Chapter 40
Divorced and worked out
Eli, Jo Soo-ah, and Jin Yu-kyung.
Looking back, I wasn’t very popular with women.
‘Why do women gather all at once?’
In elementary school, I was teased by my friends for being poor.
There was even a time when my friends’ parents told me not to play with me, who had a bad family background.
During middle school and high school, I studied alone and stayed next to schoolboys.
It was to borrow the workbooks or workbooks that the friends had solved.
―Do you want to go eat bread together after school?
Notes from female students sometimes remained in shoeboxes or workbooks.
Two or three times a week?
A variety of female students, from model students to nerds close to school, used to send such notes.
‘All the other kids will receive this kind of note.’
I thought that dating a woman was meaningless.
It’s not like there’s a chance that you’ll be dating for the rest of your life because you dated in middle school or high school.
‘The thousand won I saved now is more important.’
Living like that, working at a job, and getting divorced, he was often involved with women.
It was the same with things about money.
I lived in terribly poverty, but when I got divorced and turned 30, my life went smoothly.
25 billion became 1 trillion, and as the wealth continued to increase, a sense of burden and confidence came together.
‘If you think about it, things will work out after breaking up with Han Chae-won.’
In just two years, I couldn’t even remember Han Chae-won’s face.
Even the deadline for divorce and property division has passed, so there is nothing to do with her in the future.
Even if it suddenly appeared in front of my eyes, I was going to leave it to the bodyguards to deal with it.
‘Let’s never see each other again. really… … .’
While thinking about Han Chae-won for a while, Jin Yu-gyeong emptied a bottle of alcohol.
“Give me another bottle of the strong one!”
“no. it’s okay.”
Jin Yoo-kyung was not like the royal family and chaebol 3rd generation that you see in dramas.
Cool in business, but very loose in private?
He talks a lot, looks like he’s going to have an accident, and at the same time, he’s strangely full of confidence, so he acts without hesitation.
“It’s a bit lacking. Just one more drink. Ohhhh.”
“Yes Yes.”
“Look at this. That’s because I’m not drunk.”
It was the first time he dealt with a drunken woman alone.
There were female employees who vomited while having dinner at work or were taken away by ambulance.
“ah. I’m tired, dear.”
After the meal, I stood up by supporting Jin Yoo-gyeong, who was drooping. Fortunately, the assistants of Future Car were waiting outside the store.
Three male assistants and three female assistants.
They looked at me and the bodyguards with mixed eyes.
“We will take care of the manager.”
“yes. Please do so.”
I never thought I would feel so relieved after handing over a little over 50kg of luggage.
* * *
I started a content company and moved around busily, but I no longer needed a business card for each person I met.
“My name is Shin Kim.”
“yes. I saw it on the news. haha. You are very famous these days. I didn’t expect the representative to greet me directly.”
Was a well-known rich person this comfortable?
Meeting and talking to people was important in my work.
They talked about what goals they had while running the company, and told them about the treatment they would receive in the future.
“I have no intention of making a lot of money. As you can see from the article, I am already rich. We believe that good content makes life fun. I want to operate as a company that creates such content, and I plan to actively provide necessary support.”
“I’ll think about it.”
Experienced writers or PDs were recruited one or two at a time.
I was thinking of producing a program and exporting it to a broadcasting station, OTT platform, YouTube, etc.
I wondered what would happen if I helped the PDs who made my favorite shows freely create what they wanted to do.
“CEO. Let’s go eat!”
“yes. All right.”
Eating meals with company employees also felt a bit different from before.
“eat a lot.”
“yes. CEO.”
I talked to several employees and instilled hope in them.
“If you have a program or idea you want to make, feel free to pursue it. Even if you fail, the company will continue to support you. That’s why I created Dream Art Rainbow.”
We want to be a good company for our employees.
Because he was a rich representative, he had enough power to support the company until it was on track.
Even though I thought that maybe they might consider me as an old man.
‘Are the entertainment PDs and writers older than me?’
and… … .
〈China’s new corona confirmed number exceeds 10,000〉
〈Game show postponed due to the new coronavirus〉
〈Infection crisis from China, WHO declares an international emergency〉
〈In Japan, the spread of corona throughout the archipelago〉
〈Delta Air Lines Suspends Flights to China〉
〈The U.S. State Department raised its highest level of travel alert to “don’t travel to China”>
The coronavirus, which originated in China, was spreading beyond Asia to Europe and the United States.
As fear spread, masks were sold out at pharmacies, and the number of people on the streets decreased significantly.
Broadcasting stations were also affected, and several programs were discontinued.
Sometimes movies go down in the investment stage.
It is embarrassing for a person who has just started a production company, but fortunately, it is in the beginning stage, so it belongs to the preparation period.
―Lee Ho-yeon: There may be a pandemic of the virus that we were worried about.
―Kim Shin: Will there be serious damage?
―Lee Ho-yeon: Considering the situation in China, where the number of infected people is rapidly increasing, it seems that the world will do much more damage than expected.
Share prices of domestic pharmaceutical companies soared in the stock market.
Although stock markets in the US and Europe did not react much, they were growing wary of the virus.
and the next day.
〈WHO ‘Asymptomatic infection spreads new corona’>
〈Hong Kong research team estimates more than 70,000 Chinese corona infections〉
〈China, more than 2,500 people infected in one day〉
〈Chinese stock market crashes more than 10%, circuit breaker activated〉
〈White House, Preventive Review of Economic Impact〉
The virus spread rapidly in China.
If it is 2,500 people in one day, the rate of spread completely exceeds previous expectations.
Department stores and hotels were temporarily closed as confirmed cases came out in Korea as well.
‘It reminds me of a movie I saw before.’
A movie I watched in a video room with Ellie, in which humanity is in danger due to an infectious disease.
Although it was a cinematic imagination, the virus spread around the world in just one month.
The death toll in the United States exceeded 2.5 million, and the world was in chaos until a vaccine was developed four months later.
The lack of vaccines were even distributed through a lottery system.
‘The infectious disease is spreading too fast.’
What if China did not disclose all information, but in fact tens of thousands of people are infected every day?
What if those infected are spreading to many countries, not just Korea?
Even if the mortality rate of the coronavirus was not severe, it seemed that it could cause great damage to the economy and society.
Everyone will think this way, but few people have the ability to prepare for it.
I don’t know what other pharmaceutical companies are doing. Until now, the place where he had been steadily researching the corona virus was Bio Life, which he had invested in.
―Kim Shin: We will provide more support for the development of vaccines and treatments. Please let me know if you need anything.
―Lee Ho-yeon: We need budget and computer resources to deal with viruses.
-Kim Shin: I’ll do anything.
It sent 60 billion won in support to Bio Life.
In preparation for something that might not happen, 10 billion won was invested every year, but it was worth the money if it could make even a small contribution to the epidemic.
Biolife decided to acquire the corona virus, analyze it centering on artificial intelligence, and expand the number of researchers.
―Lee Ho-yeon: If there is any progress, I will let you know.
-Kim Shin: Yes. do your best.
I don’t know how far the spread of corona virus will be, so I sold nearly half of the American tech stocks I bought, including Netflix.
KakaoTalk!
―Jin Yu-kyung: I will accept the terms of the deal. Come to work tomorrow.
And Jin Yoo-kyung accepted the offer in two days.
* * *
Team leader Han Chae-won.
When Choi So-hye, the former team leader, quit the company, she became the team leader of the support team with the help of director Jung, who is about to be promoted to vice president.
“Han Chae-won is the team leader? It’s nonsense. There are several people with more seniority.”
“It’s not that my job skills are superior to other employees.”
When she was promoted, there were stories of dissatisfaction among the support team staff, but Han Chae-won refuted with a cold expression.
“If you want to quit, write a resignation letter. Isn’t the company a place where you go for personal feelings?”
She thought that she could be promoted to team leader and later follow Director Jung to an executive position at Arcor.
“I heard that Assistant Manager Kim came to Korea. Are you shooting for dinner?”
“Sales Team Assistant Manager Kim Sang-ki?”
“No, Deputy Manager Kim Shin who left the company.”
“ah. him.”
News about my ex-husband came from the company.
Han Chae-won was annoyed and uncomfortable, but she tried to suppress it.
‘It’s all in the past.’
Even though I sent numerous text messages to Kim Shin, there was no reply.
Director Jung was more caring than expected, and his parents also took good care of her.
Although I thought I was being treated for granted because of my youth and beauty.
‘Didn’t that person say he made hundreds of billions? Even if it’s not that much, wouldn’t it be possible to become rich in 10 billion won if you inherit your parents’ fortune?’
Wear nice clothes, drive nice cars.
I wanted to live a life where I was treated everywhere.
Married life with Kim Shin was the worst in that respect.
once-in-a-lifetime mischief.
There is nothing more terrifying than a poor marriage.
Every time I saw friends who were uglier than me met better boyfriends or husbands, I got a tantrum.
In the end, she released the accumulated stress to her husband.
Kim Shin later became a jackpot with coins, but that was unpredictable.
I thought we could all live our own lives now.
It was the day after Shin Kim came to Korea and bought food for the employees of Arcor.
“They buy you food from a very expensive place.”
“Doesn’t it seem much more luxurious and sophisticated?”
“Right. Because money makes people.”
“When I asked the price of the watch I was wearing on my wrist, it was over 400 million won.”
“Crazy. really.”
Han Chae-won listened to all the conversations among the employees.
Even when I went to the rooftop to cool off, I heard the news about Kim Shin.
Na Sang-guk was talking to the new employees.
“Chief Kim. I told you a lot of things while joining the company. Should I say he taught me the ABCs of company life?”
“Did you?”
“yes. We were called the Three Musketeers together with Sang Sang and I. We decided to have a drink in a nice place later.”
Anyway, whenever I hear Kim Shin’s story, I get annoyed.
Han Chae-won scratched a lot of rip-offs at Director Jeong, who lived with him that day.
“Drink in moderation.”
“There are things I need for work, but I’ll reduce them a bit from now on.”
“What is belly fat? Isn’t it all visceral fat?”
Even so, it wasn’t as much as when he criticized Kim Shin in the past.
I thought Director Jung was not a person who could be ignored because he had money.
By the way… … .
“Have you seen the news, Assistant Manager Kim?”
“I saw it. The Internet is all over the property of Assistant Manager Kim.”
“I didn’t know how much money there would be. He is the god of investment. god.”
Office workers were excited all day.
Han Chae-won found it hard to keep her mouth shut in surprise as she looked up the article on her computer.
‘really? Really?’
A rich man with a trillion-dollar wealth that ranks in the top 20 in Korea.
“Chief Kim is great. They’ve become people from a completely different world than us.”
“Even if we sell our company, it won’t be as much as part of Manager Kim’s property.”
“But one team leader who divorced Assistant Manager Kim… … What a pity now.”
The words of the staff became daggers and stuck in my heart.