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Episode 17
It's been a few years since we shared the same dining table.
Seo Yoon and you have grown to have similar tastes in food.
Seo Yoon was a picky eater
so she didn't even touch anything briny, like seaweed or seafood.
The other day, she finished the pickled crabs all by herself.
You didn't like vegetables before, but recently...
I'm a busy man so let's stop the small talk.
For such a busy person, how did you get through the last few years?
Three years ago, while Min Jae was out of the country on a business trip
you were trying to hold an emergency shareholders' meeting, but I stopped it.
- And last year... - Thank you for the tea.
I'm in a hurry, too.
In two years, I'll be an old woman in my 70s.
With fewer days in my life, my heart is in a rush.
Would you... consider letting go of Seo Yoon's hand?
After pushing out Min Jae and me, you plan on fighting Seo Yoon for the chairman seat.
Will it take 10 years, or 20 years?
It'll be hard for Chairman Choi Min Jae to take care of the credit card crisis.
You said that when the KOSDAQ collapsed a few years ago.
You said that it would be hard for Min Jae to take care of it.
I underestimated Min Jae.
And I overestimated you.
The owner of the Group will change.
I'll give you Auto and Chemical.
How do I trust a person?
I should trust the documents I have.
By the way, Tae Joo...
There are only a few months left for the statute of limitations on those documents.
I should look for a buyer for the documents before their expiration date.
This is the last chance, Tae Joo.
Min Jae and I have the joint voting rights established.
Same for Seo Yoon and you.
Seo Yoon and I are dangling on both sides of the scale
and Min Jae is sitting in the chairman seat in the middle.
Before Min Jae steps down on his own, how would Seo Yoon or I empty out that seat?
The scale that won't tilt even after 10 years...
how long will you keep holding onto it?
I'm going to abandon that scale.
Change the table... is that what you mean?
I'm going to sell the shares I own to Director Kang Ho Yeon.
Then, the joint voting rights I have with Min Jae will become invalid.
I'd like to sign the joint voting rights with you on those shares.
If only you can trip up Seo Yoon...
you and I will be the only ones standing on both sides of the scale.
Remove Min Jae and Seo Yoon first...
then fight with a 70-year-old woman. Wouldn't that be more beneficial to you?
You wouldn't suggest anything that's beneficial to me, Ms. Han Jung Hee.
Don't disregard the words from an elder.
How would I have known?
That I'd stay next to Choi Dong Sung for 27 years.
There is some dried seafood from a fishing town.
They've been cleaned to be served right away.
Take them to your mother. Tell her I said hello.
A new doctor came to the cardiology department in Sung Jin Medical Center.
He'll take care of you starting next week. I already talked to him.
Thank you so much.
It's the end of the season, so I don't know if it'll taste okay.
Please have some.
Our mom is serving her daughter-in-law.
Since you only come once a year on Dad's memorial day...
I wouldn't recognize you if I saw you on the street.
April 12th is my birthday, so you don't need to come. Just send me a gift.
June 24th is Mom's birthday...
and on Thanksgiving and New Year's, you don't need to help with the cooking.
But make sure to come...
Can you make an estimate?
You're over 30, but you look young.
Basic colors or pastel tones would look good on her.
Then would she look like a woman?
Go with a boxy style for the top, and wear a slim skirt.
Then she'll look feminine.
He asked me to help you with your styling.
He said that you went on over 20 blind dates, but never got asked for a second date.
When it's put on a mannequin in a department store, it's woman’s clothing.
But when it's on Hee Joo, why does it become something else?
Tae Joo!
- Dad's memorial day this year is August... - Twelfth.
How easy would it be to follow the regular calendar?
You and I play the daughter-in-law and son-in-law on our fathers' memorial days...
I do keep that promise.
I'm envious... of your dining table.
A dining table with laughter and Sung Jin Group...
you can't have both.
I once met a friend.
He was bragging about buying a 32-pyung apartment in Gangnam.
When I asked him which floor it was on, he became quiet.
Because he bought one on the first floor.
The person living on the first floor
is envious of the person living on a higher floor who takes an elevator to get there.
And that person is envious of another person living in the next luxury residential complex.
And they're envious of the person living in the penthouse.
And the person who lives in a place made up of those two penthouses is...
Executive Director Park Jin Tae who reports to you standing up ten times a day.
You're envious of my family's dining table?
Just because you like a stream on your vacation
would you live there for the rest of your life?
You have to return to the battlefield.
It'll be hard for Min Jae to stop this credit card crisis.
Let's make it that way.
If Min Jae gets through this crisis again...
then we'll have a hard time.
That'll be the case.
Most likely.
The meeting for the wives of the Federation of Korean Industries is this Friday.
They'll make kimchi and send it to the elderly living alone.
I'll put kitchen gloves on my hands for the first time in my life thanks to you.
I'll take Chateau Latour for wine and onion soup.
Please give us Chateau Lyonnat for wine.
For appetizer, broccoli soup and for entree, pepper steak.
You used to call me on the plane on the way to your business trips.
But you went too far on this one.
You should've told me sooner.
I didn't know it would be the last day of a 9-year marriage, so I went to the hair salon.
I got my hair done, too... since we're eating out for the first time in a while.
Don't go to the meeting for the wives of the Federation of Korean Industries.
Let's finish the papers and alimony discussion before Friday.
I'll talk to Dad about the capital issue in Sung Jin Card. It'll help you.
It's been a few years since he retired from being chairman of the bank.
And the current chairmen of the banks have different connections.
Yoo Jin, don't worry about Sung Jin Group.
I'll take care of it.
I'm seeing it for the first time in nine years.
I wanted to see your smile...
If I knew, we should've separated sooner.
I regret it.
If the in-vitro was successful and we had a child...
this day wouldn't have come.
Yoo Jin...
I have a child.
Could we... make Ji Yong our son?
Yoon...
If you play with him and I raise him well...
Yong Jae would also feel at ease in heaven.
The child Yong Jae left behind.
The child that Yoon and I were going to raise together... Ji Yong.
The other family considers him a burden.
I'm going to bring him in. He's already in middle school.
Let me ask you one question.
The last nine years... the time you spent with me...
were you enduring it?
Yoo Jin... you're a nice person.
But the nine years I spent with you...
to me, it's a period of shame.
I liked you because you didn't lie.
But this time, it's disappointing.
I was hoping you'd lie.
Next time, when you have to say something like this, tell them after the meal.
I don't think I can't eat.
I'm sorry.
Apologize to me next time.
I'll create opportunities for you.
This is Choi Min Jae.
Min Jae, the cash advance service of Sung Jin Card has been suspended.
It's chaos right now.
It's the top story on the evening news. What do we do?
The top story tomorrow will be that the issue of Sung Jin Card has been resolved.
The situation is not that easy right now.
- Where are you? Let's meet and...
I'm eating right now.
I'll call you later.
Sung Jin Card suspended its cash advance service tonight
and its customers are experiencing inconvenience.
Sung Jin Card's accounts for credit card service in 13 banks have bottomed out
but it announced that there will be support from the Group soon.
Min Jae took an emergency loan with the collateral of Sung Jin Steel.
And the cash service has been working since this morning, too.
What's the use? After getting over a hill, there's a big mountain ahead.
Next month is the problem.
Customers are paying credit card bills with credit cards.
And President Choi Won Jae of Sung Jin Card
is using money borrowed from affiliated companies.
Eun Jung... the cash you have saved up to build a department store in Chungju...
let me just have it for a month in Sung Jin Card.
What to do? I bought one-year bonds yesterday.
You should have told me a day sooner.
If Card falls apart, the Group will falter as well.
I'm sure the Group will take care of it.
You overextended yourself to achieve ten million members in three years.
Too many of them were given to college freshmen, too.
To give the cash limit of ten million won to college students with no income...
that's something a loan shark would do.
It's not something a big corporation should do.
'Use it with your precious ones, Sung Jin Card.'
Is that the right commercial slogan?
They're about to lose all of their precious ones. Because of Sung Jin Card.
Seo Yoon!
Dad tried to stop you from expanding into the credit card business.
Father, for the credit card business, you just set up the table and the profit will...
No matter how much the profit is...
I never played with money.
Min Jae encouraged you to expand into the credit card business to create a cash cow.
Put out the fire you started, Won Jae.
Dong Hui, I sold all the shares in Card yesterday.
Does that go against any laws?
I just sold my own shares myself.
I'll look into it.
Sung Jae, let's go to Father's grave this afternoon.
It was his birthday last week, but I went alone...
Seo Yoon, the strategy meeting is at three, right?
I can't, Mom. Go by yourself.
I'll go to your office by 2:30, Seo Yoon.
I need to brief you on the meeting documents, too.
On your way, please get me shaved ice with strawberries from the basement cafe.
I'm having lunch with the advisers today.
I don't think I can eat much with the nagging from the elders.
Tae Joo, don't ignore the words from the elders.
Chairman is arriving!
Vice Chairman.
Purchase all of Sung Jin Card's convertible bonds.
The finance team determined it was not fit for investment.
Its operation is in really bad shape...
Then someone should take responsibility for it.
President of Sung Jin Card, Choi Won Jae.
Your position is now switched to President of Sung Jin Parcel Service.
Min Jae...
Yes, Chairman.
Now we should find a solution.
Director Jang Tae Joo, take care of Sung Jin Card starting today.
You've been working at the Group for a few years and you're also the owner's family.
Let's get through this crisis together
President of Sung Jin Card, Jang Tae Joo.
There is... a severe lack of funds.
I'll help you.
- President of Sung Jin Steel, Kim Dae Gwon. - Yes, sir.
Make an announcement for the sale of Sung Jin Steel today.
Yes, sir.
Put the whole amount from selling Sung Jin Steel into Sung Jin Card.
Would this help you?
I figured out the cash situation of Sung Jin Card.
It'll be hard to make it past 15 days.
The cash service will be suspended again.
And more stores are not accepting Sung Jin Card.
If Sung Jin Card collapses like this...
you'll be the one taking the blame.
Did you receive your nameplate?
From now on, Tae Joo...
whatever the title you get, I'll give you your nameplate as a gift.
Since I'm appointing you to the title.
You received a lot of orchids for the promotion, too.
They're all from the guys who hate me.
The ones who are worried about me called to console me.
I feel like the celebratory orchids are funeral flowers.
You don't need to knock on the Chairman's office. Just come in any time.
Report to me often about the status of Sung Jin Card.
I'm sure the one who started the fire knows well.
Where the fire started and how to put it out.
I might not put out that fire.
What happens if you and I get buried together under the ashes of Sung Jin Card?
That might happen too.
Tae Joo.
I know you.
You wouldn't live your life making broth at the noodle shop.
If you want to survive, revive Sung Jin Card.
You told me, 'Make your contribution in a destroyed camp.'
Revive Sung Jin Card that's falling apart.
I'll give you a better position.
And I'll give you that nameplate too, Tae Joo.
It's your inauguration ceremony tomorrow, isn't it?
I can't come because I have lunch at the Blue House.
Tell Vice Chairman Choi Seo Yoon to clear her schedule and attend the ceremony.
Yes, sir.
Tae Joo... there is only one way to save Sung Jin Card.
Add your power in the sale of Sung Jin Steel.
Convince Seo Yoon, too.
You're a married couple.
Choi Min Jae, that man... changed a lot.
I'm the one who changed.
Eat with people in the high rankings, play golf with people of authority
and live comfortably in a big house.
Now the hunting dog has turned into a house pet.
Because of a snow storm and a strong wind
I stayed in the base camp for too long.
Where I came from and where I need to go...
I forgot that for a while.
[Eden Office]
This is Jang Tae Joo.
Tae Joo! Seol Hee will be released on parole next week.
She's a model prisoner.
But if Seol Hee is a model prisoner, what about the other prisoners?
The announcement for the urgent sale of Sung Jin Steel is out.
Please find a way to save Sung Jin Card without selling Sung Jin Steel.
There isn't one.
Aid from Sung Jin Fire and an investment from Sung Jin Life...
we already blocked them, Vice Chairman.
Sung Jin Steel is...
Seo Yoon, that's Hang Sung Steel, the one Father built.
Sung Jin Information, Sung Jin Electricity, Sung Jin Oil...
Those are the affiliates that were sold after Chairman Choi Min Jae took the seat.
They were the companies that Chairman Choi Dong Sung built from the foundation.
He's planning to erase Dad's every last trace and footstep from Sung Jin Group.
The problem of Sung Jin Card...
if it's not resolved, President Jang Tae Joo will get hurt.
To resolve the problem of Card, Vice Chairman...
we have no choice but to watch the sale of Sung Jin Steel.
I'd like to hold a meeting with majority shareholders. Tonight would be nice...
Ms. Han Jung Hee.
I know how she feels.
Once I got the release date, I wondered if someone was pulling the clock from behind.
Even the second hand crawls.
Director Yoon said she wanted to eat black bean noodles every time I visited her.
Let's rent out a Chinese restaurant that day.
Wow, after two World Cups, Director Yoon is getting out.
President Jang has been waiting for so long.
Seol Hee was the one who waited.
I made a promise... that I'd own everything.
That we'd go to the Philippines together.
She got through prison life with faith in that promise.
I can break a deal...
but I must keep my promise.
Choi Seo Yoon...
what I made with her was a deal.
There is only one person I made a promise to...
Seol Hee.
There is a waterway near the grave.
To change the waterway, we need to have a service.
Now I know why people bow to the grave and the portrait.
Bow once to the spirit in heaven and once to the body on earth, that's why it's twice.
They say that the son must come for the service, so I scheduled it for this weekend.
I have plans.
I'm going to the Bio Complex in Jeju Island with Seo Yoon.
Then I'll reschedule it for next weekend.
What do I need to do?
To make my Mom give up?
I went to the company after I was done with school. To help Seo Yoon.
To finish this fight quickly.
Then you wouldn't have to live this life anymore.
It's been over 30 years.
If you didn't come into this house then, you'd have smiled a lot.
There could have been happy days, too.
Along with company employees who get a few million won for a monthly salary
they smile with happiness. With their families...
Min Jae will step down from the middle of the scale soon.
After that?
You'll fight with Tae Joo. And then fight with Seo Yoon.
Mom... don't you regret the past years of your life?
I'll take my last breath some day.
If the last scene I see on this earth is...
you sitting in the chairman's office of Sung Jin Group, how nice would that be?
If I can see that, Sung Jae...
then what regrets would I have?
I have plans for the next weekend, too.
I can't go to the grave.
Thank you, my Sung Jae.
Tae Joo, Min Jae, Seo Yoon...
you don't look after them, so I'm very thankful.
I'll commit the sin.
Just sit in the chair that I make for you.
Get some rest.
I'll finish it up soon.
I'll help Seo Yoon and make you give up soon.
After that Mom, let's take a trip together.
Another country is good, and Jeju is good too.
Until your last day, I'll make you happy. I'll make you smile, Mom.
Let's not touch Sung Jin Steel.
I'll sell Sung Jin Distribution.
There are warehouse sites all over the country.
The real estate value should be pretty good, too.
It'll help Sung Jin Card get back to normal operation.
In distribution, because of too much competition among the big corporations
profitability is getting worse.
For a business that can't even earn the bank loan interest...
who would pay that much for it?
Jasmine smells nice, Aunt Jung Hee.
Let's sell the four-wheel vehicles of Sung Jin Auto.
There was an offer from the U.S. before.
You were the one who refused that offer.
The auto market is in a worldwide slump right now.
I have 500,000 pyung of reclaimed land in the west coast.
I'll give that up.
The four of us, the majority shareholders can bring in personal assets
and get through the crisis of Sung Jin Card first...
Without knowing whose hands Sung Jin Group will end up in...
it looks like you're the only one who'll give up personal assets.
About Director Kang Ho Yeon...
I believe it's been a few months since I asked you to find him a place in Sung Jin Corp.
He worked hard for decades.
I believe it's better for him to rest for a few more years.
There will be a problem.
If you can't sell Sung Jin Steel at a good price
there could be legal consequences for malpractice, Min Jae.
It needs to be sold at the right time to get the right price.
If anyone's offering 1.5 trillion, let's throw out Sung Jin Steel.
Here are the details of Sung Jin Card's capital.
Unless 500 billion won comes in within 15 days
the cash advance service will be suspended.
The payment due for the long-term loans is coming up in two months.
There are too many holes to fill.
Long-term late fees, long-term outstanding balances...
After taking care of the losses
then you can use Sung Jin Card with your precious someone in three months.
Mr. Jang Tae Joo, it can't be the sale of Sung Jin Steel.
Let's make it a democracy. Let's vote.
Now, anyone who is against the sale of Sung Jin Steel... raise your hand.
Well... I'll look into it myself starting tomorrow.
I'll hand it over to the one who'll give even 10,000 won more.
When you get on the plane, this announcement will have been made.
In the case of emergency, put the oxygen mask
and the life vest on yourself first, then help the person next to you.
Good job, Tae Joo.
You have to save yourself first.
Mr. Jang Tae Joo.
So we decided to sell Sung Jin Steel.
It's late.
It'd be nice to not hear an argument between Tae Joo and Seo Yoon.
Good night.
During the strike at Sung Jin Cement last year...
It was me who brought in replacement workers so the production line wouldn't be affected.
I didn't think you were the bragging type.
It's late, but thank you.
The supplier corruption investigation from four years ago...
it was also me who made the sales manager take responsibility for it instead of you.
The first time was tough for bragging, but you're quickly improving.
Thank you again.
I forgot about it.
It was a deal between you and me to get to the final round.
Maybe that's why I thought you were a friend at one point.
It's your mistake.
When Min Jae was selling Sung Jin Information
you were the one who encouraged minority shareholders to join the legal battle.
I don't brag.
During the sale of Sung Jin Electricity and Sung Jin Oil
it was also you who stirred up the media and tried to stop selling them abroad.
I guess that's why I thought at one point... that you were a friend.
Do I need to take responsibility for your thoughts, too?
Sung Jin Steel...
Dad reclaimed the coastal land 40 years ago and built it on that land...
Are you upset?
Because I exchanged the teddy bear your dad gave you with candy?
What should we do, my princess? You're really upset.
Sung Jin Steel is the symbol of the Group.
Dad built it with his sweat.
I want to save it for my Dad's life...
Is Chairman Choi Dong Sung the only one who sweats?
There are over 10,000 executives and employees in Sung Jin Steel.
Even now, they're sweating in front of the furnace on their night shift.
Whether the company gets sold to this side or that side, they just sweat.
Just like my father did.
Chairman Choi Dong Sung's sweat
is only a drop from one person compared to 10,000 employees.
Good night.
For such a precious father... why can't you look at his portrait?
Let's stop here.
Your father's portrait... that you only see once a year on his memorial day...
Han Jung Hee wants to hold my hand.
To tie your hands and feet by denying the joint voting rights from my side
remove Choi Min Jae, then establish the joint voting rights with Han Jung Hee...
I'm thinking about it.
For my final match, would I be more comfortable with you or Ms. Han Jung Hee?
Why are you telling me this?
Because I also thought of you as a friend at one point.
I made a mistake, too.
I faced a lot of hardship to get next to you from the ghetto of Shillimdong.
A lot of people are asking for my unpaid balance.
The deadline is coming close, but we haven't passed the preliminaries yet.
If I go against Ms. Han Jung Hee in the final round
I think I can at least pay back the outstanding balance.
Just to save the sweat of your father, Chairman Choi Dong Sung
I can't throw out my life.
I'm very much in a hurry.
I thought it would be courteous to declare the war ahead of time between friends.
I won't brag this time, either.
Mr. Jang Tae Joo.
Hold hands with Han Jung Hee, Mr. Jang Tae Joo.
Choi Dong Sung told me
that Seo Yoon looked after him.
Even if you combine ten brains of ordinary people, it wouldn't compare to hers.
Smart ones only believe in themselves.
They don't keep people near them even if they would be of good use.
I will keep the promise I made with you.
How can I trust a person?
I'll tie Choi Seo Yoon's ankles and give her to you.
After you sell the shares to Director Kang Ho Yeon
let's establish our joint voting rights.
How would I hold hands with someone who fell in a swamp?
Once you resolve the Sung Jin Card problem and get out of the swamp
then I'll do what you're telling me to do.
Thanks to a great son-in-law, you're about to go to the final round.
But it's too bad. There is a silver medal in the olympics
but for this match, the gold medalist will get everything.
Choi Dong Sung, who fooled the world all his life...
for 27 years, he didn't even see the shadow of my heart hidden behind my face.
Don't be scared.
And don't take me as an easy match, either.
Have a drink.
Sung Jae, Dong Hui finished his MBA.
He takes care of, my gosh, 300 cases a month.
He went to lectures in the evening...
I'm proud of you, Dong Hui.
He's leaving the prosecutor's office in the fall.
Everyone's trying to stop him saying that he's prosecutor general material.
But someone's promising him a good seat.
When he takes the seat that he talked about
I'll go see him and ask for his promise.
Tae Joo.
The card business is also people's business.
Just because the situation changed, you can't let go of all the executives at once.
When things are tough, share the hardship...
A leader is someone who feels the pain alone and shares the accomplishment.
The card company that's at a loss with executives who take billions for bonus....
they're not leaders.
Come to the department store in the afternoon.
I'll give the delivery from the department stores to your company.
If you have a good record, he'll probably get you a proper seat.
Seo Yoon, the banquet at the American embassy is at 7 o'clock.
Tae Joo has an investment agreement ceremony in Suwon at six.
Call the embassy and tell them you'll be late for about 30 minutes...
Let's make it on time.
Come with me, Sung Jae.
Have dinner at home.
I'll meet with the counselor at the embassy.
I'll take care of the issue of building a Sung Jin Auto plant in the States.
I set up the appointment.
I didn't know you were the type to keep a promise.
It took a lot to set up a private meeting with the ambassador.
- After the banquet, go to his residence... - I'll do it.
I won't need an interpreter.
I'm being nominated as the next chairman of the Federation of Korean Industries.
I declined several times with many older chairmen in the Federation.
I'm accompanying them on the trip to the U.S. next month.
It looks like I won't be able to see you on your birthday
so I asked you to come to have dinner with me ahead of time.
There was no need.
The birthday that comes every year... now I'm sick of it.
If I could, I just want to have a birthday every five, ten years.
Wrap things up in Hampyung and come back.
I'll have an empty office at headquarters and invite you as the honorary chairman, Father.
Never mind that.
A businessman once went on a vacation to an island
and saw a fisherman who caught dozens of fish a day.
So he suggested a partnership.
He said that making canned fish would make big money.
The fisherman asked what he would do with that big money he'd make...
The businessman said, make lots of money and live a comfortable life.
And he can fish on weekends, too.
Then the fisherman said that he was already comfortable, fishing every day...
so why would he need to make money?
In my life... I received both applause and handshakes.
Now, I'll live in Hampyung, smelling the earth...
then I'll leave this earth from Hampyung, too.
The ones you lowered your head to are now lowering their heads to me.
Do you like it, Min Jae?
In the place where Chairman Choi Dong Sung used to be, Father...
now my face is there.
Why does a young man that's living fight with my dead brother?
The seat of Chairman of Sung Jin Group that you couldn't climb into...
I'm sitting there now.
There are tens and hundreds of people who're trying to pull you down from that seat.
- That fight won't end, Min Jae. - Father!
Min Jae!
Mother sold her Sung Jin Cement shares.
I just checked it with the stock exchange.
The one who bought the shares is Director Kang Ho Yeon.
I came to Seoul for nothing.
There is no room for a peaceful chat between father and son.
Come to Hampyung some time.
This is not the real world, Min Jae.
If Mother sold the shares
it means your joint voting rights disappeared, too. What will you do, Min Jae?
Aunt Jung Hee, I'll assign Director Kang Ho Yeon to Corporate today.
Just leave him. You were right.
I think it's better to let him rest for a few years after working so hard for decades.
Aunt Jung Hee, I heard an unbelievable rumor from the stock exchange.
You worked for decades, too.
How about taking a little break?
Min Jae...
it's not like Mother will let go of your hand and raise Seo Yoon's arm.
I can't understand.
Seo Yoon is not in good terms with Tae Joo recently...
Tae Joo... is he in the office right now?
Three companies are interested in buying Sung Jin Steel.
They'll start due diligence soon...
After Chairman Choi Dong Sung passed away
Sung Jin Group has been like a father to Seo Yoon.
Every time an affiliated company was sold
Seo Yoon probably felt like Chairman Choi Dong Sung's arms and legs were severed.
Seo Yoon thinks Sung Jin Steel is like Chairman Choi Dong Sung's heart.
She'll be very disappointed in you. Make her feel better.
She shouldn't put her living husband in danger to protect her dead father.
Let me learn from you since you lived with a wife you didn't care about for nine years.
To put a smile on the angry wife, what kind of cutesy act do I have to put on?
I didn't try.
Since it didn't matter to me at all whether Yoo Jin laughed or cried.
But that's after you became the chairman.
When I was in Eden and you were in Sung Jin Construction.
When we were working inside and outside.
Didn't you get a loan from Daehan Bank about a dozen times?
Being on the good side of a strong wife to get candy from her...
let me just learn that from you.
Report to me in the afternoon on the recovery plan for Sung Jin Card.
You have a scheduled visitor here to see you, President Jang.
It's been a long time, Director Kang Ho Yeon.
Sung Jin cellphone has over 10 percent of the European market share now.
Your decision to invest in cellphones and the bio-tech industry was correct.
You worked for decades, too. How about taking a little break?
The English Premiere League is asking for a sponsorship for 10 years.
- But it's such a long-term contract... - Do it.
The sponsorship contract with the premiere league will be helpful
for Sung Jin image marketing not just in Europe, but also in Asia.
You'll see the effect of it in 10 years from now.
Together with me.
I told you... Tae Joo is not a horse you can ride.
And you said you'd try holding the reins at least.
It looks like Aunt Jung Hee got a hold of those reins.
I'm thinking... Chairman of Sung Jin Group, Min Jae.
Min Jae who is in the process of selling Sung Jin Steel.
What would be the reason to come between Jang Tae Joo and me?
Aunt Jung Hee sold her shares.
And the owner is Director Kang Ho Yeon.
Tae Joo and Aunt Jung Hee will establish the joint voting rights.
We've had a few arguments.
When I switched the executives at Sung Jin Cement without discussing with him first.
Was it three years ago?
When he took a shower in my bathroom because of some drainage problem in his.
It takes two days maximum.
We're partners walking the same path.
There is no feeling that would be hurt because of being angry or upset.
Jang Tae Joo and I have a deal. You know that already.
Tae Joo must have changed partners.
I've seen kids on a seesaw.
The ones about the same size were on each side
and there was one kid in the middle.
I thought of you, Min Jae.
The seesaw that Han Jung Hee and I are on with you in the middle...
be careful.
If you encourage a crack in my relationship with Jang Tae Joo and I get off...
then you'll fall from that seat.
So you trust Tae Joo.
If it was before, you'd have called the stock exchange and verified it.
What could it be?
Even without feeling...
is this trust that grew from a long-term deal?
Think of it whichever way you want.
Oh, Director Kang Ho Yeon came to Tae Joo's office earlier.
I thought you should know.
Aunt Jung Hee left the ship that I'm steering.
I'm going to set sail again.
Come to me if you need me. I'll leave a seat open for you.
Min Jae!
Director Kang Ho Yeon... Tae Joo gave him the director title of Sung Jin Card.
It looks like he'll keep him.
There is something going on with Tae Joo and Mother.
Leave them. If the two people on both ends of the seesaw get off at the same time
then the person in the middle will be safe.
I'll make that happen, Won Jae.
We should come up with plans for President Jang Tae Joo.
Don't you know why the Six Loyal Retainers died?
They made a pinky promise to get the king to take off the royal robe
but one of them revealed his friends' names to save himself.
Let's not make someone else do the hard work.
You have no idea how hard it is to keep a secret.
Don't you know why Hannibal lost?
They lost the war because no backup soldiers came.
Whether Director Park Jin Tae will help us or drive us to death...
I don't even know his background story.
How would I trust what's on his mind?
Who do you trust then, Mr. Jang Tae Joo?
Myself. And the person who needs me.
If we can't pass the preliminaries again this time...
since I have to pay back my debt, I might really hold Han Jung Hee's hand.
Now, let's take the midterm exam.
I'll grade yours first.
When are you establishing the joint voting rights with Han Jung Hee?
We're filling out the papers when Sung Jin Card is back to normal operation.
Let's take a look at yours.
I'll go see Min Jae tomorrow.
I came to see if your ship you mentioned has already sailed.
If it has already left, I'll find another ship.
Choi Min Jae, Choi Seo Yoon...
The Choi Family built Sung Jin Group.
Jang Tae Joo, Han Jung Hee... we can't let them have it.
You don't look good. Did you not get much sleep?
My stomach isn't doing well.
Even a puppy grows on you after a few years... that's how I feel.
- Why don't you rest a little before we talk... - After I kick out the puppy.
And force Han Jung Hee out, too. I'll rest after that.
My voting rights will become invalid.
Then Jang Tae Joo and Han Jung Hee will occupy this room.
I want to hear your thoughts first.
Should I go rest first?
I didn't have time or the mind to think about it, Min Jae.
I'm planning to change the holding company.
Seo Yoon, a long time ago, Chairman Choi Dong Sung and you...
Transfer all the affiliated shares to Sung Jin Cement today!
The method that was used to make Sung Jin Cement a holding company.
I'm looking into an appropriate affiliated company.
Let's make it Sung Jin Card, Min Jae.
Sung Jin Card was a person, it would be a delinquent borrower.
It borrows money from affiliated companies to pay back other loans...
now it has to get a big sum of money by selling Steel to get back to normal.
And to make that a holding company?
I'm going to postpone the sale of Sung Jin Steel for a while.
Then the financial pressure on Sung Jin Card will rise
and the cash service will be suspended again.
And its stock price will plunge.
Before I hold Min Jae's hand
I'll get an investigator from the prosecutor's office hold his hand first.
Until then, the president of Sung Jin Card will have a somewhat tough time.
Get some rest for now.
I have shares in Sung Jin Card.
Before the cash service was suspended last time, Jung Yoon and the others sold their shares.
You got rid of it too, right?
I kept it because I felt bad for the investors and minority shareholders.
If you're going to buy it with your personal assets, the stock price should drop more.
Make that happen.
Let's balance the scale with Sung Jin Card shares.
Then bring the company back to normal operation and set it up as a holding company?
It's a good way to set up a holding company with not much money.
If you have a better idea, feel free to share.
I had a thought before...
how nice it would have been if you were on my side.
I'm sorry, Min Jae. I never once thought that way.
But even so... it came to this.
The cash advance service from Sung Jin Card was suspended again this morning.
The presidents of Sung Jin Group held a meeting to discuss solutions
but it is known that there is no aid from Sung Jin Group.
In order to become a leader in the industry, Sung Jin Card used aggressive marketing tactics.
It has begun.
Set up an appointment with the President of Shin Myung Securities.
This evening would be good.
Sung Jin Card is at the impaired capital state.
Without an extraordinary measure
it won't be able to avoid bankruptcy as the first credit card company to do so.
Go to Myeong-dong, Manager Jo.
With the money you spent on drinks in Myeong-dong so far
you should have at least a hundred drinking buddies.
Sung Jin Card stocks that rose above 100,000 won at its height
plunged to 7,000 won at the market's close yesterday.
And the notion of selling at any price is growing.
I put all of my CDs and cash in Shin Myung Securities.
Buy all the shares at 7,000 won each.
Move the short-term loans from Myeong-dong to Shin Myung Securities, too.
Won Jae, if we put just 10 million shares in our pocket
Jang Tae Joo and Aunt Jung Hee will end up smelling cement for the rest of their lives.
Min Jae, if there is a problem later...
That's why...
there is something you need to do.
President Choi Min Jae bought 5.7 million shares today.
Shin Myung Securities will let us know about the purchase and account details.
Among the financiers in Myeong-dong, there are White Bear and Boss Kim...
Sir.
About 40 billion of them floated to Chairman Choi Min Jae.
The Chairman of Sung Jin Group
even got an emergency loan from private brokers in Myeong-dong to
buy shares at the price of chewing gum and make it the price of gold.
Then he'll set it up as a holding company.
If that gets out to the public, Chairman Choi Min Jae...
he'll save a lot of money in buying clothes.
He'll be wearing a prison uniform for half of his life.
Where does that kind of idea come from?
The Rothschild family leaked a false rumor that the British lost the Battle of Waterloo.
The British government bond that was worth 100 pounds dropped to 5 pounds.
And the Rothschild family bought the government bonds.
With that money, they founded the Rothschild Bank in England.
And they were still safe after that.
There was no law back then, but now... there is the law.
Laws on financial transactions.
Special law on additional penalty.
Manager Jo, don't pick up Sung Jin Card shares just because you see them on the floor.
The owning family and the executives of the Group...
if you buy Sung Jin Card shares now...
It'll be over seven years in prison, plus additional penalties.
Just like Chairman Choi Min Jae.
Let's have lunch together. I made a reservation at an Italian restaurant.
Oh no. I made plans with Manager Jo to have a fish stew.
Come with us. I can treat you to a pot of fish stew.
Next time.
The Sung Jin Card crisis that has lasted over a week is quickly getting normalizing.
Following the decision of the presidents to use the funds from selling Sung Jin Steel...
I haven't seen Seo Yoon in the dining room for the last few days.
I can imagine how she feels to let go of Sung Jin Steel.
I'm going to hold a majority shareholders meeting tomorrow with Min Jae and Seo Yoon.
You hold Seo Yoon in her seat.
And I'll have Min Jae empty his seat...
Then there will be the two of us left.
We'll see each other often from now on, so let me have another cup of tea.
You and I will be competing to become the owner of Sung Jin Group.
I'm going to meet with the chief prosecutor tonight.
Half the news tomorrow morning will be about Chairman Choi Min Jae.
Min Jae will resign before he's sent to prison.
Han Jung Hee will be asked to take responsibility for supporting Min Jae for the last few years.
Friendly stakes will turn to our side...
and Sung Jin Group will be back in our hands.
The final match will start soon.
Han Jung Hee won't be in this house by tomorrow evening.
People give advice on others' lives
but they don't see the cliff that's one step in front of them.
I wonder if Min Jae even knows...
that he has to leave the chairman's office by tomorrow evening.
He worked hard for a few years
so I hope he doesn't get hurt too much when he falls off the scale.
Drink.
Well... I should keep in mind the words from the elders.
'People give advice on others' lives but they don't see the cliff in front of them.'
Han Jung Hee won't be in this house by tomorrow evening.
As soon as the meeting is over at the law firm, I'm meeting with the chief prosecutor.
You have the sources on Min Jae's status on share purchases and the flow of funds, right?
Vice Chairman.
Chairman Choi Min Jae secured 10 million shares of Sung Jin Card.
He made the stock price crash on purpose and purchased shares during that time
so he will receive a severe punishment.
But... there is someone in the family who purchased 700,000 shares.
It's a chance that took a great deal to create.
Just to save Won Jae, I can't leave Min Jae in that seat.
Is it Eun Jung?
It's Sung Jae.
I mentioned that the holding company will change and Seo Yoon will need help in passing.
Wow, Sung Jae even sold the house in Sungbuk-dong that he got from Father
and bought Sung Jin Card shares.
I'm sure he did.
To Sung Jae, Seo Yoon is the only family in the house of Chairman Choi Dong Sung.
Min Jae, I'm reaching 50, but I'm still afraid of the world.
You can become scarier than the world.
We won't be able to avoid having Sung Jae get hurt.
You have to meet with the chief prosecutor.
If you lose this chance, Sung Jin Group
will leave your hands.
I'll come to your office by 2:30. I need to brief you on the meeting documents, too.
On your way, please get me shaved ice with strawberries from the basement cafe.
Vice Chairman, if you stop here, we don't know what Jang Tae Joo will decide.
If we don't pass the preliminaries again this time
since I have to pay back my loans
I might really hold hands with Han Jung Hee.
Vice Chairman!
This is Choi Seo Yoon.
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Who told you to buy Sung Jin Card shares?
You can't eat alone at the table we set together.
Sung Jae also got caught in the trap that I set to catch you.
What do you plan to do with President Jang Tae Joo?
Send him back to the dining table with the sound of laughter.
I should leak the documents that we got from the search and seizure of Eden.
I'll return the things I received before the day is over.