After the Divorce, I Found a Thousand Bitcoins - Chapter 114

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I Got Divorced and Found a Thousand Bitcoins Episode 114

Time passed quickly.

[Hyper breaks through ten million customers!]

[To celebrate breaking through ten million subscribers, Hyper is conducting a large-scale event.]

[A once-in-a-lifetime big event! Hyper is going all out!]

Hyper had already surpassed ten million subscribers and was racing toward twenty million.

The better Hyper did, the faster Dashi’s downfall accelerated as a counterbalance.

[Dashi shareholders begin lawsuits in the United States!]

[The fall of the nation’s largest e-commerce platform, can Dashi possibly recover?]

The damage compensation lawsuit in the United States that Kim Jae-beom had so desperately wanted to prevent had begun.

Regardless of how this fight ended, experts believed that Dashi would be beyond recovery.

In this situation, the opening of Yeongjong Island Theme Park, another business that KH Group had poured their heart into, was just around the corner.

At the theme park site, final preparations for the opening ceremony were in full swing.

“Hey, that goes over here, not over there!”

“Hey, handle that carefully! It’ll break if you’re not careful!”

“How’s the drone show coming along? We need to get the timing right!”

“It’s going to be windy tomorrow?! Then figure out a way to block the wind!!”

Managers’ voices were rising here and there throughout the site.

It meant that time was running short.

Kang Hyeon was watching this scene from a distance.

Across from him, Representative Kang Myeong-gu was smiling contentedly.

“How is it, Chairman? The theme park we poured our hearts into finally opens tomorrow.”

“My, time flies. It feels like yesterday when we purchased this land.”

“I feel the same way. To think we built such a magnificent amusement park on that empty plot of land.”

“You’ve worked hard.”

“Ha ha! Hard work? What I realized while resting is that if a person just plays around at home, their energy seems to quickly decline.”

“Is that so?”

“Yes. That’s why I like being out on site now even more. Most of all, my wife doesn’t nag me, so life is worth living! Ha ha!!”

It wasn’t just empty words – Representative Kang Myeong-gu looked younger now than when they first met.

Working on site was giving him that much new energy.

“By the way, did you hear the report from the Ulsan construction site?”

“Yes. I read the report that came up to the group recently. The research institute being built in Ulsan is different from existing buildings?”

“Yes. Nathan Doctor and Han Doctor have joined hands and are constantly giving advice from the sidelines. Thanks to them, new technologies that didn’t exist before are being continuously introduced.”

“Is it that innovative?”

“Oh my, don’t even get me started. Even when I’m watching, I wonder what the heck it is. But thanks to that, our technicians are rapidly learning new technologies.”

KH Construction originally used traditional construction techniques.

These were stable and well-practiced from long experience, but were somewhat distant from the latest construction methods.

However, the story changed when Nathan became actively involved in building his own research institute.

“Especially the tools that Nathan Doctor developed are being used very usefully on site.”

“Nathan Doctor is even making construction tools?”

“Didn’t you know? That man is no ordinary genius. He looked around the construction site a bit, went back, and then brought back some strange contraptions he’d whipped up.”

This was the first time he was hearing this story.

Even with site reports, what reached him was only the overall progress of construction.

But to think Nathan was involved to this extent on site.

‘Wasn’t Nathan originally a computer doctor?’

He felt there was still much he didn’t know about Nathan.

After that, Kang Hyeon spent time getting to know Nathan a little better by hearing stories about him through Kang Myeong-gu.

* * *

It had been decades since a large-scale theme park was established in the country.

While several theme parks had opened during that time, they hadn’t achieved proper results.

So citizens had to go through the trouble of visiting nearby Japan’s Disneyland or Universal Studios.

In this context, news that a new theme park would open on Incheon Yeongjong Island drew people’s attention.

-I heard this theme park is legendary?

-But what’s it based on, K-culture?

-Honestly, it’s cringey.

-Isn’t it just a theme park riding on trends?

-But I heard The Founding of the Great Korean Empire is the main theme.

That’s kind of appealing.

-It’ll fail soon anyway since it’s just riding trends.

On internet communities, stories about how Yeongjong Island Theme Park would fail were already circulating widely.

This was because theme parks created in the past had disappeared into the back alleys of history without achieving proper results.

In this atmosphere, KH Group held a large-scale opening ceremony announcing the opening of Incheon Yeongjong Island Theme Park, Araon Studio.

“The scale is considerable?”

“From the outside, it’s not lacking compared to Japan’s Disneyland or Universal Studios.”

“This looks promising?”

Reporters and broadcasting station officials who came to the opening ceremony were amazed by the exterior of Araon Studio.

The landscape of the theme park, covering about 100,000 pyeong combining indoor and outdoor areas, was enough to make jaws drop.

“It looks like it connects to Inspire Resort through over there.”

“KH Group is amazing too. To think they formed a partnership with Inspire.”

The part they put the most effort into when creating this theme park was the hotel.

Kang Hyeon purchased nearby old downtown motels and transformed them into hotels so visitors could stay on Yeongjong Island and enjoy the theme park.

In particular, they formed a partnership with Inspire Resort, the largest in the country, and offered package deals that allowed simultaneous use of both locations.

This system essentially turned Yeongjong Island into one giant island of entertainment.

“Oh, it’s starting.”

Then the opening event began in earnest.

Executives from KH Group and KH Construction took the stage.

And Kang Hyeon, Chairman of KH Group, stood before the microphone.

“I would like to express my gratitude to everyone who came here today to celebrate the opening of Araon Studio. Thank you.”

Clap clap clap clap-!

“Araon in Araon Studio is pure Korean meaning ‘enjoy all the seas of the world.’ We named this theme park with the hope that, like the meaning of Araon, people from all over the world will visit us across the seas of the world.”

Clap clap clap-!

After explaining the meaning of Araon, Kang Hyeon announced the opening with a smile.

“From today, we announce the grand beginning of Araon Studio.”

Pop pop pop pong-!!

As soon as his words ended, fireworks shot up and began decorating the night sky.

Brilliant fireworks bloomed, followed by lasers shot from Araon Studio displaying spectacular movements.

Additionally, drones rose into the sky, creating characters from The Founding of the Great Korean Empire and the palace that was like a symbol of the Great Korean Empire.

Then the drones scattered and soon divine beasts were created in the sky.

The sight of them changing shapes here and there was enough to captivate the viewers’ attention.

Today’s event was being broadcast live nationwide through broadcasting station cameras.

In other words, they were getting nationwide promotion for free.

Watching the perfectly proceeding event, Kang Hyeon smiled with satisfaction.

Kwangho approached Kang Hyeon’s side.

“Now it’s really beginning.”

“Yeah. This is essentially the first business we undertook opening its doors.”

“It’s quite moving. It feels like yesterday when we purchased and demolished those jeonse fraud villas that were here. And now we’re already opening a theme park.”

“I know, right. Time really flies, doesn’t it?”

“Do you have to mention that we’ve gotten old?”

Kang Hyeon chuckled and looked at the theme park.

“Have you been inside?”

“Wow, this is amazing. I never dreamed in my wildest dreams that our country would have a theme park of this scale and facilities. And that we’d build it with our own hands.”

“I didn’t know either.”

“Hey, is it okay for the Chairman to say things like that?”

“But it’s the truth.”

Even at the time of his divorce, Kang Hyeon never dreamed he would build such a theme park.

So he couldn’t help but feel deeply moved.

Then Kwangho poked Kang Hyeon’s side and said.

“More importantly, we can use the theme park fast track unlimited, right?”

“You’ll have to pay, customer.”

“Hey! Between us!”

“Hehe, just kidding. I already made fast tracks to distribute to affiliate employees.”

“Awesome! Ah, my wife has to come too. Make it for families.”

“Of course. It’s valid for up to 4 companions.”

“Oh yeah!”

Kwangho’s behavior of shouting with genuine joy drew the attention of the VIPs around them.

Flustered by the sudden attention, Kwangho cleared his throat awkwardly and sneakily hid behind Kang Hyeon.

Watching Kwangho like that, Kang Hyeon spoke as if he found it pathetic.

“Hey, you’re bigger than me. Do you think you can hide like that?”

It was like a bear trying to hide behind a person.

* * *

The day after the opening ceremony.

People flooded like a tsunami to Araon Studio, the new theme park on Yeongjong Island.

Some people were camping out and waiting even before the doors opened.

Broadcasting stations came out early to interview such people and capture their appearance on camera.

[This is Kim Ho-cheol from MBS. Here at Araon Studio, countless crowds waiting for the opening are creating a sea of people.

Araon Studio announced that to commemorate the opening, they will hold a 50 percent discount event for first-day visitors.

It appears that such large crowds gathered on the first day due to this.]

Playing the 50 percent discount card as an opening event was an excellent choice.

The interior of Araon Studio was not yet properly known.

Since information about what rides the theme park had and how many attractions there were was only available on the official website and YouTube, consumers couldn’t get proper information.

The best information delivery was ultimately the vivid reviews and word-of-mouth from visitors.

To achieve that, they needed to gather many people, and KH Group played the card of half-price discount.

That card was a complete success.

“We’ll help you enter starting now!”

Soon it was time for admission and visitors began entering Araon Studio.

The entrance was deliberately made larger to ensure visitors had no inconvenience entering.

Thanks to this, visitors could enter the interior quickly.

What greeted those who entered the studio interior first was a massive castle that looked as if a Joseon Dynasty palace had been transplanted there.

“Wow… this is so cool.”

“Didn’t they just move Gyeongbokgung Palace here?”

“What we saw in the promotional video wasn’t exaggerated…”

“Rather, it seems like they couldn’t properly capture that castle?”

“It’s an incredible size.”

“I want to take pictures there!”

The main castle of Araon Studio was named Gyeongun Palace, which appears in The Founding of the Great Korean Empire.

It was a name given as a motif based on what was actually used as the imperial palace during the Great Korean Empire period.

Living up to its name, Gyeongun Palace was receiving attention from countless people and doing its job as the face of Araon Studio perfectly.

Thus, Araon Studio was presented to the public for the first time.

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