The Conglomerate Family Became A Villain [EN]: Chapter 1

Becoming a Villain in a Chaebol Family

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1. Becoming a Villain in a Chaebol Family – Prologue –

– Prologue –

A man with ten talents starves.

That’s what my mother used to tell me often when I was young.

It meant that you have to stick with one thing to succeed.

There were many reasons I couldn’t, but to put it simply, I couldn’t focus.

“I’m sorry.”

I knew it from the moment I saw Senior Sangwoo’s face. He wears his emotions on his sleeve.

If things were going well, he would have joked around, calling himself a fortune teller from the moment he met me in front of the subway station.

Clunk.

I put down my soju [Korean distilled rice liquor] glass.

“It’s okay. It’s tough for everyone these days. Even N company can’t avoid it.”

“These days, AI is trending. Our company is hiring in that area, so the atmosphere is to reduce experienced workers in security or server fields.”

Senior Sangwoo said security or server fields, but if you look at my portfolio, there wasn’t anything I could specifically point to.

That was because I had been doing a little of this and a little of that for twelve years, moving from company to company, field to field.

Of course, it wasn’t my intention to end up like this.
The company I was working for closed down, or I worked in a new field at the request of a close acquaintance, or my main field fell behind the trend, and so on.

Yes, I know.

It’s all an excuse.

A great developer doesn’t care about tools, or even the position.

“Have you ever worked on AI prompts?”

Another new field.

If it were the old me, I would be interested.

I would say I’ll do it.

I would have jumped in, talking about this and that. But I didn’t want to keep digging more wells that I would only abandon.

“No.”

“Really?”

A slightly disappointed face.

Still, Senior Sangwoo is a good person.

Not many people care about their juniors who aren’t even blood relatives this much.

Well, maybe that’s why he fails to get promoted to executive every time.

“How about you, Senior?”

“Me?”

Surprised eyes.

This person isn’t lacking in ability, but he’s weak at cutting things off [being assertive or making difficult decisions].

Maybe that’s why he seems like a very kind person.

“Your glass is empty.”

I turned the conversation and filled the senior’s glass with alcohol.

It seems like his promotion to executive is off the table again this time.

Pour.

It was when I filled the glass with alcohol.

The clear voice of an announcer was heard on TV.

– Executive Director Jung Hyunwoo, the third generation of the Daewoon Group, was urgently arrested today on charges of large-scale stock manipulation. Executive Director Jung Hyunwoo, who has already been sentenced to prison twice, was pointed out as the mastermind behind the Red Sun incident last year.

Daewoon Group.

It wasn’t quite the Samsung Group, which represents Korea, but it was one of the top ten conglomerates in Korea [a large business group consisting of multiple companies].

Why would the third generation of such a chaebol company, who has been arrested twice, even need to manipulate stock prices?

When I turned my head, Senior Sangwoo let out a long sigh.

“Ha, that guy caused another accident.”

Come to think of it, Senior Sangwoo said he started his company life at Daewoon Group.

“Do you know him?”

“Of course. He’s someone Daewoon Group gave up on.”

“Really?”

“You must have heard of it? The ‘worth of a beating’ incident.”

I lightly agreed.

“Ah, the one who beat the employee mercilessly and threw a check saying it was the ‘worth of a beating’…”

“Yes, that’s him. I don’t know why a man who is well over fifty years old lives like that.”

“Then the Red Sun incident must be real too?”

“Probably.”

Club Red Sun, which caused a stir in Gangnam [an affluent district in Seoul].

It was swept under the rug due to pressure from political and business circles, but it was an incident that could only be seen in movies, happening in the capital of Korea, Seoul, in the heart of Gangnam.

To think that he was really the mastermind behind it.

At this point, he’s not just a twisted third-generation chaebol, but a villain.

“I wouldn’t live like that if I were him.”

That’s obvious.

Is it common for someone born with a silver spoon [born into wealth] to be ruined like that?

“Me neither.”

Senior Sangwoo smiled awkwardly.

Even until this point, I didn’t know.

How my life would become entangled with the villain named Jung Hyunwoo.

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