The Greatest Conglomerate Ever With the American Lottery - The Greatest Conglomerate Ever With the American Lottery chapter 49

49. He’s the best.

As if I hadn’t said enough, Ki-dong looked at me in disbelief.

“We should start a company?”

“What do you mean, start a company out of the blue?”

“Didn’t I tell you we bought a PMC in the US with George’s introduction?”

“Didn’t I? You said it was George’s company?”

“Yeah, so I thought, if you’re going to bring in your old coworkers to work for you, let’s do it right.”

“Properly? How do you mean?”

“Well, how many people do you think we’d need to call up to do three ladder centers right now? Six or seven?”

“You were going to call six people, two at a time, weren’t you?”

“What do you mean, gurus?”

“No, I’m calling them tutors, which is obvious, right? And then as we were going back and forth, it wasn’t just the ladder centers, it was other childcare centers that were applying, so we were going to hire like three or four more people to go out and do itinerant training.”

“Well, that kind of tied into it, and I had an idea, we should start a security company.”

“A security company?”

“Yes. It’s hard to make a full-fledged PMC in Korea like in the U.S., so let’s set up a security company to do business and hire tutors and bodyguards for the kids we need.”

“Well, would that be a business?”

“I don’t intend to make a profit from it, but I’m sure there’s quite a demand for it if we look for it. Right now, I want you to think of the last company that Chairman Park had.”

“Oh!”

I remembered the person who worked for Chairman Park Sang-hwan at Daeyang Construction and was kicked out by Ki-dong at the word of his brother.

In hindsight, it didn’t seem like he was doing anything illegal, but at the time, we only heard that he was a gangster businessman and kicked him out.

Besides, did he really want to work for the chairman of a construction company with a bad vibe?

“Yeah, come to think of it, he was there. From what I heard from a guy I knew the other day, he’s in pretty bad shape—.”

“That’s right. So, let’s do it. The people you know, they’re really high-level people, but they’re in a specialized field, so they’re almost useless in the real world, but there are people like Chairman Park who need them.”

“Hmmm—.”

In the short term, people like me, who have spent more than four years, and in the long term, more than a decade, learning to infiltrate enemy territory, infiltrate, strike, assassinate operatives, counterterrorism, and bodyguard, all they do is shoot, kill, and protect.

There wasn’t much to do in society.

The only thing they could do was join the police commandos or firefighters under the local police departments.

Therefore, there were a surprising number of people who were not able to adapt to society and wandered around.

Then, there are quite a few people who get jobs at overseas PMCs, but this is also a problem because they need to speak English.

Even if they can speak English, most of them are not fluent, so they are not treated properly.

The worst thing to do is to go to dangerous areas such as the Gulf of Aden on a large ship to target pirates, which is said to be not very profitable.

That’s because there are a lot of people from underdeveloped countries.

“So, let’s recruit them, train them properly, and get them into the high-end security market, as an elite few. I’m sure you felt bad for them, too, because they were the ones you sent out as instructors to teach, but they’re like disciples anyway, and they don’t really have a place in society.”

“You’re right about that, but how many are you going to do?”

“First, let’s gather about 100 people, and then we’ll start a security company, and some of them will be able to interact with our center and serve as tutors, and we’ll also start a bodyguard business. Of course, the first customer will be me, and the second will be Chairman Park Sang-hwan, right?”

“You’re going to be the first client? You’re mostly in the US, right?”

“Aha, who wants me to do bodyguarding? My Somi.”

“Aha, the pretty little sister?”

“Yeah, well, you can only ask your brothers so much, right? It’s not like they don’t have jobs, right? I mean, I’ve been feeling insecure and bad the whole time I’ve been in the U.S., so why shouldn’t she be pretty?”

“Well, she’s pretty…”

Sometimes, my mom would say that when Somi is late, her heart would sink.

The world must be a rough place.

In any case, I had no intention of making money with the security company.

I figured I’d do security for Somi and the rest of the family, and then I’d set up a nursery school and a ladder center to train the kids, and I’d actually have a security business.

As a bonus, I’d be creating good jobs for my former coworkers.

It’s just, you know, you don’t lose much.

Well, even if you lose, it’s not going to cost you more than 10 billion a year in labor for 100 people, so it’s not a big risk.

“If we put a bodyguard on him, Somi will go crazy, so when we hire him, make sure he’s a Tarantula.”

“Yeah, okay.”

“So that’s what you’re going to do? Also, look up that guy who got kicked out for working for Mr. Park last time, and give him some consideration first.”

“I will. I’ve been pestering him, too. So, where are we getting the office?”

“Magog!”

“Magog? What Magog?”

“I’m going to buy some land in Magok soon, and I’m going to put all of Lee Jae-ha’s clothing business, welfare foundation, and security company there. Magok is nice, right? It has three subway lines, and it’s close to Incheon and Gimpo airports, among other things!”

“More than what?”

“That if you fall down, your nose will touch my house? Hmph!”

“Fuhahahaha, asshole!”

My house is close to DMC station, and if you’re in Magok district, you can cross the Gayang Bridge or the soon-to-be-completed World Cup Bridge and you’re in Magok district.

I mean, if the road wasn’t blocked, we’d be nose to nose if we fell down.

“So, who are you going to hire for the security company? I’m not in a position to get out of here when you signal me, and I’m not in a position to get out of here, and if you’re going to hire a security company, you’re going to have to hire somebody from the top of the police force to work with the police, and we’re not going to be able to afford it.”

“Isn’t there anybody out there? Someone with experience and a good reputation.”

“I don’t know, I’ll have to think about it.”

“Well, take your time, then. There’s one thing that must be met.”

“One thing? What is it?”

“Well, it has to be someone I can trust, because it’s a security company and they’re going to be guarding my family, and I don’t know about the other one, but I know the head of the security company because I’m going to be interviewing him.”

“Someone who’s trustworthy and has a great career and a great reputation—. This is hard, hard.”

“hahahahaha! I told you to think about it slowly. Just in case, you should also discuss it with Mr. Shin and Mr. Zhang.”

“Well, okay, okay, I’ll contact you when I think of something—. Hmm?”

Ki Dong suddenly remembered something as he spoke.

“Why?”

“Damn it, I’ve been thinking about the wrong thing with the right person next to me—.”

“Next to? Who?”

“Hmph, you know who.”

“Uh, who’s that?”

“Who is it, the flyer?”

“Flyer?”

“The battalion commander when you were commissioned and assigned.”

“Oh, Battalion Commander Lee Sang-cheol? Is he retired? Already?”

“Already? If you have a Navy dog tag with one star, you should come out. There’s nowhere to go. He was discharged at the end of last year.”

“Ah—.”

Brigadier General Lee Sang-chul.

He was the battalion commander when I received my unit assignment after I was commissioned.

He was very fond of me and took care of me in many ways, knowing my difficult situation.

He is second to none in the field of special warfare in Korea, and he has mastered various martial arts and is a human weapon.

A few years ago, he was promoted with a star as a naval special warfare squadron leader, but I didn’t expect him to take off his clothes.

Hagar, in the Navy, the highest-ranking flyer in the Navy is a dog, and special warfare is the highest-ranking flyer, so you must have worked your way up and retired.

How time flies.

Well, he’s the best.

I didn’t realize he was still in the military.

“Hey, why don’t you tell me sooner rather than later, so I don’t have to worry about it?”

“You just got out of the army, so I forgot about it. If it’s him, are you also an Okeiji?”

“Of course I am. Then call my brother and get hold of me. I’ll come with you.”

“hahahahaha! Okay.”

After Ki-dong had a meeting with his brother, he went to the digital complex and met up with Jae-ha.

“Is JD’s style more normalized?”

“It’s pretty stable now. I’ve cleaned up all the unnecessary and wasteful things. The first thing I got rid of was the Chinese subsidiary, and I thought I was going to die from the headache of organizing it.”

“Good work, and what happened to the sale of the Magok office space?”

“Mr. Park’s lawyer is working on it. All the usable land has already been sold, and what’s left is land that was sold and spit out of an oil tanker.”

“From a tanker?”

“Yes. Daewoo bought over 60,000 square meters for a research and development center and then sold it when the company went under. The location is great.”

“But?”

“They’re selling it in parcels, but it’s too big for us.”

“How much is left?”

“More than half of it has already been sold.”

“Then we’ll take the remaining 30,000 square meters.”

“What? All the remaining land? 30,000! That’s over 9,000 square meters, and you want to sell it?”

“Yeah, we’re going to have to merge us and JD anyway, and we’re also going to buy the adult clothing business, right?”

“Still too big?”

“Don’t worry, I’ll use half of it.”

“You will? What are you going to spend it on?”

“The welfare foundation, and you said hello before, didn’t you, Ki-dong?”

“You mean your army buddy, he’s the one we talk to sometimes, he’s supposed to donate our clothes too, right?”

“Really? He didn’t say anything like that.”

“Hey, how do you say all that?”

“Well—.”

“Well, what about him?”

“I’m setting up a security company there, and he’s going to be part of it.”

“What kind of security company?”

“Just something like that.”

“First of all, you really don’t know what you’re talking about. In any case, it sounds like you’ll have a lot of space.”

“Well, that’s just for the additional businesses I have in Korea.”

“Sure, sure. But we’ll have to make sure the ratio of the labs is right.”

Magok Business District basically requires that the space occupied by corporate research centers exceed a certain percentage.

This is so that the Seoul Metropolitan Government can sell it cheaper than the surrounding commercial districts.

“You can fit the apparel business, right? All the space-hungry places like the design room and pattern room are registered as corporate researchers, right?”

“We can, but how will we fit your side?”

“The welfare foundation said it’s possible if we coordinate with the city, and I think we can fit in a security company, but that’s up to Attorney Park Hong-ryul.”

“Phew! Why does your scale seem to be getting bigger and bigger?”

“Hmph! It’s not that bad.”

“Anyway, we need to think of 100 billion for the land alone. The purchase price of the tanker was around 200 billion, right?”

“That’s it. And it’s not like I’m paying for it all at once, so it’s not a problem, even if I just ask for it all.”

“Okay. We’ll go for it.”

“Okay.”

After taking care of business in Korea, I headed to Incheon Airport with my family.

To travel abroad with my family.