(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.)
(Episode 14)
Do Jun told me to drop you off...
safe and sound.
When you get there,
you'll see Do Jun's employees from Miracle waiting for you.
I guess you'll be away for quite a while.
No one at Jeongsimjae seemed to know about it.
Why didn't you tell them?
Do Jun told me everything.
Mother, I have to say...
You scare me.
Your Soonyang Insurance shares...
I heard you handed them over to Do Jun.
From the day my birth mother...
brought me to Jeongsimjae to this very moment,
I have always...
felt uncomfortable around you and found you inaccessible.
You see,
I've done my very best to take good care of you.
I treated you just like I treated my own children.
I always bought you nice clothes and fed you good food.
But with your eyes, you always told me this.
"If you have a conscience, you should not forget my kindness."
"So don't you dare dream of succeeding the throne at Soonyang."
All my life,
I've lived as if I was protesting against you, Mother.
Going against Father's wishes and studying films.
Marrying someone you and Father disapproved of. All of it.
But it turns out,
I'm even worse than you.
The cruel bunch who can do anything for their children.
I suppose all parents are like that after all, Mother.
Now that I've become one of such parents,
I can truly understand...
how hurt you must've been by my existence...
in and of itself, every single moment.
Mother,
I respect you for enduring it all through these years.
(Report on Lee Pil Ok's Borrowed-Name Account)
Regarding Lee Pil Ok's borrowed-name account,
we found out that there was a large transaction recently.
The Soonyang Insurance shares she had purchased...
(All transferred to Jin Do Jun)
Here. She's transferred them to Jin Do Jun.
(All transferred to Jin Do Jun)
Ma'am.
Lee Pil Ok isn't in the country.
- What? - She already left the country.
I confirmed it with Immigration just now.
Darn it.
(Jin Do Jun)
It was you, wasn't it?
Your grandmother.
Lee Pil Ok, the prime suspect in the proxy murder case.
You helped her flee the country.
Did you cut a deal with her?
Because of her Soonyang Insurance shares?
I tried so hard to catch her,
yet you cut a deal with her.
You, of all people,
know why I wanted to catch her so much.
You've got nothing to say, right?
Just this once. We're almost there, Min Yeong.
It'll all be over once I'm appointed CEO.
I won't let you down anymore.
You're wrong.
You'll become even more spiteful.
Because you'd want to keep what you have.
Hyeon Min.
You said you wanted to live like Grandmother...
from now on.
You knew everything about her,
but you still said that to me.
What did you mean by that?
Are you going to kill me or something?
I could.
If you...
get in the way of that baby...
becoming the owner of Soonyang, that is.
I don't care who it is.
I can do anything.
Just like your grandmother.
So you'd better get your act together.
It starts with you.
Are you anxious?
Since we're going all in,
one ace card won't do.
Then what?
Don't worry.
I'm holding the Joker in this round.
(Reborn Rich)
(Soonyang Insurance General Meeting of Shareholders)
(2002 Soonyang Insurance General Meeting of Shareholders)
Next, we'll discuss the appointment...
of the CEO of Soonyang Financial Holding Company.
The board of directors recommended...
Mr. Lee Hang Jae.
(The 37th Soonyang Insurance General Meeting of Shareholders)
Mr. Jin Do Jun is another candidate.
All right. We'll vote to decide.
Is everyone ready?
He lashed out at Chairman Jin in the hospital room?
- Was it the shock that killed him? - Is this true?
This certainly disqualifies Jin Do Jun for the position.
Is this really true?
We need an explanation.
- Explain this. - Everyone, let's not vote.
To bring order back to this room so that we can proceed...
I hereby exercise my authority as the chairperson...
and ask Mr. Jin Do Jun to provide an explanation.
Is the content of the text message true?
It is not true.
We don't believe him. Can he prove it with evidence?
How are we supposed to believe him?
Quieten down, please.
Can you prove it?
Yes.
(The 37th Soonyang Insurance General Meeting of Shareholders)
Yes.
There is one way Mr. Jin Do Jun can clear his name.
In the late chairman's room at the hospital,
there was a camera recording everything,
which the hospital staff use to monitor their VIP patients.
Why don't we check the footage here?
Good idea. Let's do that.
Find the footage now.
Please quieten down.
Do you agree to this?
Mr. Jin Do Jun.
That will be...
impossible.
"Impossible?" What do you mean?
The footage is gone.
Mr. Jin Do Jun here ordered me to get rid of it.
Then I can do what I want with it, right?
Please delete the footage.
Something bad must've happened in the room that day.
Otherwise, why would he ask me to delete the footage?
Please be quiet.
It is not true.
Please let me speak.
All right, please quieten down. Let me clear this up.
This is not a courtroom.
However, the leader's sense or lack of morality...
could make or break the future of the company.
The late chairman wished to choose a leader...
who could lead the right way. Take your time...
to think about who would be...
the best person for the role before you vote.
All right, then.
Let's begin.
Mr. Chairman is...
experiencing symptoms of delirium at the moment.
So?
You've decided to join hands with me?
I am now too old and tired to keep on working...
as a mere farmer.
Please give me some shares.
I helped Soonyang grow to what it is today.
I wish to own a plot of land in the company, no matter how small it is.
That painting has surely found its place.
I suppose you liked my gift.
I will now announce the results. Mr. Lee Hang Jae...
has been appointed CEO of Soonyang Financial Holding Company.
(The 37th Soonyang Insurance General Meeting of Shareholders)
(9am, July 8, 2002)
Do Jun, have you thought about this?
Would Chairman Jin Yang Cheol have told me...
to delete the security footage?
So after all,
we're the owners of Soonyang Financial Holding Company.
Goodness.
Congratulations.
We jointly own 30 percent of the shares.
Add the CEO's friendly stakes, then we're at 37 percent.
Do Jun is no match for us now.
We used Mr. Lee...
and labelled him as an immoral buffoon...
in front of all the shareholders,
so he'll have to lie low for the time being.
We now have the voting rights in all the subsidiaries...
under the holding company.
My, this is nice.
Right, as long as one of us doesn't betray the other.
Young Ki, no one's got our backs now.
We only have each other.
Right?
Congratulations.
Thank you.
About the shares we discussed the other day...
- Right. - Yes.
(Report on Director Lee Hang Jae's Embezzlement)
My grandfather thought it was just a borrowed-name account...
in your name.
But I suppose you thought the account was yours.
I understand you get crumbs on your hands when handling bread.
Just resign. I'll consider it your severance package.
Or would you rather be on the news as an embezzler?
Was this your plan from the get-go, from the moment...
you offered me the CEO position?
You just needed a knife to get rid of Do Jun?
The family fighting during Grandfather's funeral...
wouldn't be a pretty sight.
(Managing Director Lee Hang Jae)
My whole life I was completely dedicated to Soonyang.
I joined the company way before you were even born.
Your grandfather and I grew Soonyang into what it is today.
So why...
Why should I be treated like this? Just why?
I apologize.
I guess you feel deeply wronged.
Are you that desperate to be treated like an owner?
Then you should be born again.
(Candidate Jin Do Jun)
Grandfather truly is an interesting man.
He said he wanted you to be the CEO of the holding company.
So what's with the will, then?
I thought long and hard.
If he was just joking, that's mean. And if it's a prank, that's cruel.
After long, careful consideration,
I decided to step in as his eldest grandson.
I wanted to show you in front of the shareholders...
how Grandfather's will should be interpreted.
Now, you're no match for us in this war.
You cannot exercise any management or voting rights.
Most importantly, you can no longer say...
that you're Chairman Jin Yang Cheol's favourite grandson.
There is only one thing you can do now.
Hand over all your shares in the holding company.
I'll pay a handsome price.
Grandfather wrote in his will that you should...
live a life that has nothing to do with Soonyang.
How about you honour his last wishes?
As a dutiful grandson should.
You seem quite confident.
I've been racking my brain but still can't figure out...
what Grandfather really meant by what he wrote in his will.
Oh, this one thing I know.
I know what kind of choice...
Grandfather would make in this situation.
My dear fellow members of the National Assembly.
Vote against the bill to ease the separation...
of industrial and financial capital.
(Mayor Choi Chang Je's Announcement for Presidential Candidacy)
Put a stop to Soonyang's plan to establish...
a financial holding company.
This bill was devised to justify...
Soonyang's succession plans that seek to avoid...
the legal responsibilities that come with it.
The conglomerates are tryin to push the bill through...
in order to avoid the astronomical inheritance taxes.
We need systems and rules in place...
to keep the conglomerates in check...
in order to alleviate economic polarization...
so that we can build a world where the economically weak...
can coexist with them.
(I will make economic democracy come true.)
I, Choi Chang Je,
promise you that I will open the threshold...
through economic democratization!
Earlier today, Mayor Choi Chang Je held a press conference,
where he stated he was against the bill...
to ease the separation of industrial and financial capital...
as it'd create legal loopholes for Soonyang...
prior to announcing he was running for President.
He stated that the late chairman, Jin Yang Cheol,
pushed for the establishment of the financial holding company...
to avoid having to pay astronomical inheritance taxes.
Some suspect that the company might have taken...
expedient measures to establish its financial holding company.
There are growing suspicions surrounding...
potential corrupt practices within Soonyang.
The National Assembly has voted against the bill...
to ease the separation of industrial and financial capital,
so the establishment of Soonyang Financial Holding Company...
fell through.
If our plans for the holding company fall through...
What should we take care of first?
We could've avoided at least a billion dollars...
in inheritance taxes by using the shares.
As soon as the market opens tomorrow,
all the stocks connected to the holding company will plummet.
Soonyang Insurance will drop to below 70 dollars per share.
The moment they vote against the bill,
we'll lose four billion dollars in cash.
Darn it! They say you should never trust your brother-in-law.
Why is Chang Je suddenly out to get us?
Shouldn't you know him better by now?
Do you really think...
that Chang Je came up with this plan?
You all think that?
(Approval Rating Analysis)
Hey, nephew. People now call me...
the icon of economic democratization.
They say, with just a few words, I managed to persuade them...
to vote against the bill that was supposed to pass.
Anyway, how did you come up with an idea like this?
You used people's anger toward Chairman Jin Yang Cheol...
as an impetus...
to unite public opinion.
People do like heroes,
but they get a real kick out of watching a hero fall.
That's right.
But no one would ever imagine...
that the person who made the hero fall...
was none other than his favourite grandson.
Right?
Oh, the party leader is here.
I'll talk to you later.
Next news.
The news that Soonyang Financial Holding Company,
Chairman Jin Yang Cheol's long-cherished ambition,
was actually a part of the company's plan to avoid inheritance taxes...
is quickly making the countless mourners across the country...
turn away.
No one can deny that the late chairman, Jin Yang Cheol,
was a successful business leader.
However, we also cannot deny that he tried...
to influence politicians until his final moments...
to illegally transfer his assets and take expedient measures...
to avoid inheritance taxes.
(Soonyang Group)
(Lee Hang Jae)
(Hangang Bank)
Lawyer Park.
I want to change my will.
It's all because of Do Jun.
He's such a brat.
That rascal. I can't stand him.
That's why I want to change my will.
Why does Do Jun bother you so much, sir?
Do you know why that punk...
is trying so hard to save Soonyang Motors?
He knows his grandfather is dying, so he feels bad for me.
That's why he's peeing on his frozen foot.
That little brat.
Don't try to change my mind.
That punk is not getting a single penny from me.
Sir, Do Jun cares for you as your grandson...
You fool!
It's not like bullets care about stuff like that...
when you're fighting a war!
The two things that a fighter has no use for...
are his appendix and compassion. Sympathy!
You cannot afford to drag such useless emotions to a war.
It'll only weigh you down.
But if you leave nothing for Do Jun as this will states,
the succession plans will face obstacles, sir.
I will push him to the edge of a cliff.
That brat...
He'll do anything to survive.
I want him to see how he can be when he's hit rock bottom.
I know...
he...
wouldn't hesitate to sell me...
if he could buy Soonyang.
If he tramples all over me to go forward,
there will be nothing he can't do.
Only then...
can he protect Soonyang.
Sir, it's ready.
This video can serve as your legal will.
- Okay. - Shall we begin, then?
Sir.
Just relax and say what you'd like to tell Do Jun.
Do Jun?
Who is...
Do Jun, Chairman Jin?
Do Jun?
He's my grandson.
The one who takes after me the most.
My grandson.
It's Chairman Jin's legacy...
he left for you, Do Jun.
It's this one.
(Hangang Bank)
Chairman Jin made sure I handed it over to you...
once you understood the meaning of his will.
Soonyang Micro.
There was a document that wasn't on the list.
It was an old document that had passed the preservation year.
So at first, I thought of discarding it.
But there was a record that a fairly large amount of money...
had been stored for a long time.
Soonyang Micro is a dummy company...
that only exists on paper.
Someone is siphoning Soonyang's money overseas...
through this paper company, sir.
Go retrieve Soonyang's assets that have been siphoned off overseas.
That is your first mission as the senior finance manager.
Are you sure?
Is this truly the legacy Grandfather...
had left for me?
Chairman Jin had worked hard preparing it for quite a long time.
To give it to the successor over Soonyang.
Now, no one in Soonyang is aware...
of that money's existence.
And, of course, the money can't get tracked.
It's a perfect slush fund...
that can't get imposed by gift or inheritance tax.
Chairman Jin had made sure...
I understood multiple times.
To hand you that...
only when you have attained the lesson...
behind his will.
But why did he leave it to me?
If it were such a perfect slush fund,
nobody would have found it if you had kept it, Mr. Lee.
Was it your last loyalty to Grandfather,
or something like that?
If I were to tell you that was the case after so long,
would you believe me?
Being born a servant was not my choice.
But I could choose the owner to serve.
Vice-Chairman Jin Young Ki or Jin Dong Ki.
I can't hand over Soonyang to them.
Aren't we on the same page, Do Jun?
He has been elected as the 16th presidential candidate of our party.
- Choi Chang Je! - Choi Chang Je!
Are you happy?
Mayor Choi Chang Je, the icon of economic democratization.
I only found out today that...
Korea still had a sense of justice.
I glamorized and made you, a self-supporting student...
from the countryside, the mayor of Seoul.
So how could you betray your wife's family?
Such a man shouldn't become the president.
That shrewd Do Jun...
didn't like what he had.
So he gathered everyone and turned everything over.
He egged you on...
to bring the holding company to naught...
and repeal the separation of industrial and financial capital.
No. It was me.
Bringing the financial holding company...
to naught was my idea from beginning to end.
A tycoon should never own a bank.
That's the political conviction of Choi Chang Je,
the tycoon sharpshooter.
Let's hear about your political conviction.
So who will become the president?
For goodness' sake.
You're really something. You really are.
Is that something to ask me right at this moment?
Yes. Right at this moment,
I must tell my brothers, who might end up paying one billion dollars...
as inheritance tax because of you,
that I, Jin Hwa Young, am still a useful card...
so that your second political life can begin.
Stop it.
So tell me. Who will win the presidential election?
Who must we deliver the money to?
The one in favour...
has already been decided, no?
Who's the one in favour? Tell me.
This is the men's room!
Who is it?
Are you sure he's in favour?
The ruling party candidate is causing a sensation right now.
Come on. It's a meager sensation.
Who can go up against us...
by catching a mere piggy bank?
Daeyoung Group...
sent off two dump trunks of bills a couple of days ago.
This country is still a long way off.
That candidate in favour.
Isn't he known to be upright?
The more reason he'll love money that's new and crisp.
Let's go with the candidate in favour before it's too late.
Do we not need insurance...
for the other candidate?
Let's give them a small token of our sincerity.
If Grandfather had been alive,
he would've fully supported one candidate.
Young Ki.
We're in the same boat now, okay?
There won't be a need to turn back.
You and I are of the same mind, after all.
Gosh, really. Our father must be proud.
Proud of the close bond the three of us have.
Geez, Hwa Young.
I thought the media would die down...
if Uncle lost the candidate election.
But he's still at the center of the attention.
A tycoon should not own a bank.
Forty-one percent of the general public agrees.
Seventy-one percent of economics professors agree.
I'm going to make a constitutional appeal.
I so will, period.
How come? Isn't it a chance for us?
The holding company establishment went to pieces.
Joint shares and voting rights...
with Uncle Young Ki will mean nothing.
We need to find a way to survive.
So what? Do you have one in mind?
Don't worry, Father.
Right now, there's only one way to become Soonyang Group's head.
It's to have the shares of Soonyang affiliates...
and become the largest shareholder of Soonyang Corporation.
Uncle Dong Ki doesn't even come close...
to your Soonyang Corporation shares.
Dong Ki isn't someone...
who will easily give up the head position to me.
By now, I bet he's figuring out the numbers like crazy.
Say that again. Do what?
Let's separate financial affiliates...
from Soonyang Group and make them independent.
We can use public opinion as the pretext.
Rather than the hopeless Soonyang Group head,
doesn't the chairman of a financial group...
sound good?
Gosh. Well, I...
For Soonyang to become a national company,
I'll sacrifice myself.
What brings you here so early, Mr. Oh?
Is something going on?
Your face is telling me you haven't heard of the news.
What news?
The board of directors of Soonyang Investment...
dismissed me from the CEO position.
It's not only Soonyang Investment.
It includes Soonyang Fire Insurance and Soonyang Asset Management.
The board of directors rose up and replaced all the CEOs.
I know.
Both the board of directors of Soonyang Investment...
and Soonyang Fire Insurance...
are former CEOs or the owners' families.
They're under Vice-Chairman Jin Dong Ki's influence.
Yes.
That means Vice-Chairman Jin Dong Ki has started to move independently.
Oh, let me get you some coffee. Please wait.
Everyone!
Please become wealthy!
Promise!
Daeyoung thinks about your success.
Daeyoung Card.
Mr. Oh. It's time we sell it.
Soonyang Card.
(Prosecutor Seo Min Yeong)
You're being transferred, Prosecutor Seo.
Maybe you bit too hard into Soonyang until now.
(Supreme Prosecutor's Office Central Investigation Division)
Thanks to you,
I get to work here.
Are you that pleased?
I'm glad.
I was worried I might have imposed on you.
You weren't too happy about it, were you?
But it's a promotion.
Is it?
I thought it was a demotion.
A demotion? No way.
This is the Prosecutor's Office's flower,
Central Investigation Division. It has great power.
We won't know until the presidential election is over.
But I heard the next government...
would abolish the Central Investigation Division.
That rumour has been going on since the civilian government.
This time, it's not just a rumour.
I got transferred to this division.
If the Central Investigation Division...
were going to keep striving,
I would not be here.
I'm going home first. You should too.
It'll all be over once I'm appointed CEO.
I won't let you down anymore.
You're wrong.
You'll become even more spiteful.
Because you'd want to keep what you have.
Hey. If I want to go independent as Soonyang Financial Group,
there's an urgent business we need to settle.
Is it liquidating...
Chairman Jin Young Ki's shares in the financial affiliates?
You are half right and half wrong.
Can I buy Young Ki's shares with the money I have right now?
No, it's impossible.
I need a cash cow that will earn me money...
until the separation is complete.
So, is the cash cow slash golden goose...
you're thinking of inside Soonyang Group?
Soonyang Card.
Nothing beats a card company in cash flows.
So I'm going to buy Soonyang Card first.
Do you think Do Jun will sell it?
If it's a cash cow even you have eyes on,
I doubt Do Jun will put it out for sale.
I think he'll sell it.
You'll sell it?
You'll sell Sooyang Card to me?
Yes.
It hasn't been that long since you took over Soonyang Card.
Thanks to Cheongwadae...
lifting all regulations to improve the domestic market...
before the presidential election,
the growth of card companies has been steep.
But you're going to hand it over to me?
Why?
You're going to buy it at a high price, aren't you?
Honestly, even the holding company establishment went down the drain.
So I don't think you, who's quick with numbers...
and has a great sense of reality,
will waste time clinging to becoming the head of Soonyang Group.
If I were in your shoes, Uncle Dong Ki,
I would go independent from Soonyang Group...
and split off into a financial group.
To do so, I thought you would need Soonyang Card...
that could bring in cash at any time,
even if you had to liquidate your share.
You.
Couldn't you, Do Jun, separate...
Soonyang Financial Group and manage it?
You already have Soonyang Card,
the cash cow.
Me,
who got branded an evil guy blinded by legacy...
at the shareholders' meeting?
Will Soonyang Group's board of directors,
united with loyalties for Grandfather,
choose me as the head...
and CEO of Soonyang Group?
I don't think so.
You were the punk...
who had cut off the holding company establishment...
your grandfather had worked so hard on.
Even so, you're giving it up just like that?
Because I threw away my dream of succeeding Soonyang Group.
I'm going to return to my original place.
As Miracle's investment specialist, Jin Do Jun.
So what's most important to me right now...
isn't Soonyang but money, Uncle Dong Ki.
And as you already know,
the more money, the better.
He's probably going to ask...
for more than 800 million dollars for selling off Soonyang Card.
What do you think, Mr. Baek?
Should I go for it or not?
More than that, Vice-Chairman Jin.
In 2003, the Year of the Black Sheep,
Vice-Chairman Jin Young Ki's...
new year's fortune will change.
So what?
Vice-Chairman Jin Young Ki has a fate eulmokilju.
He has been in the shade of a large tree,
unable to make his way.
But starting in the Year of the Black Sheep,
water will seep into the thirsty tree,
which will bring him great luck.
What's this all about, Mr. Baek?
Hold on.
Out of all the Year of the Black Sheep,
the yin and yang...
of the Five-elements will attract to each other the most this year.
And in all probability,
there might be a storm like the IMF crisis next year.
Let's be prepared.
What about my fortune?
Should I buy Soonyang Card? Does it say I should?
Father.
Your fortune next year...
is mugyejihwa. It's full of fire.
It meets metal and blazes.
It looks like you're in luck with the finance industry.
What are you two doing?
How can you decide to buy out Soonyang Card like this?
You need the opinions of experts.
Mr. Baek is an expert.
He's an analyst who was formerly an accountant.
Ye Jun, you said that Do Jun won't sell Soonyang Card.
But look. Everything is unfolding according to his words.
Eight hundred million dollars is too much money to leave up to luck.
I know how good Mr. Baek is...
because we've worked together all along.
You're admitting that...
you've been running the company like this to this day.
- Does the Internal Inspection know? - Jin Ye Jun!
You punk. Get out.
You're the only one who doesn't qualify to be here now.
Vice-Chairman Jin, do you remember?
When the US stock market crashed after the September 11 attack,
if you went with my advice,
you wouldn't have lost Soonyang Investment...
to Miracle Investment.
Make a call.
I'm buying Soonyang Card.
Do you really think Soonyang Card is only worth 800 million dollars?
Okay, then.
Let's negotiate the details when we meet next time.
Yes, give me a call.
You're selling Soonyang Card to whom?
Is it Uncle Dong Ki?
He can't answer, which means I'm right, Father.
Hey.
What brings you here today?
He'd like to go with you on his way to work.
I hear Do Jun will sell Soonyang Card.
I heard that...
you stepped in as the new owner.
What are you saying?
Who said that? Do Jun?
Do you still believe what Do Jun says?
It's fine if it isn't you.
I thought a go-getter like you...
was trying to break away as a financial group,
so I had to hurry over from the morning.
This is unsettling. I should use this chance...
to purchase Soonyang Card.
You're going to buy Soonyang Card?
That way, there would be zero chance for the affiliation to break away.
I also don't want to be mistaken about you over a rumour,
which will lead me down the evil path.
Nothing good can come from that between us.
Dong Ki, don't forget.
It's only meaningful when we are united.
Both Soonyang and us brothers.
Hey, Jin Do Jun!
What do you want?
Are you trying to put Young Ki against me over Soonyang Card?
I wouldn't.
I was taught to always stop fights, but strike a bargain.
What?
Thanks to that, Uncle Dong Ki, you ran over here at this hour.
In that case, why don't we start the proper negotiation?
Shall we?
You offered 800 million dollars for Soonyang Card,
so let's start the bargain from twice that price.
Twice?
I want 1.6 billion dollars.
That's the price for Soonyang Card offered by Jeongsimjae.
If you need more time to think...
Can I pay half and half?
I'll transfer 800 million today, and the rest next time.
Okay, sure. As long as the collateral is solid.
Are you demanding the shares of the financial affiliations?
Hey, you punk!
I'll take the collateral as Soonyang Corporation's shares.
Two percent of your share.
I don't care for the financial group.
Don't worry about it.
Then why?
Among all of your moveable and fixed assets,
isn't that the most valuable as collateral?
The shares of the Corporation.
I'll get it ready and call you.
I do have one more condition.
Good grief, what?
I need some untraceable money,
apart from the sale price for Soonyang Card.
A slush fund?
It truly is the high season.
Even an investment company like Miracle is...
preparing political funds for the presidential election?
According to Mr. Oh Se Hyeon, in the US,
the Wall Street is the funding behind the presidential election.
That 45 percent of political funds come from the Wall Street.
It means the main industry has changed.
From manufacturing to finances.
Do you know...
to whom and how you should transfer the money...
to make sure there's no trouble later?
Trouble?
You need to bribe them...
without a delivery mistake and not letting anyone else know.
Well, I guess your father doesn't have what it takes...
to teach you something like that.
And Mr. Oh may know a lot about the Wall Street,
but he's probably a layman when it comes to Yeouido.
This is a man we've worked with since your grandfather's days.
Call him.
(Kang Sin Woo)
I see.
(Apple)
He made a slush fund by using dormant accounts...
of Soonyang Fire Insurance and Soonyang Investment.
I see. Vice-Chairman Jin Dong Ki is nothing like how he looks.
I thought he was the timid, nerdy type.
But he's a man with great spirit.
He borrowed the dormant accounts of his clients to do this deed?
And it was during the IMF crisis,
while everyone was wailing.
Goodness, so bold.
He's not afraid of anything.
He probably couldn't imagine...
that of all people,
CEO Oh Se Hyeon of Miracle became the CEO of Soonyang Investment...
and find his biggest weakness.
His daughter is something too.
She's in a different league compared to other rich kids.
You said she passionately volunteers in third-world countries, right?
She picks out only the countries where she can evade taxes.
Thanks to her,
we made ten million dollars in slush fund without trouble.
The fruit of someone else's work is always the most delicious.
I find this even more delicious.
What is this?
Come on.
- Roh Moo Hyun! - Roh Moo Hyun!
Man.
I was easily persuaded by Dong Ki once again.
Good grief.
What now? Go with the flow before it's too late?
Two brothers should get on the same boat?
How much money did I load on that boat?
You should be helping me in some way as my older brother.
- What now? - There's no need to turn back?
We should unite as brothers?
Okay, sure. Why don't you pray...
that we'll both jump in the water and die?
You said the candidate in favour was decided.
Didn't you say the law of an election is...
that the general trend cannot be overturned?
I did. But don't you know?
Everything comes with an exception. Should've heard me out to the end.
What did you say?
The law of the Korean president elections is...
that the big trend cannot be overturned.
However, that is only until a sharp gust blows.
The opposition party had the general popularity,
but the ruling party's candidate turned out to be a gust.
So go tell your brothers that...
we should lie low for a while as the wind blows.
Go tell them yourself.
They lost 30 million dollars at your word!
Goodness, look who this is.
Yes, congratulations, Mr. President.
Yes, right. I should have called first.
Yes.
Yes. Pardon?
Me?
Yes, I'll do my best if you leave me to it.
Yes, I understand. Thank you.
Yes. Goodbye.
What? He wants...
to appoint me as the Minister of Justice.
Did he call the right man?
You two are affiliated with opposite parties.
I doubt you two speak the same language.
That's why.
He said I'm the face of unification of the two parties.
How so?
Credit card delinquency rate continues to rise up,
and it recorded an all-time high in just two years.
This is the breakdown of Lee's credit card usage.
He maxed out all four credit cards...
in cash advances,
then paid one card off with another, and was banned from new loans.
Your credit card is two months overdue.
Until last year, credit defaulters rose...
by 60,000 to 70,000 people a month.
But this year, this increased by 100,000 people a month,
reaching a total of three million at the end of last month.
You encouraged me to buy Soonyang Card.
What was that about metal and whatnot?
It's set ablaze?
I'm in luck with the financial industry?
What is this? What now?
Nothing you say is right.
Actually, the energy of fire was a bit too strong,
which melts the metal disappear.
Hey, this guy.
Is that what you should say now?
Wait.
So what is this? Will Soonyang Card go bankrupt?
Contact the government for another support. Now.
Financial Supervisory Service is giving us pressure...
- that we help ourselves first. - Help ourselves?
You should liquidate the shares of other affiliations first...
You!
Then how will I be separated as a financial group?
I can only think of one way...
out of this mess.
(All cash advance service for all Soonyang Card is now suspended.)
You can't suddenly stop the cash advance service!
You aren't allowed to do this without our agreement!
- He's right! - I need the money now!
After the halt on cash advance service,
the stock price for all affiliations have plummeted.
He can't even take control of some credit card company.
How can he want to separate as a financial group?
Is Vice-Chairman Jin Dong Ki in his office?
You finally showed your face, my brother.
You never bothered to call when I desperately looked for you...
to pay back the credit card bond.
But you ran over at once once the stock prices dropped.
How much do you need...
to bring back the cash advance service?
I need 400 million dollars now.
You're about to go bankrupt because you don't have 400 million?
Didn't you dream of creating a financial group?
How can you let this go bankrupt over just 400 million dollars?
Once Soonyang Card goes bankrupt, it'll put you in worse trouble.
Two percent of my shares for Soonyang Corporation is...
What about those shares?
When I bought Soonyang Card,
I gave it to Miracle as the collateral.
I'm saying two percent of Soonyang Corporation...
will end up in Do Jun's hands.
Since I'm the elder of this family,
I thought I should figure this out.
My brother is about to go bankrupt with Soonyang Card any day now,
but my nephew,
you still need 800 million dollars from selling Soonyang Card?
Don't worry. I'll buy out that bond.
You will?
The government and the media are all over me saying...
I should step on on the group level and restore the card company.
How should I take responsibility for those dead-end people...
who didn't know their worth and maxed out their cards,
paying off one with another?
We broke the champagne a little too early...
and went through the IMF crisis, yet people still are this foolish.
The entire country is in a moral hazard.
I can't do that, Uncle Young Ki.
I cannot give you the shares for Soonyang Corporation.
Does this mean you still haven't given up on Soonyang?
I took this money in return for giving up Soonyang.
We need to do the math right.
I need 800 million dollars for selling Soonyang Card,
but what you want from me is...
Soonyang Corporation's shares I took as collateral, right?
That's what you need to become the chairman.
I want twice as much, 1.6 billion dollars.
What? 1.6 billion dollars?
You'll be the next chairman and Chairman Jin Yang Cheol's successor.
You can't put a price on such a position.
(Signed by Jin Do Jun, Jin Young Ki)
I think 1.6 billion dollars would have helped...
Soonyang Card get back on their feet.
But you used this money...
to buy Soonyang Group's chairman position.
Right.
Did you say the entire country is in a moral hazard?
I think so too, Uncle Young Ki.
(Soonyang Card)
(You're killing small business owners!)
(Give me my money, you jerks.)
(I need to put out my life to pay back my credit card bill.)
(You issued it as you like, but you won't take responsibility.)
(I'm neck-deep in debt, and you're responsible.)
(Do you need money? Call immediately.)
Goodness.
(Contacts: Dad)
The person you have reached is unavailable. Please leave...
(Hospital Statement)
Hey, Dae Kyun. Yes, it's me, Hyeon Woo.
Have you been well?
Well, by any chance,
I was wondering if I can borrow some money.
Hey, Tae Hyun.
Can you let me borrow just 5,000 dollars?
Can you let me borrow some money?
I'm calling for the livelihood loan program.
Can a contract worker like me take out a loan?
Is that so?
No, I see.
Yes, have a good night.
Yes, goodbye.
What happened, Father?
Why won't you pick up your phone?
Where have you been all along?
You left the sick kid at the hospital alone.
Let's talk at home.
Hyeon Min will be discharged tomorrow.
What about the hospital bill?
How can he be discharged? We don't have any money.
I took care of everything.
You don't have to worry.
(Do you need money? Call immediately.)
Father.
We need to talk.
(Seoul Hospital)
Father, by any chance,
did you take out a private loan?
I'll pay back everything.
You don't have to mind it.
You're going to pay it back?
You're a credit delinquent.
You're unemployed.
How are you going to do that?
What's your plan?
Then what else could I do as a father?
I needed to do something.
Just don't do anything!
Father.
Will you just stay still?
Everyone else is a decent parent, so you don't need to be one!
Dad, please.
All you need to do is breathe and stay alive.
Help me live, okay?
That night, my poverty was...
a jerk.
Yes, I'm the chauffeur.
Yes, I'm almost there.
May I ask once again for the location?
It's bitter.
Excuse me.
One more drink, please.
Did anyone call for chauffeur service?
- Over here. - Hello.
Mr. Yoon?
Goodness, it is you.
Do you work as a chauffeur?
You have two jobs?
- Hello. - Can you do your day job right?
You need good performance to sign with us again.
I dread how kids these days are...
only concerned about money.
Why? It's nice to be rich.
Mr. Yoon, I hope you get rich.
Please enjoy.
Hey...
Hey. Hey!
Hey, what's wrong?
- What's wrong? - Hey, you need to stop the car.
- Has he gone insane? - Stop the car now!
- Hey, let's go. - Hey, get out of the car.
Get out. Get out of here.
- Hey, darn you. - Stop it.
Get out!
What kind of a psycho are you?
Hey, you.
- Man, I'm going to kill you. - Ju Young, stop.
- Man, I'll get you. - Ju Young, stop.
- Let's go. - Good grief.
Call another chauffeur.
Man, he's making me mad.
I inherited wealth.
Poverty was passed down to you.
We live...
in the same time,
under the same sky,
but in different worlds.
We're worlds apart, like the previous life and this life,
in a faraway orbit.
(Reborn Rich)
Why are you so proud...
of your infamous loan shark family of Myeong-dong?
We used that dirty money to buy out everything...
to turn my husband into the chairman.
The group will be succeeded to the eldest son once again.
My father, me, and my son.
As soon as we receive two percent of the Corporation,
we'll announce the new chairman of Soonyang Group, Chairman Jin.
I'm the biggest shareholder of Soonyang Corporation.
Call her.
There's someone you want to meet on a day like this, right?
You're under emergency arrest...
for the illegal handover of political funds.
We meet again like this,
as a prosecutor and a suspect.
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