Park Jin Hyuk asked Kim Jun Woo, "What happened to the old couple surnamed Liu who lived here?"
"About 30 years ago, their only son died in a traffic accident. Luckily, their son had accident insurance. After receiving the death benefit from his insurance, the old couple opened a barbecue restaurant."
"Then what?"
"The barbecue restaurant was doing well, and the old couple made some money. Three years ago, they both passed away..."
After hearing this, Park Jin Hyuk looked at the high-rise residential building in front of him, stopped for a long time with a sense of loss, then turned and walked towards the car.
Jin Junyu took two quick steps and asked as he opened the car door, "Do you know that old couple?"
Park Jin Hyuk got into the car and said after a while, "It's more than just acquaintance..."
Jin Junyu was puzzled, but couldn't ask any further questions.
In silence, the car slowly started...
*** *** ***
Ten years passed in a flash, and Park Jin Hyuk had handed over the chairmanship to his son, who has now become the honorary chairman.
In a reception room at DS Group headquarters, writer Lee Myung-shin waited for a cup of tea before Kim Jun-woo pushed the door open and walked in. "Sorry, I'm late."
"No, Consultant Jin, I'm early." Li Mingxin shook the other person's hand. "Thank you for taking the time to accept my interview."
"No, no, it's my duty. Writing a biography for the honorary president is a big deal." Then Jin Junyu said, "I am your last interview subject, right?"
"Yes, I put you last." Li Mingxin took out his notebook and recorder. "You are the person closest to the honorary president, so you must know some unknown things and have different opinions."
"Different perspectives? How long have you been preparing the president's autobiography?"
"I've been preparing for half a year. What do you mean by asking this?"
Jin Junyu smiled and said, "I believe you have collected a lot of information. You should have found that the opinions on the honorary president are generally consistent. There are no different opinions."
"I feel the same way and have always been curious about why it is like this?" Lee Myung-shin interviewed Park Jin-hyuk's family, executives and employees of DS Group, as well as people in the political and financial circles who had dealings with Park Jin-hyuk, and received basically the same evaluation.
Li Mingxin picked up the tea on the table and said, "Using this teacup as an example, your perspective is different from mine, so it stands to reason that your perceptions should be different."
"You are right, but this principle does not apply to the honorary president."
"Then please tell us what you think of the honorary president."
"Where should I start? From the moment he officially joined DS. From the very beginning, I was assigned as his secretary. At that time, the outside world had a very negative view of the honorary president. People said he was a playboy or a womanizer."
Li Mingxin has also heard about this. "If I tell young people today that the honorary president was once such a person, I'm afraid no one will believe it."
"Yes." Jin Junyu nodded, "But that was the impression the honorary president gave people at that time."
"He must be very troubled." Li Mingxin said.
"On the contrary, he didn't care at all and just focused on his own work."
"Don't care at all?"
"I was also puzzled at first, and I asked him about it once. He replied that we shouldn't view people with stereotypes. He would break people's prejudices through concrete actions." Jin Junyu paused. "At DS Group, the honorary chairman's first official appearance was at DS Construction."
"I heard that the old chairman was planning to sell DS Construction..."
"Yes, DS Construction was making losses at the time. It was like a piece of chicken ribs to the group." Jin Junyu picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea.
"I heard that the Iraq project in particular encountered major problems, and a large amount of accounts receivable could not be collected."
Jin Junyu nodded repeatedly. "This caused morale to plummet throughout the company. Faced with this situation, the Honorary Chairman implemented drastic reforms. First, he reorganized the executive team, then reorganized the company's ongoing projects, completely reversing the company's decline."
"You must have encountered a lot of resistance at that time, right?" Li Mingxin said as he recorded.
"There was tremendous resistance. Besides the executives from DS Construction, there were also the president's two uncles and stepmother. But in the end, the two uncles were sent to prison, and the stepmother no longer dared to oppose him."
"I heard that the relationship between the president and his stepmother is very bad. What exactly is the reason?"
"It's true that the relationship is not good, but I'm not sure about the specific reasons."
Seeing that Jin Junyu didn't want to talk about this topic any further, Li Mingxin moved on to the next topic: "Let's talk about the Paris flu. It was a major event that affected the entire world more than 20 years ago. I still remember the experience of being dragged by my mother to get vaccinated when I was a child."
“Indeed, the Paris flu profoundly impacted society at the time and also brought huge opportunities to the DS Group.”
"DS Pharmaceuticals was the first to develop a vaccine to defend against mutant viruses, thus becoming a world-class pharmaceutical company. I heard that this was entirely due to the vision and decision-making of the honorary president. How did he do it?" This is the thing Li Mingxin wants to know most.
The Paris flu vaccine played a crucial role in DS Group becoming the number one chaebol in South Korea. There was even a conspiracy theory that the Paris flu was created by DS Group.
"The honorary president's vision is indeed very unique. Most people might be satisfied with OEM production for European and American companies, but he foresaw the mutation of the virus and worked closely with the government to develop a vaccine to fight the mutated virus." Looking back now, Jin Junyu still sighs.
"This also became an opportunity for Mr. Zheng Qiying to be elected president."
"While the vaccine gave birth to a South Korean president, it also created South Korea's new top chaebol." Kim Jun-woo seemed to have returned to the past.
Li Mingxin then asked, "I have another question. All major decisions of the DS Group are made by the Honorary Chairman himself, and he often goes against the majority opinion, right?"
Jin Junyu nodded confidently. "What's even more amazing is that his decisions ultimately proved to be correct... Do you remember the economic crisis over ten years ago?"
"Remember, that economic crisis was triggered by the debt crisis of some European agricultural product-producing countries, which set the global economy back 10 years."
"Korea's Guozhi Group collapsed because of this, and Sampoong almost closed down."
Li Mingxin said: "I heard that Chengsheng Group was able to overcome the difficulties with the help of DS Group..."
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