"Father. The age of mobile phones is over now. Landlines like that will start disappearing too."

"What's this sudden fuss about?"

Sang-jong scowled at Jeong-eun's words. But Jeong-eun only looked at him as if he were the strange one and said,

"Brother. Don't you even watch the news? This is the age of making free calls over the internet now. The world's changing fast, and you don't even know that?"

Jeong-eun spoke to her seated siblings with an exaggerated flourish.

"Did none of you see the news about Saeroun Telecom?"

"I think I heard something about it too."

Mun-jong chimed in at Jeong-eun's words.

"If you mean the news about being able to call anywhere in the world over the internet, I saw that too."

"Right. That."

Jeong-eun clapped at Mun-jong's words and turned to Tak-hyeon.

"Whether someone's in America or France, you can call them for free. Domestic calls go without saying."

Jeong-eun tapped the phone in her hand with a finger.

"There's no reason to keep paying expensive international rates on this thing."

"So you want us to build a phone that can make internet calls?"

"See, Father, this is exactly it — thinking so one-dimensionally. How's Ilhyeon supposed to be led well like that?"

Mun-jong flared up, about to shout back, but caught himself remembering Tak-hyeon was present and quickly checked his reaction. Tak-hyeon, face hardened, said to Jeong-eun,

"If you have something to say, just say it. Don't beat around the bush."

At Tak-hyeon's words, Jeong-eun glanced toward where Seong-ho sat and said with a smile,

"A change like this calls for a high-level response, not a one-dimensional one. Namely, investing in the companies that make things like this."

"So it's Ilhyeon Securities again, in the end?"

"Why wouldn't it be?"

Jeong-eun drew back the foot she'd stepped forward with and said,

"The whole world right now is full of internet talk. But Ilhyeon Securities isn't keeping up with it."

Jeong-eun pointed at Seong-ho and went on.

"The Buy Korea fund. They built something that good and aren't putting it to proper use. Keep going like…