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CH173 | Heir

My call with Chu Min-jeong lasted until sunrise.

It felt like barely an hour had passed, but the sun was already up before I knew it.

[Oh? It’s already this late. I need to get ready for work.]

“Don’t go in today—just ...

CH172 | Heir

Chu Min-jeong possessed two exceptional skills.

One was programming.
The other was algorithms.

I had always thought of algorithms as just a method for solving problems.

Before my regression, they were widely used in ad...

CH171 | Heir

The 2002 World Cup drama had finally come to an end.

Just as history had written, South Korea finished in an impressive fourth place, making the tournament a spectacular success.

And when a drama becomes a hit, its lead actors�...

CH170 | Heir

I searched my memory and organized everything I knew about Bitcoin.

The developer of Bitcoin was Satoshi Nakamoto.

Although the name sounded Japanese, no one knew his nationality, age, or any other personal details.

Because of...

CH169 | Heir

His father’s sudden declaration blindsided Jung Ho-young.

“Study abroad? Just like that? Why should I? You promised that once I got into college, I could do whatever I wanted!”

“And ‘whatever you wanted’ turned out to be ...

CH168 | Heir

Chu Min-jeong was a highly guarded person.

Except for the moment I first entered the restaurant, she showed no change in expression. Even after shaking hands, she quickly withdrew her hand and hid it under the table.

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CH167 | Heir

During the financial crisis, Taewoo Group sold off many of its subsidiaries.

Notably, large-scale divisions such as shipbuilding, credit cards, and mobile phones were among them.

Some of these eventually returned to the group, but ov...

CH166 | Heir

Lee Soo-Hyun fell into deep thought.

If a new competitor emerged, the entire plan to sell Foreign Exchange Bank would need to be revised.

And if Lone Star truly lost its eligibility, every agreement he had made with them would become...

CH165 | Heir

Thanks to the iPad and iPhone S, the audience was more than satisfied.

With their expectations already met, they watched the next product unveiling with a sense of ease.

[The final product we’d like to introduce today is a TV. Yo...

CH164 | Heir

In any organization, whistleblowing was the most uncomfortable situation to deal with.

Especially in the strictly hierarchical world of government officials, whistleblowing was
considered nothing short of betrayal.

Because of t...

CH163 | Heir

The new year of 2002 had arrived.

A year of unending celebrations.

With both the World Cup and the presidential election taking place in South Korea, it was set to be an exceptionally heated year.

Of course, not everyone wo...

CH162 | Heir

CL Card falls into Taewoo Group’s hands

Taewoo Card had returned home—bringing CL Card as its "wife."

Yet, Park Man-deok, CEO of Taewoo Securities, didn't look pleased.

"The scale of CL Card's card bonds is beyond imagi...

CH161 | Heir

Only a few days remained in 2001.

In my previous life, the credit card crisis occurred between 2002 and 2004.

However, in this life, since I had sold Taewoo Card to CL Card, the timing had been pushed
forward.

With Dimo...

CH160 | Heir

After finishing all the contracts, I took a brief break.

The planning director personally brewed a warm cup of tea and brought it to me.

"This is bellflower root tea. I prepared it because you've been speaking a lot today, and it's...

CH159 | Heir

Steve was like a god in the IT industry.

Especially after the iPhone became a huge success, more people began to praise him, and CEO

Im Jaebeom was no different.

"Do you really think I resemble Steve?"

"You seem dou...

CH158 | Heir

Like any negotiation, the terms always depended on how desperate one side was.

So...

Would Samsung Electronics really be incapable of producing smartphones without Taewoo's
patents?

The answer was half true, half false....

CH157 | Heir

I didn't hand over the credit card company to the CL Group for no reason.

It was merely a temporary measure to protect Taewoo Group from the madness of the credit card crisis.

"The credit card companies will soon collapse simultane...

CH156 | Heir

Taewoo IT had been posting tremendous quarterly results, and what had once started as a department with fewer than 100 employees had now grown into a team of over 1,000 experts.

“There are quite a few empty desks.”

“A lot of ...

CH155 | Heir

President Woo Sung-il was as efficient as ever.

That was exactly why I had kept him in his position at the head of Taewoo Electronics.

It hadn't been more than a few hours since I mentioned wanting to meet Cyworld's CEO, Seo
Kw...

CH154 | Heir

I arrived in Korea a little later than planned.

The morning sun was just rising, and I headed straight to the office.

I was dying to rest, but there was no time for that as the emergency situation was still ongoing.

“Vice...

CH153 | Heir

Coming to the U.S. wasn't just about inspecting the World Trade Center.

I had another, perhaps even more critical, mission.

I was here to recruit a man who would shape the future of Taewoo Group.

"You mentioned that you got...

CH152 | Heir

The phone rang immediately.

It was Team Leader Han.

[Sir! This is a disaster! The World Trade Center we leased has been attacked!]

“I’m watching the news right now.”

[Wall Street is in turmoil. Talks of massiv...

CH151 | Heir

TL/n -

Thank you, Ishan, for providing the backup chapters.

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Both CEOs were already well-versed in the concept of factory automation.

Especially Carlos, who had spent years in Europe and the U.S., u...

CH390 | Heir

The short-selling faction relentlessly kept attacking.

And since oil prices in January 2015 continued their downward trend, Hess’s stock price plummeted sharply.

It wasn’t just Hess.

Not only American but also European oil...

CH389 | Heir

The promised day had arrived.

Chanos poured all the funds he possessed into short selling to prove himself to the hedge fund manager.

“Sir! Hess’s stock price has started to plummet rapidly.”

“It seems Taewoo Group has...

CH150 | Heir

There was no industry where labor costs loomed as large as in commerce.

You had to receive goods from sellers, store them in warehouses, and then deliver them all the way to customers’ doorsteps.

Every step of that process required h...

CH149 | Heir

Steve and I walked through Apple’s product planning department, talking as we went.

It was a space where everything from the very first Macintosh to the newly released iPhone was on display. Standing in the middle, I spread my arms wide.<...

CH486 | GSI

The young waitress, elegantly dressed in a modern hanbok, brought over the ssanghwa tea.

Deputy Director Liu Sang-fu took a sip and, seemingly satisfied, spoke.

“The aroma is quite unique.”

“It’s a traditional tea call...

CH388 I Heir

The scene on the way to work hadn’t changed much then or now.

The atmosphere in the chairman’s office was no different, and despite being able to access global news on smartphones, newspapers from major countries were always spread out a...

CH387 | Heir

After finishing the negotiations with the Hess board,

I had a modest drinking session with David and Dimon.

"Boss! You’ve worked hard. To bring Hess into the Taewoo Group—it was unthinkable just ten years ago."

"That’s than...