Max-Level Son of a Chaebol Family - Chapter 94
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94. Our Cheol-gu Will Become a Star
The next day, newspapers began competing to publish scathing articles about Wookwang.
The same media that had been desperately trying to cover for Wookwang when the Wookwang Chemical fire accident broke out.
Now they were all unanimously pouring out criticism without exception.
【How long will Wookwang turn a blind eye to the wails of Wookwang Chemical victims!】
【The promise to take responsibility and investigate the cause of the Wookwang Chemical fire accident – did they ever intend to keep it!】
【Who ordered the arson at Wookwang Chemical! Why is Chairman Kim Woo-gwang staying silent!】
I slapped my knee.
“That’s right, this is how they should have acted from the beginning! Just how many casualties were there?”
Wookwang Chemical fire accident: 56 deaths, 142 injuries.
Precious lives were lost and hurt.
‘Secretary Kim must have properly distributed the threatening letters!’
I had asked Secretary Kim.
To use the Wookwang Construction Bribery Ledger to distribute anonymous threatening letters.
High-ranking officials and politicians, as well as journalists, would have all received letters with similar content.
【Choose. Will you join hands with Wookwang and sink together, or cut ties with Wookwang and clean house.】
【If you choose to share life and death with Wookwang, we’ll gladly make this list public as well.】
Secretary Kim was very satisfied when he saw the threatening letter I had written.
‘Without the threatening letters, the media wouldn’t have launched such a concentrated barrage all at once.’
One more thing.
Breaking news followed that the Blue House had ordered a truth investigation.
‘High-ranking officials and politicians must have subtly whispered hints to the Blue House.’
It wasn’t just the newspapers.
News broadcasts also poured out harsh criticism toward Wookwang.
-This is in front of Chairman Kim Woo-gwang’s mansion! Chairman Kim Woo-gwang has been staying indoors since last night and is not responding to any interviews!
-We contacted Hyeonmu Chemical directly! We were able to secure testimony that they delivered large quantities of flammable materials to the Wookwang Chemical Factory!
-We’ll see you in detail on the nine o’clock news shortly!
The news camera showed the scene of the Wooguang Labor Union’s protest.
In front of Wookwang Group Headquarters, they wore union vests and held up picket signs reading 【Wooguang Set the Fire!】, 【Wooguang Family Died!】, 【Compensate for the Damages!】 while shouting loudly.
“Wooguang killed the Wooguang family members!”
“They killed them! They killed them!”
“The death compensation was 300,000 won! They worked like dogs and died like dogs, but received less than what a dog is worth!”
“Didn’t receive it! Didn’t receive it!”
“People were injured in the fire Wooguang set! They wouldn’t even pay wages saying they couldn’t work at the factory!”
“Wouldn’t pay! Wouldn’t pay!”
“We are people, not dogs! Guarantee labor human rights!”
“Guarantee them! Guarantee them!”
Wooguang Group Security Guards formed a human barricade to confront them.
Police and Ui-gyeong stood frozen while holding shields.
Opposition Party Members who had joined the protest with red headbands around their foreheads quickly thrust their faces in front of the camera microphones.
“Chairman Kim Woo-gwang, come out! Come out and explain directly!”
“People died and were injured unjustly in the fire you set! Compensate for the damages!”
“This is not a labor movement! This is a cry about human rights and crime!”
Opposition Political Figures screamed desperately in front of the cameras, trying to get in even one more word.
“Why did you stage such a self-orchestrated drama! How many innocent people died! I am filled with indescribable grief!”
“This is the time when the government, citizens, and all of us must join forces to ensure such terrible tragedies never happen again!”
Click. Click. Click.
[Aah! Why are you changing the channel? It’s almost time for the daily drama!]
‘I’m curious to see how thoroughly other broadcasting stations’ news will tear apart Wooguang. I’ll just watch this and then give it to you.’
[How many times have you said that! Are you going to watch news all day? What about my daily drama!]
The Grim Reaper hugged the state-of-the-art CRT Television with his whole body and wailed.
[I can’t watch missed broadcasts again! You said you’d give me channel control rights if I did my job well!]
It was the television I had bought for him at Taeseong Department Store.
‘I’m curious about what happened to those guys who were dragged to Seobinggo Water Torture Room.’
[What? Are you telling me to go there now? When will I watch my daily drama! I don’t want to! I won’t go! I can’t go!]
The Grim Reaper crossed his arms and stubbornly held his ground, shaking his head.
Indeed, life is about carrot and stick!
I pointed to the latest version Philips VCR (Video Cassette Recorder) that I bought along with the television.
‘This is a machine that can record and play back dramas.’
[Record? Play back? What’s that?]
‘What do you think it is? It means you can watch past dramas again, and watch them over and over!’
[Ooooh!]
‘Want it?’
[I want it!]
‘Then go! To the Seobinggo Water Torture Room!’
[I’m going!]
The Grim Reaper snorted and rushed off.
* * *
The place the Grim Reaper showed me was a gloomy basement where an incandescent light bulb hanging from the ceiling swayed creakily.
The Seobinggo Water Torture Room.
Splash!
Bulgwang-dong Gasoline and his henchmen were tied up side by side and got completely soaked.
One of the trembling thugs couldn’t hold back and screamed out.
“We didn’t set the fire to kill people from the start! It’s true!”
“We just secretly sprinkled a lot of oil around!”
Since this was the future I had glimpsed when I touched Bulgwang-dong Gasoline before, I almost let out a gasp without realizing it.
“If it had been any other time, the building would have burned a little, people would have gotten scared and obediently handed over money!”
“And we would have gotten extra money from the fire insurance we had taken out. That’s how it was supposed to go!”
“Shut your mouths, you brats!”
Bulgwang-dong Gasoline screamed angrily, but the thugs were trembling in terror.
“I just did what hyung told me to do! Please believe me!”
“It was just bad luck. We were surprised too, you know?”
“You stupid brats! Do you really want to die?”
“We’re about to die right now!”
“Going to prison would be better! At this rate we’re really going to die!”
Uncle Cheol-gu clapped his hands once.
“Good. I promised to show leniency to those who cooperate with the investigation, so I’ll keep that promise. Take the rest to the interrogation room.”
“Yes!”
The Public Security KCIA Agents took the two henchmen away.
Only Uncle Cheol-gu and Bulgwang-dong Gasoline remained in the Seobinggo Water Torture Room.
“With your handwritten statement already out there, what are you trying to accomplish by denying it so stubbornly?”
“I don’t know anything about it! I didn’t write that!”
“Just come clean and confess. That way you might at least get a reduced sentence. Are you planning to take all the blame alone and die like this?”
Bulgwang-dong Gasoline stubbornly kept his mouth shut.
“Having come this far, there shouldn’t be any loyalty left to protect. Why do you keep your mouth shut? I can’t understand it.”
“I may not keep loyalty, but I have to protect my own life.”
Bulgwang-dong Gasoline even dropped the formal speech and chuckled.
“Do you think I would have acted without something to rely on? You can’t handle this. It’s a big shot.”
“Wooguang?”
“…!”
Uncle Cheol-gu smiled and began spreading out newspapers on the interrogation table.
“What should we do about this? It looks like your backer is screwed right now too.”
“Th, this is… H, how could this happen…! This can’t be right?”
“You didn’t know because you were locked up here? Take a good look.”
Uncle Cheol-gu kindly read each newspaper headline clearly, pointing at them one by one.
Each time he did so, Bulgwang-dong Gasoline’s complexion turned deathly pale.
“Damn it!”
“Now that things have blown up this big, they’ll have to cut off the tail to survive.”
Uncle Cheol-gu made a throat-slitting gesture with his hand.
“They’ll probably conclude that you set the fire alone. Then what about you? If you’re lucky, life imprisonment, otherwise death penalty. What do you think?”
“P, please save me!”
Only then did Bulgwang-dong Gasoline tremble and beg.
“Please just spare my life! I don’t want to die like this!”
“This has become a case that the Blue House is watching. You can’t just get out of it. If you want to live, confess everything you know.”
“I’ll confess everything I know! So please show some mercy somehow…”
Just then, the door to the Seobinggo Water Torture Room burst open.
“Park Cheol-gu, that’s enough.”
The Senior Agent who had tortured Uncle Cheol-gu, and the bastard who climbed over our house wall and got beaten up!
Seo-mun Something.
“This is an order from the Inspector General. Arrest Park Cheol-gu.”
Inspector Bureau Agents came rushing into the Water Torture Room.
They quickly grabbed Uncle Cheol-gu.
“Why are you doing this?”
“This is originally Inspection Bureau business. So I trust there won’t be any complaints about the handover.”
“These are the guys I caught! The evidence, victim statements, and suspect statements are all…!”
“Park Cheol-gu, is this a spy case? No, it’s not. It’s an arson case involving a corporation. In other words, it’s Inspection Bureau work!”
“Senior!”
“We’ll take care of handling this properly from here, so the Public Security Bureau can stay out of it.”
Seo-mun Something tucked several crumpled documents into his jacket.
They were the half-completed statements the Thugs had been writing in the adjacent Interrogation Room.
“Are you trying to steal the credit right now?”
“Credit? Well, Park Cheol-gu. So you do have ambitions for advancement? But this case is beyond your capabilities to handle. Don’t have pipe dreams and step aside.”
Seo-mun Something personally untied Bulgwang-dong Gasoline who had been bound to the Chair.
“Prepare the Electric Chair. All three of them.”
The Inspector Bureau Agents grabbed Bulgwang-dong Gasoline and dragged him away.
“Have you ever heard the saying that the KCIA can make people confess to crimes they didn’t commit? I’m particularly skilled at making Electric Grilled Chicken. You can probably look forward to it.”
“Please spare me!”
Bulgwang-dong Gasoline screamed desperately.
“I’ll confess everything! I promise to answer all questions faithfully!”
“Take that Brat away. After he gets a taste of electrifying electricity, his mind will snap to attention.”
Uncle Cheol-gu shouted.
“Senior, he’s already soaking wet! If he receives electric shock in this state, he could die!”
“Hey, Park Cheol-gu. Why do you keep trying to teach me? You insolent Brat who doesn’t know his place. Ptui.”
It was when Seomun Something was trying to leisurely leave the Seobinggo Water Torture Room together with Bulgwang-dong Gasoline.
“Don’t tell me Senior Agent is also involved in this?”
“Are you trying to frame me right now?”
“Senior Agent!”
“Don’t mess around. Keep that up and you might end up dunked in that water bucket again.”
“Are you threatening me right now?”
“That’s why you’re still running around outside doing grunt work. What kind of brat who knows nothing is acting up without knowing their place?”
Bang!
Just then, some man in a suit kicked open the water torture room door.
He had a cigarette clenched between his teeth.
“Who’s the brat that knows nothing and doesn’t know their place but acts up?”
“Pu, Public Security Director!”
“Am I your friend? Lower your decibels, will you? Insolent brat who doesn’t know up from down.”
He wiggled the cigarette in his mouth while wiggling his finger.
“Hey, Inspection Bureau. Let Park Cheol-gu go.”
Seomun Something and the Inspector Bureau Agents glanced at each other’s faces with troubled expressions.
That stoked the Public Security Director’s anger.
“Inspection Bureau brats, can’t you hear me? Why are you grabbing our innocent kid and making a fuss! Let him go right now!”
“Public Security Director, this is Inspection Bureau business. We’re following orders from the Inspector General…!”
“So you’re going to ignore what I say? Don’t they teach hierarchy at the Inspection Bureau at all?”
A man wearing a gun holster and brushing off his long coat sleeves walked over with big strides.
“Boys, the Public Security Director is speaking. Let Park Cheol-gu go and step back.”
“Inspector General!”
“Want to write an incident report? For talking back to a director, brats.”
“Th, that’s…”
The Inspection Bureau KCIA Agents who had been holding Uncle Cheol-gu tactfully backed away.
The Public Security Director wiggled the cigarette in his mouth while wiggling his finger.
“What are you standing there for? We need to get back the suspects that the Inspection Bureau kids took away too.”
“Yes!”
“Trying to steal someone else’s meal, how shameless.”
Seomun Something approached the Inspector General and said.
“Director, this is a guaranteed path to promotion….”
“Shut up. It’s an order from above. When they tell you to back off, you back off. Why are you talking so much?”
The Inspector General glared at the Public Security Director and gritted his teeth.
“The Department Chief is coming down personally.”
“The Department Chief?”
“The Department Chief said to support whoever brought this case first. So you back off too.”
As the Inspector General turned and left, Seomun Something bit his lips and followed.
Soon the Public Security Bureau agents brought back Bulgwang-dong Gasoline and his thugs.
Only then did the Public Security Director take a satisfying deep drag of the cigarette he was holding.
“Cheol-gu, get ready.”
“Yes. What should I prepare and how? Just tell me.”
“Let’s shave that beard, get a haircut, and get you fitted for a suit.”
“What?”
All of a sudden?
“Oh, and put on some lotion so you don’t look rough, and brush your teeth until they shine, right?”
“….”
Uncle Cheol-gu couldn’t even respond and just blinked his eyes.
The Public Security Director flicked cigarette ash with his fingertips and grinned.
“Department Chief’s orders. Tomorrow at the national press conference, you’ll hold the microphone and announce the interim investigation results.”
“What?”
Uncle Cheol-gu blinked his eyes slowly.
The Public Security Director patted Uncle Cheol-gu’s shoulder and grinned.
“Our Cheol-gu, you’re going to become a star from this incident.”
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