"This…… is this really a board we're allowed to eat off?"

Cheongchoho Estates. Ordinarily, with a windfall of a deal just gone through, this is where they would have sent out for tangsuyuk and jjajangmyeon and laid on a proper spread.

But today's business sat heavily on them somehow.

The young master had gone too far by a long way.

"If it's for laying out a golf course…… I'd have to get three hundred million a hectare for the land……. Which puts the money at……."

The average at which Hwang Haksu had bought it up, piece by piece over the years, was around a hundred and fifty million a hectare.

Out past Sokcho, up towards Goseong.

Land on the outskirts, a long way from the centre of town, so it comes cheaper.

"What's this, then. That land nobody would buy, and now you mean to pass it on with a mark-up on top of it?"

"No! I've told you I meant to build a golf course on it."

"Then go and build one now."

"……I'll let him have it at two hundred and ten million. Reckoning in only the interest that has gone into it over the years and what has gone out on this and that in tax."

"Oh my. That still comes to seventy billion."

Kim Juhui had finished the arithmetic while she listened to Hwang Haksu.

"At that figure the young master would find it reasonable. Nothing put on top. It is money you have already spent."

"Quite so, quite so. This much is hard to come by. Where else do you find three hundred and thirty hectares in one private owner's hands? ……It was only possible because it was me."

Hwang Haksu said it with a quiet confidence about him.

"Is there anything on the market in the way of a condominium with hot springs?"

"There is, a fair few. Seorakdong is very near a ruin now. Several of them."

The pleasure grounds at Seorakdong, once the heart of the sightseeing trade at Sokcho and Seoraksan.

Back in the eighties and nineties it was the mecca…