(Song Joong Ki)
(Lee Sung Min)
(Shin Hyun Been)
(Kim Shin Rok, Yoon Je Moon, Cho Han Chul)
(Kim Nam Hee, Park Ji Hyun)
(Jung Hye Young, Kim Young Jae)
(Kim Jung Nan, Kim Do Hyun, Kim Hyun, Seo Jae Hee)
(Reborn Rich)
(Production Sponsors: Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and KOCCA.)
(This drama is fiction and people, places, organizations,)
(incidents, groups, and nations are not based on reality.)
Y2K is an issue whereby computers are unable to recognize years 2000s.
Today is a day before Year 2000.
The world is on high alert...
for a possible attack from Y2K, the millennium bug.
An unprecedented situation...
whereby nuclear bombs and nuclear missiles are fired...
due to malfunctioning computers might occur.
What? It's coming.
It's coming.
It's finally tomorrow.
(Episode 9)
Are you moving into an air-raid shelter or something?
And stay there for about a year?
An air-raid shelter. Why didn't I think of that?
Should I call Grandfather now?
It's Soonyang. I'm sure they're prepared.
Do Jun wasn't worried at all.
What does he know?
Book smarts have poor intuition.
Why? They don't need to guess answers when taking exams.
They're not trained for it.
So you have good intuition?
The 1999 eschatology that Nostradamus prophesied.
He meant this.
Nuclear explosion due to Y2K.
Nostradamus?
You believe that?
The Great Fire of London in 1666.
The French Revolution in 1789.
The Second World War in 1939 and Hitler's appearance.
He predicted everything correctly.
And someone like him prophesied...
that the world will end in July, 1999.
- July? - Yes.
July has passed.
Seriously...
Mother, he's European. There must be a time difference.
Did he follow the lunar calendar?
(Unlimited Compensation!)
The media and customers were very interested...
in the unlimited compensation policy that Soonyang offered.
Insurance, investment, and electronic-related affiliates...
which could be affected by Y2K...
especially received a lot of inquiries.
We are facing this situation for the first time...
since computers were invented.
Isn't the risk too big for a promotional event?
We cannot estimate how bad the damage will be from Y2K.
Unlimited compensation is a bit...
This ad was planned by the Chairman's office...
and not by the PR Department, right?
Yes.
By the Chairman's office itself?
Other companies are making a fuss about making a law...
saying they don't have to compensate for any damage caused by Y2K.
Unlimited compensation?
(Soonyang Investment)
Gosh.
Isn't that too reckless?
You said you'd take responsibility.
Regardless of how much the compensation is,
you're going to pay for it.
Instead, if Y2K passes by without any issue,
you should do me a favour.
The button is pressed.
The pendulum starts swinging.
- President Kim Dae Jung is present. - Five, four,
- three, - Three,
- two, one. - two, one.
Everyone.
The 21st century has begun.
The start of the new millennium.
Year 2000 is here.
We can hear their voices.
Y2K. Millennium bug.
The end of the world.
Nostradamus, that con artist.
Darn it! What was that?
The 21st century has begun.
(Reborn Rich)
Okay.
You saved your money.
The computation of investment business...
and insurance companies is fine,
and the semiconductor factory has no issue as well.
I think you earned more than ten million dollars just now.
Thanks to me.
(Unlimited Compensation!)
Could any other advertisement be as effective as this?
What is it?
Do you want anything for your graduation?
What is the favour you want from me?
Happy New Year, Grandfather.
(Document for approval)
January 1, 2000.
The temperature is 22°C, and humidity is 62 percent.
- Good morning. - Happy New Year, Ms. Jin.
Looking forward to working with you this year as well, Director Im.
The 2000 sales strategy meeting...
with the district directors of Soonyang Market will be held...
in the conference room on the 11th floor at 9am.
- Right. Cancel that. - Sorry?
I called the managers of Soonyang Investment.
It's a closed door meeting, by the way.
Gosh.
Ms. Jin, some directors came from Gwangju, Busan,
and Jeju Island yesterday...
to attend today's meeting.
- So? - Sorry?
Do the transportation and accommodation fees...
come from their pockets? I pay for them.
What's the problem?
Last year, I earned more money from New Data Technology stocks...
than the department store sales.
Think before you work. Get your priorities straight.
I apologize.
Well, Ms. Jin.
You have made enough. You should stop investing in stocks...
It'll go up to 300 dollars.
I need to get back my share of the department store...
that I gave to Miracle Investment as collateral.
As soon as it goes up to 300 dollars,
I'll get back my share, and that's it. The end.
Three hundred dollars?
This is a phenomenon that has never happened in Korea before,
so any prediction is meaningless.
Looking at the data, if you just consider the corporate value,
the current stock price is a bubble.
The stock price could plummet...
and half the current price anytime.
"Plummet?" Are you sure?
How low will it drop?
- Well... - Ms. Jin.
Pardon me for asking, but how much did you invest?
Am I the one making the report here?
No. I'm sorry.
Aren't you experts in investment? Why can't you answer me?
Will it go up to 300 dollars?
Three hundred dollars.
Will it go up to 300 dollars?
Will it?
As KOSDAQ Composition hits 2,834,
the stock price of New Data Technology keeps rising.
Yesterday, the trading market closed with the price of 280 dollars.
Did you say it will go up to 300 dollars to CEO Jin Hwa Young?
Yes.
It will go higher at this rate.
The stock price of New Data Technology...
isn't decided by the market.
It's decided by the era.
The IT era.
If vague fear called upon the Y2K myth,
greed for infinite possibilities...
is appearing in the form of New Data Technology and venture companies.
Since the start of the new millennium.
It is predicted to continue rising.
Please sell all of the New Data Technology stocks...
that Miracle Investment owns, Mr. Oh.
Now?
Unreasonable investment and rapid growth...
The truth of the Y2K myth was revealed.
The New Data Technology frenzy will show its true colours soon too.
Sell them off.
Wait.
CEO Lee Myung Soo of New Data Technology...
is suspected to be involved in accounting fraud.
Prosecutors are investigating the issue.
Soonyang Electronics that pushed forward...
with a technological alliance with New Data Technology...
scrapped the plan.
The plan to merge New Data Technology and One Road,
the biggest mobile carrier in Korea, fell through in the end.
As the stock price of New Data Technology continued to fall,
KOSDAQ Composition fell below 520.
Its stock price today is 5.50 dollars,
which is an 18 percent drop from its highest price.
I'm Prosecutor Seo Min Yeong...
of FTCD at Seoul District Public Prosecutors' Office.
FTCD stands for Financial and Tax Crime Department.
It's a department that investigates crimes related to finance, stocks,
and tax.
I'm a newly-appointed prosecutor that was appointed this year.
Was that okay? Or should I try one more time?
(The Era of Gender Inequality)
(The Era of Gender Inequality, Together, we can end it.)
(Prosecutor's Office)
I was assigned cases, right?
Are the investigation records here? Where are they?
Well...
In the cabinet over there.
Excuse me, Prosecutor Seo.
You're going to tomorrow's interview with the women's magazine, right?
There will be a photoshoot.
The theme is a female prosecutor.
The magazine company prepared this, or so I heard.
The chief prosecutor is in the office, right?
For the past three months since my probation period ended,
you never assigned me...
a proper case.
Do you know that?
So?
I don't feel like I'm worth my salt,
and I feel bad that I can't face you.
I am ashamed of myself.
Teach me what I'm lacking,
and I'll do my best to correct it.
What are you saying, Prosecutor Seo?
Your existence alone is FTCD's pride.
Didn't you know that?
You're more than worth your salt.
You have an interview with a women's magazine tomorrow, right?
After Prosecutor General resigned from his post because of lobbying,
the public opinion was terrible.
Especially those women that love to talk.
You show them...
how women-friendly prosecution is.
I'll do my best.
Darn it.
(The Era of Gender Inequality, Together, we can end it.)
Yes.
I'm Prosecutor Seo Min Yeong.
Who's calling?
Welcome.
This way, please.
Long time no see.
Prosecutor Seo Min Yeong.
I didn't know...
you still had my number.
I thought you knew.
Your number was still the same,
so I thought you had a call you were waiting for.
Let me go.
Get a grip.
Losing money was enough.
Do you want to lose the department store as well?
Let me go!
You need to make up for the money you spent on the stocks first.
If you keep postponing the payment...
to the stores in the department store,
they will take legal action against the department store.
Are you okay with that?
Are you threatening me, Director Im?
It means the prosecutors will come to notice...
that you embezzled the company funds.
We still have time.
Only two of us know that.
You want me to investigate the embezzlement...
of CEO Jin Hwa Young of Soonyang Department Store?
Are you tipping it off to me?
So we're here today as a prosecutor and an informant.
Then I should make it clear.
We'll split the bill.
I can't make the informant pay for me.
(Dessert: Cheesecake, cocoa meringue)
The price is not mentioned.
The person in front of me sure is a grandson of a conglomerate family.
You meet people at a restaurant where price doesn't matter...
and report a family member to prosecution...
as a suspect of a severe crime.
So you'll jump in and join the war of succession?
Using the prosecution... No, using me?
Why? I can't do that?
Let's say, for the sake of Korea's financial justice,
I put up my beloved family...
on the judgement seat...
despite the excruciating pain.
Does the result of the investigation change?
If you're not confident, I understand.
It's no other company but Soonyang that you have to fight against.
You passed the bar exam as first place in the country...
and are talented enough to be assigned to FTCD.
But it still must be too much for a newly-appointed prosecutor, right?
I understand, I mean it.
I'll be off first.
How much...
was the estimated amount of CEO Jin Hwa Young's embezzlement again?
Let me use a third-generation heir...
to realize justice.
Prosecutor Seo, here.
This is the fund analysis of CEO Jin Hwa Young I got...
from tracking her transaction history.
Did you find any suspicious activity that points to embezzlement?
No, I couldn't.
Soonyang is an expert in this regard.
Instead,
I found a very interesting account.
Look here.
Since last September and October,
from Soonyang Department Store's corporate account,
ten million dollars...
was split into 300,000 and 400,000 dollars...
and were transferred to dozens of accounts.
Are they clients of the department store?
These dozens of accounts have different account holder names...
and banks,
but they have one thing in common.
That is...
the location of each branch.
Look here. Hoehyeon-dong, Chungmuro, and Euljiro.
All of these places are...
It's Myeong-dong.
She set up a huge money laundry place in the private loan market.
Bingo.
So where did the laundered money go?
Right. Here.
Soonyang Deco.
Outside, it's a business partner of Soonyang Department Store.
Inside, we don't know.
Because all transactions of Soonyang Deco...
are the funds from Soonyang Department Store...
that went through money laundering here.
It's a paper company.
She set up a phantom company named Soonyang Deco...
and embezzled the company funds.
Mr. Song. Put out a warrant on them.
We'll seize and search Soonyang Department Store...
and subpoena CEO Jin Hwa Young for investigation.
(Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office)
(Enforcement)
What are you doing?
What's happening?
Someone reported a suspicion of embezzlement.
How dare you ransack my office without me!
Do you know who I am?
You're CEO Jin Hwa Young, right?
I'm Investigator Song Gye Ok of Financial and Tax Crime Department,
Seoul District Public Prosecutors' Office.
(Request of Attendance)
We're requesting your attendance as the suspect...
of embezzlement.
My wife did?
Goodness.
(Seoul Metropolitan City)
I was too busy with the national affairs...
that I neglected my family.
Don't mention it.
Seocho-dong has fresher air, but Gwanghwamun sells better liquor.
Yes, come with the others.
Let's meet up.
Yes. Thank you.
See you.
Are you managing your minions or not?
Do you even know what I just went through?
The investigation will be done behind closed doors.
Wrap it up internally before the press catch wind.
Put back the money you spent, and the charges will be dropped.
The money?
Would this be happening to me if I had the money?
The money you lost in the stock market.
Was it the department store's funds?
Oh, my gosh...
(Seoul Metropolitan City)
Go to your father and ask for help.
What shall I say?
What shall I tell him?
Should I tell him I embezzled company funds?
That I lost 140 million dollars in the stock market?
How do you still not know my father?
The day he finds out will be the day my life ends.
Good for you.
What a great family you come from.
You have no qualms about breaking the law,
but you won't dare do anything to upset your father.
I don't care.
You must help me.
You have prosecutor friends.
Plus, aren't you the Mayor of Seoul?
If you can't use your authority,
why'd you waste a fortune to get into politics?
Pull yourself together, Jin Hwa Young!
You should've grown up 30 years ago.
I'm the Mayor of Seoul and the next presidential candidate.
I made my name by attacking the rich and you...
You being investigated for embezzlement is bad news for me.
That you lost over 100 million in the speculative stock market?
It's a calamity.
You're about to cut my political life short.
- Honey. - Hands off.
You, get out.
Go to your father and play sweet and coy or beg on your knees.
Ask him to save you just this once.
Only then will I let you...
spend the rest of your life as Mayor Choi Chang Je's wife.
- Honey. - I said go!
Get my car. Head to Jeongsimjae.
- I can't. - Ms. Jin.
I can't go to Jeongsimjae.
Not Jeongsimjae.
As much as 140 million dollars?
That's more than I expected.
I heard Soonyang Department Store makes quite a lot.
Did you have any other business issues?
Shall I wire you the money now?
You can do that? Right now?
I told you.
If you want anything from us, all you must do is pay the due price.
I'll buy it off you for 140 million.
The Soonyang Department Store shares you own...
under borrowed names, all 25 percent.
Not again. You want more shares?
For just 140 million?
Listen.
You told me to pay the due price.
Do you even know how much the department store shares...
are traded for right now?
They trade for less than 15 dollars per share.
Do you remember the stipulation...
on the contract you signed when we lent you the 400 million?
To ensure the collateral's value in case stock prices dropped,
we added a conditional clause.
(Bond of Debt)
If stock prices go below 15 dollars, the 30 percent stake...
you offered as collateral is transferred to Miracle.
The repayment period has lapsed,
and your shares are worth less than 15 dollars each.
Legal action will be taken to transfer your 30-percent stake...
in Soonyang Department Store to us.
Is this it?
The reason you want...
my hidden 25-percent stake for 140 million dollars?
On top of the 30 percent you took behind my back,
you'll take another 25 percent...
to take over my department store with 55 percent ownership?
You still are a hunter.
This is a hostile takeover.
We stayed true to our partnership.
And it was always you who came to us first.
When I take over... No.
When I hunt down a company, I have just one rule.
My prey are companies undervalued due to incompetent management.
Like your department store that,
despite high sale figures, fail to pay off their debts.
Behind me is Soonyang Group,
and Chairman Jin Yang Cheol.
Congratulations. You have a great set of parents.
Do Jun.
Get rid of him. That fool.
Aren't you Miracle's majority shareholder?
Must I deal with a puppet of a CEO?
Let's keep the department store collateral deal between us.
Between you and I, family.
I'm sorry, Aunt.
Miracle's arbiter...
is and will be Mr. Oh.
Isn't that why you visited him in the first place?
Instead of me, your family?
Do Jun. I...
If I were you,
I'd hand over the 25-percent stake for 140 million.
Before prices fall even further.
Mr. Oh...
never buys anything unless it's worth the money.
Goodbye.
The chairman's blood flows in you.
What?
You got a prosecutor involved.
("The Female Wave, The Male Organization Shifts")
You must know many other prosecutors.
Why did you go to her?
("The Female Wave, The Male Organization Shifts")
(Jin Hwa Young, Embezzlement and Dereliction)
I plan to subpoena her tomorrow...
and question her for embezzling...
using a paper company.
If my suspicion is confirmed,
I'll follow protocol to have her booked.
Not bad.
The people high up are quite interested in you.
Don't forget that how female prosecutors are...
and will be treated depends on you.
I'll do my best, sir.
Goodness...
(CEO Jin Hwa Young)
Hey!
Goodness, you poor...
You look dreadful.
Oh, dear...
So what if I own a stock firm?
I had no idea at all.
I heard the rumour a prosecutor was onto you,
and I thought they were playing around...
to drop share prices.
A rumour?
Who would play around?
Someone who wants the stock prices...
of your department store to plummet.
Someone who owns a stake in it,
or wants to buy more for cheap.
If stock prices go below 15 dollars,
the 30 percent stake you offered as collateral...
is transferred to Miracle.
Miracle's Oh Se Hyeon.
If I were you,
I'd hand over the 25-percent stake for 140 million.
Before prices fall even further.
Jin Do Jun, that jerk!
It's okay. Don't you worry.
We worked so hard to build up that department store.
Would I just let Miracle gobble it up?
Shall I give you the money to get you out of trouble first?
You'll do that?
Your worst days are over.
Dong Ki.
Spend more time with your husband.
And toss me whatever you still own of the department store.
- What? - I'm more reliable than Do Jun.
We're full siblings born from the same parents.
- Dong Ki. - Yes.
That crazy... Hwa Young!
Darn her.
You must know New Data Technology.
It began at 1.50 dollars,
then reached 10 dollars in a week, so that's seven times.
It'll surely rise up to at least 40 dollars.
Well,
I hear they'll take the flight up to 300 dollars.
But who knows when this defective aircraft...
will take the plunge?
But I guess it's high risk, high return.
That punk Do Jun.
This was his plan from the start.
He did all this to take over the department store...
No.
It was me.
He set the trap for me!
Do you see it, Father?
It's all Do Jun's fault.
All because of Do Jun,
you lost 140 million dollars in the stock market,
your stake in the department store,
and now...
a prosecutor is investigating you?
- Is that it? - Yes. I feel so wronged!
Hwa Young!
Will you please answer my question?
Did Do Jun twist your arm...
to force you to buy those shares?
Then did he sign the contract to make you...
- dip into company funds? - No.
Do you have proof Do Jun set a prosecutor after you?
- No, but that's... - I just...
don't get it.
How is...
Do Jun at fault?
- Father. - Stop it!
You're using your nephew as an excuse?
How callous of you.
You lost 140 million of my precious money...
and you learned nothing at all?
Father.
Father!
Lend me the money.
The 140 million.
What?
One hundred and forty million?
If your only daughter were to go to prison,
you wouldn't be able to sleep at night.
Wouldn't that be better than your old dad...
spending time behind bars?
What?
Have you forgotten that when I gave you the department store,
I made it a separate entity?
If 140 million were to go from me...
to you for no good reason,
that becomes embezzlement and dereliction!
Stand up.
Hwa Young.
I don't worry about you at all.
Why don't I?
You have a husband.
Didn't I let you marry him when he was a prosecutor...
so we could use him at a time like this?
Your money got him into City Hall.
Wouldn't he help you out?
Wouldn't he?
Father...
You married into his family, and you're his problem now.
- Cry all you want there. - Father.
I won't give you a cent.
Mom.
I might go to prison.
Father said he won't help me.
Get a grip.
Get a grip!
The old man has no grace at all.
No. Could you, Mom...
Come and sit down.
What should I do?
Oh, dear...
Father has always been merciless.
So what if he values family and all that?
My Seong Jun is...
getting all mouldy in the warehouse.
He's willing to send his only daughter to prison.
A grandson is an extra stretch.
You have nothing to worry about, Hwa Young.
You have two reliable older brothers.
"Reliable?"
Oh, they're reliable?
Mom, do you know what Dong Ki said?
As if Young Ki would be better...
That's enough, Ms. Hwa Young.
Don't embarrass yourself in front of the new addition.
Have some jujube tea.
It'll help you calm down.
Yes.
Take a long sip of the hot tea...
and pull yourself together.
Will you call the Seoul District Public Prosecutors' Office?
No.
I'm a referee.
I'll keep a whistle in my hand...
and stand right here.
My goodness...
You must be getting old too.
You worry too much.
Will you be okay with how things turn out?
Be a nice father and expand Soonyang?
I can't have my cake and eat it.
That's pure greed.
Aunt.
I'll accompany you to the prosecutors' office.
Dear Heavenly Father.
Please help me and save me from this mess.
The investigation's not open, so there will be no press.
Try to relax.
It's quite a small world.
The prosecutor who subpoenaed you...
was Do Jun's law school classmate.
Is that true?
Ms. Jin.
Do you admit to...
embezzling 140 million dollars of Soonyang Department Store funds?
Do you admit to using a paper company...
called Soonyang Deco in the process?
Soonyang Deco.
On paper, it holds five construction licenses.
But another document shows...
it only hired and paid employees who worked for less than...
twenty hours a month.
(Record of Paid Salaries)
In this case, it's one or the other.
It's a shell company that exists only on paper,
or you're an immoral boss who breaks the Labour Standard Law...
and Minimum Wage Act.
There's one more possibility.
This case is built on...
a false report.
Do you deny all the charges?
I'm alerting you to a new crime.
What if someone...
approached a naive newly-appointed prosecutor...
and lied that I embezzled company funds?
What if they used this investigation to shake the stock market...
to cause Soonyang Department Store's stocks to fall?
What if they planned all this to obtain my shares...
at the value of nothing...
so that they can take over the department store?
What happens then?
Then...
that person will be punished for fraudulent and...
illegal transactions.
Okay.
I did not...
embezzle any funds.
We'll find out soon.
My investigators...
are at the address on Soonyang Deco's file.
I see.
Once we prove Soonyang Deco is a paper company,
that should also prove the report...
that you embezzled is not fraudulent.
- Hello? - Ms. Seo.
The Soonyang Deco office.
- Make the call. - Okay.
(Soonyang Deco)
It's not a paper company.
Okay, thank you.
Do you get it now?
I am not guilty of embezzlement.
I am the victim here.
Those who are pushing for a hostile takeover...
are attacking me to take Soonyang Department Store away from me.
They're using you, Prosecutor Seo.
I heard you and Do Jun...
went to the same law school.
You see,
you should've summoned the one who sent in the false tip, not me.
You should've charged that person with fraud and unfair trading.
How did you come up with such a brilliant idea?
You didn't study law, did you?
I consulted my family's lawyer.
I don't know much about the law.
But I do know Do Jun quite well.
Do Jun?
When he was deceiving Grandfather and the others in the family...
while acting like an ordinary college student,
I could see right through him.
Those things can't be hidden.
He's incredibly smart, detail-oriented,
diligent, magnanimous, and brave.
He's got all the qualities...
that Grandfather would love.
I suppose you were...
immensely interested in Do Jun. You seem to know a lot about him.
Yes.
And that's why there should be no place for him at Soonyang.
I'm sure you'd agree.
By now, they should've summoned and questioned Jin Hwa Young.
How come it's so quiet?
Shouldn't she be coming to us saying she doesn't want to go to jail...
and asking us for the 140 million dollars?
"Give me the money, and I'll give you my shares."
That was the happy ending I was expecting, you know?
I don't like surprises.
(Soonyang Department Store Share Distribution Status)
(Miracle Investment, Jin Hwa Young)
Miracle Investment?
Yes, it's an investment company founded in 1997.
Recently, 30 percent...
of Jin Hwa Young's shares in the department store...
were transferred to Miracle.
That's a lot of shares to be transferred at once.
Soonyang Department Store owned Miracle some money.
When their stock price dropped, Miracle gained ownership...
over the shares they had used as collateral.
Oh, right. You asked me to find out if it had anything to do...
with the Soonyang Group owner's family.
Here.
The majority shareholder of Miracle is Soonyang chairman's grandson,
Jin Do Jun.
What if...
they planned all this to obtain my shares...
at the value of nothing...
so that they can take over the department store?
So you'll jump in and join the war of succession?
Using the prosecution... No, using me?
Why?
I can't do that?
I figured you'd want to know what happened with Jin Hwa Young,
since you were the tipper.
Oh, that.
In conclusion, we couldn't get anything out of it.
There were definitely circumstances that made me suspect embezzlement,
but am I just not good enough yet? I couldn't prove it.
I suppose I still have a lot to learn...
before I can go up against the Soonyang family.
I bet you think that too.
Hey.
Why did you tip me off?
The third-generation heir to Soonyang Group.
You can influence many competent prosecutors with just your name.
So why me?
Because I know.
You, Seo Min Yeong,
will become an admirable prosecutor.
One that the rich are afraid of.
One that makes the powerful uncomfortable.
A decent prosecutor.
I know Prosecutor Seo Min Yeong well enough.
That's why.
Liar.
What?
Seo Tai Ji.
You said he'd make a comeback in 2000.
You told me that,
looking as if you knew everything just like right now.
Comeback, my foot.
Half the year is gone already, and there's still no news.
You...
lied to me.
(Hostile Takeover)
(Stock Price Manipulation)
(Jin Do Jun, Jin Hwa Young, War of Succession?)
I see a blank.
Are you on duty today?
What about you, ma'am?
I'm staying late to study.
You mentioned a blank. Where?
For this to constitute an unfair trade practice...
Here.
First, you'd need firm evidence that the tip was false.
That's what I think.
(Evidence that the tip was false)
Evidence to prove...
that Do Jun deliberately gave me false information?
("Soonyang Department Store's Outstanding Payments...")
The department store's suppliers and partners are all suffering.
The six-month promissory notes are all due at the end of the month.
The ones she issued instead of cash when she started...
to invest in New Data technology last year.
If she can't pay them, the company will go under.
And she's still not calling us?
What is she thinking?
I'm stepping out.
Jin Hwa Young should step down!
- Step down! - Step down!
Soonyang's subcontractors want to live!
- We want to live! - We want to live!
Guarantee our right to livelihood!
- Guarantee it! - Guarantee it!
Soonyang must learn its lessons!
- Learn your lessons! - Learn your lessons!
Shut down Soonyang Department Store!
- Shut it down! - Shut it down!
Guarantee our right to livelihood!
- Guarantee it! - Guarantee it!
Soonyang's subcontractors want to live!
- We want to live! - We want to live!
Jin Hwa Young should step down!
- Step down! - Step down!
Soonyang's subcontractors want to live!
- We want to live! - We want to live!
Guarantee our right to livelihood!
- Guarantee it! - Guarantee it!
(Soonyang Department Store)
I heard 140 million dollars...
would be enough to clear all your outstanding payments.
Just hand over the shares, Aunt Hwa Young.
Do Jun.
Wake up already.
I will not hand them over to you...
even if it'd cost me my life.
It's just 140 million.
You think I'll give up the department store over that?
I won't let you fool me twice.
The hotel, the golf course, and the resort.
I'll sell everything valuable. I need two months at the most.
Two months is a long time for those people.
To you, it's just enough time...
to start dressing differently for a new season.
But for poor people,
they'll become poorer...
by the day at an accelerating rate.
Poverty has compound interest.
So? Are you saying poor people can't even wait two months?
Gosh, I'm sick and tired of dealing with them.
Because they're so impatient,
they'll suffer in poverty for the rest of their lives.
Good grief.
Then why do you think you can be sitting there now?
You handed over 30 percent of the shares...
to Miracle as soon as the split-off took place.
Then you lost 140 million dollars in stocks,
yet you can still sit there looking so confident.
There's only one reason for that.
You were born into the Soonyang family. That's why.
And you did nothing to earn it.
It was pure luck.
A lucky chance that those people did not have.
So?
You won't be able to step down on your own.
(CEO Jin Hwa Young)
Since you didn't earn it on your own.
(Korea Gas Corporation, Past Due)
I'm so forgetful. I forgot to pay the bill.
I'll go to the bank later and...
(Past Due)
(Test Identification Slip, Yoon Hyeon Woo)
Good luck on the exam tomorrow.
Wait.
Yes?
Do you want to buy this?
Buy it off me. I'll sell it cheap.
I have a hard time focusing on studying because of music.
You'll buy it, right?
(Eggs, Glass Noodles, Rice, Nutritious Multigrain Rice)
(Rice from Icheon, Pocheon, Jincheon)
(Nutritious Multigrain Rice)
(Ramyeon)
Gosh, it's hot.
It looks delicious. Thank you for making this!
No problem. Eat up, Hyeon Min.
If your mom was around, she'd make you all your favourite dishes.
Eat up, son.
So you'll have the energy to study.
- I've been waiting for hours. - Me too.
- This is annoying. - Darn it.
Goodness. What's going on?
I think so too.
- It's taking forever. - What are they doing?
- Can you go check? - Hold on.
- Let's wait. - But this is...
- Park Jun Mo? - Yes!
- An Ju Ho? - Yes, here!
- Kim Ju Sik? - Yes!
- Park Jun Mo? - Yes!
Yoon Hyeon Woo?
(Test Identification Slip, Yoon Hyeon Woo)
Is Yoon Hyeon Woo not here?
Yes, I'm coming!
(Test Identification Slip, Yoon Hyeon Woo)
What I gave up on wasn't the college entrance exam,
nor was it the four years of college life.
That morning, the only option I had...
was to choose...
to do my best to become even poorer.
There are 24 hours in a day and 365 days in a year.
They say time is fair to everyone.
However,
time isn't fair.
Just like everything else...
in this world.
The ten million dollar favour you owe me.
Can I ask you for it now?
You.
Are you here to pick up your promissory note or something?
Please talk to the board members of Soonyang Department Store.
We need to call a board meeting...
- to discuss... - I don't need to hear it.
Whether you want to trick everyone or pull a prank,
I don't care to know.
So you just want me to call a board meeting?
Then I don't owe you anything anymore.
- What? - What is this?
- No way. - I don't believe this.
- What will happen to us, then? - No way.
This is nuts.
- What is going on? - What is this?
- Did you see this? - I can't believe this.
I did not see this coming.
This is crazy.
No way!
- Embezzlement? Seriously? - Right?
(Board Meeting to be Held to Discuss Dismissal of CEO)
Who moved the board members?
Who initiated the talk on my dismissal?
I heard Miracle was attending the board meeting as well.
Miracle?
You mean, Do Jun?
Not announcing the fact that Miracle is now...
the majority shareholder of the department store...
is considered dereliction of duty,
so he's attending as a witness...
Please don't worry too much, ma'am.
If you take your time and explain yourself at the meeting...
- Director Im. - Yes, ma'am.
I should explain myself? Why?
Pardon me?
You were the one who created the slush fund,
using the borrowed-name account,
and tweaked our agreements...
with the retail vendors.
And you're the director of finance.
Yet you stood by and watched while I was losing all that money...
because of that stupid stock.
That is a clear case of dereliction of duty.
Am I wrong?
At the board meeting,
I'll do my very best to help you.
But should the board...
decide to sue you...
Our friendship...
will evolve to the next level.
Just think that.
Thank you for all your hard work, Director Im.
It was an honour to assist you, ma'am.
July 19, 2000.
The CEO's orders.
The end.
Hello, Im Myeong Sook speaking.
Goodness.
Are you telling me to say at the board meeting...
that Ms. Jin committed embezzlement?
You were wrong about me if you thought I'd do it.
I will stay loyal to her.
Is this the kind of loyalty you're talking about?
"Never disobey any orders."
"Never ask any questions."
"Never make your own decisions."
Because of your loyalty to CEO Jin,
you'll now be held legally responsible for everything.
I'll think of it as another star on my shoulders.
The other directors envy me since it's such a huge honour.
I see. Because she'll take care of you after you retire.
I've worked harder and more diligently...
than anyone else I know for nearly 40 years.
Should I really be criticized for wanting a stable retirement?
For signing in CEO Jin's stead while working for Soonyang...
and paying for it...
in your retirement?
To stay loyal to her,
you're betraying yourself every day.
(Soonyang Department, Summer Sale)
I am Lee Hang Jae, the chairperson of the board meeting.
Today's agenda is the dismissal...
of CEO Jin Hwa Young.
We will hear from the witness and Ms. Jin herself...
regarding the dereliction of duty case...
and take votes by a show of hands.
(CEO Jin Hwa Young)
(Witness)
(Prosecutor Seo Min Yeong)
Could you contact Ms. Jin Hwa Young at Soonyang?
Yes, ma'am.
Ma'am, a package arrived for you earlier...
Oh, you already got it.
What was inside?
I've managed to fill in the blank.
Evidence to prove that the tip was false.
(CEO Jin Hwa Young)
Embezzlement?
(Witness)
(Chairperson Lee Hang Jae)
No.
It is not true.
(Emergency Board Meeting to Discuss CEO's Dismissal)
A false tip was sent to the prosecutors...
to make our stock price drop.
It was orchestrated by Miracle Investment...
where my nephew, Jin Do Jun, is the majority shareholder.
To steal my shares, which they're holding as collateral.
And thanks to it,
he's sitting here now as the majority shareholder...
of Soonyang Department Store.
(Witness)
Is this true?
Instead of answering this question,
I will prove that Ms. Jin is indeed guilty...
of embezzlement.
Right here and now.
Do you have solid evidence?
Well...
The one who's been managing...
the department store's finances as per Ms. Jin's orders,
Director Im Myeong Sook, will give a statement. Would that do?
Why is he suddenly bringing up Director Im?
- Why is she here? - What is going on?
- I thought she was on our side. - My gosh.
- What? - Gosh.
Director Im disappeared right before my eyes.
(Witness)
How come Director Im isn't here yet?
Hello? Police?
I'd like to report someone missing.
Someone disappeared right before my eyes.
We'll keep you safe until the board meeting is over.
There is only one reason the witness isn't here yet.
There is nothing to prove.
Now, do you see the truth?
The truth behind this accusation of embezzlement.
It all started with a false tip-off.
The Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office...
has already launched an investigation into it.
I'm Prosecutor Seo Min Yeong of FTCD...
at the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office.
We have secured solid evidence that the tip was false.
(Reborn Rich)
Here is the plan for establishing the financial holding company.
The manufacturing industries are now dead.
We must start a money lending business to survive.
Bingo.
The owner of the financial holding company...
will become the owner of Soonyang Group.
And this will be a good opportunity for Miracle.
We received a complaint.
A third-generation conglomerate family member...
is one of the people who manipulated stock prices.
The rich are always greedier.
I am Prosecutor Seo Min Yeong.
Will you cooperate?
A trial doesn't only take place in court.
If the picture he wants to paint is the same as mine,
it wouldn't be a bad idea for Dong Ki to take my seat.
Miracle Investment...
Soonyang Investment will acquire the company.
Do Jun.
Do you think I trust you?
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