I told my brother Junhee.
"You must have had a hard time bringing something heavy. Sit on the couch in the living room. Now my step sister is preparing the food."
"You don't have to eat dinner..."
Then Jun-hee sat down on the sofa.
I didn't know why Jun-hee, who is famous for her ferocious puberty, became so calm.
Is it because I'm getting older and mature? Or I couldn't tell if it was an inferiority complex about my step sister.
"I have more guests to come. You can eat together when you come.”
"A guest is coming? Then I have to go."
"The guest is from Stanford Law School, where you go. Meet me and go."
"What? Stanford?"
"I told you once, didn't I? I have a friend lawyer. It's my classmate. It's the girl who only attended her first year of high school and went to America
"Really?"
"I'm married, so come with my husband. My husband's from Stanford, too. Do you work at Kim & Chang law firm now?"
"Really?"
Jun-hee's face suddenly turned into a confused.
The loser buys a house he can't imagine, marries a woman named KBS's flagship beauty, and hangs out with Kim & Chang, a lawyer from Stanford.
Is that my brother? He looked like he did.
"Oppa, and this..."
I gave him a shopping bag.
There was a guest book and money in the shopping bag.
Jun-hee said in a small voice.
said in a voice unheard of to Eunyeong.
"The money is 27 million won.”
Then he looked at the kitchen.
The house is so spacious that you can't hear Eunyeong in the kitchen, but she said in a very small voice.
I threw a book and a shopping bag with money that Jun-hee brought into my study.
Jun-hee glanced at the books stuck in my bookshelf.
I think it was because there were so many empty spaces on the bookshelf because there were only a few books that I learned at the jijapdae.
I showed Jun-hee the rooms.
"This is the master bedroom for couples."
"Hick! Is it this wide?”
"And this room is your step sister's study."
Jun-hee opened her eyes wide when she saw countless books stuck in the bookshelf next to the wooden desk.
There were also books and notebooks with the logo of Seo Eul-dae.
"He graduated from Seoul National University, so he has a lot of books. It compares a lot with my brother's study."
Then Jun-hee laughed.
The intercom rang again.
Oh Mi-hyang and lawyer Yoon are here. I bought some present.
Lawyer Yoon was flustered.
"Wow, that's a nice house. Looks like you've got a new interior, too.
His younger brother Jun-hee quickly realized that he was Korean-American when he saw the person who just came in speaking English.
I introduced my brother.
"Oh Mi-hyang. She's my brother. I'm studying at Stanford right now.”
"Oh? Is that so? Nice to meet you."
Oh Mi Hyang pushed her hand out.
Jun-hee was discouraged because Oh Mi-hyang was also quite a beauty.
Jun-hee is not a bad person either.
There were also many men chasing him. The Virgin Mary was also secretly fond of it.
However, it fell short of the beauty of the time, Eunyeong and Oh Mi-hyang.
Park Un-young is a beautiful woman who is said to be the younger sister of the people, and Oh Mi-hyang is also a beauty who was the best in the whole school at Geumcheon-gu High School where I attended.
He also introduced Jun-hee to lawyer Yoon.
Yoon spoke in English.
"You're studying at Stanford? You see our alumni here. Ha ha ha. Nice to meet you."
said Oh Mi-hyang, who was next to him.
"Choi always bragged about having a smart younger brother. I think so, too."
Jun-hee turned red.
Once upon a time, when my mother bragged about her daughter to the people in the neighborhood, I didn't have much emotion, but today I felt like I wanted to go into a hole.
I said to Jun-hee.
"Yoon works at Kim & Chang Law Firm, while Oh Mi-hyang is at Hwa-chon Law Firm."
Once again, the sound of Kim & Chang and Hwa-chon hardened Jun-hee's face.
Kim & Chang and Hwa-chon are places where even a graduate of Sky University's law school cannot enter without graduating from the top grades.
said Unyeong with a bright smile.
"The stew is about to boil. Come to the table, everybody."
It really smelled like Budae-jjigae.
I switched on the grill and grilled the meat.
Wine and spirits were also served. I've served plenty of lettuce and perilla leaves, and I've just brought some new rice.
I did it when Eunyeong unpack and carry the rice. His brother Jun-hee stood up and tried to carry the food bowl. I didn't let him.
"You stay still! You're a guest!"
When the stew was done, Eunyeong unpacked the budae-jjigae and I carried it.
Taste the stew, said lawyer Yoon.
"It tastes good. When did Mr. Unyoung learn how to make food like this?"
"Do you like it?"
Yoon looked at Oh Mi-hyang and said,
"You should also ask Mr. Woonyoung to give you a recipe for this."
Unyeong said with a big smile, covering her mouth.
"Ho-ho. I bought the ingredients. They make it and sell it all these days."
"Really?"
"All you have to do is pour it into the pot and boil it.”
"Really? But you look like a housewife wearing an apron.”
"Hohoho, Mihyang is wearing it too."
The grille is sizzled with beef.
We ate beef sirloin on lettuce, perilla leaves, crown daisies, etc.
Then I bumped into a glass of wine.
The atmosphere became amicable. As the wine went in, there was a lot of talk.
Jun-hee also seemed to fit in well because the people gathered were of a considerable level.
When I lived in Dal-dong, Sillim-dong, I was a woman who slammed the door and entered the room when my mother or Hwang Byeong-cheol came to my house. And a woman who never came out of the room ate meat well today.
Unyeong picked up the grilled meat with tongs and put it on a plate in front of Junhee.
"Enjoy your sister-in-law, too."
said Oh Mi-hyang with a smile.
"Hoho, what is your sister-in-law, you should call her Miss."
"Dear sister-in-law, don't you say all-ke? You sound better. Eat a lot, miss."
Jun-hee said for the first time.
"Well, my sister-in-law is distant. Just call my name. It's comfortable."
Oh Mi-hyang also agreed.
"I don't have a sister-in-law, so I'd rather call her by her name. If you call him Jun-hee, it will be comfortable for both the person who calls and the person who listens. I think they're about the same age. Jun-hee, what's your zodiac sign this year?"
When Jun-hee talked about the zodiac sign, Un-yeong smiled and said.
"Oh, he's the same age as me. Nice to meet you, Jun-hee. Jun-hee sees me and calls me Eun-young."
"But she's my brother's wife, so I'll call her sister.”
"What month were you born in? I was born in March."
"I was born in July. You're right. Let's call her sister. My sister just calls me Jun-hee."
When lawyer Yoon smeared his eyes, Oh Mi-hyang interpreted.
Lawyer Yoon applauded.
"Good idea! All right, I agree. Korea has a complicated title."
I didn't oppose it either.
It was because it sounded more friendly for Jun-hee to call Jun-hee as her sister and Jun-hee as her sister.
Oh Mi-hyang grabbed Jun-hee by the wrist.
"Please call me older sister, too. I'm two years older than Eun-young or Jun-hee."
Lawyer Yoon was dumbfounded and hit the glass with Jun-hee's glass.
"I have two sisters-in-law. Eun-young and Jun-hee.
Jun-hee had difficulty with Yoon.
It was because lawyer Yoon looked older than me.
It was also because I heard what I called my elder brother during the conversation.
I told Jun-hee.
"Yoon was a professor at Stanford before he came to Korea."
"Is that so?"
I opened my eyes wide when I heard that Jun-hee was a professor at Stanford.
"He came to Korea looking for love.”
Jun-hee looked at me with a puzzled look on her face.
"My beloved woman, Oh Mi-hyang, came to Korea to work, so I heard that later and followed her to Korea."
Jun-hee smiled as if she understood the rain.
Oh Mi-hyang seemed to have seen Jun-hee well because Jun-hee was sitting down and listening.
"Jun-hee really looks calm. That's my little brother."
[What? Jun-hee's older brother?] She's the one who throws anything when she's mad, but she's calm? She threw a pencil case at me and hurt my forehead.]
I laughed at this thought.
Lawyer Yoon told Jun-hee.
"When did you enter Stanford, Jun-hee?”
"I entered last semester."
"So you're saying you've finished a semester? We still have a long way to go."
"That's the way it is."
"You're following me well, aren't you?”
"I'm getting by. It's hard because there are so many good students."
"I wonder if Professor Jack Nashire, who was close to me, is doing well.”
"Professor Jack Nashire? Do you lecture on business negotiation?"
"That's right. The professor was a professor at the Munich Business School. I got a Ph.D. in law in Furancpurt, not Stanford."
"I had a special lecture once, and you were witty. I only understood half of it because my English was short. I've heard that you write a lot of course."
Unyeong said.
"There is a translation of Professor Jack Nashire's book in Korea. When I was in college, I read and discussed Professor Jack Nasser's book 'The Perfect Skill of Lying' at a reading debate."
I can't get in this conversation.
Because I've never heard of the name Jack Nashire.
I only drank quietly.
I probably worked part-time at a field of labor when Eun-young was at a reading debate.
It was told by the tendon on my forearm.
It's nothing to be ashamed of, but I felt depressed for nothing.
Unyeong brought the brew.
"We're out of wine. Yoon seems to be short of alcohol, so I'll get a bottle of spirits."
"Call me brother-in-law!"
"Have a drink, brother-in-law."
"I prefer the liquor that my sister-in-law gives me.”
"But you must be busy. You seem to have lost some weight on your face."
Oh Mi-hyang said instead.
"Yoon is busy these days. I got a job at Goldman Sachs."
I asked.
"Did you take charge of Daesung Industrial Gas?"
"Daeseong Industrial Gas?"
"Didn't Goldman Sachs sell Daesung Industrial Gas to a private equity firm this time with huge profits?”
"Really? What's the profit?"
"Originally, Goldman Sachs bought Daesung Industrial Gas for 1.1091 trillion won. This time, it made 470 billion won in profits.”
"470 billion? That's great. Does the private equity firm know President Choi well?"
"MBK Partners is a private equity firm, and I don't know the owner there."
No one else could intervene in this conversation.
Only me and lawyer Yoon talked.
Jun-hee looked at me with new eyes. He seemed to have solid economic knowledge, but first of all, he was fluent in English when he learned it. The English conversation with Yoon was not awkward at all.
Are you really my brother? It was worth the sound.
Jun-hee began to see me in a new light.
"MBK Partners seems to be a rich company.“
"I don't know about that, but it's a company that took over its entire stake in Homeplus two years ago."
"Homeplus? Isn't Home Plus a famous company? The stake there was MBK. I think Homeplus is going to be a good business.
"The investment is based on the future... I have a different perspective. Home Plus is offline, not online. The retail industry is in a state of upheaval. Offline is likely to face falling sales and rising costs in the future. There's a high possibility of going online at the same time."
"Well, that makes sense."
Lawyer Yoon nodded.
"Companies like Goldman Sachs are taking Korean wealth, so Korea will try to grow many of its own private equity firms."
"That makes sense, too.”
"The problem is, I'm worried that the private equity firm that raised me might invest in real estate. If you're buying a whole apartment in Gangnam, the real estate turmoil and polarization are obvious."
After hearing my fluent English explanation, Jun-hee seemed to begin to realize why her brother made money.
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