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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 read...

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.
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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.
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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...

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!”

...

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 a...

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...

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, ...

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 ...

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
consider...

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 exceptional...

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.

...

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 tim...

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 ...

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 rea...

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
pate...

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 ...

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 ar...

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 m...

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 emer...

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...

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.” <...

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 Car...

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 He...

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 plumm...

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’ door...

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 displa...

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 ...

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, newspa...

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 unt...