– Are you worried about me or what?
– Still, she is my younger sister.
– under. It’s not that you’re worried, it’s just a trick to tell you to do something wrong!
– I should be grateful that you are reminding me to take good care of my husband. Anyway, you have no character. Personality.
That evening, Blue House.
While recalling the phone call she received in the morning, Choi Hye-na lost her temper again and kicked the awkward sofa in the office.
“what the! Personality is something to take care of. “Oh, it hurts!”
Is it true that a person who has never contacted me in his entire life should suddenly call me? Kim Cheol-soo is having an affair?
But I couldn’t help but feel worried.
‘Otherwise, there may be smoke in the chimney…’
This is because it touched the detonator of worry that she had hidden until now.
Such a handsome man.
He was a person who had all the women’s eyes following him wherever he went.
In the past, I would have drank alcohol, but now I couldn’t.
“what are you doing?”
Choi Hye-na, who had been lost in thought without even noticing Kim Cheol-soo coming in, turned her head with a downcast expression.
“huh? I’m here?”
“··· Is something bad happening?”
“huh.”
Kim Cheol-soo looks at himself with a worried face.
Suddenly tears came to my eyes.
Choi Hye-na was not the type of person to talk in circles.
“Are you really making that face right now?”
“··· What happen?”
At the thought that something was wrong, Kim Cheol-soo withdrew his faint smile.
“I heard you’re cheating on me at work?”
“···.”
Kim Cheol-soo shook his head with a serious expression.
“No, right?”
“sure. “No.”
“Really?”
“You don’t trust me?”
“I want to believe it, but I can’t help but be worried….”
Instead of answering, Kim Cheol-soo hugged Hye-na for a long time.
It was heartbreaking to see her cry.
“Do you really love me?”
“sure.”
“Even though my stomach looks like this?”
“Even if more comes out, that won’t change.”
Now that I think about it, I remembered something that happened when I was dating.
I secretly watched Kim Cheol-soo at the airport every time I went to pick him up when he returned from a business trip.
Like a tree standing on the side of the road, he never gave women a second glance.
‘okay. This person can’t do that.’
Choi Hye-na raised her hand and wiped her eyes.
“Hehe, how was it? “Was my acting okay?”
Kim Cheol-soo sighed and shook his head as if it was unfair.
“If you act like that one more time… I’ll die.”
“lol. Sorry sorry!”
Hye-na immediately burst into laughter cheerfully, and Kim Cheol-soo also smiled slightly when he saw her.
But my heart wasn’t like that.
This is because his confidence that he would not suffer any damage was cracked.
Although he was confident that he would not be harmed, the people around him were not.
“··· But where did you hear that?”
“Third brother. You never contacted me before, and then suddenly you contacted me and said that Cheolsu was cheating on me, right? “Is that person who you think is Song Jin-young really a member of Cheolsu’s team?”
‘Choi Oh-jun.’
Kim Cheol-soo thought to himself once.
She had never shed a tear since the wedding.
He had promised himself to do so.
He made her shed tears, so he deserved to shed tears of blood later on.
“I am a member of the team that was recently selected. “It seems like there are already rumors like that in the company.”
Hye-na, who was laughing, hardened her expression.
“He dropped out of high school, so I guess he thinks I gave him preferential treatment. “I think that may have led to rumors that he was having an affair.”
“··· Why did you hire someone like that in the first place?”
“He is a person who rose through the competition of 13:1.”
Hye-na tried to say more, but closed her mouth.
When I thought about it, Kim Cheol-soo was also a graduate of a local university that I had never heard of before in my life.
Refuting him based on his academic background was no different from insulting him.
“I see. “Everyone is so mean!”
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“Are you studying French these days too?”
Choi Hye-na said while looking at Kim Cheol-soo driving.
“sure. “I’m pretty good at it now.”
“Did you see that musical I told you about?”
“of course! “Someone recommended it.”
Choi Hye-na burst into laughter at those words.
The musical Notre-dame de Paris performed in France in 1998.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Hye-na’s favorite singer at the time participated in the performance.
“Did I tell you? “Why did you hire Cheolsu at the cafe?”
“Didn’t they hire you because you were good at singing?”
“Oh, you don’t know!”
Kim Cheol-soo, who stopped at a red light, tilted his head while looking at the henna.
“Was there any other reason?”
In response to Kim Cheol-soo’s question, Hye-na said with a flushed face.
“huh. “Cheolsu’s voice is very similar to that person’s voice.”
“··· Who are you? “I suddenly feel jealous?”
Hye-na giggled and opened her mouth.
“Bruno Peltier.”
He appears as a bard in the play.
The dark and contradictory scenes of Paris, which are different on the outside and the inside, and the pure love between a hunchback and a gypsy.
Bruno interpreted this as a wonderful song that stimulates the heart.
“Oh, the guy who played Pierre Gringoire?”
“that’s right. “You really saw it!”
“sure. But is my voice similar to his?”
“huh! It’s very attractive. “I want to hear Cheolsu sing a song after a long time.”
“What song?”
“Notre Dame de Paris Lune! “Bruno Peltier’s version!”
Kim Cheol-soo grinned and shook his head.
“Why! no?”
Hye-na pouted her lips, but Kim Cheol-soo shook his head again.
“I was wondering what would happen if I ruined Hye-na’s good memories.”
“I think it will be a better memory.”
“Is that so?”
Hye-na gently held Cheol-su’s hand.
“Are you going to do it?”
“··· huh.”
“good night.”
**
“How dare you scam me?”
When Song Jin-young stuck out his mouth with an aggrieved look on his face, Park Moo-young, who was furious, pointed a finger at him with a grim expression on his face.
“I made sure to bring you the finished copy!”
“Where is this lie again?”
“It’s true!”
Park Moo-young is still angry about what he heard from Choi Oh-jun.
“I’m an idiot for trusting a 3-month-old like you.”
Song Jinyoung shrugged his shoulders discreetly.
‘Try it for 100 days. ‘I’m definitely going to become a full-time employee.’
“··· f*ck. Let’s put this aside, what do you plan to do next?”
“How does a three-month-old know that? “I can only do errands.”
“··· what?”
I was still distraught because of the story I heard from Park Dong-gyu.
If such a rumor were to spread around the company, Kim Cheol-soo would suffer much more damage than himself, who had nothing to lose.
He was the only person who treated me humanely since I was born.
Park Moo-young burst out laughing as if he was dumbfounded, then lowered his voice and spoke.
“Then you can seduce your team leader?”
“··· yes?”
“You and Team Leader Kim Cheol-soo are in a similar relationship?”
“not···.”
“If it’s not real, there’s really no reason for me to give you money.”
“···.”
It was true that the money Park Moo-young gave me allowed me to breathe for a few days.
‘Even if the affair isn’t true, you can make it that way. Moreover, that bitch is in desperate need of money.’
“after!”
Song Jinyoung sighed heavily.
“At least kiss in public.”
“I think that went too far.”
“Do you need money?”
“···.”
“Do whatever it takes to bring reasonable evidence as to why Team Manager Kim wanted to take over Freechal. Otherwise, we will immediately open a company ethics committee. “Team leader Kim is the chairman’s son-in-law, so it won’t be a huge blow, but a contract worker like you will be fired immediately.”
‘Freechal…?’
Park Moo-young waved his hand as if he was no longer bothered to deal with him, so he did not see the question on Song Jin-young’s face.
Song Jin-young, who came out as if he was being kicked out, sighed loudly on purpose so that Park Moo-young in the office could hear.
But her eyes weren’t like that.
Song Jinyoung checked the cell phone he had in his pocket.
‘Dad said that. They say disaster starts in the mouth. Always watch your mouth.’
They were gradually accumulating evidence to destroy Park Moo-young.
‘It seems that the reason Solbon changed its mind was related to Park Moo-young, but can a single HR manager have that much influence on another company? or not···.’
She muttered to herself as she walked down the deserted hallway.
‘There’s something big behind it. clearly.’
**
Jaehwan Jeong did not refuse Robert’s request.
Jaehwan Jeong’s dream was to found a world-class software company.
He wanted to build a strong community as the first step, and that was Freechal.
I dreamed of a model where software would be distributed through the community and anyone around the world could access it using their own language through this platform.
As the manager of a software company, I thought it was natural to provide a valuable service while charging a minimum usage fee.
That’s how Freechal became paid.
but.
It was difficult to overcome the perception at the time that the Internet was free.
In the end, the entire community left and the number of members plummeted, leading to management difficulties.
He was in a situation where he needed to receive investment, and he had three options.
SKY, KT, and Solbon.
SKY and KT were connected by Robert, and he had a personal relationship with Solbon’s president.
Jeong Jae-hwan believed in Hong Eui-chan’s promise and sold his shares.
And what came back to him was an investigation by the prosecution, a prison sentence, personal bankruptcy, and a failed investment.
The reason it was sold at a low price was because of the company’s promise to make a huge investment, so Freechal collapsed.
As I witnessed with my own eyes my lifelong dream being destroyed, I attempted suicide several times.
It was not long ago that I found out that Hanyoung Group is behind all of this.
That made it all the more absurd that the Hanyoung Group contacted him again asking to meet him.
I wanted to meet you in person and ask.
Jeong Jae-hwan, who showed up at the appointed place about 30 minutes early, opened the door, thinking that he should think about his questions in advance.
Then, I was momentarily taken aback when I saw a young man already sitting down.
It seemed like he had probably come out much earlier.
It was a quiet and private space, so when he opened the door, the young man turned around.
As soon as the young man made eye contact with him, he stood up and spoke.
“hello. “This is Kim Cheol-soo, Deputy Manager of the Corporate Operations Team at Hanyoung Corporation.”
There is enough time
It was something I had never experienced many times in my life, when the person I was introduced to showed hostile feelings from the first moment I met him.
He is in his early 30s and is bald without a single strand of hair.
However, there was no way Kim Cheol-soo could have missed the wide eyes and the burning pupils inside them.
Jung Jae-hwan only accepts the handshake half-heartedly and just stares at him in silence for a while.
No matter how much I thought about it, Kim Cheol-soo had never had a hostile relationship with the person in front of him.
“Did anything bad happen today?”
“You could say that.”
“I heard that you like herbal tea, so I specifically made an appointment here. “I think you’ll like it.”
“Well, you really f*cked me up, so I guess you know all about that. What is happening to me in Hanyong Street?”
Jeong Jae-hwan gave a sharp answer and drank half of the hot herbal tea without even blinking.
Kim Cheol-soo tilted his head at his barbed words.
‘Go to Hanyeong?’
“well. “I found out about you two days ago, but I’m not sure how I embarrassed you during that time.”
“If it weren’t for you, why would I go to jail?”
The year Jeong Jae-hwan went to prison was 2002.
Han Young-ga and Jeong Jae-hwan.
“Isn’t it all in one bucket? “In one bucket!”
It was Jeong Jae-hwan who shouted firmly.
Well, when the general public saw the conglomerates, they were all there.
There may be a tendency to see them as one lump.
The reality is very different.
They hit and fight with each other to a disgusting degree, but you just don’t know because it’s not revealed to the public.
It wasn’t for nothing that a brave reporter went around spreading the story of a chaebol family, then found himself dead on the beach, or was kicked out of the media.
But Kim Cheol-soo didn’t bother to excuse it.
Even if you make excuses, nothing will change and it will only make the other person angry.
Instead, Kim Cheol-soo raised his body and bent his waist to 90 degrees.
“sorry. “I sincerely apologize.”
It was just one word, but it was an action that made you feel the weight that those words carried.
Jeong Jae-hwan’s eyebrows twitched slightly.
I knew very well that I couldn’t win in a fight with a conglomerate.
Because it has a close relationship with judicial power.
So, the new business was starting in the United States.
I had no intention of doing business in Korea again.
“sorry.”
The words flow again from Kim Cheol-soo’s mouth as he bows his head.
I was wrong, I’m sorry, I’m sorry…
This was what he really wanted to hear.
Actually, he knew it too.
The person in front of you is Kim Cheol-soo.
So, the person who became involved with Han Yeong-ga after he was released from prison as a model inmate.
As soon as I saw the news about the wedding of the century, I got excited and changed the channel, but I already knew that in fact, he had nothing to do with going to prison.
Jeong Jae-hwan suddenly felt something pounding in his chest and gritted his teeth.
Kim Cheol-soo is still motionless with his back bent at 90 degrees.
“Whoa…”
Jeong Jae-hwan sighed heavily.
“It’s done. That is enough.”
Kim Cheol-su, who pinched his waist, slightly lowered his head, and Jeong Jae-hwan sighed again.
“Please stop this. “I think I’ll feel even more sorry.”
Only then did Kim Cheol-soo take out a business card and hand it to him, and Jung Jae-hwan also hesitated and handed over his own business card.
“Why did you ask to see me?”
Kim Cheol-soo quietly looked at Jeong Jae-hwan.
At the time, Freechal had 11 million members, 200,000 concurrent users, and 5 million daily users.
One of the top three portal sites.
Although it is said to have stumbled due to the fee-for-service system, the acquisition price of 15 billion won was too cheap.
I requested a meeting because I was curious about what happened during the acquisition process, and through the situation just now, I learned that it was related to Hanyoung Group.
“We are looking to acquire Freechal. “I requested a meeting to see if there was anything that could be of help.”
“What does that mean when you take away all of Freechal’s core development personnel?”
“··· You mean Korean-English IT?”
“You know exactly.”
Jaehwan Jeong’s face automatically turned red again when the words Korean-English IT were mentioned.
At the time, Freechal’s estimated acquisition price was approximately 500 billion won.
However, due to the failure of paid services, KT and SKY asked for an acquisition price of around 300 billion won.
But Solbon was different.
Instead of acquiring it for 15 billion won due to tax issues, it promised an additional development investment of 500 billion won.
He was an acquaintance I had known for a long time, and in the IT field, it was a company invested by Hanyoung IT, a large conglomerate.
Therefore, it was thought that funding was sufficient, and a contract with Solbon was pursued.
But the day of final signing.
Suddenly, the prosecution came and searched and seized, and Jung Jae-hwan, who was detained and held in a detention cell, instructed his trusted vice president to sign the final contract.
“But, I didn’t know that the vice president had joined hands with Solbon. He was a founding member and a junior in college…”
Content related to development investment amounting to 500 billion won was omitted from the contract.
When I heard this story through a lawyer, I was so shocked that I couldn’t sleep for several days.
The only information the prosecution found after robbing the company was that the company vehicle had been used personally a few times.
On the day my wife gave birth, I used the company car instead of working early in the morning.
On the day my father-in-law collapsed, I went to work at midnight and drove my company car to the hospital.
Using that as an excuse, the court sentenced him to prison for embezzlement, and he was released after spending two years in prison.
Since there was clear evidence that the company vehicle was used for personal purposes, he had no choice but to give up on appealing on the advice of his lawyer that it would be difficult to overturn the ruling.
In the meantime, Freechal filed a lawsuit, and because they were unable to properly respond in prison, they went bankrupt at some point.
Kim Cheol-soo memorized every word Jeong Jae-hwan said one by one.
“···.”
Jeong Jae-hwan took a gulp of herbal tea.
When I think about the situation at the time, I was so angry and shaken that I felt like I was going crazy.
“It appears that Hanyoung IT stole key development personnel, and Solbon did it to acquire the company cheaply and sell it at a high price.”
“I bought something that would have cost at least 300 billion won in the market for 15 billion won, so no matter how much I sold it for, I would have made a huge profit.”
“But why did you keep it until now?”
“It’s because I filed a lawsuit. I wouldn’t have been able to sell it until the lawsuit was over. “I stopped them from profiting, but thanks to them, I went bankrupt.”
Jeong Jae-hwan sighed with a dark face and shook his head.
“I and all the core development staff left, so we ended up like this. Because I destroyed my dream… By the way, why would you want to take over something that has no chance?”
On the day of the final contract, the prosecution raided and detained him.
The betrayal of a trusted vice president.
Departure of key personnel.
If it were not for various forces coming together and moving in an organized manner, it would have been an absurd situation.
“I believe that many of the service elements implemented in Freechal will still be effective.”
“Then why did you come to me to visit Hanyoung IT?”
Currently, Hanyoung IT was one of the main affiliates of Hanyoung Group.
It is a company that creates corporate solutions, and at the time, awareness of it was so low that people did not even know that there was a company called Hanyoung IT.
And it was clearly growing rapidly around 2002, when Freechal was acquired.
It was also from that time that President Choi Oh-jun’s position began to rise significantly.
“··· Hanyoung Group is also in a quite complicated situation.”
“They seem to be doing well these days, so what’s so complicated about it?”
Kim Cheol-soo calmly opened his mouth.
“Don’t you want revenge?”
“yes?”
“Personally, I don’t really like Korean-English IT.”
“··· From your perspective, aren’t you family? “We’re usually busy protecting each other.”
“It may be like that in normal times, but there are times when we fight fiercely. “Like now.”
“···.”
“At the center of the current Korean-English IT growth are key development personnel who left Freechal. “If all those people leave…”
Jeong Jae-hwan swallowed his saliva without realizing it as he looked at Kim Cheol-soo’s sharp eyes.
“…Are you telling me to take them out now?”
When Kim Cheol-soo nodded, Jeong Jae-hwan burst out laughing as if it was absurd.
“What would you expect from a failed business owner who went bankrupt and has nothing?”
“A businessman who doesn’t give up is bound to succeed one day.”
“···.”
Jaehwan Jeong raised his head.
“Even more so if you are a businessman who failed due to external pressure rather than lack of ability.”
“What is that…”
Kim Cheol-soo looked at the man in front of him with his fingers crossed.
There are plans to create an IT company that can attract investment from Google, but it has not yet been decided who will lead this company.
I heard that Jeong Jae-hwan was sentenced to prison for embezzlement, so I met him to find out the circumstances.
It is a case in which the judge can acquit him as much as he wants at his discretion, but the fact that he was sentenced to prison means that even the judge was caught in the trap of being bribed.
When we met and talked, he was quick to understand the situation, and most importantly, he seemed to have sufficient skills as a manager, as he filed a lawsuit to prevent Freechal from being acquired by another company.
Developer and manager.
It was a type that was difficult to find in Korea.
“What are you doing now?”
“··· I have a dream. “I lost everything, but I didn’t lose my life, so I have no choice but to run toward my dream again.”
I was planning a video service business and looking for investors in the United States.
But the label of having served a prison sentence always became an obstacle.
“If resources are given, is it possible to bring back the Freechal development staff that was absorbed into Korean-English IT?”
Jeong Jae-hwan swallowed his saliva as he looked at Kim Cheol-soo speaking with a very serious expression.
No matter how you look at him, he is in his mid to late 20s, and is the son-in-law of the chairman of Hanyoung Group.
When I saw it on the news, I thought I was lucky enough to meet a good woman and turn my life around…
That wasn’t it.
The aura he gave off was the charisma of a man in his 40s who had endured the years and succeeded.
Or, to exaggerate further, the atmosphere was similar to that of the CEOs of prominent companies I met the other day.
“··· If you present sufficient vision and salary, you can give it a try. “For developers, that’s everything.”
“okay.”
Kim Cheol-soo smiled faintly and looked at his watch.
If you can’t acquire Freechal, all you have to do is bring in all the developers who created Freechal.
“I think this is going to be a long story. Do you have time?”
Even though it wasn’t his fault, he sincerely apologized.
And, the way he focused on his own story, which must have been difficult to hear, without even throwing up.
A subtle charisma.
his background.
He was a man who was hard to refuse.
“··· There is plenty of time.”
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