He also... will need somebody like me to do his grunt work.
The only thing remaining as the best... is for you to become Moojin Group's owner.
To cut this weed out, I need to look for a tactic.
I can find that scheme for you.
He has some story with the CEO, I feel...
This is not a hand meant for a fight with anybody.
Just as you wished,
had you lived playing guitar, you'd be so happy.
Your dad... committed the sins, Gun Woo.
Don't try to learn things that you don't need to know.
If there's a need for you to know,
I will tell you even if you don't ask.
You're unable to spend that money casually.
You need to change deeply to the bone.
Feeling safe only when you have something,
and feeling danger when it's all spent, is the poor person's nature.
But still, even if it's to a small extent,
I want to reflect... your real image, CEO.
Be careful. This way you'll crack.
To me, my things getting destroyed... isn't okay.
It's not for my sake.
It's you who has to escape from this swamp.
This rascal is... Mu Il's son?
If evil fate is moving to the next generation,
shouldn't it be stopped?
What on earth... is that child's plan?
-=12 years ago in Japan=-
-=Episode 4=-
-=Park Gun Woo=-
A guitarist once said this.
"Guitar is the best instrument to help lose worldly thoughts"
Peter Townsend!
Venerable, how did you know that?
When I was a junior monk, I learned music.
Seeing the big name on your bag, I figured you were Korean.
Then, venerable, you also... when in Korea--
To one devoted to Buddhism, of what meaning is nationality?
The sun is about to descend.
To rest the wings, no nest is seen, perhaps...
Ehh?
The nest thing... What-- what did you say?
Venerable!
What did you say just now?
Shouldn't you explain it to me...
As a pious Godly person, I shouldn't let a secret leak,
but then, this being destiny too...
I cannot pretend not to know.
Do you... perhaps have a desire for a temple offering?
What beggar... The worst kind I have seen!
For all that good and prosperous looks!
A worse beggar than even me...
Aigoo...
A whole day of work. Didn't even get dry cleaning fee.
Trying my best to make a living...
I'm sorry but, I was... going to call you first.
I was not trying to run away just now.
As I was a bit short on money,
I was putting some more together to give...
It's the truth.
Ah, wait...
Bro, please help me.
That offering money earlier... I'll give it all back.
Let me go.
Hey, con!
Yes?
Next Monday, okay?
Better keep the day in mind.
Oh, hold on!
In there, some of the money is mine.
5400 Yen are mine.
If you got conned, take it up with the conman!
But you're taking all of it away, aren't you?
Just give back my money, I say.
It seems you aren't getting the situation.
At this rate, you'll be in trouble.
Just.. let her go, okay?
After luring people like this, and striking them--
Aren't you guys together in this?
I worked part-time at a noodle house to earn that money the hard way!
I won't tell the police,
so just give back my money.
Once it leaves your pocket, it's no money of yours!
What?
If you don't get it, why not tell the police?
Look here.
What, man, I told you you'd be in trouble!
It died of a fracture!
If it's this bad, you can't repair it.
This will have to be just thrown away.
Did you say that the Matsuo family is showing interest lately?
Don't worry about that please.
They're just stretching the arm to see if it reaches.
Director Jo seemed to be worried though.
Should we send you some people for help?
Being alone is easier.
Yesterday's balance shows no problem.
Please give my salary for this month in cash.
Welcome! (in Japanese)
Hey, hey... Hold on. Stop!
What is this you are trying to pull now?
"Take it or dump it", is that it?
Ah, this looks cool!
But, what do we do?
This is not my guitar.
What?
The guitar's model is different.
Rather than a gorgeous sports car,
it's a shabby clunker that I like more.
So what do you want me to do?
Welcome... (in Japanese)
-=Money=-
-=Power of Money=-
-=Big business, ultimately a pawn of the regime=-
-=Underground Economy=-
-=Night Light=-
Had someone messed with the backup server?
No.
This looks strange!
From the wedding, just for that period, the footage is lost.
Was it the CCTV footage not being recorded,
or is it that... it got deleted?
It seems like it was erased.
Who would've done it?
It can be done by hacking in from an external network.
What?
Demoted to stand-by staff, I have plenty of time!
Even if it's a fool's errand, isn't there one place more to visit?
Does the Products division Secretary's office have a hand in it?
They would do nothing that's such a dead give away.
Even from outside, there'd be someone helping Uncle.
If the preparation went this far,
it should be someone really smart.
Let's go.
We had discussed a Finance Director taking office.
But that position isn't one that anybody can easily qualify for.
If it's up to me though, CEO Seo is sufficiently qualified, in my view.
Then let me ask you right here...
Is this a request for the Society's sake,
or is it a ploy that came from the old gentleman?
Either way, the outcome is just the same.
Even bigger, humongous money and power.
That's what I will create for you.
Aigoo... It's all faces that I'm thrilled to see!
President Park, what brings you here?
I'm a gatecrasher who's here to maybe throw in a word!
Gallery S's CEO Seo... is a highly trusted and reliable business partner for me.
These past few days, I got a lot of help from her.
For the decision on the Finance Directorship, I had asked for President Park's help.
If this startled you, let me apologize.
What's making you so downcast?
Homework? Or is there something else?
On the homework, don't worry.
I had also got the same homework.
Being unable to do it won't get you fired.
You can just relax.
You think I'm like you?
Say what?
Hello?
What are you doing now?
Who would this be?
You forget my voice?
I'm so sad now!
Son Ma Ri?
Mmm... Catch you soon. Mmm?
Enough?
Hearing your hot gas on artistic talent,
I thought you were just blowing your cram school fee.
You sure can act a bit, huh?
Maybe meet twice to just sound out, right?
What do you mean? Keep meeting and get close!
Till you find the scoops on Seo Yi Kyung and the company.
Dad! Just thinking of the bitch makes me pull my hair out!
Then how can we get close like friends?
It's for 1 year in Europe. And an apartment and sports car.
If those are your demands, you need to work as much!
You'll keep the promise, okay?
Just make sure to coerce that brat properly.
But Seo Yi Kyung... Did that woman really kick you out, dad?
Dad, why do you sit and take it?
Take it? Who's taking it?
This is all coming from your grandpa's blunder.
You watch. Seo Yi Kyung, and your grandpa...
will end up learning who Son Gi Tae is!
If I'm given this heavy responsibility, I'll give it my all.
Chairman...
The Society's Finance Director position...
is difficult for someone young like you to take over.
Even if troubles swamp you, you want to make a go at it?
I will not make you regret this.
This is... no different than a Peach Garden oath! (Chinese novel, 'Romance of the 3 Kingdoms')
Though it's not a garden of peach trees and there's no liquor,
let us still have a toast!
Let's do that!
What I owed you is all paid off with this, CEO Seo.
How is your wound coming along?
That guy is a professional, I say. So precise, how he did it!
The follow up?
The suspect's been sent abroad.
All CCTV records on the events that day were thoroughly deleted too.
Doing all this must've been tiresome!
Let's keep staying on the same side, CEO Seo.
I'm the one one wishing to ask you that.
Having secured the Finance Director position,
you'll need to visit Seongbuk-dong pretty soon.
When you visit, put in a good word about me too.
Tell the old gentleman that this Park Moo Sam will rush over pronto if he calls.
Also... I hope the special deal this time... will be handled with no mistakes.
Give him an inch, and he asks for two!
This may become a real hassle.
We can't feel hassled!
Jang Tae Joon. Park Moo Il. Park Moo Sam.
The greed of those men is... the capital in my business.
Tough at times, surprises may come too.
It's been deleted for this area too.
Only the footage of the stabbing attack remains.
Only the required files were kept, and the rest deleted!
Is was a foreigner.
As he wouldn't know about this place, he surely would've done advance recon.
But... Is there a way to check again and...
It's not just CCTV that has cameras, no?
Se Jin!
Get in! There's a new French cafe out there.
The atmosphere is to die for!
I'm in no mood for a ride in your car.
What did you want to meet and tell me?
Say it here on the street, you mean?
Ah, seriously...
You need to go to Europe, Ma Ri... Hang tough.
Hey, Lee Se Jin. One sec, girl!
Now that I think, wasn't it the loser, Kim Heung Seok?
What else is there for you and I to hate each other?
On getting hurt after you drove me, well... I was at fault too.
And so? Get to the point!
You and I... Shall we be girlfriends?
What?
The girls who are friends with me... are all brainless, no exception.
I wish I had met a smart girl like you before, as a friend...
Hold on! Friends, huh? Do you think it even makes any sense?
What doesn't making sense there?
Just calling Se Jin-ah, Ma Ri-ah, like that...
eat together, go shopping, have fun... Then we're friends!
All I'd say is, you need help!
I know you hate me, but don't hate me too much!
I... happen to like you.
When will you finish the homework?
I had asked to get back as much as you spent. You forgot?
The homework is all done.
I organized the original amount.
By doing what?
Son Ma Ri wanted to be friends with me.
Let's patch up, she said.
Friends?
Anyway, it couldn't be sincere.
Her father or grandfather must have asked, and she must be doing a show.
I think she wants to get close to me and find out things about you.
And then?
Playing the same game, I plan to find out things too.
Isn't Ma Ri's company intelligence necessary for you?
We can turn it right back and use her.
Thanks to that, I could finish the homework too.
You know this brand isn't out domestically, right?
Of course! To get this, I wanted to go to Paris--
It's a limited version. Only 5 of them.
I want to get you one, but the local agent is hoarding them.
Half the price today to reserve, and the rest when you get it.
Just five? Hold on a sec.
You did it foolishly.
I wasn't pulling a fraud.
Didn't you say, "borrow, steal or grab, but get that money"?
I can return it to her tomorrow,
saying there was a problem with the local dealer.
Why only 5 of them?
Pardon?
If you were to throw that bait... maybe 10, or 20...
Shouldn't you go for the maximum you can?
"This much is enough". Being self-satisfied like that is what's most pathetic.
Anyway you did a good job.
Use this on the next homework.
Grow this money to at least twice as much.
Don't say chicken-hearted things like you'll return it.
Whatever the reason, if it has fallen into your hands,
this money is fully yours.
I mean, but... Still...
Then I can't use the money to buy the brand name stuff.
That's why I asked to grow it!
After a moderate delay if you return just the capital,
the profit margin will fully remain with you.
It's just like a snowball. If it's rolling, it gets bigger.
If it's just left there, it will soon disappear.
That's just what money is.
Forget twice as much...
Even 10 or 20 times...
However much it is, I'll grow it.
It's fine if the homework is tough.
You can teach me like that,
and thoroughly make use of me. I don't mind.
But...
I can't accept not knowing anything.
As for reasons, I said you don't need to know them.
Me, you know...
This is how I've been living so far.
If it was dancing in front of a barbecue place, I did it.
If it was manning a convenience store all night, I did it too.
Such work needed nothing like reasons, you see.
My dad and mom...
left me after an accident on the way to market one morning.
Why would such a thing happen? I didn't wish to know any such reason.
However,
from now, I plan to be more informed in my life.
It's my wish to live differently
that makes me follow you, CEO.
That's disappointing.
Took a beating before, so you cry like a baby now.
You want to be different from now on?
Then just do what you're asked to.
To say you're disappointed,
you don't even know me that well, right?
I can't... do without knowing you?
It's just like a snowball.
If it's rolling, it gets bigger.
If it's just left there, it will soon disappear.
That's just what money is.
What's the news?
Got it already?
No, it is not that.
We'd have to meet soon.
Okay. Over there?
The number you dialed is switched off...
After the beep sound, please leave a message.
Se Jin?
She hasn't come yet.
We've been calling for a while,
but the phone is switched off.
Maybe she caught a cold or something?
Shall I make a trip there?
Right. That would be good.
Leave it.
We need a meeting in 10 minutes.
What your thinking is, and how you reason it,
when you make your blue-print...
I need to know that, if I am to help you.
From now, I plan to be more informed in my life.
It's my wish to live differently
that makes me follow you, CEO.
One moment, please.
If I were careless, I'd have missed you!
You don't remember me?
Moojin Global Center.
Ah, correct, you're right!
After the fall, are things fine?
Yes.
But... For what purpose here...
How did you know me, to...
Oh, memoriz--
Somehow I came to know.
I wanted to give this back to you.
I found it at the wedding reception that day.
Just for this, you decided to come?
Whether it's money or things...
it has to return to its owner!
Only then my mind feels at ease.
Then...
Excuse me...
I didn't get even know your name.
No, it was fine...
I'm Gallery S's Seo Yi Kyung.
Why do you look so surprised?
It's just that...
I once knew somebody with the same name.
That's an interesting coincidence!
Then, that person was...?
Team Leader!
I got a call that the blackbox has been found.
Will they cooperate with us?
They're on a business trip to Shanghai.
At the Pudong Airport there, I'm told.
It will be taxiing soon.
I am sorry,
but thank you!
Yes, Auntie.
Who?
Coming only now?
Didn't I ask you to take a taxi?
CEO!
Good to see you.
My goodness,
I had no idea she was under such a great person!
I thought she was working at a bar and--
Aigoo.
My mouth says fibs again...
It's alright.
But... how come... at our house...?
For us to pay the house deposit,
she's giving this in advance.
I don't know if we can accept it shamelessly...
Se Jin is a subordinate that I really need.
It's an investment for the company sake,
so don't think much of it, and accept it.
You seem to know all the carrot and stick tricks.
So reconciliation also can be done with money.
This is just like you, CEO.
What reconciliation?
Didn't I say... it's an investment?
To get an idea on how my understudy lives, and her family, I wanted to see it for myself, that's all.
I can believe you.
It's cold.
Just a while back...
I had gone to the Moojin Group.
It was to return Park Gun Woo's cuff button.
At first I was going to quit on the homework and return it, telling him everything.
In the end I couldn't.
On who I was... I gave your name, CEO.
I thought you and he wouldn't have known each other before...
So, without thinking, I...
You said you were me?
He looked surprised, though.
With the same name... he knew somebody, he said.
After that?
We couldn't talk any more.
He seemed to be busy.
Oh right!
Finding a black box or whatnot... Something looked extremely urgent.
Not here in the B line.
The car owner's name?
I checked the parking lot name list.
Haeseong Buyer's CEO, No Ju Won.
The company address is...
OK.
I'll go to that office immediately.
Tak is now going to the company.
License plate number is confirmed too.
Sorry to bother you when you're busy.
It's alright.
I should help you at least this much.
Thank you.
CEO.
I mean, this...
Just now, while coming from the airport, it was there.
You could've gone into Vehicle Records and manipulated it.
I didn't think well enough.
The black box slipped my mind...
It's a learning experience.
Please learn to be deliberate.
I will remember that.
Writer Kim made you some herbal tea.
She said it will help calm your nerves.
Shall I leave it here and go?
It's that man, Park Gun Woo...
who made me come this far.
Quite a long time ago,
he asked me for the first time,
what it was that I really wanted.
Hey!
You busy?
Have a bowl of noodles and go.
My treat.
Forget it.
Hey. I have something to tell you--
...to tell you.
Please don't knock me down!
I formed a band with Sang Chul Hyung.
We also found all other members.
That hyung has quit Pachingo gambling.
Playing music after so long,
he's totally excited.
Don't get fooled.
A conman with debts...
is going nowhere.
You say it because you don't know what music is.
Music has more addictive power than gambling, okay?
Though it's only a cover song,
we already made a demo recording.
Now we'll slowly make original songs too.
A gift.
Later when our band practices, you want to come?
People don't change easily.
Seeing him not coming to our office,
he must be borrowing from somewhere else.
Do you have any hobbies?
No friends either, right?
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey...
Listen to some music. Make some friends too!
Compared to money, people definitely smell much nicer!
Shall I become a friend, for you?
I have no need for any such thing.
These are the financial arrears statements of Miyama Machines.
If it's Miyama Machines, don't they have still time left to repay?
Soon, make a trip to the QC Bank.
The Bank Mgr will hand you several documents. Bring them back.
You want to nip it before it collapses?
If given a chance,
it's a company that can make a comeback.
The smell of blood has started to spread.
A water buffalo that is ill...
can only become food for others.
Looks like you want to eat tastier food ahead of others.
Shall I brew you some tea?
I have some unopened tea that came in as gifts.
Then I will take my leave.
Stop joking around.
We're now at the key part!
Hey, hey! There...
Are you crazy? Gone mad?
Her father will cut your balls off!
Don't cozy up to her. You'll get hurt.
Go go home and do cleaning or something.
Don't go Pachingo-gambling now!
Hey!
People like us who work at night
need to do photosynthesis like this.
What do you think?
Isn't sun better than the moon?
Your father...
is a really scary person, I hear?
But then...
if he makes his grown daughter go for debt collection at the night market,
he is no ordinary person, I suppose.
Don't you get thoughts of wanting to run away?
The stench of money on my father is quite strong too.
That is why I ran away.
To go where nobody knows me,
and live doing what I like, playing guitar.
Worrying about others' plight... That is hardly much fun.
I am actually asking you...
what it is that you really want to do,
and who you are... as I'm curious.
Ilhan Finance.
Person-in-charge of loans, Seo Yi Kyung.
We lend money and get it back with interest.
That's the work I do.
Why? Do you need money?
Forget money...
Lend me something else.
What? Like what?
Occasionally, lend me some spare time!
To come out for photosynthesis like this!
Right. As collateral...
Park Gun Woo's box of compositions.
Just tell me. What do you want to hear?
Forget it!
I got a fill of your skills already.
Hey, to a musician, that's being extremely rude--
Seo Yi Kyung!
How can you say that...?
You need to pay attention to others' eyes and ears.
As a stand-by employee now, how can you causally come and go at the Chairman's office?
Uncle, you should take note, too...
If the one who was stabbed by a Chinese is seen to be all fine too quickly,
people will be suspicious.
Don't put the blame on me.
The one who made the personnel changes was Eldest brother.
Blame you, you say?... I only envy you!
The gang from outside the company that helped you...
have really good skills, eh?
Once Eldest brother's trial ends,
visit Europe or wherever, to catch some breeze.
I can create some business trip excuse.
Being an undutiful son, where can I go?
I should at least take food and supplies to him in prison.
Then, why not do that?
The interior needs to be redone.
I still haven't gotten rid of it.
The file we got from the Baeksong Foundation.
Looks like I will have to drink poison then.
-=1988 Seoul Olympic Games=-
Yes, Chairman.
Tomorrow at 2:00pm,
I'll visit and greet Old-sir in Seongbuk-dong.
This is a rare opportunity,
so make some time for it.
I will see you tomorrow.
I don't quite understand
Park Gun Woo was in such a relationship with you, but you got him kicked out?
To make the person who joined hands with you be the chairman.
Merely for that reason?
Merely?
That's not where that word fits.
Rather than 'merely' that much of memories,
my objective,
and my plan are what's important.
But still...
It's a choice I'm making.
When, for the sake of getting one thing, something else has to be given up,
only children believe that you can have it all.
If you aren't one, you're just a naive adult.
Some day, you too
will have a moment of choice.
CEO, that one thing that you want...
does not end with Moojin Group, does it?
It's only now that I barely got to the first door.
What my father lost...
I want to get it back from the hands of those who ripped it off him.
Useless worries, I guess.
On what?
Speaking of you, okay? You!
You keep causing trouble, going missing with no reason.
I thought you'd be fired, but you got promoted with changed rules.
What in the world is the CEO thinking?
You think this is a promotion?
Look at you! Do you realize how important this work is?
You're showing a bad look in your eyes?
This painting.
How much do you think it's worth?
If it's sold and going abroad, it must be pretty expensive.
500 won?
A million won?
What? Then what... Many times that?
Wrong.
This is 700 million won!
This is 950 millon won.
Why would such high-priced art pieces be bought?
The purchaser is... an outfit that Moojin Products' foreign legal agent runs as a paper company.
New York to London... to Hong Kong.
All added together, the deal amount is astonishing.
These sales are just an excuse.
The art pieces bought by these shell companies...
are of severely lower value than what's marked here.
What?
Countless millions get spent to purchase cheap paintings.
Then the S.Korean art dealer pays off their loans.
You can use that to bring back overseas funds...
disguising it as art work transactions.
The money launderer must be that woman.
Gallery S's Seo Yi Kyung.
I am Gallery S's Seo Yi Kyung.
Team leader, would she decide to come see you again?
I wouldn't know!
It's never a good thing to meet, for that name and me.
A bad entanglement with the woman in this case too, maybe.
The port delivery date for the deal items is today.
Sounds terrific.
What was simmering for a while, is cooked, so let's enjoy it!
But, as a stand-by employee, do you have the authority to...
Is my knife the only knife around?
Contact the Group audit team's Director Jung.
I can point out to him where to thrust the knife in.
What's the matter?
We are here from the Moojin Group audit team.
The art works purchased by Moojin Group's overseas legal agent...
are loaded in here, right?
We need to check the transaction details.
The container. Please open it for us.
That is not possible, though.
These are items bought by a subsidiary of our Group.
The audit team
has authority to check a subsidiary's transaction details.
Isn't that your internal business?
There are other transaction items also in here.
Don't businesses have privacy rights too?
A group of people have come in.
They're asking to open the container, it seems.
Listen carefully to this.
Absolutely don't open the container.
The special deal items can't come out,
and can't be taken away.
The items must become like they were never there.
Then, what do we do?
For now, Tak is stalling them.
You buy some time there.
You'll be taken as the Gallery CEO, right?
What?
Acting like it is to discuss terms,
divert them to some place else.
Se Jin!
I'll go for it.
Turn the car around.
Then Seongbuk-dong?....
Make it fast.
You need to inform your CEO...
that the clean-up of the past 1 year of Moojin Group mess,
is now getting all exposed.
To start, rather than the prosecutors,
we would be rather easier to take on.
It seems there's some misunderstanding.
I don't get the feeling that you're here to say thanks.
You stay quiet!
I'd want to hear your company's position on this.
Rather than stand here and do it, shall we go in?
Shall we, then?
Yes, CEO.
They just went into the office.
Pardon?
All of it?
What are you saying there, CEO Seo?
Do you know how important this was?
Hello. CEO Seo!
What is the matter?
It's that....
the director who I was going to introduce today, suddenly had an urgent issue....
I'll have to personally see Mr. Jang and humbly apologize.
No need for that. Why don't you go back, please.
It was for receiving the new Finance Director.
When the person concerned isn't here,
is there a need to waste Mr. Jang's time?
Like the kids say these days...
is this "playing hard to get"?
It seems... something very urgent happened.
On what it was that happened... do a quiet enquiry.
It's after 1 year of racking her brains that she got here.
If she suddenly says she isn't coming,
there must be a good enough reason.
Yes.
How this world turns... never ceases to be surprising.
Even when I stretch an olive branch, one friend's son rejects it,
but another friend's daughter decides by herself to be loyal to me.
What in the world is that girl's calculation?
After being curious about it for a whole year,
I'll have to wait for some more days, I reckon.
Money laundering through art works, you say?
This the first time that I'm hearing that.
Moreover, that kind of big money... is totally news to me.
I like your acting job.
You should drop the Galley business and be an actress!
Falling down at the wedding,
and coming to find me at the company,
were all a show you were putting on, right?
What is your real scheme?... I badly want to know now.
Team leader!
Please calm down.
Did you order this?
Long time no see, Gun Woo.
Gun Woo... Please leave him alone.
Yi Kyung... You?
It's a pity. This is not how I wished to meet you again.
If the debts are paid off with my share,
Gun Woo will be allowed to go safely, as you said.
Please keep just that promise.
Then, I will restart as the heir to Ilhan Finance.
This is... the final term-of-deal that I'm able to offer.
Will you accept it?
-=Next Episode Preview=-
Someday, in some way,
we'll meet again, I thought.
But this isn't how it should be.
Just as promised, I became a villain,
but you haven't changed one bit...
From now on, everything you do is in my place.
Not as a fake using the name or by lying,
but as the real Lee Se Jin...
Whatever plans you put in place,
it won't go as you want.
Before it gets more tough, come back, Yi Kyung.
From now on, I will be on a shortcut.
Allow me to live as a nice and sweet nephew.
You... will not win this fight.
A monster cannot lose to a human.