The Chaebol Who Flies From Space - Chapter 58



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58. Restructuring of the governance structure (3)

My uncle ran into the office and started making a fuss, demanding that I hand over the game.

I knew this would happen and prepared the game in advance, but it seemed like he really wanted to try it.

“Uncle, do you really like games?”

“What’s the point of talking? When I was a student at Caltech, I almost got kicked out of school for playing TRPGs. I skipped class to play games and got scolded by the professor.”

I heard something completely unexpected.

“Huh! My uncle graduated from Caltech?”

“You didn’t know? How could you not know?”

I made an excuse to my uncle who had a strange look on his face.

“I had an accident before, so I don’t remember things.”

“That incident! Well, I was surprised when you suddenly lost your memory. Are you okay now?”

“It doesn’t seem like there are any major aftereffects. Memories that I had forgotten are coming back to me one by one.”

My uncle nodded at my words.

“What did you major in at Caltech?”

“I majored in biotechnology. My father recommended it to me, so I chose biotechnology, but I regretted it so much after I got into it. It didn’t fit my aptitude, so I had a hard time graduating. When I think about how much I suffered because of my brother.”

“Why, father?”

“You really don’t remember anything. Why? My brother graduated with honors in bioengineering from Caltech, so my father enrolled me there. I was originally planning to go to Berkeley’s computer science department.”

Only then did I understand why my father kept complaining about me not being a good student, even though I graduated from New York University with a degree in business administration.

“If brothers graduated from Caltech together, it would have been quite noisy in Korea, but isn’t it quiet?”

I wondered if there were any brothers with this level of education in the Korean business world.

“It’s noisy! If we graduated from Harvard or MIT, that would be possible, but in Korea, more people don’t know about Caltech. There aren’t many people who go to school. Only 500 people enroll in Caltech each year. Even if it has increased these days, that’s still the case.”

I thought so.

“As far as I know, only true geniuses get into Caltech. Your father and uncle must have been really smart.”

“If you look at the people I went to school with, there were a lot of crazy people. Not me, but your father was one of them. If it weren’t for your father’s stubbornness, you could have graduated and become a professor at Caltech or MIT.”

My uncle clicked his tongue in disapproval and swallowed the rest of his words.

“It looks like Grandpa really gave Dad a hard time.”

“That’s not true. At that time, wasn’t it difficult to make a living in Korea? My brother wanted to stay in school, but he was forced to stay at the company because he thought he should start a business to save the country instead of staying in school.”

I kind of understand it.

“My uncle must have been very frustrated when he inherited the flour milling company. If he had the ability, he could have started his own company in the meantime.”

“……I started a company in the middle, but it failed several times. So I thought maybe I didn’t have the talent for business. My father also threatened me that if I tried to start a business on my own again and failed again, he would strike me from the family tree.”

“This time, even Grandpa didn’t object much.”

“You’ve been freed from your shackles since you made a lot of money and became a tycoon. Your father said he won’t interfere with what I do anymore. He said if your uncle’s business fails, you won’t just sit still.”

“That’s true. There’s no way I’d let my uncle fail.”

It just made sense.

So I asked what I had been wondering before.

“Uncle, why didn’t you entrust the corporate acquisition to WD Investment? Wouldn’t it be easier to leave it to the company instead of running around yourself?”

“Huh?! What are you talking about?”

My uncle said he didn’t understand English.

“Didn’t you know that WD Investment had an M&A team?”

“Does an investment company have something like that? I thought they bought and sold stocks there.”

Oh my! Now I understand why my grandfather discouraged my uncle from starting a business.

This gentleman has a good head, but he’s the type of person who studies the heavens. He doesn’t know anything about the ways of the world, and once he gets into something, he becomes obsessed with it.

Even if I were to take over the management of a gaming company, I decided to hire a separate person to take charge of the business.

After my uncle returned with the game I had handed him, he called President Park.

“My uncle came and went a little while ago, and I talked to him and he said that if I leave the management of the company to him, there will be chaos.”

President Park, who had been taking care of my uncle since he was young, nodded in agreement.

“President Dongjin is a bit like that.”

“Do you know what your uncle is like, Doctor?”

“The chairman regretted it so much that he should have left Dongjin President in academia instead. He handed over the flour milling company to his youngest daughter-in-law for fear that she would ruin it. The largest shareholder of the flour milling company is not the Dongjin President, but his youngest daughter-in-law.”

Haha, somehow my grandfather seemed happy when my uncle said he was going into business.

It was me who had to shoulder the burden of the family’s troubles.

“We need an accounting professional who knows the gaming industry well.”

As soon as I opened my mouth, he understood what I meant.

“It looks like CEO Dongjin is going to start a game company this time.”

“It won’t fail. It’s a company with a game IP that’s already a hit in China. They say they bring in over 100 billion won in revenue every year, so it won’t be easy for them to fail at that level. The revenue will only increase, not decrease.

If Ariel’s assurance is true, they will be able to make a living off of that one game IP for at least 10 years.

“President Dongjin is smart and has ingenious plans, but he lacks context when it comes to management. He also can’t manage the organization well. If it were a company that makes a lot of money, we would need to bring in an accounting expert to assist us. If it were a game company, President Dongjin would also be good at management. He’s been interested in that area since he was young.”

“I hope so. I used to think it was strange that my family didn’t care at all about the various skills I developed, but now that I look back, they’re all smart.”

“If I say so, it’s just nagging. Chairman Noh also graduated from Gyeongseong Imperial University during the harsh times. I heard from my father later that he was a genius known throughout the country. The two presidents were also smart and graduated from prestigious American universities. My late grandmother used to brag about her daughter’s intelligence. She said that her daughter was smarter than her sons.”

“Then it would be a real shame to lose your aunt.”

“It was a time when the world didn’t give women a chance. Myeong-ju also entered college and suddenly started dating.”

“I heard the story too. I heard it wasn’t that bad.”

“I saw her from the side, and really… She said she would die if she wasn’t married off, so the old man and his wife were worried. She changed a lot as she got older, but Myeong-ju used to be a real bear. When a blunt daughter suddenly says she wants to get married and brings a man home, the whole house is turned upside down.”

“Isn’t your grandparent the type of person who would oppose a love marriage? Didn’t your uncle say that he was an orphan who lost his parents at a young age?”

“It’s not that I was against the idea of ​​a son-in-law who was an orphan. My grandmother had high expectations for me. She wanted her smart daughter to do her own thing.”

“Do you know our family well, Doctor?”

At my words, the director chuckled.

“Of course I know. The house where Chairman Noh lived was right next door to mine. Don’t you call them neighbors? My father, who passed away last year, and Chairman Noh were close friends all their lives, even though they were older. We used to hang out like real brothers. I’m the neighborhood older brother to President Dongwon and President Dongjin. I remember when we were both sniffling. We both get sick of talking about the old days. Back then, when we talked about Seoul, it was different from now. People who were born in Seoul also spoke differently from other people. The Seoul dialect has almost disappeared now.”

This was another fact I didn’t know.

“But you two are married.”

“What can I do? In the end, my parents have to take responsibility. My late wife was very sorry for opposing her son-in-law, Mr. Park, for marrying her. My daughter hated him for a while. I still remember the scene from that time. There were many things that happened, but I really missed those days. My wife passed away too early. If we had medical technology like today, she wouldn’t have passed away so vainly. In this day and age, she passed away so suddenly after her 60th birthday.”

A day later, I received a call from my uncle.

– Yongwon, this is the real deal.

“How is it? I tried it myself.”

– It lacks a story for an RPG, but it’s very fun. The community features are also well-made. I guess Chinese people like this type of thing.

“That’s what they say. They say that games with good communities are popular.”

– Anything that is lacking can be resolved through updates, and with additional character development, this is a game IP that will sustain the company for at least 10 years.

“How about it? Would you like to try it?”

– Okay, I’ll give it a try.

After leaving the game company to my uncle, I felt like one of my headaches had disappeared.

[Master, you are making a mistake. Later, the size of the game company will be bigger than WD Chosun.]

“So what!”

[Aren’t you worried?]

“I’m worried. As the game company grows, I’m not the owner, and I don’t feel interested in running it myself.”

[How much stake do you want to hand over?]

“How much should I hand over? If I want to pass it on to my cousin Yeong-won later, it would be good to hand over about 40% this time.”

[Isn’t it too much to give to relatives, which doesn’t suit the Master? It’s like creating a family fund, and you don’t want to hand over the game company shares at a high price, right?]

“Iriel, do you know what I regret most in life?”

[How do I know that?]

“It means that I haven’t been able to live comfortably.”

[What are you talking about? Considering the Master’s lifestyle that remains in my memory circuit, this is ridiculous.]

Ariel jumped at my words. Well, it was probably too high-level a question for this protein AI to understand.

On the surface, it seemed absurd to say that I had no leisure. I had been legally married three times, had broken up with dozens of people, had been addicted to parties, and had even handed over the management of my business to my friend Georges and lived a dissolute life.

Looking back, I was unable to overcome the tension and pressure of the great wealth that suddenly fell upon me and lived as I pleased.

If I had had some peace of mind, I wouldn’t have lived like that.

Your relationship with your children probably won’t be ruined either.

I coldly turned away from them, saying they weren’t my children, but I never did anything good for them.

In the space age, whether someone was your biological child or not didn’t really matter.

[Master, you don’t have to feel guilty. According to Hal, the reason the Master came here is because we are of the same spirit.]

“I know, even if you don’t say anything. The current me and the André de Revuere Gang Codageong from before are all beings with the same soul. I can feel a little bit about what kind of experiment the Master of Hal did.”

The owner of Black Hole 109, Ryangin, was not researching dimensional travel, but rather the soul.

Even the Ryants, a race that ruled and reigned over the vast universe, did not properly understand the meaning of the soul until the very end, but I felt it.

My name is Jo Yong-won and I am André de Revuere, the River Codage.

The two are the same being and have one soul. If you asked me why, I would have no answer.

I just feel like that.

“I do what I have to do for my relatives because it is something I should do. It is not because I feel indebted to them. It is because I have the luxury.”

I did a lot of bad things when I was André Codageon, but I don’t have to live that way here.

Even if I don’t give up on being human like before, I will become the master of the world anyway.

In the next hundred years or so, the only giant corporation left on Earth will be the Codageong Company.