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How pretty I am! I'm even lucky with money too.
Tae Joo, after this, let's just go for one more.
- There is a field in Ohsan... - Look for a restaurant.
Something that would fit five, six tables...
A small noodle shop I could run with my family.
You'll need daily sales of at least 400,000...
A security deposit of fifty million with monthly rent of...
I'm not paying a security deposit or monthly rent.
I'll buy it.
And find a house near a subway station, too.
It would be nice to have three bedrooms...
A small yard would be even better.
The most expensive land in Seoul is Myeong-dong.
Maybe a little over fifty million per pyung?
My dear Tae Joo, how much are you planning on taking with two pyung of Zone B?
They just left the coffee shop.
I think they're meeting with Director Choi Seo Yoon.
I'll contact the tax office.
I'll cancel the tender offer advertisement...
The advertisement will go out as scheduled.
President.
Buy the two pyung that Jang Tae Joo owns.
He doesn't want to sell...
Make him want to sell!
There is no deal that satisfies everyone.
Search everything related to Jang Tae Joo... his office, family and relatives!
If Jang Tae Joo meets with Seo Yoon, and if Seo Yoon buys that land...
There will be no room for Director Kang or me in Sung Jin Group!
Jang... Tae... Joo...
Hee Joo, it has a lot of Chinese characters, so you won't understand it.
No! That's an English book. Put it down.
Hee Joo, let's go! Your mother will be worried.
What Mom's really worried about is Tae Joo.
She goes to bed early, but keeps tossing and turning til morning.
She must've been really worried to tell me to look into it.
Hee Joo, I'm good at everything except for lying.
Tae Joo gives legal advice to his friend and creates documents...
Brother? There are millions of brothers in this country, so which brother would you...
Tae Joo?
Hee Joo.
Tae Joo. Tae Joo!
Hee Joo. Hee Joo!
Episode 3
They left the coffee shop right after the phone call.
I think President Choi Min Jae made a move.
In case President Choi Min Jae buys the land, we need to have an back-up...
There is no back-up plan.
Jang Tae Joo... the one who gets the two pyung of his land...
will become the owner of Sung Jin Group's general shareholders' meeting.
I'll keep an eye on the moves of the President, secretaries, and executives.
Request assistance from the city police.
And find the whereabouts of the hired help that Director Kang manages.
We have to find Jang Tae Joo.
No matter what.
Tae Joo, let's just have the noodle bowls now
and buy the noodle shop next time.
Let's get the money on the table and sign the contract...
When the rich grimace, you give up because you get scared...
And when the powerful yell at you, you give up because you get scared.
I won't live that way.
Tae Joo, they have your sister...
- I'm the one with the land. - Tae Joo!
Hee Joo and Choon Ho will be out soon. Take them home and...
wait for me in the office.
Tae Joo...
How come the ones I like don't listen to me?
Hello? This is Kang Ho Yeon.
This is Jang Tae Joo.
Can I speak to President Choi Min Jae?
- This is Choi Min Jae. - I'll sell the two pyung to you.
I believe you have two people to release before that.
Our deal will start after that.
Hee Joo!
Tae Joo!
We got the delivery.
Release the kids and take care of Jang Tae Joo tonight.
- Hee Joo, go home. - Tae Joo...
Tell Mom that I have to work tonight, so I won't be home and don't wait up for me.
- Tae Joo... - Hee Joo.
What you heard tonight, what you saw tonight... let's keep it to ourselves.
Seol Hee's car is outside. Please take Hee Joo home.
Let's begin.
There is a contract we prepared.
This is ten million won for the sale of two pyung of the empty lot.
I prepared a contract as well.
532-4 in Zone B, two pyung of the empty lot.
Five hundred million per pyung. In total, one billion.
One billion.
That's a lot of money.
We need time to get it.
I'll wait.
Put him to bed.
Families can enjoy shopping and leisurely activities...
Go with the final draft on the shopping and residential complex.
Yes, sir.
Stamp your seal and ask your Mom to put some ointment on your wounds.
Five hundred million per pyung. Total... one billion.
One billion.
Please... let me live.
What can I do? I don't have the money yet.
Can you wait another couple of hours?
It... it's my fault.
Please let me live.
If you're busy, you can sign the contract we prepared.
I will.
I have a request.
Please... give me just ten million more.
So that I can at least run a food stand with my family...
Just ten million more...
Please.
Sure.
The land purchase is complete.
Review the related material again...
Request for permits and licenses first thing in the morning.
As soon as the bank opens in the morning...
the remaining balance of ten million won will be deposited.
Let's settle the debt between us today.
[Sung Jin Construction Public Tender Offer]
They'll put the advertisement on ten local newspapers starting tomorrow.
It looks like President Choi Min Jae secured Jang Tae Joo's land.
What should we do?
Call the secretary's office.
Pastries, jam, and for juice...
Plum would be good.
- [Jang Tae Joo] - [Choi Min Jae]
Even private loan brokers from Myeong-dong are offering to fund us.
I think we'll have to decline the offer because of their high interest rates.
There is a Jewish family named Rothschild.
I believe they own a quarter of the arable land in the world.
The Napoleonic Wars, World Wars I and II...
The wars the Rothschild Family helped win.
The family that attracts victory...
Rothschild.
But it was the other way around.
They didn't win because of the Rothschild's money...
The Rothschilds invested in the ones with better odds at winning.
Investment offers from Myeong-dong means...
we can win, Director Kang. Accept it.
And to the ordinary investors, the minority shareholders...
leak the information that investment from Myeong-dong came in as well.
Yes, sir.
With an empty stomach after staying up all night...
you must have a lot to do today. Let's have breakfast together.
Thank you.
I'm going to change the agenda for the shareholders' meeting.
The motion on the current agenda is the dismissal of the directors.
- We'll scrap the motion... - I'll make a suggestion.
A new motion.
Appointment of co-chairman of the Group.
The current Chairman Choi Dong Sung and I will become co-chairmen of Sung Jin Group.
Would it be possible to change to this motion?
My cash, liquid assets, stake in related companies...
I'll put everything on the line. You can't win.
Cash, liquid assets, stake in related companies...
What did you do? Did you even break a drop of sweat to earn those things, Seo Yoon?
You were ten.
Chairman handed you a stake for your birthday present.
More than what my Father, Yong Jae, and I had combined.
You received Food and Distribution, two related companies for your college graduation gift.
And you came here for your first day of work...
as the Director of Sung Jin Construction.
I started as assistant manager.
Two years in the field in Saudi Arabia...
In the desert of Iraq during the civil war...
three years to construct transmission towers.
Then I became manager.
Then I got called into the hearing of the Fifth Republic...
I even got investigated for bribing union executives and building site corruptions.
I grew Sung Jin Construction!
I sucked up to politicians and bought land...
I danced to the rhythm of public officials and got permits...
I even used the police and hired help to kick out the ones trying to make a living!
People got hurt and they even died!
But for Sung Jin Construction! For Sung Jin Group!
I will win.
Because that's how I've lived my life.
This is Choi Seo Yoon.
This is Jang Tae Joo.
I'm coming to sign the contract now.
I still own two pyung of the empty lot.
Understood.
You can't win.
Because that's how you've lived your life.
[Land Contract]
- [Jang Tae Joon] - [Choi Seo Yoon]
It's a hundred million.
As soon as the contract is complete, we'll pay you in cash.
How much do you want?
One... billion.
It's difficult. We have regulations at the company.
I'll try to get two hundred million.
Have a car on standby. Look for a hospital nearby, too.
Jang Tae Joo.
It's two pyung of an empty lot next to a parking garage.
A reasonable price is two hundred million.
- Anything more than that... - A reasonable price...
He's never taken a break in 30 years.
He worked from dawn to late night...
and worked again... and poured sweat...
You stole that land from me.
It was always you who made the decision.
My Father Jang Bong Ho...
Compensation for death... price for life...
Five... million.
Two pyung of the land you need...
I decide on the price of that.
One... billion.
Who are you?
It'll be a very, very long story.
It'll be hard to tell it in ten minutes.
It's not easy to get one billion won.
Accept a down payment for now, and the remaining balance...
Until one billion for a down payment and the remaining balance is deposited...
the land is mine.
Call Director Kim in the finance team.
Nine hundred million in checks and one hundred million in cash.
Take it out of the internal safe right away.
We'll deposit it as soon as the bank opens.
Manager Lee of the accounting department is on standby at the bank.
As soon as he deposits the remaining balance of ten million to Jang Tae Joo...
the land purchase for the shopping mall will be complete.
Permits and licenses are on hold at the city hall.
Within today...
Hello, this is Kang Ho Yeon.
What?
What's going on?
The account is closed.
There is no way to pay him the remaining balance.
The contract with Jang Tae Joo is invalid...
Find out where Jang Tae Joo is.
Now!
I'll go find him myself.
After the funeral...
for more than two months, you dragged it out...
after getting the promise of no lawsuit...
the price of my father's life that you threw at me.
I'm giving it back to you.
I won this time, too.
Pick it up.
This money will become all that you can own.
Father!
It's me, Tae Joo.
This is... all... the money.
I earned it.
Mom will open a noodle shop...
And I'll send Hee Joo to college.
I'm going to buy a small house, too.
I'm going to make Hee Joo's study room...
and I'll make a flowerbed for Mom in the garden, too.
I'll put... your name... on the plate... on the front door.
Mom... Hee Joo... me...
Our family will live a happy life.
Thank you... Father.
I'm sorry... Father.
Father... Father...
We will resign from all positions related to Sung Jin Group as of today.
Under the name of Choi Yong Jae, my son who recently passed away...
I will create a scholarship foundation
and release all my shares of Sung Jin Group.
There is a public opinion that you're establishing a scholarship foundation
to maintain your stake in the Group. What do you think about that?
We requested approval for a non-profit scholarship foundation.
The profit from the foundation will only be used for the teenager's guardian
and for the future of young people in economic hardship.
Chairman is arriving.
How is it going with the scholarship foundation?
- Good, we'll get the approval this week... - It'll take another three, four months.
What does the law say?
Until after three years of receiving the punishment of imprisonment...
he can't hold the chairman of the board or the director positions for a non-profit foundation.
Go visit Min Jae's wife often.
Once her husband and her father-in-law get arrested tomorrow...
her heart will be hurt.
You will have to take care of her instead of Min Jae for about five years.
I will.
Please take care of the scholarship foundation, Chairman.
This old hag doesn't have much time to live, but keeps getting more work to do.
I beseech you to take care of the scholarship foundation.
Also...
please take care of my father and me.
Sure.
Brother!
Yes... thank you for coming!
The green beauty shop next to the rice store, right?
Yes... it takes about 10 minutes. Yes, thank you.
- Mom, two more noodles. - Okay, got it.
Thank you for coming!
Thanks for the noodles. How much is it?
Two bowls of noodles are 3,000 won.
You're too pretty.
Oh, this...
- It's our opening gift. Please come often. - Thank you.
- Have a good day. - Thank you.
- How many did you give them? - Who cares?
315,000 won!
I'll be the cashier starting tomorrow.
You should study.
You think getting into college is a joke?
You have three months until the exam. A student should be looking at books!
Not looking at men!
Hee Joo, you should study from tomorrow. Tae Joo, you take over the cash counter.
- It's only busy during lunch, after that... - Mom, I...
Tae Joo, this is money to me.
Getting up at dawn and getting groceries from the market...
working until late.
Tae Joo earned this much...
Hee Joo earned this much...
and I earned this much.
Tae Joo, I can see what our family did today when I look at this money.
I won't ask you where you got the money...
to open this place and buy a house.
So Tae Joo, let's work here... with me. Okay?
Hello, this is Busan Noodle Shop.
The restriction is lifted in Ohsan.
It's 420,000 pyung...
Seol Hee, I'm not going to work anymore.
There is an inherited land for a clan and its members are fighting over it.
I'm going on a blind date with the eldest grandson of that clan tomorrow...
I won't do it.
Two billion.
Two billion for you, two billion for me.
One month for planning and settling the accounts.
It's two billion in a month.
Tae Joo, let's do this one more time. Okay?
- [Announcement of Kim Il Sung's Death] - 1994
He passed away at two o'clock on July 8, 1994...
I announce this with the utmost sadness to the people of this country.
Complete the sale of apartments that were previously left unsold at a premium
and the land you buy is designated as a housing site within days.
Everyone says that luck keeps following President Jang Tae Joo.
When luck repeats itself, wouldn't you call it competency?
Yes.
That's fine, Mister.
The parking attendant seems to have scratched your car's bumper...
For your repair cost...
I'll apologize instead.
I had dinner with the advertising manager yesterday.
From now on, the sales advertisement from my company will only be on Daehan Daily.
President Jang!
I... just trusted Director Yoon's words and put everything I saved for 60 years...
but that land is restricted as a military facility zone...
President Jang, you made five times the profit by selling that land to me...
That's really too bad.
Please save me. Then I'll pay back the money and everything else. Please, please.
Then... let's do this.
I will go to morning prayer and pray for you.
Please save my Father.
I will go to morning prayer and pray for him.
Life is determined by heaven.
What could a person do?
Since you've been good all your life...
I'm sure you'll see good results.
Give him a glass of iced coffee.
Enjoy your coffee before you leave.
- Director Yoon, the development contract. - Okay.
Choon Ho!
What time is the appointment with the association chief Kim Sang Chul?
One o'clock. Tae Joo...
President Jang.
Let's just stick to what we know.
Please.
Why is the 100 meter runner trying to run in a marathon?
We can cancel the meeting now...
The number of apartment reconstructions is 3000 households.
Once rebuilt, the number becomes 5000 households including what the association owns.
When we put down the development deposit and succeed in the reconstruction...
the profit will be...
Director Yoon...
we could buy this building!
President Jang!
I'm sorry. I didn't know there was a pole and scratched the reporter's car bumper...
But it was a really minor scratch. If you look from this far, you can't really see...
Please speak informally, Mister.
Young Ran's wedding is next month, right?
Please go get a couple of tailor-made suits.
Tae Joo...
I'm just grateful for you giving me a job...
Tell Young Ran to come by some time. I'll find a good apartment for her.
I can't give it to her for free.
Thank you, Tae Joo.
Thanks to you...
I can play my part as a father.
Thank you so much.
- Choon Ho, let's go. - Okay.
Tae Joo, I went to Hee Joo's school...
Wow, how could there be so many women in college?
Because it's a woman’s college, that's why.
I heard the borough office is not allowing reconstruction permits.
Please have some, sir.
A real estate developer that can't get a reconstruction permit after two years...
Can you still trust them?
It's common to switch developers in this industry, sir.
Can you convince the borough office, President Jang?
I'll get the reconstruction permit in two months.
If we start the construction next year...
your 12 pyung apartment will turn into a 32 pyung before your son goes to high school.
- Well... I need time to think... - I'll give it to you. Of course.
Please prepare the stew. How long will it take?
It takes 10 minutes.
Will that be enough time?
I cry and lie down occasionally these days.
Everyone's going through something.
Please give me some good news. I'll wait.
March 18, 1937. From Kim Yoo Jung.
After ten days, Kim Yoo Jung, the novelist who wrote 'Camellia' and 'Spring, Spring'...
died from tuberculosis.
Revolution is beautiful because it makes you dream.
But revolution is also sad...
because it always fails in reality.
Same goes with literature. It makes you dream of becoming a novelist...
Excuse me.
This is Choi Seo Yeon.
Seo Yoon, I'm getting a divorce. I'm ecstatic!
Seo Yoon, I'm going to live my life freely now.
There are ten women a day who say they like me.
I was being considerate of my wife before, so I met only one or two a year...
Shit, all the women in the world are my wives starting today.
She'll request a division of assets.
You'll have to give her a third of your stake, maybe up to half.
What do you want me to do? She doesn't answer my calls.
She doesn't even open the door when I go to her.
Where is she now?
Since she landed in Korea yesterday...
she's been in a hotel room without even buzzing the door at home.
Atlantic Ocean Law Firm... Yes, I have a few friends there.
Please delay submitting the petition for a little while.
Please, Dong Hui.
Dong Hui, to Mom and Dad... Thank you.
I feel bad for you.
After he got kicked out to the European distributor...
You credited all the sales to him and brought him back to headquarters.
I know you helped.
Thank you.
I was sick of him coming home in the morning reeking of alcohol...
sometimes I ran away from the smell of other women on him...
and you stayed with me until morning...
and drank with me...
- Eun Jung. - This time...
I can't help it.
She's my friend.
You know her too... Jin Sook.
She had a housewarming party last month after moving to Jamsil.
I thought the place was big for one person...
I didn't know it was his mistress's place.
I even gave her a lamp for the bed stand as a housewarming gift.
Eun Jung...
Excluding Won Jae...
let's just be family- me, Dad and Mom. Let's live together.
Please change your mind about the divorce and the request for division of assets.
I'm sorry, Seo Yoon.
Please check the CCTV of Ocean Hotel.
Identify the man who left the suite.
Confirm his relationship with Eun Jung and submit our petition as well.
Since the cause lies with Eun Jung...
we can win the request on the alimony and division of assets.
- Seo Yoon. - Also...
secure the parental rights and custodial rights on Myung Hoon.
And request a restraining order on Eun Jung.
Seo Yoon.
If you just change your mind...
there will be no one getting hurt.
After touching my friend...
he had me.
I'm sorry.
I felt like such a fool...
I was so upset...
I didn't know what to do...
So just once... just once...
Eun Jung...
I didn't tell anyone about the things we discussed when we were drinking.
And it'll be the same for today, too.
End it with Jin Sook.
That?
She said she didn't have a place to live, so I got her a place...
and we had coffee together once in a while.
You don't believe me?
I'll believe you.
But will Dad believe you too?
Fine. Women are just so chatty...
You don't want to go out...
and you don't want to set the table in the garden with a chef from a hotel...
You can't have anything spicy or salty, and any seasoning is not good for blood flow.
You need to avoid over ten things just for the sauce alone.
Who'll cater to that?
You're still a patient who needs to watch what he eats.
You'll cook the dishes for your own birthday?
Thank you.
You don't like anything troublesome, so you don't want your own birthday party...
and you don't even hold anniversary parties for the company.
For someone who came in as a mother to already grown children...
you were worried that I'd be mistreated or get hurt...
So you don't ever miss my birthday and gather everyone in the family.
I appreciate your consideration, so it's no work for me at all.
Don't forget to dye your hair.
There's some frost.
Mom, here.
It's shoes.
They haven't been imported in Korea yet...
Dong Hui thought of you when he saw them in France while he was at a symposium.
What in the world... such rare thing.
Mom, you sent Dong Hui herbal tonic for his promotion.
And Seo Yoon, you gave him a fountain pen.
I wonder if you know... that my husband became a senior prosecutor.
Thank you Mr. Sohn, for giving such a nice gift to someone who's always home.
Wear those shoes when you go out tomorrow.
Starting tomorrow, your mother will take care of the scholarship foundation.
She'll work three days a week.
Father, you said you'd give me the foundation some time next year...
Focus on what you have on your plate.
Construction subcontracts have been cut in half.
There's a lot of stake in the foundation...
I've stayed at home for 20 years.
For me to work outside...
The foundation is no big deal.
Help the poor students study and the hungry kids eat. That's all.
It's okay. You say it's only three times a week...
but if I'm not around, your meals and medication...
Did you look into it?
All three of them have at least ten years of experience as a nurse.
They've also been caregivers for a long time.
Pick whoever and tell her to start tomorrow.
Just because you hide white hair with dye, your remaining days aren't increasing.
You've cared only for me for over 20 years.
Take care of other things and get some air three days a week.
Won Jae.
We finished the development contract yesterday.
Over 20 association members came out to see the stamping of the seal.
I ate beef short ribs for three hours.
This money will be more than enough to buy two cows.
What about the safety inspection results?
It's only been 20 years since the apartments were built...
so they wouldn't give anything higher than a C grade.
So I fed them at a room salon for three days...
I even paid expenses for their parents' trips...
and got an E grade.
By the way Tae Joo, does Grade E mean the ordinary reconstruction?
Good work.
We just need the reconstruction permit from the borough office.
What should we do?
The Urban Development Office won't even accept our application.
There will be a local government election next year.
The current borough chief wants to become the first chief elected by popular vote.
And?
Congressmen from each district will make their public recommendations.
Find out who the congressman of this district is.
Nice shot!
It becomes dangerous on your third month.
Once you start going out to the field a few times...
You feel like the ball will go wherever you want it to go.
Even for over 300 yards...
you feel like you can get the ball on the green with a driver.
I know how it feels.
You have a very pretty swing. You'll improve quickly.
Let's go.
Sir, to the borough chief...
Vice Chairman Choi Dong Jin and President Choi Min Jae...
It's already been four years.
I wonder how they are doing.
Oh, I heard from Director Kang Ho Yeon...
what Jang Tae Joo actually did.
Since things have gotten tough for them, I had a hard time, too.
I sold my house, got a loan to become a congressman...
so I don't feel attached to Yeouido.
And my congressman pin feels heavy, too.
- Sir... - Can you get me a wet towel?
You should experience falling into the bunker a few times, too.
Give up the reconstruction permit this time.
I just wanted to see your face, so I came.
Sir.
This is Kim Gwang Se.
Congressman Kim.
Yes, Representative.
Thank you for paying a special fee for the party.
It will be a big help with the move of the party headquarters.
I really appreciate your one hundred million.
I'll come visit you tomorrow, Representative. Bye.
The Blue House, congress, party, local district...
Just tell me the amount and the person, I'll hand it over under your name.
Even if there's an issue, you won't get hurt.
Because there will be no money that goes through you, sir.
You'll open my political future for me?
I'd like to be helpful in your work for the country.
Sir.
Let's have a drink tonight.
You should work...
Do you know how to drink wine?
I'll give the answer by tomorrow morning...
to her directly.
I've said everything I can do for you.
If you want more...
someone else will become the borough chief from next year's election.
And someone else will become a congressman in the next general election.
Let's go.
Tae Joo, we got it!
We just got the reconstruction permit!
Call for the general association meeting. And call the construction company.
- Ask Director Yoon to come in. - Okay.
Seol Hee! We got the reconstruction permit...
Police station?
Arrest without warrant? You said you were going to meet with the association chief. Why...
What's going on?
It's not the previous developer.
I settled with them by handing over the right to sell the shopping lot.
Then who would it be?
It's not Congressman Kim, either.
I'm paying for the party for the elderly in the district.
He wouldn't report a corruption in the reconstruction permit ahead of the party.
Tae Joo... I made an appointment for very expensive skin care.
Should I cancel it or postpone it?
Postpone it for a few days. You'll be out soon.
Now what do I do?
I tied the hands of the developer...
I was ignored as a child and I get mistreated as a grown-up.
I'll show them, who Choi Won Jae is.
Look, Father. Look, Wife.
Hey, you said I should do what you tell me to do.
Now what can I do, Min Jae?
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The tumor we couldn't remove four years ago turned malignant.
Seo Yoon, stay by my side.
I love you, my daughter.
I'll be using this room starting today. Don't meet with Min Jae.
I'll say goodbye to him.
We received a tip on tax evasion by Sung Jin Development.
There is no way we can avoid bankruptcy.
Let's get married, Min Jae.
As long as you have me, you'll have no problem getting a loan from Daehan Bank.
That bastard Jang Tae Joo... I'll see the end of him.
Spare my Dad! Get my Dad out!
Go back to before you met me, Tae Joo.
The police will raid them at the scene.
Jang Tae Joo will be arrested at the scene with a bribery charge.
Jang Tae Joo...
We should send him back... to where he came from.