Gangnam's Teheran-ro, with darkness settled over it.
Chung-seop and Mun-guk Oh followed silently behind Seong-ho, who'd dragged them out into the street saying he'd show them which companies to invest in. They couldn't tell what a darkened street had to do with companies to invest in, but they didn't think Seong-ho had brought them out for no reason at all. And so the three of them walked Teheran-ro in silence for a while.
"Darkness has come down, and yet the buildings are lit up bright."
Around the time they'd walked some three blocks out from the building where Silla Future Asset stood, Seong-ho pointed at the brightly lit buildings and spoke. Mun-guk Oh looked at the buildings Seong-ho pointed to and nodded.
"They all seem hard at it even until this late hour."
"Executive Director Oh — do you know what sort of companies have set up here right now?"
"On Teheran-ro, you mean?"
Mun-guk Oh tilted his head and looked the buildings over again — trying to find the company signs that would be hung on them. But most of the buildings here showed no signs bearing a company name. A few large or long-established firms' signs could be seen, but they seemed far from the answer to what Seong-ho was asking, so Mun-guk Oh could only shake his head.
"I don't know."
Hearing his answer, Seong-ho asked Chung-seop.
"You'd know, Representative Jo? Since your company's here, after all."
"I've heard that a lot of internet companies have been moving in lately."
Hearing Chung-seop's answer, Mun-guk Oh asked, as if it were curious,
"Internet telecom companies must have set up here, then. But telecom companies, at most, would be only three or four places — wouldn't a single building be enough?"
Mun-guk Oh said this, looking round at the buildings lined up along the road. Chung-seop laughed lightly and offered an answer to Mun-guk Oh's question.
"They said it's not telecom companies but internet-development companies."
"Internet development?"
"So, they make homepages, and…"
Chung-seop, about to explain, closed his mouth a moment and shook his head.
"Honestly, I don't really…