The Chaebol Who Flies From Space - Chapter 5
Only Noblemtl
5. Return of investment (1)
At the hospital I returned to, no matter how many devices were mobilized and a detailed examination was conducted, nothing unusual was found, so I was able to be discharged safely in the evening after two days.
When I got home, I sat down at the table and leafed through the newspapers, but I couldn’t find anything worth writing about.
“Ooh! Brother, you look so cool! The way you sit and read the newspaper is really cool, it looks like something straight out of a cartoon. There was a reason why my sisters used to rush at me without thinking.”
A little girl named Myeol-ssi, who had a sinister smile on her lips like my uncle, teased me.
To be honest, I can’t tell the difference between Asian faces. I’ve only seen white and black people my whole life, so how could I possibly tell the difference between Asian faces that I don’t even see often? I had a hard time because of that when I was in college and when I was living in society.
Even when my little sister teased me, I didn’t know how I looked to other people.
“Aren’t you busy? You said you’re a college student?”
It was my sister who brought me home after I was discharged from the hospital.
“You’re saying that you have to skip classes during spring break and the beginning of the semester? Ahem! That’s the dignity of being the top student in the department.”
The sight of my little sister smiling and making a V sign with two fingers looked a little pathetic.
My younger sister grumbled with a pouty face as she watched me like that.
“Huh, Mom is in France with her friends, Grandpa is in Japan on business, and Dad is busy with work. Who will take care of my brother? Thanks to this sweet little sister’s spirit of sacrifice, my brother will recover quickly. If you keep going like this, you’ll really have no choice in the future.”
It wasn’t scary at all to see my sister put one hand on her hip and clench her fist with the other, but it was definitely helpful.
I do have a mom who works at home, but if my younger sister wasn’t with me, I would have been really lost.
“Yes, thank you so much, I’m crying. Please take care of me in the future.”
“It should have happened a long time ago.”
Since my younger sister seemed to know a lot about housework, I asked her what had been on my mind.
“But I told you I was going to invest. What happened to that?”
“Somehow I overheard my dad and grandpa talking.”
Looking at his proud appearance, he was truly an amazing kid.
“so?”
“I guess they released the collateral and my father took over the shares and paid off the loan with them. So you’re saying that you’re a beggar now. No, you probably still have some money from before, so you’re not a beggar, are you?”
“I had money?”
“There’s probably money your mom gave you and money you earned from working at the company. Oh! I don’t know, you can just go to the bank and ask for the exact details. Why are you asking me?”
She was a younger sister who would get irritated at ambiguous places after doing well. She was cute, but she didn’t hide her unpleasant expression on the outside.
“Okay. I’ll go to the bank and find out.”
“Do you know where the bank is?”
“···.”
“Tsk tsk, I knew it. It’s Hanyang Bank. It’s where my whole family does business.”
I went to the Hanyang Bank branch near my house to check after hearing what my sister had said, and confirmed that I had a considerable amount of money in my account that most people would consider a significant amount – but it was only enough to make me sigh.
“150 million won? How much is that?”
I had no idea how much money I had.
I caught a taxi to Yeouido.
Even though it was late, I had to go to work, so I quickly stopped by the bank and went out to the Han River.
Maybe it was because of my childhood experience growing up along the Mississippi River, but whenever I felt the river breeze, my heart felt expansive.
As I sat by the river and drank coffee, the memories that had remained in my body began to come back to me one by one.
This idiot got hit in the back of the head by Park Cheong-moon, the president of the company he moved to.
There was talk that he would take charge of the investment portion of the newly created company, but he changed his words after the promised investment amount was deposited.
He appointed his right-hand man as head of the investment division.
So I got into a fight with the boss and drank a ton of alcohol, which I’m not good at, in the heat of the moment, and that’s how I got into trouble.
When the humans I was seeing for the first time entered the building at the address my younger sister gave me, they greeted me.
Although it was awkward, I thought I might know the owner of this body, a guy named Jo Yong-won, so I greeted him briefly and went into TM Investment, located on the 8th floor of a commercial building in Yeouido.
“How is Manager Cho’s health? I heard he was hospitalized?”
“How are you, sir? I was worried about you a lot.”
People of similar age were sitting in a row and greeting me warmly, which was still awkward, but I nodded my head.
As far as I can remember, since it was a newly established company, I was promoted one by one as I joined, and most of the employees were young people.
Those who took up executive positions were only slightly older.
Where is my seat?
The Asset Management Department, where I work, has a youthful vibe, with everyone in their thirties, except for one manager.
As I hesitated for a moment, an empty space caught my eye. I took a quick look around and approached, and as expected, there was a file with my name written on it.
I vaguely remembered that I had been analyzing the financial statements of companies when I left work, and there were parts that were marked here and there in the documents.
I sat quietly for a while and thought about what to do next.
Even at home, I couldn’t understand why I had come here at this time, but worrying about it wasn’t something that could be solved.
Whether it’s regression or whatever, it’s something that goes beyond the realm of human consciousness.
He clicked his tongue lightly.
If possible, it would be nice if AI Ariel came along too.
If it’s a 7th generation nano bionic artificial intelligence, it’s virtually invincible in this era. It was used as an auxiliary function in the 9th century of space power, but now it has high performance to the point where it can easily chew up even supercomputers.
Another thing is that I didn’t have enough detailed information about this era in my head.
After the cataclysm of 2,115 AD, human society on Earth had changed so much that no detailed records remained.
No, it would be more accurate to say that it has become almost useless and has fallen out of people’s interest.
As interstellar warp travel became possible and the era of full-scale space exploration began, the value of our solar system, which had few resources and was the home of humanity, fell significantly.
Many people have gone out into space.
And it prospered.
The number of humans remaining on Earth is about 1 billion, and more than 200 times that number have spread out into space and pioneered new lands.
According to the story, the total amount of money invested by this body in TM Investment Trust was 2.5 billion, and a return of the investment had to be requested, but looking at the general state of the company, it seemed that returning the investment would not be easy.
I didn’t realize it when I came in, but when I looked around, the company was lacking in energy.
It’s only been three months since the company was founded, but at this time, it would be normal for all employees to be running around and jumping around.
A startup that has just been established usually has a lot more work to do than meets the eye.
However, I was concerned that the eyes of the employees sitting in the office were as blank and dim as a fish.
It seemed like something bad was going on at the company, but the information was sorely lacking.
In times like these, there was a panacea that was sure to work.
I silently tapped the chair of the person sitting next to me who looked to be around my age. In my memory, he was called Manager Yang Dong-il.
“why? ”
When I pointed upwards with my finger without saying a word, the other person nodded. This was a universal language that did not need words regardless of the time.
Judging from the atmosphere of the people working with their ears pricked up and their computers turned on without me even looking at them, it seemed like they were around the same age and had similar experience, so we could talk to each other casually.
He asked, lighting a cigarette in the smoking room.
“You collapsed, so how are you? I was going to go check on you when I had time, but I heard you’ve already been discharged. It doesn’t seem to be serious.”
“I’m feeling better now, but I just came back from the hospital and why is the office atmosphere like this?”
“Damn it! President Park was talking big, and now 10 billion won of capital is gone. Jeonju, who was supposed to pay the money, suddenly changed his words. If he had known this would happen, he would have quit the securities company he was working at and followed President Park. I heard that President Park, who was bragging about being the third generation of a conglomerate, is a dog at home, so Jeonju noticed······.”
He is usually a talkative person, so he kept telling me about the things that had happened in the office while I was lying down, even without me having to come forward.
But it was a little different from what I knew.
“No way. Senior Park may not be very well-received in his family, but how much wealth did he inherit? This guy is acting like this…”
“Does anything come to mind?”
I had a guess and laughed bitterly.
“Do you know what the first lesson the chaebols teach their children is?”
“How would I know that I’m not the son of a chaebol? Yes, you understand. I’m not the son of a similar family.”
“The difference in wealth between Mr. Park’s family and our family is probably more than ten times.”
Dongil Construction, the family of Park Sunbae, barely makes it into the top 30 companies, but the family I came from is not even in the top 100.
“But the fact that you’re a rich kid still doesn’t change. And you’re an only son.”
“My only son also has a younger sister.”
“At home, no one will care about a girl. Once she gets married, she will belong to another family.”
When I heard Manager Yang’s words, I felt once again that times were different. Saying something like that in the space age would be absurd.
“Then, how much is the paid-in capital insufficient?”
“10 billion won as is, President Park boasted that 30 billion won in capital would be easy, but how much capital did you put in?”
“Maybe 2.5 billion?”
“He must have put in a lot because he’s a rich kid. Damn, I even put in 500 million won. Can I get it back? No matter how small it is, if you’re the third generation of a conglomerate, why can’t you exert your power like this? Haven’t you heard anything about President Park being your senior at New York University?”
Of course there’s no way I could know.
“I don’t know because you didn’t tell me in detail. You’ve been lying in the hospital all this time, so how would I know?”
“This is a big deal. We have to pay the capital by the deadline to start business properly. If we are late, our business license will be revoked.”
“When is the deadline?”
“The 10th of next month, that’s right. I should have known when I was making a big fuss. Even if I secure the capital, pay it in, finish the permit process, and start operations, if the president can’t operate like this, it’s like starting a company.”
While talking about this and that with Manager Yang, I gradually learned about the company’s operating circumstances.
As you can see, I teased the talkative manager and looked into the company’s situation in detail, and the result was that this company really had no vision at all.
I had to throw it away and get my investment money back, but President Park Cheong-moon, who was my senior from college, didn’t seem to have any intention of doing that.
For companies like this, the answer was to get out as quickly as possible.
‘Tsk tsk, you idiot, you’re telling me to start a company because you were dragged there by a swindler like CEO Park Cheong-moon.’
A sigh escaped my lips without me realizing it.
Whoever I was, I was a hero who had repeatedly won victories in the fierce battlefield of space resource development and the space Wall Street swarming with hyenas for nearly a hundred years.
You can get a general idea at a glance.
Park Cheong-moon was just a shell of a man who only made good words.
All talk and no substance.
I was so indecisive because I learned everything at home in a haphazard manner.
When something like this happens, you can fill the capital with your own money, but you can’t be greedy about it.
It was disgusting to see people desperately trying to start a business with other people’s money.