Chapter 110

Chapter 110

The Dream of Early Education (3)

The management subject class that President Shim decided to take charge started one week later.

Because after the Taeseong Group executive meeting, as the U-gwang Chemicals reacquisition became visible, the matters President Shim had to process lately increased.

“Young Master Jeong-hyeok, for this time today, not as ‘JH Investment Company nominal president’ but as ‘tutor teacher’, please take care well.”

Look at this?

JH Investment Company was an investment company made taking the initials of my name.

‘Trying to remind that now not the relationship between employer and employee but between tutor teacher and student?’

The intention was obvious.

‘The meaning of not wanting to give the initiative and authority.’

Even knowing that inside clearly, I politely put both hands together and did a navel bow.

“Please take care well from now on, Teacher Shim.”

Seemed very satisfied hearing the ‘teacher’ sound instead of the title ‘President Shim’ as wanted.

“Then sit in the seat, Student Jeong-hyeok.”

“Yes.”

“From now on will be quite difficult and hard classes, but don’t give up and follow to the end with heat and sincerity.”

It was a bluff and a declaration of war.

So I also prepared!

“Anyway grandfather sent an official document like this.”

“Yes, a proposal that the chairman brought out first. Requested me the Young Master’s management education.”

President Shim smiled gently.

“I was originally scheduled to help Young Master Seong-jun’s management class. Accepted as a proposal of how about helping Student Jeong-hyeok who is that son instead of Young Master Seong-jun.”

“The fact that the teacher accepted grandfather’s proposal means at least until I step forward to the management front line, will take responsibility and guide?”

“Of course. If wanting, thinking of helping until settling as an executive.”

“Executive. Good. Then sign and seal.”

I pushed the contract prepared in advance with a whoosh.

“What is this? Seems sufficient with only the promise with the chairman.”

“President Shim resigned from Taeseong Group now?”

So sitting as the nominal president of my investment company.

“The proposal I conveyed with a note, did you think?”

“If speaking of the matter of asking whether decided one among Taeseong Chemicals, investment company, oil refining company with a note······.”

On the first day of the new year, I recruited President Shim and promised.

If bringing back Taeseong Chemicals, will respect President Shim’s choice.

“Have to say the words that depends on Young Master Jeong-hyeok. Hope engraved my meaning of putting full effort into the management class that much.”

“So have no choice but to prepare the contract.”

“······Yes?”

“Since not even tied with an employment contract at the company, the promise with grandfather ends as just a verbal promise. I want to learn very properly, for a long time, certainly, well from Teacher Shim.”

I smiled brightly.

“A matter where money and time of course even effort and hard work hang, have to point certainly and go over. As you know, I’m a person who believes documents more than words.”

“Then the tutoring contract with father Young Master Seong-jun······.”

“See this official document? Received full authority regarding tutoring from grandfather. Also the person receiving tutoring is me. The party.”

With a slightly surprised expression, President Shim pondered looking at the contract and me alternately, but as me who is already repeating the same words for the 21st time, tired beyond measure.

“When on earth preparing all such contracts?”

“Preview is essential for smooth class.”

“No, how is the clause of helping until growing as an executive already in the contract in advance? This was a proposal I brought out with my mouth just now?”

Well because expected that President Shim would bring out such a proposal.

“Is that important? The fact that Teacher Shim’s determination to help me stood, and I willingly made the determination to receive management class together with Teacher Shim is important.”

“That’s so but. This clause also quite catches.”

“The part that the participation number and place of the management class of course even the class method can be decided autonomously under the agreement of the parties, where bothers?”

“The part of the parties’ agreement bothers. This looks like a right claim that can progress only reflecting Young Master Jeong-hyeok’s opinion even though a class I lead. The teacher is the gap.”

“Wasn’t tutoring class something that needs the student’s active cooperation?”

I said cutting sharply.

“Think this is a company? I’m not even a subordinate that President Shim uses, intending to claim hierarchical order and superior orders subordinate obedience?”

“That’s not but.”

“Then what’s the problem? Can drag the horse to the water but can’t force feed water. The point that now the purpose is education not management, please familiarize.”

Unlike the pure elite university students, President Shim picked the contract clauses item by item.

“Then what is all this confidentiality clause? Why attaching that can’t leak any information regarding the class to the outside?”

“The words of ending the class as class. The meaning that the matters to report to grandfather are only the evaluation report of excellent good average poor fail. Is there a problem?”

“Hmm, if so seems no problem.”

Only then President Shim signed and sealed obediently.

President Shim also bit the bait with a gulp like the elite university students.

“Then shall we start the class?”

President Shim ahem, refined his voice.

“What is management?”

“The act of managing and operating an organization composed to achieve a specific purpose. In one word the work of rolling a company.”

President Shim was startled.

But refined his voice ahem once more and opened his mouth calmly.

“Then what is a company?”

“A corporate body organized for the purpose of pursuing profit, doing commercial acts or other profit-making acts.”

“Then what work does company management speak of?”

“Usually divide and speak into sales, promotion, organization, personnel, production management, financial management etc., but ultimately can be said the work of reading the market’s needs and selling objects and services.”

President Shim muttered small ‘previewed very thoroughly. As expected not easy.’

“Then what is the most important work in company management?”

“Selling the objects to sell in the market, selecting and developing products, promoting products and managing inventory, recruiting employees to roll the company is also ultimately a matter that people do.”

“······.”

“That is, management ultimately thinks how to roll people is the most important.”

President Shim dropped his mouth open.

“Teacher Shim, I didn’t request tutoring to learn management theory or something.”

President Shim who burst into a hollow laugh looked at me with peculiar eyes.

I continued the words without caring.

“Came out to this seat to see and learn Teacher Shim’s judgment and insight accumulated with practice and experience beside.”

“Right.”

“We’re not scholars, what doing digging deep into theory or something?”

“Right. Practitioners like us rolling the company well and using people well is the best.”

President Shim opened the document bag and took out a thick document bundle.

“So prepared.”

“······This is work that has to be processed at my investment company?”

So the words of bringing the work that President Shim has to do directly to me?

What is the reason I employed President Shim?

Received the contract giving expensive salary saying do such work.

“Shall say class materials?”

President Shim smiled with a meaningful expression.

“As expected learning engraving with the body while breaking and rolling through practice is the best.”

So intending to roll me and engrave the teaching deep into the bones?

“Knowing it would be so, I also prepared once.”

I pointed at the thick document bundle put on the desk in advance.

“What is this again?”

“Said company management is ultimately the work of picking people and rolling? The result of picking usable people and rolling for a week.”

It was the assignments that the tutor teachers submitted.

“Yes? Seems I heard some strange sound just now······.”

“A hundred hearings are not as good as one seeing. Seeing directly will be faster than hearing explanations in detail. Follow.”

I dragged the arm of the dazed President Shim and headed to the next room.

* * *

Bang.

In the next room, twenty tutor teachers waiting for today’s tutoring were waiting.

People assigned one desk and chair each and groaning holding the assignments raised their heads with a whoosh.

“Ugh! I haven’t finished all yet. Time is tight, but the assignment amount is limit exceeded!”

“Jeong-hyeok, didn’t say today’s class thinking of ending with only simple discussion?”

“No, didn’t know would open a grand discussion meeting inviting even outsiders to the tutoring class······.”

Hearing the tutor teachers’ protests or not, I pointed at President Shim.

“Greet. This person is President of Taeseong Chemicals.”

“What?”

The tutor teachers shouted like screams.

“Wh, why did President of Taeseong Chemicals come out to this seat?”

“Well to invite an expert and progress management class in earnest.”

“Ma, management class?”

I clapped my hands.

“Pay attention. President Shim is a person who grew Taeseong Chemicals into a company reaching market capitalization about 30 billion, last year’s annual sales 3.1 billion, operating profit 1.9 billion won, net profit 1.6 billion won in 7 years with 1 billion won business funds.”

The tutor teachers dropped mouths open and looked at President Shim.

“Difficultly invited a person who wrote the success myth of management growing the company 30 times in 7 years for the teachers, but the welcome is not refreshing.”

“Honored to meet! I’m Jo Pil-du 3rd year of Korea University economics department!”

As soon as my words ended, the tutor teachers greatly welcomed with applause and cheers.

Each raised voices introducing their affiliation and name somehow to stamp eyes.

President Shim also greeted bowing his head with a dazed expression.

President Shim looked at me and gaped ‘Young Master Jeong-hyeok, what is all this in the management tutoring?’ with his lips, but I deliberately pretended not to know.

“If President Shim of Taeseong Chemicals, a person famous even as the closest aide of Taeseong Group head Chairman Cha Tae-seong.”

“I know!”

“If a person who enters President Shim’s eyes among the teachers comes out, what would happen?”

“······!”

“Let’s recall the contract. Didn’t the Taeseong Group entry condition attach along with the 6-year exclusive contract condition?”

“······!”

These are all great people who occupy the thick affiliate president seats of large companies.

The ambition and aspiration they have are larger than ordinary people, and the desire and passion are also different.

“Think well. Can’t live doing only tutoring for life anyway? Everyone won’t enter large companies after graduating?”

“Have to enter!”

“If becoming an employee that President Shim eyes? How? Doesn’t the company life seem to go well smoothly from now on?”

Suddenly lasers seemed to come out from the tutor teachers’ eyes.

“Can’t ride the parachute without family and backer? Can seize with ability. A rare opportunity that can open one’s own path to success with one’s own hands?”

Everyone tightly gripped fists and looked at President Shim with flushed expressions.

“If learning regarding management one step ahead of others, doesn’t it seem very advantageous in ultra-high-speed promotion up to executive from now on? The start line itself changes.”

I twitched a finger toward Yu Jong-tae.

Then Yu Jong-tae who is a quick-witted security guard copied the assignments collected from the tutor teachers and circulated as meeting materials.

“Then let’s report the assignments of the past week in front of President Shim.”

“Yes!”

The twenty tutor teachers shouted ambitiously with voices overflowing with desire.

‘Life is carrot and stick as expected!’

President Shim let out a ha sound and stuck close to my ear and whispered.

“Young Master, who are all those people?”

“My tutor teachers.”

“The meaning of trying to train the tutor teachers in this way using me?”

“Said management is ultimately the method of dealing with people? Doing that? Such is precisely practice?”

“······.”

“Is there a problem?”

President Shim had an expression whose mouth was blocked tightly.

Whether so or not.

The twenty tutor teachers flashed eyes and began reporting passionately.

“Jo Pil-du 3rd year of Korea University economics department in charge of math tutoring. Will announce the assignment.”

President Shim and I also sat in the seats and reviewed turning flutter.

I covered the accounting ledger and report that Teacher Jo submitted with a thud.

“A mess. Who told to write the balance sheet so arbitrarily?”

“Did my best in my own way. Accounting is so difficult so in the aspect of organizing conveniently to see······.”

“If someone sees, would know as writing double ledgers and embezzling funds.”

“Em, embezzlement?”

“Just looking at the ledger, enough to buy such suspicion. Responsibility follows ledger writing. Can take responsibility for this ledger in your own name?”

Teacher Jo paled white and didn’t know what to do.

“Don’t know where to use the balance sheet?”

“Know that utilized in the stock market to analyze the company’s financial structure but······.”

“To solve math problems, have to use math symbols. Would it be okay to arbitrarily change and write the balance sheet circulated in the market?”

“······Sorry. Will correct right away.”

“Informed to ask Team Leader Yu what you don’t know. Does Team Leader Yu look like X······.”

“Th, no way! Absolutely not!”

“By the next class time, learn and familiarize at least the method of analyzing the balance sheet properly and certainly.”

“Yes.”

President Shim also seemed the same opinion and nodded.

As the unsatisfactory sign was clear, Teacher Jo bowed his head deeply.

The face flushed red, but didn’t attach excuses or get angry.

Was memoing the pointed matters while striking stars and underlines.

‘The tenacity is good! Like it!’

But why.

President Shim’s gaze flashing was not ordinary.

Not toward Jo Pil-du who messed up the assignment announcement but toward me.

“This is the skill of just an eight-year-old? No, who in the world receives tutoring like this?”

Low exclamation and deep sigh were a bonus.

“This properly got the nose pierced······. Doing this, not sticking names on the wall in order of assignment grades?”

No, how did you know?

If annual salary is frozen, the reason for performance bonus differentiation has to be clear.

Life is carrot and stick as expected.