The God of Coding, Becoming an IT Conglomerate

3. 1988. 20 years old

Hoyeong, who fell into the sea, had a dream.

sweet dreams.

Sleeping under a soft and thick blanket.

‘comfy···. The last memory is still warm…’

However, Hoyoung felt that her breath was getting more and more suffocated.

and

“Pu-ha-ab-! Whoa, heo-eok… Ugh!”

Hoyoung kicked off the blanket and stood up.

I was suffocating when I covered my head with a thick blanket.

“Dreams are filthy vivid!”

Hoyoung took a deep breath and looked around.

‘Isn’t this a dream? Did you save me from drowning in the sea?’

Hoyoung, who was observing the room where he lay with curious eyes, found something familiar on the wall.

A poster advertising chocolate on the wall.

It was a poster with a photo of Lee Mi-yeon, an advertisement model for ‘Canaan Chocolate’.

This crazy déjà vu.

“The boarding house I lived in when I was a college student…?!”

20 years old. Everyone says that the age of 20 is the beginning of the golden age of life.

It was an age that became a turning point in life for Hoyoung as well.

It was at this time that Hoyoung encountered programming for the first time.

The most memorable thing about his college life was probably his boarding house.

A boarding house with a monthly rent of 90,000 won with no deposit.

His room is about 2 pyeong, and it is where he spent most of his college life.

Ho-yeong, who saved up money and bought a computer throughout the first semester, lived in her room programming except for lectures.

“What time is it now?”

It wasn’t a question I was hoping for an answer to.

The words that came out of his mouth were just questions.

However, Hoyoung was startled by the answer that came out of nowhere.

“It’s 07:03 AM.”

“Gaia!”

The answer came from Hoyoung’s left wrist.

On his left wrist, he was still wearing a watch with Gaia installed on it.

Hoyoung was confused.

Where do you mean here?

Why did Jo Nam-shik save himself from jumping into the sea and bring him to a place like this?

But what the heck are these things?

From the tacky clothes I wore when I was a college student to daily necessities.

And this blanket that I was covering up until now.

This cotton comforter, which is extremely thick and even has luxurious embroidery, was the only one in the world that was sent by a mother who even embroidered it herself for her son, who is studying alone in Seoul.

Ho-young, who felt lightly dizzy and put her hand on the desk, was surprised again.

“uh···?”

A mirror the size of a palm standing on a desk.

Hoyoung held up the mirror and turned her face around.

In the mirror, the face of a man over 50 was nowhere to be seen, and Ho-yeong, in his twenties, was stunned.

“Hey… Where is this place?”

“Currently, only limited GPS function is available due to poor satellite connection. Current location is located in Sillim-dong, Seoul, South Korea, Asia.”

Sillim-dong is a neighborhood close to Seoul National University, where he came from.

Of course, the location of his boarding house was Sillim-dong.

“It’s impossible…”

match-!

Hoyoung tried to slap himself like he saw in the movie, but all he got back was a tingling pain.

“Gaia. What time is it? Tell me in order of year, month, day.”

“Now is March, 28th, 1988.”

Gaia’s words were words that could not be easily accepted.

Did it break down in the sea water? I even heard the thought.

1988.

It was the age at which Hoyoung first entered university, and the year the 1988 Seoul Olympics were held.

“Did I come back to the past?”

Hoyoung opened the door and went out of the room.

The layout of the boarding house was exactly as he remembered it.

It is the smallest of the three rooms on the second floor, but you can use it alone.

That was Hoyeong’s room, and there were two more boarders in the other two rooms.

Climb the stairs and go down to the first floor.

On the first floor, there was a room where the owner and his wife and their daughter lived, and there was a kitchen.

A delicious smell wafted from the kitchen.

“This smell!”

Hoyoung felt that tears were about to come out.

Has your heart weakened after dying once? I could barely hold back the tears at the thought.

Hoyoung entered the kitchen, knowing it, but couldn’t help but be surprised.

“old lady!”

In the kitchen, the boarding house lady was making stew.

“Is student Hoyeong awake?”

Sensing the presence, the lady smiled at Hoyeong and said.

“The soup is all cooked. Today, are you going to eat first before the other boarders wake up?”

The boarding house lady sat Hoyeong on a chair and served boiling stew and side dishes.

“Sit down quickly. I’ll serve you some food.”

Even while sitting at the dining table, Hoyoung continued to stare at the boarding house lady.

In 2015, he was so busy that he dared to take time to come to Sillim-dong.

The reason was because he heard the news of the passing away of the boarding house lady who was making stew.

If Hoyoung has another mother besides her mother, it is this person.

Gil-nyeo Lee, the boarding house lady, was such a person.

“Now, let’s eat this first. I’ll make you a fried egg. It’s a secret from the other boarders.”

Kimchi stew with pork fat and warm rice mixed with barley rice. And some side dishes.

Looking at the simple dining table, Hoyoung intuitively felt that this was not just a dream or the underworld.

He took a spoonful of kimchi stew and brought it to his mouth.

The hot soup flowed down my throat and stimulated my stomach.

And in that moment he was sure.

‘This is reality.’

Then he looked at one side of the wall with familiarity.

The calendar that always hung on the wall.

It was a very classic type of calendar in which a page was torn as each date passed.

‘March 28, 1988’

It exactly matched the date Gaia told me earlier.

Hoyeong had tears welling up involuntarily.

“Oh, student Hoyoung, why are you crying?”

The lady who had been frying eggs was surprised to see Ho-yeong crying all of a sudden.

Watching the lady make a fuss about the side dishes today, the stew too salty, etc., Hoyeong struggled to say a word.

“So… so delicious.”

The aunt scolded Hoyeong, saying, ‘Oh, how weird!’, but she seemed happy to hear that the food tasted good.

Hoyeong had breakfast, but she emptied both bowls of rice.

without leaving a single grain of rice.

.

.

.

Returning to the room, Hoyoung casually sat down at the desk.

Like Ho-young, who usually had a cool-headed judgment, he decided to accept the reality that he had returned to the past.

how? why? These questions are not important.

Hoyeong looked at her left wrist carefully.

“Gaia. It seems like we’re back in the past. Can you guess what’s going on?”

“……”

But Gaia was silent.

“If you don’t know, tell me you don’t know.”

“We don’t know yet.”

“Not yet?”

“There is too little information at the moment.”

“So you’re saying that if we gather more information, we might know? Then keep gathering information. And if you think you know, tell us.”

“Yes. I’ll allocate 20% of the CPU at all times to the current status check.”

“okay.”

Hoyeong thought about the purpose of returning to the past and what to do in the future.

But the answer popped out right away.

Hoyoung’s last words to Jo Namshik on a boat in the East Sea.

‘If only I could survive. that damn money. I’ll scrape it until I die. And I will see your ruin with that money.’

and

“revenge.”

Hoyoung deliberately spoke out loud.

The Myungsung Group was already a big star in the enormous business world at that time.

Semiconductors, which Myungsung Electronics started working on, were already waiting for harvest, and a while ago, in celebration of the 50th anniversary of its founding, it took over a credit card company and declared a second start-up.

Because taking revenge on the head of such a large corporation was something that could not be done with ordinary determination.

“You have to make money first.”

To get revenge, of course, he needed money.

But right now he had no money in his pocket.

I thought about opening my hand to my parents, but the family was not comfortable enough to leave extra money behind.

At least, he was appreciative of the fact that he found a boarding house with an expensive rent of 10,000 won instead of giving all three meals to his son, who was studying, so that he would not starve.

Even the school tuition, which cost about 400,000 won, had to be covered somehow with a scholarship.

‘What time is it?’

The time is still 07:30.

Hoyoung went to the living room and called home.

– hello?

After a brief ringing tone, someone answered the phone.

It’s been more than 10 years since he passed away, but a voice I will never forget. was the mother

“Mother. This is Hoyeong.”

– Oh, Hoyoung. What’s the phone call in the morning? What’s going on?

“It’s nothing. I’m calling to tell you that you don’t have to pay for lodging next month.”

Hoyeong felt like her throat was going to fill up, but she didn’t show anything.

If her son cries over the phone call, the mother’s heart will wander all day or even for days.

Hoyeong thought it was a relief that she had shed tears in the kitchen earlier.

– Gosh. What’s up? Did you get kicked out of the boarding house for eating too much?

“Mother too! What do you mean? I decided to take tutoring.”

– Tutoring? If you don’t have enough time to study…

“I can do enough while studying. Don’t worry.”

– My son, he always does it himself, so no worries.

Her mother told her father, who was still getting ready to go to work, that Hoyeong was taking private lessons.

However, when Ho-yeong’s father said, “Would you like to change the phone?” Just tell me that you understand.’

“Mom, I have to go to class now. I’ll call you later.”

– okay. don’t go hungry

“The boarding house lady always makes my stomach burst. She seems to be trying to gain weight.”

Ho-yeong’s mother laughed at Ho-young’s joke and hung up the phone.

As soon as I hung up the phone, the tears I was holding back started to flow.

Hoyoung in his previous life was not actually a filial son.

When talking on the phone with my parents, the words I said the most were ‘I’m busy’ and ‘I’ll send you some pocket money.’ was all

However, like all unfilial children, when my parents passed away, I felt tremendous regret.

‘From now on···. I just need to do well from now on.’

Hoyeong made a promise to herself and went back to her room and simply packed her bag and left the boarding house.

The place I headed straight after leaving the boarding house was the school library.

The library I went to as boring as the boarding house.

He used to go into the library.

The place Hoyoung was heading to was the farthest corner of the second floor of the library.

Perhaps it was because it was not yet a mainstream study, there were not many books on it.

“found.”

However, there was a book that Hoyeong needed.

[Advanced C language practice book]

Korea at the present time was centered on trade and manufacturing.

The same was true of Myeongseong Enterprises, which are at the center of the Korean economy.

It is already a huge amount of capital and difficulties for a latecomer to follow the red ocean.

But Hoyoung knows the future.

We know which industries will do well and which industries will be promising, and we are with Gaia, a high-performance AI.

‘I will lead the IT market first.’

Hoyoung vowed to become a conglomerate in Pangyo.