"Our chairman is something, isn't he?"

"He is. When I was at high school…… I was busy chasing the noona next door, the one at the girls' high school……."

The two Cheonmu guards in their sunglasses.

They watched the boss moving off towards the imported-car showroom on the ground floor and marvelled at him.

The boss is a high school pupil now.

He is enrolled at Cheonghwa, the distinguished private high school right in front of them, which they know little about.

The chairman, who comes on to work squarely in his school uniform, straight after school.

Early in the morning he parked in the building's car park and then went to school.

The sight of him going off to school with his bag hooked over one shoulder — how they envied it.

He is a truly formidable man.

For his parents in Sokcho, the boss set the guard team running in three shifts.

The guards posted to Sokcho eat and sleep at a hotel nearby.

The salary and the bonus are both handsome.

It is the season when the summer holidays are just beginning, and the guards take their rest at the beach nearby after work.

The vehicles they use are S-class VIP protocol cars, too.

Word is going round inside the firm that the armoured car they ordered is arriving soon.

This is not the Cheonmu of the past, which held off on contracts out of worry about the fuel bill for getting about.

The guards newly brought in this time rejoined the firm after hearing a vision like a dream.

A basic salary of a hundred million a year. Allowances of every kind, and board and lodging provided free.

Staff who are still unmarried can, if they wish, be given an officetel near the office as quarters.

A notice has also gone up that staff with families will have accommodation provided in nearby residential blocks according to the number in the family.

The condition is that only staff of a year's service or more are eligible.

A family of three, a hundred and five square metres. From…