Chapter 24

* * *

The excitement still remains, but the gym has become chaotic after all the games.

A female announcer who smelled full of Boone quickly approached and held out her microphone.

“Thank you for the game, Choi Jong-hyuk! High school student Choi Jong-hyuk must have had a hard time winning in the general division, a game only for adults! I think that’s why it’s a more valuable win! How do you feel right now?”

“I’m glad!”

The competitions that I participated in at first because of the specification for college.

That’s why I wasn’t 100 percent happy with one win.

A corner of the heart was always cold.

But it was different just now.

A lump of tear rose from my heart, and firewood in my heart, which had been piled up incompletely, roared as if it had burned all at once.

The excitement of his mouth moved freely.

“I’m even more happy that I won thanks to the director’s careful guidance, the care of my seniors, and the passionate support of my colleagues! Mom, I’ll be right there with the medal! Let’s grill meat for dinner! Cold Sam!”

“Ho ho ho ho!”

Just now, when Jong-hyuk, who roared and showed off his manly side, suddenly shouted, “Mom,” the female announcer laughed because she was cute.

“Wow, you look like a 17-year-old boy now. By the way, what is cold ginseng?”

‘Oh, this isn’t what you’re using now.

“Ha ha. Frozen pork belly. It’s a line for friends.”

Jong-hyuk put an iron plate on his face.

“Really?”

The cameraman lifted his finger and twirled. It’s a signal.

The female announcer nodded slightly.

” I can’t help but say that Choi Jong-hyuk is a great player. Isn’t it hard to study while exercising?”

For a moment, Jong-hyuk’s excitement quickly cooled down.

“I think that’s a difference of will. If there is a will, I think I can do it.”

“Hyunsuk, are you listening?” You’re a smart guy, man!’ Hyun-suk heard Choi Jong-hyuk’s deterioration board in every aspect before returning.

He started as a police officer and eventually rose to the position of superintendent.

Most police officers who start with police officers do not cross the guard’s threshold.

However, Hyun-suk, who was short but shouted that he was not losing to anyone, overcame fierce competition and became a superintendent, becoming a strong pillar of the intelligence crime investigation team.

If you start studying now, you will be able to go to the police force enough.

Jong-hyuk was eager to do so.

“Means…… yes. The will to do whatever you do is the most important thing.”

‘That’s what I want to say!’ Jong-hyuk nodded.

“Then, Choi Jong-hyuk, do you have a dream you want to achieve with that will?”

“Of course, it’s a gold medal at the Bangkok Asian Games next year!”

It was both lip service and not.

“And I want to go to police or law school after graduation!”

Jong-hyuk vowed one more time in front of the camera.

Announcer, cameraman, and viewers’ eyes became wide open.

“Wow, gold medals must be hard, aren’t you being too greedy?”

“If I can do it, if I can do it, I don’t think it’s greed anymore.”

“Oh.”

It may seem arrogant, but it sounded mysterious because it was Jong-hyuk who had done what seemed impossible.

“Oh, my. Look at her.

No, suddenly it didn’t look like a child.

He looked like an adult male even though he was 17, and the announcer tried to express his ulterior motive.

“Jong-hyuk, you have to present the award!”

“Yes!”

“Ah!”

The announcer was in a hurry.

“Lastly, is there anything you want to say to the people who are watching this moment?”

“The people…….” My heart became heavy at the moment.

Do people know how scary things are coming?’

It’s right and it’s not.

I’ll be trying to turn a blind eye to no.

That’s why it must have been so hard.

Jong-hyuk stared seriously at the camera.

“I hope you can cheer up by looking at the person next to you even if it’s hard and painful. Pain comes out of the blue, but if we stick together, we can overcome it.”

“What? What do you mean?”

“Sure.”

” Choi Jong-hyuk 선수!”

Jong-hyuk stood on the podium, leaving behind the urgent announcer’s cry.

a rapidly approaching winter

The national anthem rang out in the chilly gymnasium.

* * *

“I don’t know who you are, but I’m a good speaker.”

Living room in a small house where seven families can barely lay down.

A man in his late 40s, who was sitting in a living room surrounded by his family, small height and a chadol-like atmosphere, smoked cigarettes and threw his tongue out.

“Well, I told you so. Yeah! You’re such a good talker. Mom’s gonna be full without Bob!”

The family history of Jong-hyuk was revealed as he gained attention for proving his skills.

A single mother who sells tteokbokki and kimbap on the street and a half-underground woman, Jong-hyuk, who won the gold medal with the top 1 percent of the country’s performance.

So I didn’t know it looked better.

When Jeong Mi-ja spat and said, the steel line tilted its head to one side.

“Are you a real gangster?”

“I’ve won a gold medal, but I look like a gangster!” You’ll be struck by lightning!

“Oh, okay. All right.”

By the way, law school…….’

“Ha ha. An outstanding junior is about to come in.”

I wish I could be a prosecutor.

Hyun-suk, who was holding his four-year-old sister in his arms, frowned at his father who said so.

Father, don’t be a junior and mind your own household chores.

Father steel wire is a prosecutor. Nevertheless, it is not enough for seven families to live in such a small house as a palace, and it is incompetent enough to make their mother swear at Ilsu by laying a stand in the fish market.

Don’t give money to hard-earned juniors, hard-earned victims. These brothers, your sons and daughters, don’t get caught!’

He has five children in a row, including Kang Hyun-suk himself.

Nevertheless, my father cares about people who are not family, not family.

So, always a poor family.

That’s why his shoulders shrink.

The reason why I couldn’t tell Il-soo’s bullies, “My father is a prosecutor,” was because I thought a father who cared about others, not his family, would not take sides.

So I didn’t know that Jong-hyuk looked so cool even if he was a gangster.

Because I shined confidently alone.

However, I respect him now because he didn’t know all the circumstances.

‘Difference of will. If there’s a will…… Why did that gentleman make me study so hard? Is studying that important?

Even though I had a hard time passing it, I didn’t really think about studying when I saw my father, a poor man in Jiriri, but I got a lot of thoughts because Jong-hyuk studied hard.

Well, should I study, too? Isn’t there a reason why he’s studying like that? ……Yes, let’s do it together.’

The study that teachers, adults say, are the most important.

Hyun-suk decided to give it a try because of Jong-hyuk, who showed that he could do it even if he was poor and struggling.

“Hai, whose son is……where are you going?”

“To study in the room.”

“What? Studying?”

“Don’t disturb me.”

“Oh, my God. Oh, I got it. Do you want some fruit?

“That’s enough.”

Boom!?

When the door to the small room closed, Jeong Mi-ja and Kang Chul-sun saw each other.

“Tomorrow the sun will rise from the west.”

“……Jaa is now in middle school, so she’s awake.”

Steel-sun looked warmly at her children who were asleep because the judo game was boring. The children’s cheeks are starting to crack because it’s winter soon. I just wanted you to grow up like this.

“Is everything all right at home?”

“What’s the big deal. You mind your own country. Don’t embarrass my babies.”

“…OK. Soju.”

“Do you want me to make more cuts?”

“Uh.”

Kang Chul-sun stood up with an empty bottle of soju and stared at his wife’s bent back and worn-out clothes.

Hang in there. I’m in good spirits when I go to Seoul next year.’

But why don’t I know they can’t wear it and eat it?

However, he opens his pocket because there are people who are struggling more than his family.

Frustrated, he saw Jong-hyuk wearing a gold medal with a serious face.

“Law school, no, you want to be a prosecutor?”

In his mind, Jong-hyuk was already a prosecutor.

Law schools were prosecutors, and law schools were prosecutors.

There was such a formula in his head.

The prosecution was also in a dark mood as the country was in the midst of harpooning.

If the country goes bankrupt, there will be more people who will be prosecutors who are public officials than lawyers who are uncertain about their income, and they are already trying to fight over rice.

Some are struggling to make a profit before they go bust.

“If you have a long tail, you’ll get stepped on. Tsk. I think you’ve noticed a strange country like that.”

He was inwardly worried that the prosecution’s corruption cases would soon be dealt with.

“Well, let’s design it. I think he can use it as a mascot.”

A kind of eye-distraction and atmosphere-ventilation mascot just in case. There are probably quite a few prosecutors who think like this.

The second best thing to do is to be a prosecutor.

I thought a pretty good work would come out if I connected with them.



It’s my first time in Seoul, so I think it’ll be okay.

“As long as you have the genealogy of Hankuk University…….”

The name of the university is the foundation of organized life.

He graduated from Korea University, so he can live in Seoul from this countryside.

But now, Jong-hyuk is not a Korean university student.

“I’m sorry, WinWin. Let’s do this. The reporters may be a little annoying, but it’s a lot better to think about later. I’ll take care of this guy a lot, too.”

He glowed his eyes as he drank the remaining soju from the cup.

* * *

November 22nd, worrying about the price of heating oil and briquettes in the cold weather.

Winter in Korea came earlier than I thought.

– As of now, our Republic of Korea has decided to receive funding from the IMF. I’m sorry.

Coo-kook!

It was the moment when the Republic of Korea, which was moving toward an economic powerhouse and an advanced country, collapsed.

“What does that mean?”

Ko Jung-sook mumbled vaguely while watching a small TV like a stall tent, her son, and her small world.

She wasn’t the only one who didn’t believe it.

“Oh, my!”

“The country is ruined!”

Most of the people passing the street sank in front of the speakers on the street, and the head of a family looked up at the sky and bit a cigarette.

“You said you wouldn’t screw it up! You said there would be no IMF support!”

“I told you to believe it. You bastards!”

A street that turned into hell for a moment.

Jong-hyuk is tiririri! Tiriri! I pulled out my urgent cell phone and ran out of my mother’s stall tent.

– Jong-hyuk 씨!

The urgent call of Kwon A-young and Park Tae-kyu.

Korea, which has been on the brink of a cliff since last week, was pushed down the cliff.

Jong-hyuk’s eyes sank.

“Let’s get started.”

* * *

In the harsh winter, a bitter cold wave hit.

Companies that burst champagne due to the false success they had accumulated with debt collapsed, and financial institutions that were playing with money from overseas banks went bankrupt.

Small and medium-sized enterprises and small-sized public figures, who were swayed by such a temple, fell down like sand castles swept away by waves.

Banks have also suffered fatal injuries and are in a state of life-or-life alarm.

In response, the market started to soar from the price of bean sprouts, and people who moved to kerosene oil boilers began to drill the briquettes furnace again, which had been blocked.

Perhaps because the situation has become so devastating, the national team’s call-up took place faster than scheduled.

“Where are you going? You have to go to the athletes’ village at dawn tomorrow.”

“Suho’s house. I’m done packing.”

Kim So-young’s aunt Kwon A-young found out that Park Tae-kyu had been kidnapped by pork cutlet Kim Chang-deuk, and Park Soo-ho’s house, which she couldn’t go because of the situation after saving it.

‘Suho’s house was in the neighborhood.’

Before going to Soyoung’s house, the neighborhood where Suho told me to come to was often called Daldongne.

“I won’t be able to come out well if I go into the athletes’ village, so I want to say goodbye and see Suho’s parents before I go in.”

“Really?”

Ko Jung-sook didn’t show it, but she was disappointed.

It’s because I took my own vacation to spend the day with Jong-hyuk, who is about to go away.

After catching it like a ghost, Jong-hyuk quickly opened his mouth.

“Instead, I’m going to the sauna tonight. Suho’s parents and Soyoung’s parents.”

“Sauna? Sauna?!”

Ko Jung-sook found her wallet without even realizing it.

“The sauna will shoot your son with the prize money!”

“Hey, what kind of money do you have? It’s your money, the pocket money I gave you…….”

Ko Jung-sook was surprised to see the bank account handed out by Jong-hyuk, who had been in the room for a while.

“That’s a lot of money.”

In the meantime, I didn’t care about my son’s money, but it was a lot of money to not care.

“Why wouldn’t I ask for pocket money these days?”

Ko Jung-sook looked at her son, who wiped his mouth even though he received the money.

“Okay, my mother’s good son shoots acupressure! Let’s make my mom’s pretty face prettier!”

“……I’ll cut you some slack this time. See if it happened again. Just!”

“Hhh. I’ll be back then.

“Be careful! It’s cold, so dress warmly!”

“Yes!”

After leaving the house like that, Jong-hyuk looked at the sky that was unnecessarily clear.

“I’ll have to buy a present.”

He moved to get the gift that Suho needs most now.

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