＜ Catch Hyunjun Choi 06 ＞
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And time passed…
Sunday morning, May 12, 2019.
As soon as Hyun-joon woke up in the morning, he started sorting out the numerous KakaoTalks he had received from here and there over the past ten days, one by one.
Seniors and juniors belonging to the laboratory of Korea University of Science and Technology who went through the master’s and doctoral course in the past.
lots of college friends.
Besides that, my friends from middle school and high school.
Also, friends from nursery school.
KakaoTalk messages flew in like crazy from all sides, and the messages piled up countless times.
After checking KakaoTalk messages and replying to them one by one, Hyunjun became busy without realizing the passage of time.
Among them, there were some that stood out in particular.
Professor Park Yoo-jin sent a KakaoTalk message in amazement.
And Dr. Jang Han-joon, a senior in the laboratory of Korea University of Science and Technology and the director of Hansung Pharmaceutical Research Institute.
In addition, the youngest daughter of Hong Jin-soo, president of Rubin Pharmaceuticals, and Hong Soo-ah, a college classmate, had not been contacted at all since we met at the funeral hall last time. Suddenly, I don’t know what it is, but I’m in a state where I’ve sent close to 50 KakaoTalk messages to myself.
But that’s not all.
Professor Jenny Park of the Department of Media also left dozens of KakaoTalk messages.
Just like that, when he tried to check all of those KakaoTalk messages, Hyeonjun felt like he was losing his energy.
But I can’t just leave it like this.
Hyeonjun had no choice but to keep organizing KakaoTalk messages.
Previously, the total number of unconfirmed KakaoTalk messages exceeded 90,000, but fortunately, the number of unconfirmed messages was rapidly decreasing.
However, there are still 60,000 KakaoTalk messages left.
Among them, there was a KakaoTalk message sent by friends from a long time ago whose faces I don’t remember.
There were quite a few strangers who sent KakaoTalk unconditionally, even if they didn’t know how they got their phone number.
And it’s almost 10 o’clock in the morning.
and! I’m really going crazy.
there’s still a lot left
Hyeon-joon freaked out and lay down on the bed, and continued to check while lying down. Of course, there are some KakaoTalks that you can simply check and skip right away, but it is true that there are other KakaoTalks mixed here and there.
So I had no choice but to reply to any KakaoTalk messages that were even slightly important.
But the problem is that it doesn’t end there.
When you do a chat, the other person suddenly sends another message, and then the conversation inevitably continues, and time also flows indefinitely.
under! driving me crazy.
Hyeon-jun closed his eyes for a moment and then opened them again, but in the meantime, new text messages continued to fly in.
As it was pouring in from all directions, it seemed that even my head went blank for a moment.
oh, i don’t know
First of all, let’s start with the first answer and then look at the next one.
After making that decision, Hyun-joon continued to look at the messages.
At this time, Hyun-jun first realized that he had a lot of phone numbers.
When the hell did he have so many phone numbers stored? I was astonished even myself.
Of course, most of them are in contact with each other once or twice every few years. But now, regardless of that, the other party is scrambling to send Kakao messages, so it was just a situation where Kakao messages piled up inexhaustibly.
then after a while
Hyeonjun’s expression suddenly changed and his eyes widened.
Is this a nun?
A message from Sister Veronica that was buried among countless chats.
Sister Veronica of Angel Orphanage also sent her a KakaoTalk message.
uh! God, when is this?
When I immediately checked when the KakaoTalk message was sent, it was exactly a week ago.
And at that moment, Hyeon-jun immediately frowned, and at the same time, the feeling of apology rose rapidly.
The only person in the world who is like a mother is Sister Veronica.
Come to think of it, since he was absorbed in urgent matters, he could not pay attention to the person most important to him and neglected for a while.
In fact, after the article broke last week, Hyun-joon set KakaoTalk notifications to not pop up from then on.
So, even if someone sent KakaoTalk, Hyunjun didn’t know right away.
Also, since the number of calls was so high, Hyeon-jun instinctively stopped checking it.
I also got a phone call from there.
In addition to reporters on the media side, civic groups wanting various donations, and strange callers who can’t be identified. It was also true that I felt like I was getting neurosis from the calls and KakaoTalk itself because I received calls from them non-stop.
However, as I found out later, the netizen investigation team posted their phone number information on the blog once and then deleted it right away, but the information quietly spread all over the place.
As a result, unfamiliar people joined the KakaoTalk procession.
So it was a situation where it was very difficult for Hyun-joon to pick out such talk. In other words, it was because he had to check more carefully to see if he was a friend from a long time ago or an acquaintance he did not immediately remember.
Still, in the meantime, Hyun-joon kept at least Kakao Talk with jogging mate Kim Chae-won.
He was unable to keep a separate KakaoTalk message from Sister Veronica, who was most important to him.
really! It’s not the time for me to be like this.
I’ll have to give you a quick call.
But think about that for a while.
Hyunjoon immediately shook his head.
no
I’m not going to do it this way.
Today, I have a bit of free time.
So I thought it would be okay to visit the orphanage and meet the nuns. It would have been better if we met and talked about the situation in person.
So Hyun-joon set up an afternoon schedule like that.
From then on, I continued organizing KakaoTalk more quickly.
In the meantime, Hyeon-Jun had a short KakaoTalk conversation with Professor Park Yoo-Jin of Sunghan University in the middle.
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[Hey, I’m sorry. I’m sorry. Wasn’t the answer too late? sorry, sorry, sorry
Then, the answer came flying right away.
[Hey Hyunjun Choi!!! Are you really that true???]
Professor Park Yoo-jin, who kept asking such questions in the previous message. She was asking that question again.
[Uh… that’s true…]
Then, a flood of questions poured in…
He even pointed out why he didn’t say anything like that normally.
I was curious as to when the heck did that kind of investment start?
I also asked one after another whether the property was really in the trillions.
I also asked questions full of worries, such as what the university headquarters doesn’t say.
As such, in the ensuing numerous questions, emotions such as worry, curiosity, and envy about Hyeon-jun were jumbled together.
Meanwhile, Hyeon-joon sent a quick reply message saying he was sorry at this time.
At this time, Hyun-joon heard that Professor Park Yoo-jin was attending the New York Society held in late June.
[Wow! Well done! For more details, let’s meet at our New York conference! Are you fine?]
[Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! You’ll be crazy, so I’ll understand]
Then, after finishing KakaoTalk with her, Hyeonjun immediately sent a reply to the KakaoTalk message sent by Yoo Jung-wook, CEO of [JU Investment].
[CEO! Sorry for the late confirmation of KakaoTalk! I’ve been busy with so many things right now. As soon as things are sorted out, I will contact you right away. As always, thank you for your interest!]
After that, Hyunjun moved on to the next KakaoTalk message.
This time, it’s a KakaoTalk sent by Vice President Choi Jin-wook of [CG Asset Investment]. It was written like this.
[Professor Choi, please contact me when you feel comfortable. Our president said he has something to tell you]
So, Hyun-Jun immediately made a reply, and after a while, he had a phone call with Choi Jin-wook, vice president, and Choi Gil-ja, chairman of [CG Asset Investment].
However, since there was nothing special to talk about at this time, Chairman Gil-Ja Choi mainly congratulated Hyeon-Jun and said that he wanted to help with this and that.
On the other hand, I also briefly talked about a dinner with Scott McCarthy, the largest shareholder of Insight Bracket Investment Bank (IB), scheduled for late June.
After completing the call, Hyun-joon immediately meets Dong-wook Choi, a fund manager at [Richard Global Asset Management], Bae Sang-yoon of [Thomson & Son Asset Investment & Securities], Graham Park, a Korean-American investor, and [Ocean Food], whom he met at the high-end wine bar [Rose]. I also responded to CEO Park Chang-hoon of [Bio], Nam Ji-hye, CEO of [S One Food], Su-chan Seo, CEO of [Protein Peptose], and Jeong Min-sang, CEO of [Genomedic System].
He also had a long phone call with Kang Min-soo, managing director of [Hanshin Investment & Securities], a golf member, and listened to advice on various investments.
Also, I sent a KakaoTalk message to my close college friends, Jeong Sang-hun of [SP Finetech], Jung-hoon Kim of [Changshin Securities], and Yoo-chang Lim of medical school, and made a sudden appointment to have dinner and drinks around 7 p.m. .
After tidying up like that, it was almost 2:00 PM. Hyeon-jun quickly boiled and ate a bowl of ramen, then hurriedly changed his clothes and came out.
At this time, Hyun-joon told team leader Kim Pyeong-san, who was waiting, about his destination, and immediately headed to the department store in Gangnam.
Because, rather than going bare-handed, Hyun-joon is thinking of buying a bunch of presents and going to the orphanage. At the same time, I was thinking of buying things that I needed for myself.
And for the ease of transporting things, Hyeon-jun asked team manager Kim Pyeong-san to borrow two StarCraft vans from a nearby rental car company.
and after a while
From time to time, Hyunjun called the nursery school office and asked about the clothes of the children and teachers at the nursery school.
Then, Hyeon-jun, who quickly finished shopping at the department store, paid about 500 million won at this time, and immediately headed to the Angels Orphanage where Sister Veronica was.
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But, on the other hand, that time!
Even though it was Sunday, Vice President Kim Hye-gyeong of Shinyoung Department Store was working overtime at the department store.
She raised her head, puzzled by the sudden knock.
After a while, when Executive Director Shim Sang-ho entered his office, he looked at me with a slight frown.
“Vice President, I’m sorry. But I thought it would be better to know right away, so I ran right away.”
“What?”
At this time, Vice Chairman Kim Hye-kyung asked the reason in a slightly stiff voice.
So Sang-ho Shim, executive director, decided to talk about the situation before it was too late.
“Vice President, have you heard of Professor Choi Hyun-joon?”
“Professor Hyunjun Choi?”
However, she is just tilting her head.
It was the first time he had heard the name.
“ah! Vice-president, the incredibly rich young professor who has been getting stories about it since the last time.”
“A young professor?”
“Oh yeah! A few days ago, I overheard something by chance while talking on the phone with Managing Director Jang Tae-joon about venture investment, and I heard that Professor Choi Hyun-joon is Managing Director Tae-Jun Jang’s college classmate.”
“Taejun is doing it?”
At that moment, Vice Chairman Kim Hye-kyung showed curiosity.
He thought about something for a moment, then suddenly let out a faint exclamation.
“ah! that person?”
However, even for a while, Vice Chairman Kim Hye-kyung is changing to a sullen expression.
“By the way, why is that professor?”
“It’s nothing else, Professor Choi Hyeon-joon went to our department store with a lot of sales a while ago. So, I thought it would be good for the vice president to know about it, so I hurriedly came.”
“So he came to our department store and bought something, did you mean?”
“yes!”
But at that moment, Vice Chairman Kim Hye-kyung was silent for a while.
On the other hand, Executive Director Sim Sang-ho was immediately giving additional explanations.
“This is the interesting part, but it was confirmed a little while ago that Professor Choi Hyun-joon is our VIP member. Since he is a very controversial person…”
At the same time, Executive Director Shim Sang-ho explained further. Talking about the fact that the Ilshin Group has recently become the 30th largest in the business world by market cap, it was such a story that such a famous person happened to be a VIP customer of a department store, so why not make an acquaintance with such a person in advance.
However, Vice Chairman Kim Hye-kyung, who had listened to it until then. But soon, her expression suddenly changed.
And after a while, a very cold voice came out of her mouth.
“Executive Director Shim!”
“yes?”
“By the way, what are you doing these days?”
“yes? What are you talking about?”
“The last store restructuring couldn’t even be handled smoothly. Do you think I’m in a position where I can meet dogs and cows now?”
“yes?”
“If you can make money from investing, what is so great about it?”
“Vice President. I don’t mean that, Ilshin Pharmaceutical’s stock price skyrocketed…”
“The stock price went up a bit!! Yeah? what else does that make a difference? It seems that the Ilshin Group was in a frenzy because they only made it to the top 30. We will soon rise to the top 10 of the business world rankings. If only Shinyoung Pharmaceutical is sold well, Executive Director Shim knows how big [Shinyoung Asset Management] will grow in the future. But is there any reason for us to be interested in that individual investor?”
“…Ah, sorry.”
“There is no reason to bring in useless people and ruin your image. The newspaper I read said that he was a con artist.”
Likewise, Vice Chairman Kim Hye-kyung, a member of the royal family of the business world, seems to completely ignore Professor Choi Hyun-joon.
On the other hand, at that time, Cha Kyung-moon, chairman of Ilshin Group, hurriedly made a dinner appointment with Professor Choi Hyeon-joon through managing director Cha Eun-ho.
A message confirming the appointment sent by Professor Hyun-Jun Choi, saying he is on the move somewhere. Through that, eventually, a dinner appointment was set for the following Friday evening.
