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Episode 090: Preparing for Gluttony (1)

“Nice to see you here. My name is Lee Jin, who is the CEO of Globian.”

A man with a strong impression asked me to shake hands and said.

I grabbed his hand and opened his mouth.

“This is Kim Jun-young.”

Then he smiled faintly and nodded his head.

"I've always wanted to meet you once, but I'm only able to meet you today. It’s really nice to see you.”

He said, waving his clasped hands slightly.

A slightly smaller stature than me, and a physique that was compacted through exercise.

Hairstyles that show professional skills and formal attire.

He was a man exuding an aristocratic atmosphere from head to toe.

When I heard the voice alone, I looked quite old, but when I looked at it in reality, it seemed that there was not much of an age difference between me.

“Come on, let’s sit down.”

The president suggested a seat.

I sat down and looked around.

OK.

The interior of the fine dining restaurant caught my eye.

A modern design interior based on dark blue tones.

A spacious room with a size that seems close to a waste of space for two people to eat.

Even the spacious table in the middle of the room and the luxurious tableware set on it.

It was a space with an atmosphere that made the person sitting down nervously.

‘How many glasses of wine are there?’

In fact, up until a year ago, I had been thinking about writing a single 10,000-won sheet, so it was unfamiliar to me to come to such a space.

Of course, these days, if you want to, you can have three meals a day and a late night meal at a restaurant like this, but I didn't feel any reason to come to this place as I was spending money.

'I didn't have time for that.'

But today, as this seat was for 'business', I had to accept the cumbersome thing.

I loosened the clutch on my seat and checked the menu.

OK.

[Today’s Course]

[Goat cheese marjoram emulsion served with crisp Gruyère cheese chips.]

[Dried marinated ribs seasoned with whole grain aioli and baby vivena.]

[Mini Cops Salad and Italian Protochee tossed with Fresh Yogurt Tressing.]

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The moment I looked at the contents of the menu, I frowned without realizing it.

‘Um, are you sure it’s Korean?’

I couldn't understand the menu at all.

No, was the menu board originally written so difficult?

All you can find on the menu board.

[300,000 kws]

The only price for these long-named menus was 300,000 won in Korean Won.

It was a killer price.

It was enough money for an average office worker to have lunch for a month.

‘What is lunch, I will eat chicken for dinner.’

But then.“I heard from the staff that there are no foods that you can’t eat. Is there anything on the menu that you don’t like?”

The CEO, who was looking at the menu, asked me.

As I glanced at him, he was looking at me with a slightly worried look.

Apparently, seeing my frown, I guess I misunderstood that there was something on the menu that I was reluctant to.

"no. I think it will be fine.”

As I shook my head, he smiled happily.

“Then I’m glad. The food here is pretty good, so you can look forward to it. I really like the en Terrine foie gras and Amuse-Bouch. Once you taste it, you will probably want to come again.”

Then, he began to skillfully order the server who was waiting quietly in a corner.

What about Amusebusch, what about Parmigiano Reggiano, and what about pairing wine, but I couldn't understand the words.

No matter how good the taste, if I had to go through such a cumbersome process, I wanted to decline from my side.

After all, eating should be comfortable.

I kept my poker face as before, and looked out the window on one side of the room.

Then I saw people enjoying the meal.

Looking at the space on the second floor, it was as if people were lying under my feet.

after a while.

Two servers came into the room, came out and set the plate down in front of the president.

“This is the first Amuse Bush, ‘Goat Cheese Marjoram Emulsion with Crispy Gruyère Cheese Chips’. If you eat cheese chips and goat cheese emulsion together, you will experience the harmony of the two cheeses.”

I looked at the plate while listening to the server's explanation.

At that place.

A cracker topped with cream cheese was placed in a lump.

It was called Amuse Bush and Amuse Bush, so when I said something, it was just a whole dish.

It was a simple look that did not match the loud name.

Looking ahead, I saw the CEO putting the Amuse Bush in his mouth with a leaning expression.

I sighed slightly, invisible to the president, and slowly brought it to my mouth, which looked like a pile of cookie crumbs.

Well.

It was delicious, but it felt like I was just eating a soft cheese sandwich sold at a convenience store.

No matter how you looked at it, it didn't seem worth the 300,000 won to eat.

However.

I glanced at the representative.

He closed his eyes and savored his taste, shaking his face.

And after a while.

“It’s amazing.”

The CEO opened his eyes and said.

His red eyes looked a little scary.

No, what kind of cream sandwich do you eat like that?

Maybe you ate something different from me?

I was a little afraid of meal time with the CEO.

* * *

“How are you?”

The representative asked me.

After finishing the meal, I was drinking tea for dessert.

“What are you talking about?”

When I asked, the representative opened his mouth with a deep smile.

“It’s food. I come here only when I have special guests, did you like it?”

Then he waited for my answer with a leaning gaze.

It looked really good, but it showed a bit of a 'answer' temperament.

No, honestly, if you ask me how I feel right after being treated, who would say it wasn't good?

However, the taste of the food itself wasn't bad.

As he said, it was a special taste suitable for a special guest.

"Yes. That's fine. I think I had a pretty special experience today.”

When I said that, the president gave a deep smile as if he was satisfied.

Just by looking at his appearance, he didn't seem to care what other people said, but surprisingly, he seemed to have a personality that easily flirts with what other people say.

So while I was drinking tea while thinking about the CEO.

“Now that the meal is over, let’s move on to the business story, shall we?”

said the representative.

When I looked up, the CEO with the face of a cold businessman was looking at me.

Click-

I took a sip of the tea and set the mug down.

And he answered him.

“That’s right.”

Anyway, I thought the words would come out soon.

Rather, it was strange that I had been immersed in my meals without talking about the business until now.

OK.

The CEO, who had been talking for a while, opened his mouth.

"Teacher."

It was a hard and heavy voice like a pressing stone.

It's a completely different voice than when you throw a light conversation while eating.

It was a tone that felt the heaviness of a businessman.

“First of all, I have to say thank you. You really worked hard this time.”

The representative started the story by thanking me.

I nodded and he continued.

“First of all, the perfection of the work itself is unquestionable... The sense of casting Son Na-yun was truly a masterpiece. No, I can't help but admire how he was able to get a 1st grade in Korean history at the right time for the book to come out...

Listening to it, it seemed that I was giving a more generous score to the fact that I cast Son Na-yoon rather than the perfection of the work itself.

Well, if you're a publisher's representative, you'll know better than anyone that the Korean publishing market doesn't sell well just because it's written well, so I'll have to give it a bigger blow for what I did through Nayoon Son.

Moreover, the timing coincided with the publication of the book, so from the publisher's point of view, he wanted to laugh, but he put the rice cake in his mouth.

It made sense for me to say this.

“I was lucky.”

I shed a little humility.

Because the other person keeps praising me, it would be impossible for me to just nod my head.

However.

“You have to have skill to get lucky.”

The president said with a firm expression that it was not so.

It was a belief that I couldn't understand something to say that I was simply thankful for selling a lot of books.

“Thank you, but isn’t this a bit burdensome?”

Let me say it with a sullen face.

The president scratched his cheek and opened his mouth.

“That… it’s a bit embarrassing to say, but thanks to the teacher, I was able to establish myself in the company.”

His face, which had only looked hard, finally looked like that of my age.

But there was something I didn't quite understand.

“Why is the CEO doing noodles at the company?”Then he opened his mouth with a bitter expression.

“Actually, the former CEO… So, it’s been less than a year since I inherited the company from my father. So, during that time, there were a lot of people inside and outside the company who hated me.”

Oh, it was only then that everything started to make sense.

When I said that I had the title of a representative of a large company like Globian at an age that looked somewhat similar to me, it seemed like a “gold spoon” that inherited the company from my father, the founder.

Then his sad expression was understandable.

Trouble between a young owner and the first generation of entrepreneurs.

It was a common repertoire.

From the standpoint of a young and ambitious owner, the executives who tried to stick to the past would not have liked them, and from the standpoint of the executives with strong bones in the publishing industry, the young representative would only look unsatisfactory.

“It must have been difficult. But is it okay if you tell me this story?”

when i ask

He had a bitter expression on his face and opened his mouth.

“Well, it’s a story that everyone in the company knows about anyway. And now it's a thing of the past. This time, I pushed hard on your book, and the results were better than those people expected.”

Then he looks at me and smiles.

As you can see, my book, which the CEO planned this time, was a hit, and the gritty relationship between the CEO and the executives seemed to have settled down to some extent.

“So, in a way, the teacher is also ‘proof’ that my point of view was not wrong.”

The way he looked at me was pretty amazing.

“By the way.”

The CEO, who paused for a moment in the car, opened his mouth in a cautious tone.

“Well, actually, there is another reason why I made an appointment with the teacher today.”

“What is it?”

I ask in a calm tone.

“That’s… I have something to ask for your pardon.”

The representative replied with a slightly apologetic expression.

Looking at his embarrassment-looking form, it seemed that it was not a simple task for him to ask me.

After waiting for a while, he slowly began to open his mouth.

“Do you have that 'book of problems' that I was talking about last time?”

I nodded.

Come to think of it, I remembered that the last time the CEO called me, I had an appointment with the ‘problem book’ as an excuse.

Workbook.

After the students of our academy hit the jackpot in the SAT this time, the publisher first contacted me about how they knew about it.

'Teacher! Do you have any plans to make a problem book for the entrance exam? Let's try it with the teacher's name. We will push it with all our power.’

It was a random suggestion.

Because the only thing I showed at Globian was , which is close to a general liberal arts book.

But after thinking about it, it didn't seem like a bad suggestion.

Because there was nothing like a problem book for students to get their name known.

And it's a problem book anyway, so if you use a USB, you can make it quickly, so there didn't seem to be much more effective than this for effort.

However.

But now that I look at it, it seems like a different story will come out.

‘How come there are signs of nonsense.’

Looking at the flow, good sound came out.

“·················ogue.”

I kept my mouth shut as I looked at the president.

The best way to attack in this case is silence.

Then, after hesitating for a while, the CEO opened his mouth first.

“Could you please give up your seat as the representative author of the problem book?”

Again, that was bullshit.

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