"So you're saying the amount people have signed up to the Buy Korea fund so far… is ten trillion won?"

Jeong-eun asked again, in a trembling voice, at what Seong-ho had said. As if he understood her reaction, Seong-ho smiled and nodded.

"Yes. The money gathered so far is around ten trillion."

"If ten trillion has come in so far… that's to say more could come in yet?"

Mun-jong, as startled as Jeong-eun, hurriedly asked Seong-ho. At the question, the smile at the corner of Seong-ho's mouth deepened further.

"The Securities Association put out a report not long ago projecting that capital inflows to the fund could reach as high as twenty trillion going forward."

"Twenty trillion?!"

Jeong-eun and the other siblings shifted in their seats.

"And — what do you mean to do with that money?"

Sang-jong was the first to open his mouth toward Seong-ho.

"Ilhyeon Construction has a newly planned project this time, and if you'd just invest… two trillion into it…"

"Why is Ilhyeon Construction even coming up?"

Jeong-eun cut Sang-jong off and said to Seong-ho,

"You know Ilhyeon Card's doing incredibly well right now, don't you? We've drawn up one heck of a plan this time. I'm thinking of creating a financial product limited to Ilhyeon Card holders. How about investing in that? Just invest in it, and…"

"In the end it's loan-sharking you're peddling."

"Loan-sharking?"

Jeong-eun turned her head to look at Sang-jong, who'd jeered at her words.

"Did you not hear the words financial product?"

"Dress it up and it's a financial product. That's loan-sharking."

"Brother!"

Jeong-eun shouted and glared at Sang-jong, but he didn't so much as flinch. If anything, he gave a scoffing laugh and said to Seong-ho,

"Loan-sharking doesn't look good, and if word of it gets out it'll only invite strange misunderstandings. Wouldn't investing in a construction company like ours look far better?"

Yet even at Sang-jong's words, Seong-ho showed no reaction — it was rather Jeong-eun who reacted.

"If we're loan-sharking, then your lot are gambling."

"What? Gambling?"

"What else would it be? What you're talking about now…