Chung-seop Jo raised his head and greeted Jeong-cheol Choi.

"Chief Choi. Thank you."

"Not at all. The Vice-Chairman will be here shortly."

Chung-seop Jo, Representative of Future Asset, offered his thanks with a slight bow of the head and drank the cool green tea.

Just then the office door opened and Seong-ho Kim came in.

"I'm sorry. I've had a guest brought in and then been late myself."

The moment he sat down, Seong-ho Kim instructed Jeong-cheol Choi to bring cold water.

And wiping away the sweat, he said to Chung-seop Jo,

"Ah — the weather is sweltering."

Whether the heat would not easily leave him even in the cool of the air conditioning, Seong-ho Kim fanned himself with a hand as he spoke to Chung-seop Jo.

"It ought to be easing off by now, and still it's this hot. It rather looks as though there'll be no autumn this year."

Having finished speaking to Chung-seop Jo, Seong-ho Kim put out a hand toward the Jeong-cheol Choi who had brought the cold water.

Having thanked Jeong-cheol Choi, Seong-ho Kim raised the glass and drank the water down at a draught.

Gulp, gulp.

Only after the sound of water going down his throat had gone on a good while did Seong-ho Kim wipe his mouth as though refreshed.

"Now I can live again."

Chung-seop Jo, who had said nothing from the moment Seong-ho Kim came in, looked at him as though he found it a curiosity, and said,

"At Ilhyeon Electronics, must even the Vice-Chairman run about as busily as this?"

"Naturally."

Seong-ho Kim gestured to Jeong-cheol Choi for another glass of water and said,

"If I don't work hard, is anyone else going to want to? Only if I set the example do other people move along after me."

"When I get back I must tell the staff to buy more Ilhyeon Electronics stock. With the Vice-Chairman working as hard as this, I see no reason the company shouldn't grow."

"You'll never come to harm investing in Ilhyeon Electronics."

Seong-ho Kim said it with confidence.

Chung-seop Jo, who had said…