while
Hyun-joon entered the guesthouse with Executive Director Cha Eun-ho.
Soon after, I was invited to participate in a dinner centered on a steak main dish.
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“haha! ha ha ha!! Several directors! Director Jang Woo-seok and Director Choi Hyeon-joon, who are new today! Thank you very much for not forgetting everyone and visiting this guesthouse. Then, may I ask you to propose a toast to the two new directors in particular today? ah! good. Then do it. First of all, director Jang Woo-seok! Director Jang, then I will ask you a favor.”
Lee Hee-soo, president of the Ilshin Group Strategy Office, serves as the host of the dinner. He said that and stepped aside.
Director Jang Woo-seok, former ambassador to the United States, came forward with a glass of wine.
Then, Jang Woo-seok, former ambassador to the United States, starts a toast in a rather bubbly voice.
“haha! It feels really good to be here today. Originally, through an acquaintance, I heard that the board of directors of Ilshin Group felt the most comfortable at this dinner, and this was it! Ha ha ha ha ha! Respectful President Lee Hee-soo, and former Supreme Court Justice Kim Chung-soo. Currently, Ilshin Group is known to be in the top 50 in the business world rankings. However, the speed of development of Ilshin Group was very great. I look forward to achieving even greater growth in the future and reaching the top 10 in the country soon. ruler! So my toast will be ‘IU!’ IU!”
IU.
That means, let’s live without regret in this beautiful world! That’s what it meant.
Then everyone smiled brightly, toasted and drank wine.
And then, finally, it was Hyun-joon’s turn.
“Then, I look forward to Director Choi Hyeon-joon’s toast next time.”
When President Hee-soo Lee said that, Hyun-joon was finally able to stand on the podium.
At this time, the eyes of internal and external directors were focused on Hyeon-jun.
After confirming that, in addition to director Jang Woo-suk, former Supreme Court Justice Kim Choong-soo and vice president Kim Jong-hwi were watching him carefully, Hyun-joon began a very pleasant toast soon after.
Although the youngest among them.
Anyway, current university professor status.
And isn’t he a dignified outside director?
So, Hyeon-jun began to toast very vigorously.
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“As Director Jang Woo-seok said earlier, I have only experienced it for a short time, but it seems to be a very enjoyable place nonetheless. In fact, I am a very young current professor, and I have a lot of work to do in the future, so I am very busy, but I will try my best to help Ilshin Group with my little skills. And please help me a lot in the future! I will do my best too! Then my toast is ‘That! they say! do!’ I’ll do this right away. ‘Yes’, I’m going to ‘do’ for ‘my’ work! That’s why it’s ‘yes’!”
Hyunjoon laughed and shouted a toast.
Everyone’s eyes were like that.
Because it makes you feel young.
The wind spread more energy in all directions.
After a while, President Lee Hee-soo grabbed the microphone again with a smile on his lips.
“Wow! thank you Two directors! The toast is also excellent. I also suddenly feel elated. you’re right! Our Ilshin Group will also unconditionally become ‘even so!’ in the future! ha ha ha! thank you Directors! So from now on, please enjoy your meal while chatting more freely. thank you.”
Then President Lee Hee-soo went down from the podium.
From then on, free chatting continued during meals.
At this time, Hyunjun talked a lot with Vice President Kim Jong-hwi of Taeyoung Ilbo.
Then, in the middle, I had a chat with Jang Woo-seok, former ambassador to the United States.
However, the problem is that it is not easy to approach former Supreme Court Justice Kim Chung-soo.
Because he was surrounded by a lot of key executives of the group, including President Hee-soo Lee.
It was the appearance of treating him very hospitably.
But even so, Hyeon-joon has no intention of giving up.
Hyun-jun immediately turned on his smartphone and searched for things about former Supreme Court Justice Kim Chung-soo, and soon his eyes twinkled.
Hyeon-jun got up from his seat and cautiously approached the table where former Supreme Court Justice Kim Chung-soo was sitting.
And right in front of him, Hyeonjun smiled and started talking.
“Lawyer. I’m really sorry, but do you have some time?”
Then, the eyes of major executives, including CEO Lee Hee-soo, were focused on Hyun-jun.
Even so, Hyeon-jun continued to open his mouth with a relaxed expression full of smiles.
“I used to have a lot of respect for the lawyer. I heard that you are very interested in the relief of refugees from the Third World and Africa, and that you have donated a lot to orphanages. In particular, I am very interested in the NGO organizations you are involved with. I have something to ask you, so…”
Then, Kim Chung-soo, former Supreme Court Justice, immediately rejoices.
“Oh yeah? So what to do… Oh! Professor Choi, do you smoke cigarettes?”
At that moment, Hyun-joon smiled and replied.
Did former Supreme Court Justice Kim Choong-soo, who was like an old model student, unexpectedly say that he was a smoker?
“yes. I smoke occasionally.”
“Oh yeah? Good for you then. I didn’t bring any cigarettes, so could I borrow one?”
“of course.
“Then let’s go over there.”
At the same time, former Supreme Court Justice Kim Chung-soo stood up right away.
Then President Lee Hee-soo tried to catch up immediately.
Soon after, I sat down on the road seat, perhaps a little embarrassed.
It’s not nice to see him chasing former Supreme Court Justice Kim Choong-su at every turn.
Afraid to burden him, President Hee-soo Lee ended up sitting on the road.
Meanwhile, Hyeon-jun walked toward the garden outside the guesthouse, hanging out with former Supreme Court Justice Kim Chung-soo.
A small garden created in the city center and on the top floor of a large building.
It was located at a very high place, so it looked quite quaint.
The view was especially good with the yellow moon rising in the distance.
The wind was blowing lightly and it was perfect weather for smoking.
“Lawyer, don’t you know if this will be okay?”
“Aren’t all cigarettes the same? I am okay.”
Hyeon-jun handed him a cigarette like that, and immediately lit it with a lighter. After that, Hyeon-jun got the understanding of former Supreme Court Justice Kim Choong-soo and turned his head to smoke. I’ve hardly smoked lately.
Well, if it was for the sake of his personal connections with former Supreme Court Justice Kim Chung-soo, who was highly likely to become a famous politician, there was no reason not to smoke now.
True, although enormous assets are also important.
Power cannot be ignored in Korean society.
Isn’t it in Korea that even the head of the No. 1 company in the business world sometimes goes to prison?
On the other hand, Hyun-joon even smoked and started a conversation with former Supreme Court Justice Kim Chung-soo.
10 minutes after that.
The atmosphere was so good that we laughed out loud and continued the conversation.
The conversation was mainly focused on issues that former Supreme Court Justice Kim Chung-soo was interested in.
Eventually, after a while, Hyun-jun even received an offer from former Supreme Court Justice Kim Chung-soo to have dinner with him next time.
“ha ha ha! Professor Choi. It’s crazy. You are young, but how do you have such excellent eyes to see the world? In particular, it is very meaningful to say that securing vaccine technology is necessary preemptively. What do you mean by that? Does that mean anything? I can’t understand it very well because I’m a total stranger to it.”
So Hyeon-joon gave a rough explanation about it.
Of course, Hyun-joon’s field of major is not vaccine, but he had a rough knowledge because he was a similar major.
So Hyeon-jun continued his explanation.
Former Supreme Court Justice Kim Chung-soo was just listening attentively.
“okay? oh wow, it’s amazing Professor Choi explained so well that it was really interesting. Come to think of it, I can understand why Professor Jaegu Cho made such an offer to someone like Professor Choi. Be sure to enter the National Advisory Committee that I mentioned earlier. If we inject youthful vitality there, it will be of great help to the nation. In fact, I think I will need a lot of talented people from various fields and think tanks in the future, so please help me in the future.”
That’s how Hyun-joon succeeded in attracting the attention of former Supreme Court Justice Kim Chung-soo.
Thirty minutes later, Hyeon-jun went back inside with former Supreme Court Justice Kim Chung-soo.
And after chatting with more diverse people at the banquet there.
Around 9:00 p.m., Hyun-joon came out of the headquarters of Ilshin Group.
After that, Hyun-jun went straight to Yeoksam-dong [C&K Investment].
