Chapter 132

Chapter 132

President Shim’s Choice

Through the open door gap father and President Shim were visible.

President Shim asked in an absurd voice.

“No, how knowing a problem occurred in Taeseong Chemicals and came running?”

“Eh? Not?”

“Right though······. Was our office soundproofing this shabby?”

“Not that but the boss said earlier, the chemicals factory people are holding protests in U-gwang’s name worrying about jobs lest get cut······.”

Oh Jeong-seop rolled eyeballs and looked at President Shim and father alternately.

Father smiled faintly.

“As expected President Shim.”

“······.”

President Shim couldn’t even say ‘the boss is your son!’ and made a groan sound as if suffering dumb cold chest.

As President Shim gestured, Oh Jeong-seop ran with a whoosh and stood tightly stuck.

President Shim whispered small in Oh Jeong-seop’s ear.

“Surely not putting ear on the door and eavesdropping?”

“Crazy? Is the boss a person who would quietly watch that appearance?”

“That’s so though······.”

“But really Young Master Seong-jun came because of the Taeseong Chemicals problem?”

“As seeing.”

“Is the boss really not a monster? Thinking about it amazing? How on earth hit?”

President Shim rubbed the temples tightly.

“Executive Oh, so what is the conclusion? What how about Taeseong Chemicals?”

“Thinking of going reinforce manpower. Have to catch successors.”

“······.”

At the conclusion jumping over the lines, President Shim pressed the temples even harder tightly.

The moment trying to demand a detailed explanation, Oh Jeong-seop grinned.

“Please trust and entrust. Will prove ability with results.”

“Ha?”

“I also want to go out on field work quickly and early get off work!”

“Haaa?”

“Then will go! Will go first, Young Master Seong-jun.”

Impatient Oh Jeong-seop kicked the door with a foot bang even when going out like when coming in and ran out.

Shouted resonantly toward the office family waiting breathlessly outside.

“Let’s go reinforce manpower!”

“Waaaaa!”

“Let’s catch successors!”

“Let’s goooooo!”

Of course the former Taeseong Construction executives even the tutor teachers shouted cheers and burst out of the office running.

President Shim couldn’t hide the absurd appearance.

On the other hand father smiled gently with soft eyes.

“Surprising. So this is why saying the role of the head of one company is important.”

“A, ashamed. Because I couldn’t properly educate the subordinates showing an unwise appearance······.”

“Not like the Taeseong Construction executives I have seen until now. Appearance overflowing with passion and desire, burning with joy and ambition, seeing for the first time.”

“······Yes?”

“As you know, how listlessly the executives were stretched under the younger uncle until now?”

“Ah!”

President Shim nodded only then.

“Because deficits every work touched, the atmosphere of rather not starting work and only maintaining the status quo was rampant. Executive Oh Jeong-seop and the executives also the same.”

“So?”

“Seems to know now why the words of management master attached. Excellent leadership.”

“······.”

Father smiled gently.

President Shim couldn’t even say ‘our boss is your son!’ and made a groan sound as if suffering dumb cold chest.

“Anyway since the executives including Executive Oh volunteered to solve the problem, want to trust and entrust once?”

“Of course. Please request.”

Father stood up from the seat.

“Also hope to deliberate the Taeseong Chemicals president position.”

Father walked with big strides and approached this way.

I was sitting on the common reception room sofa prepared in one side of the office dangling feet.

“Jeong-hyeok, don’t play in the office and go together with dad? Will take home.”

“No.”

I shook my head.

“Have words to say with President Shim.”

“A busy person. If not important business, shouldn’t disturb.”

“······Management class?”

What? Why? What!

If a matter related to Taeseong Chemicals, practical management class right!

I looked back at President Shim.

“Have something to say regarding the gentlemen’s group field work and early get off work here.”

“Yes.”

Father stroked my head softly.

“Then see at home later. Shall we eat dinner together as family today?”

“Good!”

Anyway today’s work amount not much so early get off work possible.

I smiled widely and waved a hand sending father off.

* * *

President Shim held out hot double flower tea to me.

Himself drinking milk coffee of the golden ratio two two two.

Kuh, killing the coffee scent!

“Young Master, what is manpower reinforcement, what is successors again?”

“Intending to catch the U-gwang Chemicals executives to purge and roll.”

“Ha······!”

“Catching military discipline the Taeseong Construction executives will take charge, education have to make suffer like dogs in practice.”

U-gwang’s executives also excellent talents who walked the elite course!

As me who skillfully rolled even back alley cans, this is what cake.

“Okay for the U-gwang origin executives to know the Young Master’s secret?”

But President Shim asked in a voice mixed with concern.

“Even if holding weaknesses, different from the former Taeseong Construction executives.”

I also know.

“The Taeseong Construction executives can be said loyal subjects who shared history with Taeseong basically even if corrupted playing tricks drunk on power and money.”

On the other hand U-gwang’s executives are not so.

“Even if held weaknesses the same, hard to block even U-gwang’s mouth. If this secret leaks to U-gwang by any chance······.”

“Why thinking will roll those guys in my investment company or Taeseong Chemicals?”

“Yes?”

President Shim blinked both eyes.

“Why doing restructuring, why doing purge?”

“······?”

“Said empty seats have to come out for the executives loyal to Taeseong to return?”

“······!”

I grinned.

“With this can be said not demotion but promotion and returning in golden clothes?”

“Su, surely!”

Bingo.

“Have to call the Taeseong Chemicals executives who went out to the Middle East.”

Intending to roll U-gwang’s executives at the Middle East construction sites.

President Shim looked at me with a blank face.

“Jubail industrial port city construction is a large construction of as much as 100 million dollars. Can’t leave that ignoring?”

“Then isn’t it a seat requiring more important responsibility? If pushing U-gwang executives into the seats Taeseong Chemicals executives left, no eyes watching, who will work for Taeseong?”

President Shim didn’t hide the worry.

“Moreover those guys are not construction experts either. There will be many difficulties pushing large construction in the rough desert with such guys.”

So prepared!

“Forgot? If construction experts, we also have.”

“Eh······?”

“Among the former Taeseong Construction executives, Executive Oh Jeong-seop’s guts the best?”

Oh Jeong-seop was a person who even fought head-on with gangsters and forcibly carried out construction.

Grandfather’s nickname was ‘flame bulldozer’, Oh Jeong-seop’s nickname was ‘knife stuck road roller’.

“Moreover heard Secretary Lee also not returned from the Middle East yet?”

“If Secretary Lee, surely speaking of Taeseong Construction Lee Gyeong-seok that Secretary Kim pointed as successor?”

“Yes.”

Lee Gyeong-seok is a man who later called Taeseong’s brain and becomes the president of Taeseong Electronics one of Taeseong’s core affiliates.

Caught connections tightly in the Middle East and cultivated large merits in Middle East market pioneering, famous as a tactician who associated freely with Middle East’s real powers and completed businesses.

Looking at the rumor that among Middle East’s princes Mansur who stood out with business sense often sought advice from President Lee Gyeong-seok, all said.

“Good to promote the person who is father’s closest aide in this opportunity too?”

“Certainly. Secretary Lee is a talent regrettable to rot as just a secretary.”

President Shim nodded and agreed.

“Heard Secretary Lee became a distinguished guest of Middle East’s big shot Muhammad bin Buti Al Ahmed. Just heard from father that attended events all over the Middle East and obtained construction as much as met.”

A matter couldn’t eavesdrop because cut the field of view sharing with the underworld messenger while coaxing to reinforce manpower.

“Thanks to the enormously obtained construction distances, to match the completion deadline will have to run the desert so sweat.”

“Went well.”

The sound of the hardship path clearly visible.

President Shim drank coffee with a slurp and smiled.

“Boss, father is hoping for me to take charge of the Taeseong Chemicals president seat again.”

“So how does President Shim want to do? Intending to return as Taeseong Chemicals president?”

“If wanting to go, intending to send prettily?”

“Of course.”

From the beginning President Shim was also a person to help father.

I also drank double flower tea with a slurp and smiled.

“Forgot? I proposed on the first day of the new year.”

I proposed to him who couldn’t decide the heart while recruiting President Shim.

I held out a hand to President Shim in the same posture as then.

-Hold my hand. Then will give the choice to President Shim later.

“Said if successfully finishing the Yugong acquisition, will send to the desired place among investment company, oil refining company, Taeseong Chemicals, to the person wanting to follow.”

I tightly held President Shim’s hand.

A large and rough hand that my fern-like hand couldn’t cover all.

“Regrettable, Young Master.”

“Yes?”

“Not even successfully finished the Yugong acquisition yet, already thinking of sending me out.”

President Shim stopped the handshake.

“The U-gwang affiliates I decided to take charge and acquire as many as seven, no, fuck six.”

“······.”

“At such an important time, hoping to abandon this important mission where Taeseong and the Young Master’s future is at stake and run away seeking my own safety?”

“Not sick of the overtime and all-nighters continuing all month, the work pouring endlessly no matter how doing?”

“Honestly hell-like work intensity though.”

“The Taeseong Chemicals president seat is much more comfortable and honorable than running sales while doing alcohol entertainment. Originally President Shim’s seat too.”

“But the Young Master is not there.”

President Shim smiled gently.

“Also promised to assist beside until the Young Master steps forward to Taeseong Group’s management front line. Troublesome if forgetting that.”

“······The meaning of remaining beside me not Taeseong Chemicals?”

“Yes, intending to politely express the meaning of refusal to father.”

President Shim chose me not father.

The sound of following my meaning not grandfather’s meaning.

“Even so can’t leave the Taeseong Chemicals president seat empty as a vacancy all along, this also a troublesome situation though.”

Where is management whose dog’s name.

Taeseong Chemicals was a company of as much as 30 billion for our mother who didn’t properly receive management class to take charge and lead with a whoosh.

In 21st century market price roughly a 1.5 trillion won company with over 2,000 employees attached.

“If President Shim firmed the meaning, seems can solve that problem simply?”

“Yes? Surely not the meaning of using the president stuck from U-gwang as is······.”

“There are people I promised promotion and returning in golden clothes before. Then there naturally promotion also has to be included?”

“Ah!”

“Have to send a telegram to the Taeseong Chemicals vice president who went out taking charge of the Middle East construction general responsibility?”

President Shim smiled widely.

“Look at this. How can this be a remark that can come out of an eight-year-old’s mouth.”

President Shim bent the knees and met eye level with me.

“Taking care of the Taeseong Chemicals executives, won’t forget.”

Eyes that looked glad.

“I declared in front of all former Taeseong Group family on the first day of the new year. Will devote the body to lay the foundation of the great plan for Taeseong’s future. The Young Master is Taeseong’s future.”

Before long President Shim’s great plan seemed to become me not business.

“President Shim also living life quite hard. Somehow seems hard to avoid overwork death.”

“If having to do overwork death anyway, seems not bad to die drawing a line in the history of the Republic of Korea’s business world.”

A proud expression.

“Where is a dummy president seat of this level common. Troublesome if seeing my ambition lightly.”

I like men with ambition!

“Will promise. So as not to regret holding my hand now. Will work hard and try growing large.”

“A remark that the eyes in front become dark from already, but will know this also as glory.”

“Please try hard in fatigue recovery and nourishing tonic so as not to die from overwork?”

“······The option of making do less work doesn’t exist at all?”

“Even now making do less thinking of President Shim’s age. Deliberately handing over only the box with the gold color label attached?”

“······.”

President Shim looked at the document mountain piled full on my desk and lost words.

Just looking, my share was at least ten times more than the work amount President Shim takes charge and handles.

“Just! I just take charge of only the gold color box continuing?”

“Of course. Believe only me.”

We shook the two held hands largely up and down.

President Shim and I looked at each other and smiled gently.

‘Eh?’

Did I see wrong?

For a moment seemed to glimpse a golden halo subtly lingering from President Shim.