chapter 40
40 – ‘Kong’ Flour Family
‘Gap(甲)’.
This word refers to the first when ranking or ordering.
It is also a word derived from the word Gab-eul (甲乙) relationship, which refers to the person who gives money and makes the work work in the contract and the other party who receives money and does the work.
In other words, Gapjil refers to a socially strong person taking advantage of his position that is far ahead of his opponent to engage in tyranny.
Like the current situation unfolding before my eyes.
“Hey you bastard!! Get out of the way right now!!”
“aaah!! Vice President, please stop for a moment!!!”
She shed her ears as she pulled out the hair of her office manager who was blocking her, as if pulling out weeds.
Trying to tear off even the few hairs, that’s a cruel disposition.
“These days, even cell phone cameras are of great quality.”
“Isn’t it? I’m shooting in 4K with Dolby Vision right now hahahaha.”
And all those scenes were vividly filmed on our sub-editor’s mobile phone.
I focused on the screen of my phone while exchanging jokes with Yunseong Park.
“Oh, vice president! Please calm down!!”
“f*ck you, don’t go away!!!”
“Ahh!! Stop tearing your hair out!!!”
Are you really good at gags at this level?
The manager’s advice to me to work as the owner of Taewoong Group, unfortunately, didn’t work at all for her, as her rationality was eroded by her anger.
I just watched the two of them arguing on the screen of my phone, as if crossing the river.
In the meantime, absurd remarks that should not be heard penetrated my ears.
“Taewoong? You keep mentioning what the bean flour family is doing!!”
“Bu… Vice President… !!”
“Shut up! Are you saying I have to bow my head to an orphan who has no mother and father?!”
As if time had stopped for a moment, only cold silence lingered around.
Hickuk-
Only the office manager’s hiccup sound, which could be heard irregularly, proved that time was still passing.
“hahahaha… “
I just let out a grim smile.
She seemed to have finally grasped the situation.
You can see her covering her mouth with both hands.
“You are an orphan.”
“Horse… Mistake…… “
I didn’t hear any of her excuses lined up line by line.
It’s a strange thing. Why are you so angry?
I blew my brain in a low voice with a chilly cynicism as I let go of my ears.
“I’ll hear your apology later.”
“Ha…… ! What a cheeky… “
I cut off her words and stopped filming with a gesture to Yoon-sung Park to follow me.
I made my way through the crowd of Park Yun-seong and her.
Yoonseong Park looked at me with a gloomy expression and cautiously opened her mouth.
“CEO, are you okay… ?”
“Very well. Rather, it lifts my spirits.”
I am sincere.
Now I can be sure that I am calmer than anyone else.
The original plan was to stuff a rare scene of a third-generation chaebol’s abuse of power on YouTube.
“It’s because I’m not the kind of person who lives only with suffering.”
“Yes?”
On the way back to my seat, only dozens of scenarios that would destroy Jeon Hyo-min ran through my head.
An orphan from a bean flour family?
In that case, it’s enough to make it with bean flour.
A feeling of ecstasy filled my whole body at the thought of allowing me to personally experience the blood-drying feeling day by day.
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Jeon Hyo-min, the eldest daughter of Chosun Airlines Chairman Jeon Tae-oh.
She is also the granddaughter of the first president Jeon Hyun-min, who has now stepped down from the front line.
In other words, she is no different from a god in Chosun Airlines.
That’s why he must be doing a lot of evil with that invincible power on his back.
Rock-!
The plane landed with a loud noise.
When I turned my head and looked out the window, I saw a vast take-off field.
“We have finally arrived.”
Hyomin Jeon Thanks to that damn woman, the arrival time was delayed by 40 minutes.
My party and I stepped out of the plane, greeted by weary flight attendants.
Many passengers were dissatisfied with the 40-minute delay on the pretext of in-flight inspection and passed by glaring at the flight attendants.
“This is the CEO.”
My party and I leisurely strolled through Tokyo International Airport following the staff’s guidance.
Thanks to the competent staff, all immigration procedures were completed without any problems.
After finding the carrier, we went out through the exit of Terminal 3.
“By the way, how do I get to the accommodation?”
“Since I have applied for a pick-up service, you will see the car in a short while, Mr.”
They also pick you up from the hotel.
I nodded and followed the staff steadily.
Just as he said, I saw a Japanese man standing in front of a black limousine waving a piece of paper with my name written on it.
He naturally loaded his luggage into the trunk and carefully opened the car door.
When everyone in the party, including me, boarded, the car started moving along with a short Japanese voice from the man.
Through the windows, numerous buildings with sophisticated designs passed by with a sense of speed.
The comfort of the back seat of the limousine is well worth its name.
As I leaned back leisurely in the sunlight pouring through the car window, I was drowsy.
As I was dozing off, I felt someone tap my right shoulder.
“When should I upload the video I took, CEO?”
Yoonseong Park asked me with his eyes shining.
I burst out laughing.
“Now is not the time.”
“Shouldn’t it have the highest number of views if it explodes now?”
“A hawk hit at an unexpected timing with a time lag is more painful than a hawk hit knowingly.”
“Yes?”
I don’t intend to end with simply stuffing Jeon Hyo-min on YouTube.
We were the only ones who filmed the video in the first place, and since it happened in the rest area at the corner of the tail of the aircraft, most people were not aware of the situation properly.
It’s just too easy to simply stuff it on YouTube, and would a woman with a personality like her who lives with a steel plate on her face feel ashamed that her reputation was ruined?
“How much do you know about the Qianghang Group?”
“Isn’t the Jeonhang Group a corporate group to which Chosun Airlines belongs?”
“That’s right. He is a giant in the top 10 of the business world.”
Top 10 in the financial system.
No matter how much money I have, if I fight alone, I can’t win even if I fight a hundred times a thousand times.
Of course, the story would be different if the Taewoong Group came forward, but my grandfather, Chairman Kim Young-hoon, is not an emotional person enough to turn a children’s fight into a corporate fight.
In other words, even considering the number of cases, there is nothing I can do other than stuffing a video of power abuse on YouTube.
In that case, should we give up retaliation like this?
“Do you know how to win even if you lose the war?”
“Yes?”
“It is literally.”
“Is it possible to win while losing a war?”
“It is possible. You just have to start a war on the opponent’s land.”
Even if it is a losing war, starting a war in the opponent’s territory is enough to destroy the opponent’s camp.
Our land is intact, but if you induce the opponent’s land to be smashed first, it is different from a victory that leaves only scars from the opponent’s point of view.
“Of course, this also has the premise that it will eventually lose. Then, what is the way to go further and win without fighting?”
“Um…… “
Park Yun-seong rolled her head with a pained sound.
In fact, the method itself is simple. But originally, the bottom of the lamp is dark, and the obvious truth doesn’t come to mind when you think about it.
I grinned and parted my lips.
“Have you heard of Eijei?”
“Ah…… !”
LeeJay.
An ancient idiom meaning to subdue barbarians with barbarians.
How to start a war on an opponent’s land.
How to win without fighting.
It sounds impossible at first glance, but I know how to satisfy both.
“Currently, the Jeonhang Group is experiencing bloody winds.”
“Blood wind?”
“Yes, going to a conglomerate isn’t as romantic as people think.”
Currently, Jeonhang Group is in the midst of a management dispute.
The majority of chaebol groups in Korea today are made up of a holding company system.
In the past, chaebols disregarded the risks of cross-shareholding and were concerned about cross-shareholding just because it was good.
The strength of the holding company system is the pyramidal corporate governance structure.
Under the holding company system, it becomes possible for the top-level holding company to control all subsidiaries, sub-subsidiaries, and great-grandson companies under it.
And this holding company is the core of the chaebol management dispute.
“The current situation of the Jeonhang Group is no different from thin ice.”
The holding company of Jeonhang Group is Jeonhang Products.
In other words, only those who hold Jeonhang Products can wear the crown of Jeonhang Group.
Jeonhang Group’s eldest son, Jeon Tae-hyeon, eldest daughter, Jeon Hyo-min, and second daughter, Jeon Yeon-soo.
Here, Jeon Tae-hyun and Jeon Yeon-soo are allies, so Jeon Hyo-min is in fact an outcast of the Jeon Hang Group.
However, thanks to the existence of a 3-way shareholder coalition formed around Jeon Hyo-min, the Jeonhang Group is still raging with blood.
“What will happen if I give power to Jeon Tae-hyun’s side here?”
“… Is that possible?”
“Well, it’s not easy.”
It is possible, but not easy.
But I know the cheat key to this management dispute.
“You can use Korea Development Bank.”
“…… ?”
Park Yoon-seong tilts his head as if he doesn’t understand at all.
Okay or not, I went on with my words.
“In the past, Korea Development Bank (Korea Development Bank) invested 900 billion won in Jeonhang Mulsan.”
“900 Billion won…… “
“I heard that 500 billion won was invested in a paid-in capital increase by a third party, and 400 billion won was invested in the acquisition of exchangeable bonds (EB).”
“Um…… “
To put it simply, the KDB acquired a large number of shares in Jeonhang Mulsan, the core of the Jeonhang Group, through investment, and the whereabouts of the KDB determines the whereabouts of the crown.
In other words, Saneun is the true kingmaker.
Is it possible for Korea Development Bank to be included in the fight for management control and to spread into a mud fight?
Surprisingly, Korea is able to do that.
“I will join Jeon Tae-hyun’s side. And the video will be used to destroy Jeon Hyo-min’s reputation according to the timing.”
“Did you conceive all of this in that short amount of time… ?”
Fishik-
I just smiled.
What did that crazy woman say to me?
Soybean flour family? An orphan?
My heart was pounding at the thought of showing what a real bean flour family was.
If Jeon Hyo-min is expelled from the family register, wouldn’t she become an orphan just like me?
I just laughed out loud, imagining something silly.