Thank you to me
At the mention of divorce proceedings, Yoon Jae-ha furrowed his brows and asked back.
"Divorce lawsuit? You know we don't handle divorce lawsuits."
"Of course I know. How could I not know that? But please make an exception just this once. And after saying hello, let's sit down first. You too, manager."
I asked the two of them to sit down. Still looking dazed, they sat down facing each other.
Yoon Hyun-joo looked at me and asked with a surprised expression.
"I see you are close with Crown Prince Yoon and Jang?"
"Jae-ha and I are classmates from Korea University. Didn't you know?"
Yoon Hyun-joo nodded absentmindedly.
I thought you knew that much and came to see me, but somehow you seem to have a lot of flaws.
"I may be bragging, but I got a perfect score on the math ability test and was interviewed by the press. And I was admitted to the law department of Korea University as the top student. I passed the first round of the bar exam, but gave up on the second round. I felt like being a lawyer wasn't for me. But more than that······."
I answered the questions that Yoon Hyun-joo might be curious about in advance, then looked back at Yoon Jae-ha.
His face looked like he was struggling with something. In order to appease Yoon Jae-ha, I decided to explain the situation.
"I know very well why you guys aren't filing for divorce. But I'll have to make an exception for this case. There are some complicated circumstances. And don't worry too much about getting on bad terms with Chairman Choi Woo-shik. You'll be kicked out of the KS Group anyway."
Yoon Jae-ha turned his head sharply at the mention of kicking out Chairman Choi Woo-shik.
"What? Chairman Choi Woo-shik is being kicked out?"
"Oh. If you add up the shares that Director Yoon Hyun-joo owns and the shares that I own, Chairman Choi Woo-shik will be pushed out. He won't even be able to take a single affiliate."
Yoon Jae-ha, who was listening to me, looked back and forth between me and Yoon Hyun-joo.
"I decided to buy real estate in Gangnam on the condition that I take Director Yoon Hyun-joo's side. And······."
Can we talk about your private life too? I looked at Yoon Hyun-joo for a moment.
She spoke first, as if she had guessed what I was thinking.
"If you will represent me in my lawsuit, I can tell you everything."
I nodded and asked Yoon Jae-ha.
"If we want to talk more deeply, you have to give me a definitive answer. If you can't, any other lawyer will do. After all, the name Yoon & Jang is important."
"Ha······. If you say that, what would that make me? My father is a man who would sell me out if you asked me to."
Yoon Jae-ha sighed deeply and scolded me.
I smiled without realizing it when I saw Yoon Jae-ha's appearance, which reminded me of my college days, and asked again.
"So are you going to do it or not?"
"I should. It's your request, and I also want to go to court myself instead of just staying in the office. Instead, you take care of the Hankyungryun side."
"Don't worry about that. I'll take care of it."
Yoon Jae-ha's permission was granted. As soon as he gave his permission, he spoke to Yoon Hyun-joo.
Unlike when he spoke to me, his voice was much more mature and serious.
"Director Yoon Hyun-joo. You can come to Yoon & Jang later and talk about the details. I will take care of it myself, so you don't have to worry too much. I'm sure your father will be quite concerned as well."
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"If father cares, I will be grateful."
A color came to her face. Yoon Jae-ha pointed at me and whined.
"Of course. My father would go to hell if it meant asking for a favor from Moo-hyuk. He said he likes that guy, Kim Moo-hyuk, more than me."
"Enough with the nonsense. Let's talk about real estate now."
The divorce proceedings were not an urgent matter and not something I needed to get involved in.
If I connect Yoon and Jang and later hand over the evidence of the affair that I have, I'll have done my job.
"Director. Did you call Chairman Cho here?"
"Oh, yes. He asked me to come here with the seal certificate, the seal stamp, and the necessary documents."
"The conversation was getting quite long."
"After I sorted out the real estate, I decided to give my uncle some retirement funds. He has worked hard for our family, so I should help him live comfortably after he retires."
Although it's sloppy, it's more affectionate than I thought. I nodded at Yoon Hyun-joo's words.
"You thought well. If you take good care of your own people, you won't have any problems later on."
While waiting for Chairman Cho, we continued our conversation.
"The real estate acquisition will not be done by me, but by Dream High Investment Korea. As soon as the contract is signed, the 10% deposit will be paid today, and the rest will be deposited within 3 days."
She readily nodded and answered. At Yoon & Jang. No, it was thanks to Yoon Jae-ha personally coming out that her trust in me increased.
"Okay. KS Group is more important to me. Just keep your promise."
"As I said before, I am a person who values trust more than anyone else. Don't worry about that, Director. If I were someone who made promises carelessly, I wouldn't have been able to come this far."
"I will believe you. Then, are you going to call for an extraordinary general meeting of shareholders right away?"
"That's right. And······."
The plan was to use the pretext of convening a shareholders' meeting to move the prosecution and the court to request an arrest warrant for Choi Woo-shik.
Choi Woo-shik was currently on trial without detention on charges of fraudulent accounting and embezzlement.
The plan was to issue an arrest warrant and send him to prison before calling a shareholders' meeting.
"Prosecutors will likely soon request an arrest warrant for Chairman Choi Woo-shik. And the court is likely to accept it."
"Yes? We've already decided to proceed without detention······."
"Hasn't the situation changed? In Korea, if you take off the label of being the owner of a large corporation, you are just a rich person, nothing more, nothing less. Because you were the head of a large corporation, you could be tried without detention. If not, you would have been arrested long ago."
The scale of the fraudulent accounting committed by Choi Woo-sik was the largest embezzlement since the Chungwoo Group.
The fraudulent accounting scandal of the Chungwoo Group shook the group to its core. People still haven't forgotten it, even though it happened only a few years ago.
Of course, the economic situation is not bad now, and internal discussions have concluded to proceed with the trial without detention.
Well, from now on I'm going to flip that.
"In Korea, a chaebol is not just someone with a lot of money. You could say they are a new class of power. So, isn't that why you're after the management rights of the KS Group? To pass it on to your son?"
"That's right. I plan to pass the group on to my son. But I don't plan on sending him to prison. I just want to take away the management rights······."
I was so dumbfounded that I cut her off, wondering if she was naive or if her head was full of flowers.
"Director. Just do one thing, just one thing. Fighting over the management rights of a large corporation is not a petty squabble. It's no different from a small war. A major shareholder who loses management rights is just someone who has a lot of stock and no power. That's why Choi Woo-shik surrendered to Sovereign."
In Korea, the power of the owners of large corporations is considerable. If we leave that seat of power and fight clumsily, we may face a counterattack later.
When you want to throw someone into the abyss, you have to push them down a cliff with no end in sight and trample them down thoroughly.
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"So don't say anything weak. If the manager becomes weak, it will be difficult to pass the management rights to his son."
"······You agreed to help me with the divorce proceedings."
She still hasn't gotten over her obsession with Choi Woo-shik.
Do you still love each other even though you fight every day and both of you are having affairs?
A deep sigh naturally escaped me.
"The ultimate goal of helping with the divorce lawsuit is not to prevent the divorce. The relationship between the two of you is already over. The purpose of the divorce lawsuit is to delay as much as possible and to let people know Choi Woo-shik's true face. Well, if you don't want to get a divorce, discuss it with your legal representative."
I looked at Yoon Jae-ha. Yoon Jae-ha shrugged his shoulders and opened his mouth as he caught my gaze.
"I can't say anything because I haven't heard the full story yet, but we'll do our best to do what our client wants. Don't worry about that. However, if Moo-hyuk is talking like that, I recommend you reconsider. He's not the type of person to talk nonsense."
Yoon Jae-ha said that he would naturally do whatever his client, Yoon Hyun-joo, wanted.
Although she looked trustworthy, Yoon Hyun-joo seemed to waver as she was being persuaded from both sides.
Yoon Hyun-joo lowered her head, biting her lips.
"······I'll think about that."
At that moment, a knock was heard and Director Ma entered the office.
"Boss, I have something to report to you."
As I nodded, Director Ma came closer and whispered in my ear.
"It is said that Chairman Cho stopped by the Taesan Bank headquarters and is moving towards Incheon, not Myeongdong."
I turned my head to look at Director Ma and he spoke so quietly that only I could hear.
"I think he's going to Incheon Airport."
"As expected, as expected."
I told Yoon Hyun-joo, who was looking at me as if curious about what we were talking about, exactly what I had heard from Director Ma.
"I heard that Chairman Cho is not going here but to Incheon Airport."
"Huh? What is that······?"
"I think the servant has other thoughts."
"······."
Yoon Hyun-joo just stared blankly at me, as if she hadn't even considered the option of Chairman Cho going into hiding.
Director Ma asked quickly so that everyone could hear.
"Boss, just give me the order and I'll have him picked up at the airport and brought here."
Instead of answering, I decided to give Yoon Hyun-joo the choice.
"Director? What are you going to do? This isn't the time for you to be absent-minded like that."
She came to her senses at my words and spoke in a loud voice.
"Please bring it to me! Please!"
"Okay, sir. Just tell him to bring me here in good health."
"Understood, boss."
Director Ma left again, and the conversation ceased. An eerie silence fell over the office.
Yoon Hyun-joo seemed to find it hard to believe Chairman Cho's betrayal.
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Well, he must have been someone I trusted and relied on to the point where I could call him uncle.
Even if he was a servant in a wealthy household, if he spent a long time with his master, the master would inevitably develop human feelings for him.
In particular, people like Chairman Cho, who have entrusted him with a huge amount of wealth for a long time, are trusted and relied on even more.
"Director, didn't you expect something like this to happen? Most of the time, people get scammed or suffer great losses because of the people closest to them."
"······."
"Even if you believed and relied on him, you should have doubted and doubted again. I know that Minister Yoon did that."
Yoon Hyun-joo cried at my words. I can see how Minister Yoon raised Yoon Hyun-joo.
Minister Yoon never trusted anyone. Like most people in power, he was the type to knock on the stone bridge and cross it, even when there were many alternatives.
That was also the secret to maintaining power until the end even after two military regimes collapsed.
By getting close to power but keeping a certain distance, he was able to enjoy a long life and die even if the entire ruling class during the military regime collapsed.
Yoon Hyun-joo, who grew up seeing her father up close, seemed not to have inherited that ability.
"It is impossible to make excuses like 'My parents passed away and I had no adults to rely on.' It was absolutely unacceptable to entrust that huge amount of real estate to someone and trust them completely."
Even though I, who was much younger than her, was speaking to her in a scolding tone, Yoon Hyun-joo couldn't say anything in return.
Even though he was looking at me with a glare, I guess he accepted it because it was all true.
"It's fortunate that I marked Chairman Cho just in case. If he had just run away abroad, all of your plans would have gone awry. You should be thankful to me."
Looking at the top of her head, which was bowed deeply, I decided to stop the lecture here.
The person who has the most complicated feelings here is probably Yoon Hyun-joo herself.
Moreover, it was actually a good opportunity for me since I was able to gain the upper hand thanks to Chairman Cho's timely escape. There was no benefit in pushing him any further.
I called Manager Ma and asked him to lead her to the next room.
It was to give me time to think alone.
After the storm had raged like that, Yoon Jae-ha muttered in a bewildered voice.
"What the heck is going on?"
"What the heck? The warehouse keeper was caught trying to run away overseas without telling his owner."
"You're not saying that Director Yoon Hyun-joo didn't monitor the person managing the assets under another person's name, are you? Oh my god. Are they kind or stupid?"
Yoon Jae-ha said that in a tone that seemed absurd, and I just laughed.
"Okay. Let's listen to your story until Chairman Cho comes. How are you doing these days?"
I spent time listening to Yoon Jae-ha's story.
Several hours later, after the sun had set, Chairman Cho arrived at the Myeongdong office.
Chairman Cho, who arrived surrounded by a group of shabby men, looked intimidated.
The face of the vulgar-looking rat was covered in black mushrooms.
"Are you Chairman Cho? If we met in passing, I wouldn't recognize you."
I couldn't help but laugh at the sight of Chairman Cho looking older than he did in the photo.
< Tell only the truth >