As the worst of winter passed, talk of an inter-Korean summit gathered strength.

[Envoy Jeong-eun Lee Makes Third Trip North Today]

[Ministry of Unification Officials Reported to Have Accompanied Envoy Lee]

[Hopes Rise That This Visit Will Settle the Venue, Scale and Date of a Second Summit]

[What the Summit Agenda Will Be Is Already the Biggest Question in Politics]

As Jeong-eun Lee went back and forth to the North again and again, expectations for an inter-Korean summit climbed.

And the Kaesong Industrial Complex grew livelier right along with the hopes for the summit.

[Kaesong Industrial Complex Output Tops $300 Million for First Time Last Year]

[Much of the $300 Million Revealed to Be Solar Group Solar Modules]

[Whatever Anyone Says, Solar Group Looks Like the Biggest Winner from Kaesong and the Summit]

The Kaesong Industrial Complex, which had started with ten million dollars, had shot past three hundred million in one leap.

On the strength of that growth, there was even talk of aiming past five hundred million this year.

Economic cooperation and the summit had made the North, bolted shut for so long, feel familiar, and that new familiarity was paying off directly for Solar.

"The Solar Group's total sales topped two trillion won."

Jeong-cheol Choi began going over the Solar Group's results for Seong-ho Kim.

"Solar Polysilicon posted the biggest sales in the group, at 900 billion won. Solar Module, Solar Power and Solar F&M came after it."

"What's the operating profit?"

"For the group as a whole, the operating profit just barely keeps it out of the red. Two billion, and most of that came from Solar F&M."

"F&M — that's the one that does maintenance?"

Seong-ho asked, picturing the Solar Group's organization chart.

"Yes. It does facility management and systems maintenance."

"Textbook in-group favoritism."

Seong-ho nodded as if he understood, then asked.

"So the holding company is Solar, Solar F&M sits under it, and the rest are scattered below as second-tier subsidiaries?"

"Yes. And we expect Ilhyeon Construction to be absorbed into the Solar Group as a matter of course, through a share swap between…