Chapter 55: Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer (2)
Daehwa Group’s founder, Chairman Yoo Seong-pil, had two successors.
The eldest son, Yoo Jin-seok. The second son, Yoo Jin-ha.
Among the two, the second son Yoo Jin-ha was the smart one.
And just how smart was he, exactly? Smart enough to be comparable to me in my past life.
...To be honest, let’s be real. He was slightly, just slightly smarter than I was back then.
Anyway.
To the people of the Daehwa family—no, to anyone interested in Daehwa Group—this was common knowledge.
Unlike Yoo Jin-seok, whose short-lived heyday left only a few childhood anecdotes, Yoo Jin-ha had already published multiple academic papers during his university years that earned him recognition in the academic world.
The one problem? Yoo Jin-ha’s major wasn’t in science or engineering—or even economics or business—but in the liberal arts field of philosophy.
...How the hell does a person major in philosophy?
If he’d gone into engineering or the natural sciences instead of humanities, Daehwa Group in my past life probably wouldn’t have lost its position as #1 in the business world. Philosophy is where people with high IQ but no practical sense go.
Anyway, Yoo Jin-ha’s dazzling intellect was so completely consumed by analyzing the principles of society and the world that he overlooked fatal flaws regarding the group’s future.