However loudly an affair may have set the world talking, time has a way of thinning the memory of it.

The story of Ilhyeon Windows, which had thrown the stock market into confusion and made life hard for a great many people, thinned by degrees in people's memories as time went on.

People no longer gave a thought to Ilhyeon Windows, or to Sang-jong Lee.

And just as it was fading out of memory, news came out of the Ilhyeon Group interesting enough to catch them again.

[The Ilhyeon Group has entered upon the succession in earnest]

[A settling of accounts has begun among the third generation of Ilhyeon]

[Ilhyeon Solar Ace and Ilhyeon Chemical's polysilicon Business Division spun off, and Sang-jong Lee, Jeong-eun Lee and Chang-jong Lee come out of Ilhyeon.]

[The Ilhyeon Group, having cut the solar business away on its own and carried through an affiliate separation]

[Was President Sang-jong Lee's love of solar sincere after all? Having come at solar in earnest even after Ilhyeon Windows, President Sang-jong Lee's course from here will bear watching with interest]

News of the Ilhyeon Group's affiliate separation filled the business pages.

A group that had come down from its founder to its second-generation chairman was now having companies cut out of it in the third generation; that was more than enough to draw people's interest.

Leaning back in his chair, Tak-hyeon Lee went through what had gone out to the public.

"And what are they saying outside?"

"Some have taken a favorable view of it, and some wonder why the announcement should have come at a time like this."

"What about the timing?"

"Well, it is before the judgment on Sang-jong has come down… there are those who look sideways at an announcement made at so delicate a moment."

"Sharp of them."

Tak-hyeon Lee grinned to himself.

"There is a reason for it, so do not take too sour a view of how people look at us."

"I shall do what I can to keep opinions of that kind out of the press."

"Yes. Just do that much."

That…