The 3th Generation of the Chaebol Wants to Live Quietly - Chapter 1119



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1119

Planning Director Lee Ho-jun was so dumbfounded that he couldn’t speak.

But soon he clenched his teeth.

“If you still think the world is funny, you’ll get in big trouble.”

Director Choi Min-hyeok shouted in frustration when his words had no substance.

“Are you here to talk about Vice President Lee Dong-soo of the Han-Young Daily?!”

“that…….”

“Do you know how much the Hankyoreh has screwed me over with a series of articles? Especially, they have damaged my reputation with fake news, so they should pay a price for that. That’s all I have to say!”

“Phew, you’ll regret it!”

“I want to experience that regret once. If you have nothing more to say, please leave.”

Director Choi Min-hyeok glanced at Manager Yang Jeong-chun, who was standing quietly, rather than at Planning Director Lee Ho-jun, who was trembling. He thought that they would never just sit still.

‘But it won’t be easy. The government officials’ thoughts will be a bit different.’

Actually, I didn’t want to get involved with them in the future.

Because he was someone who dealt with slush funds, he was covered in all kinds of shit.

However, because of the Hanbu group, he was inevitably involved.

Especially the Han-Young Daily.

‘I hope that doesn’t happen.’

Otherwise, he had no choice but to take action. If it was the slush funds of the Hanbu Group that Yang Jeong-chun was involved in, then something quite interesting could happen.

‘Is this a time bomb?’

* * *

After meeting with Planning Director Lee Ho-jun, Director Choi Min-hyeok further harassed President Choi Du-jin in retaliation.

Fortunately, it worked.

Thanks to the intervention of CEO Choi Du-jin, an extraordinary general meeting of shareholders was held.

However, CEO Choi Du-jin said that even a rat can bite if it is cornered.

[Don’t worry.]

[It’s not something to be taken so simply. Don’t make fun of the Han-Young Daily.]

[I have never ridiculed the Han-Young Daily. If I had, I would have attacked the Han-Young Daily with money. But I didn’t, did I?]

[…are there any other alternatives?]

[I don’t know why you’re asking such a question. President Choi Du-jin can just get rid of Vice President Lee Dong-soo. Put a good person in his place. If you’re short on funds, I’ll support you as much as I can.]

[… What are you going to do if I betray you?]

[Then I misjudged CEO Choi Du-jin. Are you sure he won’t betray you?]

[… Okay, I understand. I’ll do whatever you want.]

[If you keep your promise, I won’t put any more pressure on Oh Sung Electronics. However, if Senior Vice President Kim Hyeon-woo attacks again, then I will make him pay a price.]

[…I’ll give that guy some special attention.]

* * *

Director Choi Min-hyeok naturally waited for this moment. He also gathered internal information from the Han-Young Daily using reporter Choi Gwang-su.

There’s also a recording.

When he decided that the opportunity had come, he met with Chief Prosecutor Park Du-young.

The location was a hotel restaurant.

I’m talking about tables standing side by side.

They were talking while eating on opposite sides of the table.

[It’s been a while.]

[…what’s going on?]

[Hmm, isn’t it time to adapt now?]

[Phew.]

Chief Prosecutor Park Du-young cut the steak with an indifferent expression.

I saw his wife, sitting across from him, glance at Director Choi Min-hyeok.

My wife laughed awkwardly.

She also listened vaguely.

Because I came here under the pretense of a family gathering.

But she also didn’t know that Director Choi Min-hyeok was communicating with Chief Prosecutor Park Du-yeong.

He looked very surprised.

But she is not stupid. She knows that her husband’s sponsor is Director Choi Min-hyeok.

Director Choi Min-hyeok occasionally glanced at her and slyly flipped through the documents.

He put the USB file in his pocket.

[This is the Han-Young Daily.]

[… If it’s the Han-Young Ilbo, is it the Han-Young Ilbo that I know?]

[you’re right.]

[Oh my god, are you out of your mind?!]

[I tried to control myself as much as possible, but he wouldn’t listen. There is evidence of illegal activities, including a recording, on that USB.]

[… … .]

Chief Prosecutor Park Du-young was so shocked that he couldn’t answer for a while.

Prosecutors have never before conducted a search and seizure against a media outlet.

In fact, if he were alone, he would not have been able to accept Director Choi Min-hyeok’s offer.

But Director Choi Min-hyeok thought this was possible because of one fact.

[Isn’t Chief Prosecutor Cho Jeong-soo your protégé? I understand that the two of you are quite close, so this case will be a good one.]

[that…….]

Director Choi Min-hyeok then stood up from his seat and spoke bluntly.

[The job of the prosecutor is to catch criminals. Take a look at the USB file. There is a whistleblower in there. It is not something that is being done just because of me.]

* * *

“…hmm.”

Chief Prosecutor Cho Jeong-soo groaned as he reviewed the evidence brought by Chief Prosecutor Park Du-young. This was because the other party was Han Young Ilbo.

He glanced at Chief Prosecutor Park Du-young in bewilderment.

Chief Prosecutor Park Du-young avoided his gaze.

The attitude was that it had nothing to do with this incident.

He thought about it for a moment.

But the worries didn’t last long.

“Does Director Choi Min-hyeok really want this?”

“yes.”

“Hanyoung Ilbo. You’re a major media outlet, and you want to do this? The higher-ups won’t stay still. No matter how much I am a country, I can’t keep pushing this.”

Chief Prosecutor Park Du-young continued talking with his tongue hanging out.

“Director Choi Min-hyeok said he took care of it. He said there would be no interference from higher-ups.”

“really?”

“Yes. I was curious, so I called again and asked. But they didn’t give me a clear answer. They just said that what we have to do is follow the law. The evidence is so clear that it’s not difficult to get a warrant.”

That’s right.

The transcript also contained a record of the Han-Young Daily destroying evidence just in case.

Vice President Lee Dong-soo attempted to destroy evidence in advance just in case.

That was a few days ago too.

Reporter Choi Gwang-su clearly captured the scene.

I even recorded it.

Prosecutor General Cho Jeong-su thought again. No matter how perfect the evidence is, it is not an easy task. No, there has never been anything like this in constitutional history.

Because the prosecution has never searched or seized a media outlet.

But he was sure of one thing. There was nothing better than standing in Director Choi Min-hyeok’s line.

“Duyeong, let’s do this.”

“…yes.”

Chief Prosecutor Park Du-young wasn’t all that surprised. He had seen the greed in the eyes of Chief Prosecutor Cho Jeong-sik. It was a strange thing for him.

‘I’ve never seen those eyes before… … .’

He was just bitter.

* * *

Vice President Lee Dong-soo, of course, had no intention of giving up. They called together all the high-ranking officials of Han-Young Ilbo and continued the meeting with information related to Choi Min-hyeok.

I was obsessed with the Choi Min-hyuk series.

Editor Choi Kyung-jin also felt that the atmosphere was cold.

He had no idea what to do about the situation.

The reporter, Pyong Yok-gu, warned.

“If it’s what Director Choi Min-hyeok is doing, it can’t end like this.”

“But there’s nothing we can do. Even if we could, it’s just asking other media outlets to do it for us.”

Eventually, things blew up.

Surprisingly, it was the Central District Prosecutors’ Office that brought a search and seizure warrant.

It was Chief Prosecutor Park Du-young. He instructed the reporters to stand aside while holding out a search and seizure warrant.

[I told the reporter there to just step back!]

“Are you crazy back then?!”

But the reporters’ reaction was unusual.

“The reasons stated in the warrant do not cover the entire office!”

“No, that’s the target!”

The Han-Young Ilbo reporter raised objections regarding the scope of the search and seizure.

He even sent out a lawyer from Han-Young Ilbo to speak.

Chief Prosecutor Park Du-young calmly expressed his opinion.

“Please check the warrant again. The warrant was issued based on the transcript.”

“That’s ridiculous!”

“You can take that to court and argue about it!”

Chief Prosecutor Park Du-young managed his expression on the outside. He was also careful with his words. It was because he could face backlash if he was not careful.

Freedom of the press and the people’s right to know were due to a universal cheat key.

It was an incident that could have resulted in the Central District Prosecutors’ Office being stripped of its clothes.

Chief Prosecutor Park Du-young was worried about how to use the transcript of Seong Hwan-soo among the transcripts. He never wanted to get stabbed in the back of the head.

Rather, a question arose.

‘How on earth did Director Choi Min-hyeok obtain this information?’

* * *

The Central District Prosecutors’ Office’s search and seizure of the Han-Young Daily dominated the evening news that day.

It was truly an uncommon case for prosecutors to raid and search an active media outlet.

No, it was more controversial that the court issued the warrant.

But as evidence of the Han-Young Daily’s illegal activities began to spread, things changed.

Vice President Lee Dong-soo was particularly shocked and did not even come to work.

His own dismissal was not a very significant matter.

If I wasn’t careful, I could have ended up in jail.

“… … .”

Vice Chairman Choi Moon-kyung saw an article about the search and seizure of the Han-Young Ilbo on the evening news.

He was also greatly shocked.

This incident was worse than the Choi Hoon-yeol incident.

He hurriedly called Secretary Kwon Jae-hong.

“… It’s probably unrelated, right?”

Secretary Kwon Jae-hong did not answer the phone right away, sweating profusely. He felt relieved only after hanging up the phone.

“I have no direct relationship with the Han-Young Daily. However… … .”

“Just what?”

“Oh, no. Mr. Vice Chairman, you have never met with the Han Young Ilbo side, right? So there won’t be any major problems.”

“Phew.”

Vice Chairman Choi Moon-kyung was finally relieved. I know. I have no direct connection with the Han-Young Daily. I just said it just in case.

Only then did he sigh.

If I had taken a risk, I could have gotten involved in this matter.

‘That bastard Minhyuk.’

I thought of Director Choi Min-hyeok again.

The two remained silent for a moment.

I was so surprised that I lost my mind and panicked.

Secretary Kwon Jae-hong pointed out one point in particular.

“The Han-Young Daily extraordinary shareholders’ meeting will be held this time. It will be about the dismissal of Vice President Lee Dong-soo.”

“Is that possible?”

“It seems that the shareholders have changed their minds because the deficit of Han-Young Ilbo has increased so much.”

“That’s ridiculous! You know the nature of the shareholders of Han-Young Ilbo. They… … for no reason at all.”

“They say that President Choi Doo-jin got involved. He especially tried to persuade the shareholders. With his connections, there’s nothing he can’t do. In a situation like this, he’ll do even more.”

“CEO Choi Doo-jin interfered with the shareholders of Han Young Ilbo?”

“… It seems that there is a lot of talk that Director Choi Min-hyeok is behind this.”

“under.”

Vice Chairman Choi Moon-kyung couldn’t help but say something ridiculous when she heard the name ‘Director Choi Min-hyeok.’

If it were Director Choi Min-hyeok, he would do something worse than this.

“… Just in case, do some more research.”

“All right.”

* * *

It seemed like Han-Young Ilbo’s Vice President Lee Dong-soo was particularly obsessed with Director Choi Min-hyeok, but that wasn’t the case.

In fact, if you look closely, the group that did the most research on Director Choi Min-hyeok was the planning department of Oseong Electronics.

In particular, Director Kwon Tae-seong had already been dealt a blow by Director Choi Min-hyeok, so he collected various pieces of information about Director Choi Min-hyeok just in case.

He sighed as he looked at the movements related to the next-generation mobile communications standards currently underway at ETRI, or more precisely, the data that had suddenly increased dramatically.

No, the news of the new Plims corporation that came out last week gave me goosebumps.

“… Is this true?”

Chief Im Kwon-soo also grumbled, seemingly at a loss.

“The Plims story has already been going on. The standardization process led by Dr. Chris Amon has been progressing rapidly, and even ETRI has been keeping pace. The Plims chip was released just recently. I think many people must have felt a sense of crisis.”

“Because of that pressure, you had no choice but to create a new corporation called Plims?”

“To be exact, it would be a stock transaction. My visit to the LC Electronics Central Research Institute would also be part of that kind of work.”