Left alone in the conference room after Dae-hwang Jin and Jang-yun Hwang had gone, Seong-ho Kim was sunk in thought for a while.

"Sir."

Just then, Jeong-cheol Choi came into the conference room.

Seong-ho Kim, who had been staring at the empty air lost in thought for a moment, turned his body around, looked at Jeong-cheol Choi, and asked.

"Did you find out?"

"Yes."

Jeong-cheol Choi went over to Seong-ho Kim and began to report on what he had been instructed to look into.

"He's said to be in Cheongdam-dong at the moment."

"What's he doing in Cheongdam-dong?"

"He seems to be spending his time in an office with a few other people."

At Jeong-cheol Choi's sounding as though he was hiding something, Seong-ho Kim raised his voice.

"It's fine — just tell me."

"Yes, sir. Understood."

Jeong-cheol Choi wiped away the look of hesitation and told what he had learned exactly as it was.

"President Chang-jong Lee is currently in Cheongdam-dong, running what's called a 'boutique' office, and doing stock investment work through it."

"Is it illegal?"

"A boutique office in and of itself is not illegal, sir. It's what former fund managers or people from securities firms typically set up when they want to run their own private fund; done through official registration, it can be operated in a fully legal form."

"You think I'm asking because I don't know what a boutique is? I'm asking whether what my brother-in-law is doing is illegal."

"Well, that…"

At Jeong-cheol Choi's inability to answer straightforwardly, Seong-ho Kim let out a short laugh.

"Sounds like you weren't able to check that part properly."

Seong-ho Kim waved a hand at the visibly embarrassed Jeong-cheol Choi, meaning it was all right.

"So what Representative Jo said turns out to be true. He said there was talk of a chaebol-family son hanging around the stock market — turns out it was Brother."

"How shall I handle it? Should I clean it up?"

"Clean it up?"

Seong-ho Kim turned his head and looked up at Jeong-cheol Choi.

Jeong-cheol Choi cautiously read Seong-ho Kim's face, and…