Chapter 325 - Chairman Lee’s Vacation Home (1) – Part 2
Gun-Ho pictured a vacation home where Chairman Lee was drinking a glass of champagne while looking at his beautifully landscaped garden. He must have a custodian who stayed in his vacation home 24/7 to handle all the work there since it was a huge vacation home that was 1,000 pyung large.
“I envy you, Chairman Lee. I’m sure that not many people have an opportunity to own a large vacation home like that, especially in this area with clean air.”
“You think so? Hahaha. I don’t have anything much to do at my age. I do like to have fun in my vacation home.
Chairman Lee said he brought Gimbab that was enough for two people, and he wanted to share it with Gun-Ho.
“Oh, I brought my own Gimbab too. Let’s eat together.”
Gun-Ho went to his Land Rover and took out a picnic mat from the trunk. After a moment, three people were sitting on the picnic mat, and they were having Gimbab with a beverage.
“President Goo, do you like this?”
“Do you mean here, this place?”
“Yes. I feel so calm and peaceful whenever I come to this place.”
“Right. It is a very serene and nice place.”
“Whenever I get a headache at work, I come here and I get inspired. I do often visit this place not just because my vacation home is nearby, but I come here to give a deep thought on my business. Sometimes, I get a brilliant idea for my business while I’m trying to catch some fish here.”
“Oh, I see.”
“President Goo, why don’t you catch an enormous idea while you are aiming to catch a bass today? Well, maybe it would be difficult since you do lure fishing. You might not be able to focus on your thoughts while walking around to do lure fishing.”
While having Gimbab, Gun-Ho and Chairman Lee talked about things going on in their lives. Gun-Ho told him that he was planning to open an art gallery in his building in Sinsa Town, and Chairman Lee seemed to find it very interesting.
“Sir, I will take a walk for my lure fishing. I hope you catch a huge fish today. I mean a fish for your business.”
Chairman Lee grinned.
Gun-Ho was dumbfounded by the unexpected scene.
Many of those children were kids with some disabilities, either physically or intellectually.
“Oh, my gosh. I totally misunderstood Chairman Lee.”
It was obviously not his personal vacation home. It was a home for children with special needs.
“This place… Are you running this, sir?”
“Of course. I am personally operating this. It has been about twenty years.”
“How many children are there?”
“About thirty. The maximum number of kids I had was fifty. Do you remember that GH Media’s President Jeong-Sook Shin recognized me as the father of Professor Hye-Sook Lee at Sejong University?”
“Yes, I remember that.”
Professor Hye-Sook Lee grew up here too. She was an orphan. She was a very smart kid. When Hye-Sook was growing up here, the kids used to call me father, but now these kids call me grandfather. Hahaha.”
Gun-Ho didn’t know what to say. He was extremely impressed and became emotional.
‘Oh, my… Chairman Lee is more than a person who I can just admire for his business success. He is such a great person that I can’t even stand next to him.’
Gun-Ho remembered what Master Park, who was in Goesan Town, said the other day.
He said, “If you see chairman Lee, please say hi to him for me. He is a very good friend than he looks.”
“Grandpa, this is smaller than the ones you caught last time.”
“I will get a bigger one next time; I promise, like this big!”
As Chairman Lee talked with one of the children, he gave a kiss to the child’s cheek. The child talked weird. He probably had a speaking disability.
“What is that fish? It looks funny.”
“Oh, that one is called a bass. Do you see the mister standing over there? He caught it.”
“This one is huge.”
The children seemed to be having a lot of fun looking at the fish.
“Let’s release these fish into the pond until our cooking lady comes back from the supermarket. She will make a nice carp porridge for us.”
“I like pizza better than carp porridge.”
“If you want to grow taller, you need to eat carp porridge. You can’t have pizza all the time.”
“Do you promise?”
“Has your grandpa ever lied to you?”
While watching Chairman Lee and the children and listing to their conversation, Gun-Ho’s eyes started welling with tears for some reason.