Chapter 108: Early Education

I turned off vision sharing with the Grim Reaper.

The Seoul of that time passed by quickly beyond the car window.

I was lost in thought, staring at the flashing neon signs and my face reflected in the glass windows.

‘It’s early management education.’

Not bad.

No, it’s better!

‘Do you feel like eating gum?’

We already know about the management systems of conglomerates.

Why?

Back in the days when Sillim-dong was a hell of ants, I used to set traps and lure in the conglomerates to eat them up.

‘Target insolvent conglomerates, take them down, hire professional managers to grow them, split them up, and sell them off.’

The returns were very lucrative.

‘If it was a good company, I would buy up a lot of stocks and swing the company around in the name of being the largest shareholder.’

Taesung Group was one of them.

So, I wrote a report for Taesung Group and carefully considered the pros and cons.

‘That was it in the end. Managing a company wasn’t something I could do alone.’

It is possible for one person to ruin a company by trapping it, but it takes many people to make the company healthy and strong.

‘Why was my life so unfortunate that all the people I got involved with were bad relationships?’

He was often caught in the back of the head with betrayal, collusion, manipulation, sowing discord, embezzlement, and fraud.

For that reason, leading a business through cooperation was a life in the shadows that I could never have dreamed of.

‘If I have to receive proper management training at least once, I hope they assign me a competent person. Like Secretary Kim, or President Shim?’

It’s really comfortable because I don’t have to act coy in front of Secretary Kim and President Shim.

‘Well, I don’t think my grandfather would assign his most capable confidant to be my business education instructor.’

President Shim is a management expert who turned Taesung Chemical, which he jointly invested 1 billion won in, into a 30 billion won conglomerate in just 7 years!

There is no way we would waste resources entrusting the education of an eight-year-old child to such a capable professional manager, the elite of the elite.

‘What a shame. If it were President Shim, he would have entrusted me with all sorts of tasks without worrying about what others thought and would have put them to good use. I really hate wasting my precious time dealing with useless people.’

I sighed without realizing it.

Then, Yoo Jong-tae, who was driving, glanced at the rearview mirror and smiled.

“Why are you sighing like that? Are you having a hard time with the executive meeting?”

What’s the big deal about a board meeting?

“I went into a few executive meetings while working for Secretary Kim, and it was really excruciating.”

Yoo Jong-tae opened his mouth after glancing around.

“How sharp are those people. As soon as they open their mouths, they drive us to the edge with specific numbers. I thought a school of piranhas was attacking us.”

Yoo Jong-tae shook his head repeatedly.

“There are mountains of materials that need to be familiarized before going into the executive meeting! It seems that the executives are thoroughly prepared before going in. There are also many who review the meeting materials in advance and then memorize them.”

By my standards, that’s natural.

“They don’t have guns, but there is no battlefield. Tens of millions of won of company money is involved in their words, and the rise and fall of affiliates depend on it, so I guess that’s why they have such a heavy responsibility.”

“That’s right.”

I nodded.

Now that we’re on the subject,

“My investment company, which I entrust to Team Leader Yoo, also has hundreds of millions of won in corporate money coming and going. Since the rise and fall of the affiliated company is at stake, the responsibility must be very heavy, right?”

“······.”

Yoo Jong-tae, speechless, was sweating profusely.

“A report on the instructions?”

“You see that stack of envelopes over there? It’s in there.”

There were several thick envelopes stacked up.

I took out the documents inside and flipped through them, reading them.

‘Tsk. Even the basics of report writing are messed up. You should just summarize the main points and get to the point. Why are you talking so much?’

Is it because I saw the Taesung Group executive meeting materials?

When I saw the report prepared by Yoo Jong-tae and Taesung Group’s bodyguards, I couldn’t help but sigh.

‘It’s crude and clumsy.’

I keep him by my side because he is a trustworthy person, but that doesn’t mean he is all competent.

Among them, Yoo Jong-tae is the best.

‘But there’s just one thing, when it comes to gathering extensive information, isn’t he better than any back-alley troubleshooter or information dealer?’

They say Secretary Kim personally commanded these people.

I have a feeling where and how it was used.

‘This is much better than using those back alley punks.’

A dirty life where every relationship I got involved in was a bad one!

It’s a shame, but I’ve been using that kind of stupid thing by rolling it around tenaciously.

‘If you keep rolling him around, he’ll become somewhat useful. If necessary, threaten him, train him like a dog, beat him with a stick… Ah, that’s enough! Now that he’s a member of a wealthy family, is it still okay to roll him around like the people you used to catch in the back alleys?’

I closed the report.

Yoo Jong-tae added while turning the steering wheel.

“The thinnest payment document there is Mr. Shim’s.”

By the way, there was one envelope inside that was very, very thin compared to the other envelopes.

‘As expected, President Shim! After reviewing all those documents, you extracted only the key points and summarized them in a concise manner!’

It was only about ten chapters.

‘I only gave instructions to purchase land near a subway station, but I recommended businesses that would benefit from locating around large government offices located in the vicinity of the subway station.’

That wasn’t all.

‘They even went so far as to search for investment companies and prioritize them by adding advanced information that is difficult to obtain on the market.’

I like it!

‘In the past, I had to take care of all this by myself. But now that I have a capable elite by my side, it’s so much easier!’

So is that why everyone is obsessed with nurturing and educating talent?

My eyes were dazzled by the competence that was on a whole other level than that of the trash in the back alleys.

‘If things are this easy with just CEO Shim, what if we get other talented people like CEO Shim?’

Is it good?

‘I’m from a conglomerate family now, so should I try selecting talented people and running them according to the conglomerate’s rules?’

If we’re going to do it, let’s just select capable people through legal means!

My head was spinning.

* * *

I woke up late at night.

Because I’m thirsty.

‘Chicken, of course. I told you it’s a lump of salt.’

Of course, that’s why it’s delicious.

I came out to get a drink of water and found the lights in the kitchen on the first floor brightly lit.

The murmur of voices heard was mixed with laughter.

“Chicken and beer for a late-night snack after work. It feels like all my fatigue is melting away.”

“Huh? What kind of candy is this?”

“Jeonghyeok fed me this. He said Dad was having a hard time.”

“But you hate candy, senior. That must have been embarrassing.”

“I was saving it, but Soojin saved the last one to give to you. You like this kind of thing.”

It was my father and mother.

“But did Jeonghyeok really make this chicken?”

“Of course, Mrs. Okbun helped me. But the recipe is our Jeonghyeok’s.”

“This is really delicious. I could sell this for money. Is my son a genius?”

“Is it possible to be called a genius over just one chicken?”

“Of course. Isn’t it true that a child who develops a recipe that has never existed before at the age of eight is a genius?”


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My father let out a soft exclamation, and my mother let out a small laugh.

“I’m starting to think seriously about how to commercialize this.”

I plan to do other things first before commercializing it.

‘For good things, you have to get a patent first. After all, it’s best to have your rights recognized through official documents.’

My father took a bite of the seasoned chicken and washed it down with beer.

He ate the chicken radish with a fork and let out a “huh” sound.

“This tastes different from Western pickles. It’s also different from danmuji.”

“It’s chicken radish. Jeong-hyeok said it was a popular type of dongchimi?”

“Our son knows everything.”

“That’s right. Our Jeong-hyeok personally registered this house.”

“What? Register? Really?”

“Yes. Without using a lawyer, I went to the court myself.”

My father put the beer he was drinking down on the table.

“Does that make sense? Jeong-hyeok is only eight years old.”

“I was seven years old then. Even this house was bought by Jeong-hyeok.”

“what?”

“If you listen to Secretary Kim, she never borrowed money from anyone, and she didn’t receive any money from her grandfather, but a seven-year-old kid managed to buy this huge mansion in no time.”

Mother smiled brightly.

“I even know Korean, even though you didn’t teach me.”

“Huh? Isn’t that what you taught me?”

“Not at all. I was busy making a living by selling vegetables at the market. All I could do was tell them a few numbers as I passed by while tearing up the calendar.”

“I just gave you some numbers and you’re going to do the division in your head?”

“Huh? What does that mean?”

“When I met Daejun hyung, he jokingly took out the money in his wallet and asked me to guess how many bowls of jajangmyeon I could buy.”

“Did you do it?”

“You got it. Exactly.”

My father drank the remaining beer in one gulp.

“There was 514,500 won in my wallet······.”

“1,715 bowls of 300 won Jjajangmyeon?”

“······!”

My father opened his eyes wide and looked at my mother.

“Did you hear from Jeonghyeok?”

“What did you hear? I just did mental calculations.”

“······.”

“Why are you looking at me like that?”

My father hesitated for a moment, then chuckled.

“Now that I look at it, I think our Jeong-hyeok takes after you, Soo-jin.”

“When did you say I looked like you, senior?”

“Well, then should I make it so that the appearance resembles me and the hair resembles yours?”

My father spoke, resting his chin on one hand.

“The more I look at my son, the more I want to see him. He’s smart and courageous. He’s definitely not your average eight-year-old.”

“Senior, when we see something like that, we usually call it a ‘palbulchul’ or a hedgehog’s pod.”

“I don’t think I’m the only one who thinks that way. My father is also very interested in Jeong-hyeok’s education.”

“Father? Oh, I think it’s because Jeong-hyeok is entering elementary school this year.”

“He spoke seriously. I even went around to hear a word from the executives of Taesung Group.”

Father smiled very happily.

“Raise Jeong-hyeok well. He is smart and clever, so I hope he has a bright future.”

“oh.”

“How about sending Jeonghyeok to the private school run by the Wookwang Foundation? What do you think?”

I have heard of the Wookwang Foundation Private School.

When my father opened his mouth about the Wookwang Scholarship Foundation, Taesung Group executives spoke.

-Woo Kwang Scholarship Foundation? Every year, hundreds of millions of won are given out in scholarships, but only a few million won is actually given to students. Isn’t it a hotbed of private school corruption? Do you need a money laundering center?

-I have always thought that it is time to focus on nurturing talent in order to secure quality human resources. If it is a private school owned by the Wookwang Scholarship Foundation, it is a good choice.

In short, the talents who enter Woogwang Private School are useful, but the corruption of the educators who run the foundation is severe!

‘This is the end! This is exactly the place I want to be!’

I especially like the part about ‘corruption among educators who run foundations’!

It’s a bonus to meet and greet talented people and people in the political and business world.

‘It’s a dud as a target for an affiliate acquisition, but it’s perfect as a stage where I can do whatever I want!’

Then, would I be learning the alphabet, letters, numbers, etc. in the classroom?

Are you saying that I should play hide-and-seek with those runny-nosed kids during recess?

‘I guess I’ll have to buy it from the teacher first.’

It is a million times easier to deal with a rotten person than with a strict and dedicated teacher.

That’s my specialty.

‘It would be better to work openly in the classroom under the protection of the homeroom teacher.’

I thought I would be tied down to public education and held back by the mandatory education of at least 6 years.

‘If I do this well, things will work out really easily, right?’

You’re lucky!

“Father said he would give Jeong-hyeok a private tutor who is attending Korea University for each subject. Maybe ten?”

“Why are you giving private tutoring to elementary school students in ten subjects?”

“Korean, essay writing, math, Chinese characters, English, self-defense, swimming, horseback riding, music, art. Originally, shooting, golf, and baduk were also added.”

“Do you have any errands to attend to?”

“My other nephews and nieces also receive that much education. They all receive it from kindergarten.”

“This is crazy, really. If you do all those schedules, when will Jeong-hyeok sleep and when will he play?”

“I don’t take all the subjects every day. I skipped three subjects. But I made sure to take one.”

“What is that?”

“Management training. I asked President Shim for that.”

I found myself cheering without realizing it.

How can I be so lucky?

Now I can have President Shim by my side and treat him like crap!

“What kind of business education are you talking about already? The tutoring is limited to just three subjects: Korean, English, and math.”

No! That’s not it!

If the mother is determined to oppose, the father will listen.

So I ran into the kitchen.

“I want to take private lessons!”

“Jeonghyeok?”

“Do as you wish, Grandpa!”

This was actually an opportunity I should have requested first.

“Ten subjects? Thirteen subjects? Business education? I like them all.”

The more, the better.

“Can I choose my own tutor instead?”

I’m already looking forward to it.

We are nurturing talented individuals who can help our company!

You could say it’s early education for elites who will grow into executives in the future, or one-on-one intern tutoring.

‘I will only select those with golden resumes!’

I was the one who somehow managed to use the ugly cans rolling around in the back alleys.

If you are a well-educated elite who grew up well, we welcome you with open arms!

‘We have to work them hard and force them into our company. And the one who selects the best talent first is the boss?’

Of course, should we appoint some worthless, unsophisticated guy as a tutor for a wealthy family?

Since you’re smart, you’ll be good at work, right?

This is really hurray hurray hurray!