I Lee Ji Hoon have been working at Hansol Foods Mart for 17 years, and I'm about to be 40 in 3 months and I'm still a mere Sales Associate. I wonder when I'll get a promotion, or when I will actually be somebody in life. I graduated from Seoul National University,class of 01 but I only managed to get a job as a sale associate, but I can't blame myself. I can only blame our country's tough economy.
As I zip up my pants in the bathroom and go wash my hands in the sink, my phone plays a video. Breaking News: Hansol Group Chairman Baek yi Sul has been brought into the Central Districts Prosecutors Office, under grounds of embezzlement it is said that the 65-year-old who is chairman of Hansol Group which is one of the leading conglomerate groups in our country(South Korea ) which is worth around 600 trillion won (438,045,960,0000) had embezzled over 250 billion won (around 180 million dollars ) in 2019 by sending it through a slush fund in Switzerland, He has also been charged with other crimes like assaulting an employee, tax evasion and arranging for his sons to evade the mandatory military conscription.
Is the end of Hansol Group?" I sigh and turn my phone off and then blow dry my hand. The Hansal Food Marts I work for is part of the grocery and department store division of Hansol Foods, a subsidiary of the Hansol Group. After I head out of the bathroom, My evil direct superior, Manager Kim comes at me with a death stare and says you bastard Lee Ji Hoon why are you not restocking the shelves, we have a promotion on Hansol's new snack food line, don't mess anything up.
"You Evil bastard always working me to death, you are lucky you are manager because your brother-in-law works at Hansol Electronics, I will kill you ",................................Lee Ji Hoon, Lee Ji Hoon, Lee Ji Hoon are you good why are you still standing here in silence.
Then I realized it was all in my head i would never dare to talk back to manager Kim unless I wanted to lose my job. So I put my hands straight at my side, my legs together and slightly bowed, and said yes Manager Kim, then he continued the mean face and walked away arrogantly. I then head to the snack section to restock the items from the new line. I think to myself "Will I keep working for Hansol till I die, I'm 39 about to turn 40 and I'm still a sales associate, I'm in debt of 50 million won after taking a loan to pay for my younger siblings' school.
I'm lonely I don't have any friends. I had a girlfriend in college but she left me for a nouveau rich after I didn't want to buy a coach idol bag for her which cost over 2.7 million won($2000), Before she broke up with me she said I was destined to be a poor lonely dog licker in my life, and she took 500,000 won ($365) from me as a breakup, I guess most women are materialistic.
Why can't I be like the main characters in the novel being reincarnated as the son of a chaebol family or having a shenhao system, if I could go back to the past I would invest in Bitcoin. Every day my mother and father call me telling me how they are ashamed of me and how good the son of the village leader did this and that.
Oh, shit am I, not the one supposed to be angry, why couldn't my parents be rich. I would rather have parents who I don't spend too much time with and are rich, than parents who are poor and always nag at me.
As I pick up the box filled with the bags of vegetables I carry it and start walking to the organic section, As I'm walking I suddenly feel someone bump into me I fall on my back in slow-mo and I scream no, as bags of vegetables fly out the box and I slip on one and land on the floor, after I lay on the floor, as I start losing my consciousness. I see a hazy faint woman moving away from me as manager Kim and some other people who look like executives rush to the woman and act politely to her and bow to her.
Then she turns her back and starts walking away, I think in my mind don't go, don't leave me you bumped into me. Then I see Manager Kim screaming and yelling at me even though I can't hear what he was saying "This Manager Kim looks like an angry hamster now that I think of it " Then I smile as Manager Kim got closer to me blabering more and more. Then everything becomes black and I lose my consciousness.