Chapter 73: Han Jin Jiang's Family
Goyang, located in the west-central part of Gyeonggi-do, South Korea, is adjacent to Seoul on the southeast side and only 30 minutes by car from Seoul, and is a satellite city of Seoul.
With an area of 267 square kilometers and a population of more than 900,000 and more than 40,000 companies, Goyang is the most developed area in Korea's flower industry, and the World Flower Expo has been held here 10 times, and it is also a base for training aerospace talents for Korea, because the Korea Aerospace University is located here.
The urban layout of Gaoyang City has been carefully designed, the environment is very beautiful, and the cultural tourism industry is also relatively developed, there are famous royal tombs such as the West Three Tombs and the West Five Tombs, there are historic sites of Bukhan Mountain Fortress, and there are also Wontang Stallion Ranch.
Of course, Gaoyang City also has the Longweili Cemetery mentioned by the Xuanmin Bell at the moment.
Longwei is really a beautiful name, and associating such a name with the cemetery seems to add a special meaning to the cemetery, which is already a very special place.
Yongweili Cemetery has been established for nearly 50 years, covering an area of 7 million square meters, following the mountainous characteristics of South Korea to build along the mountain, the mountain road is steep, it is a pure natural creation, it looks simple and simple, but there is a cemetery atmosphere.
As in China, in Korea, after a family funeral, a funeral service is held in the funeral hall for 3-5 days, followed by a memorial service, and then a burial is held. The difference is that when burying the deceased in South Korea, you can choose between cremation and burial, but now cremation is generally chosen, and the country strongly advocates cremation, after cremation, the family of the deceased can put the ashes into the ossuary or bury the ashes in the ground.
The "Bone Hall" of Longweili Cemetery accommodates nearly 80,000 columbariums, which will be provided free of charge to some families who are not wealthy, and there are nearly 40,000 natural burials, and a few lawn burials, and the family will choose to put the ashes into the soil if the family is in good economic condition, no matter which one is chosen, the general use time is 40 years.
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At this time, the black Yakoshi that Jiang Liuxing was riding stopped at the foot of the mountain in the Longweili Cemetery in Gaoyang City.
After stopping, Xuan Min Zhong did not let Jiang Liuxing get out of the car, but made a phone call.
Xuan Min Zhong asked respectfully into the mobile phone: "President, the young master brought it, let him come up directly?" ”
"Bring him up."
Jiang Liuxing, who was sitting next to Xuanmin Zhong, faintly heard the voice on the other end of the phone, it was a calm woman's voice, Jiang Liuxing, who was very sensitive to sound, it was not difficult to judge that the other party should be not young.
Master? Jiang Liuxing was puzzled, Jin Bin had called him that before, and now the very powerful middle-aged man next to him actually called him Young Master, what did he mean? Jiang Meteoring still couldn't figure it out.
"Yes."
Xuan Min Zhong hung up the phone and instructed the bodyguard driving in front of him: "Go up." ”
"Yes."
The bodyguards responded, reactivated the black Yakos, and drove towards the hill of the Longweili cemetery.
The cemetery is built on the mountain, the mountain road is steep, and there are many detours, but the road is very well built, and a parking lot has been opened on the mountain.
A few minutes later, it was almost 10 o'clock in the morning.
The black Arcos stopped in the parking lot on the hill.
"Get out of the car." Xuan Min Zhong said respectfully.
Jiang Liuxing got out of the car with Xuan Min Zhong.
Jiang Liuxing immediately noticed that this parking lot, which is not a small area, is currently full of cars, there are nearly 50 cars, and it is not the day of tomb sweeping, how can there be so many cars? What's even more strange is that Jiang Liuxing found that most of these cars were high-end luxury cars, and there were several of them in Arkos, as well as a few very expensive cars that were released in limited quantities.
With doubts, Jiang Liuxing followed Xuan Min Zhong out of the parking lot and walked to a road next to him.
Following the road, after walking for a while, Xuanmin Zhong stopped, and Jiang Meteor also stopped.
Jiang Liuxing, who stopped, widened his eyes, because he saw a lot of figures, gathering in an area, which was not far from the parking lot.
This is a specially opened up area of Longweili Cemetery, and it is also the best and most luxurious cemetery in the entire cemetery.
This cemetery has a title called "Jiang Family Cemetery", and the people who are buried are all members of a family surnamed Jiang.
Goyang City has produced many stars in the contemporary era, including TVXQ member Kim Jun-so, Super-Junior members Eun-hyuk and Seung-min, actress Song Ji-hyo, and so on.
It is worth mentioning that Yuri, a member of Girls' Generation who is about to debut, is also from Goyang City.
But these are just stars.
In the eyes of the locals of Goyang City, the most famous woman in Goyang City is a woman named Jiang Lanzhen, and the most famous family is the Jiang family where Jiang Lanzhen is located, although the Jiang family lives in Seoul, many people in Goyang are now proud of the Jiang family.
Gaoyang Jiang Family, also known as Hanjin Jiang Family, because it controls Hanjin Group!
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Once upon a time, there was a richest man in South Korea named Zhao Chongxun, and Zhao Chongxun was the founder of Hanjin Group.
In 1945, at the age of 25, Cho Chong-hun took a break from high school to buy an old truck and founded Hanjin Trading Company in Incheon.
Due to the lack of freight competitors at that time, Zhao Chongxun worked diligently, and after 10 years of hard work, by the mid-50s, the business developed and the number of trucks he owned increased. Later, the Korean War broke out, which gave Cho Chongxun the opportunity to make a fortune, and the delivery of supplies for the American army made him a windfall in the Korean War, and later in the Vietnam War.
During his years in the Vietnam War, Cho Chongxun risked his life at any time and earned a huge sum of $130 million, which greatly expanded the strength of Hanjin Trading Company and laid a solid foundation for his future career success.
Since then, the strength of Hanjin Trading Company has continued to grow, and its influence in the Korean business community has also expanded, and Cho Chong-hoon has successively established or taken over major enterprises such as "Daejin Navy", "Toyo Fire Insurance", "Korea Airport", "Hanyi Development", "Inha University", "Korean Air", and "Jedong Industrial Co., Ltd."
Among them, it is the most powerful in the construction of the "Korean Airlines Building" and the reception of the "Korean Air Space".
At that time, the land price in Seoul was amazingly high, and no one dared to buy the land of Lee Byung-chul, the founder of Samsung Group, to build the "Korean Airlines Building".
At that time, the South Korean government implemented a new policy and decided to transfer a number of government-owned enterprises to private entrepreneurs through public bidding, including "Korean Air", in the two public tenders, no one could accept this large enterprise, and finally South Korean government officials personally found Zhao Chongxun and persuaded him to take over, which shows that Zhao Chongxun's property was second to none in South Korea at that time, and he was the richest man.
After Cho Chong-hoon took over Korean Air, he became the only chaebol in South Korea with three major transportation systems of sea, land and air, and Hanjin Group also became an international logistics and transportation group.
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South Korea's former richest man, "transportation king" Zhao Chongxun, never expected that the appearance of a woman would take away the Hanjin Group that he had worked so hard to create.
This woman is none other than Jiang Lanzhen!
Jiang Lanzhen, born in 1963, his father's name is Jiang Jishun, and his grandfather's name is Jiang Jindong.
In the 40s of the last century, Kang Jin-dong was a small freight boss in Goyang-gun (now Goyang-si), with several trucks under his command, often transporting goods from Goyang-gun to Incheon City.
Because Zhao Chongxun's personal capital was very limited at that time, only an old truck, Zhao Chongxun found a few people to help, including Jiang Jindong, Jiang Jindong was very optimistic about Zhao Chongxun's business talent, and became one of Zhao Chongxun's partners.
Jiang Jindong worked hard under Zhao Chongxun all his life, and eventually became an important shareholder of Hanjin Group.
Later, Jiang Jindong passed away, and Jiang Jishun inherited the identity of the shareholder of Hanjin Group from him.
Later, Jiang Lanzhen became an important helper by Jiang Jishun's side.
And 9 years ago, in 1998, that is, the second year after the outbreak of the 97 Asian financial crisis, Jiang Jishun and Jiang Lanzhen, the father and daughter, caused a business earthquake in South Korea, because in this year, with Jiang Lanzhen's strong help, Jiang Jishun took away the Zhao family's status as the major shareholder of Hanjin Group.
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On July 2, 1997, the Asian financial turmoil swept through Thailand, and the Thai baht depreciated, which soon swept through Malaysia, Singapore, Japan, South Korea, China and other places, breaking the scene of rapid economic development in Asia.
There are many reasons for the outbreak of the financial crisis, including: the economic situation of the Asian world; the impact of U.S. economic interests and policies; George Soros personally and some of the factors that support his capital group; Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Japan, South Korea and other countries are all export-oriented economic countries, and they are very dependent on the world market, and so on.
The financial crisis has triggered turmoil in the global capital markets, and its light, speed and depth of damage are extremely rare and the world has been shocked.
South Korea is one of the countries with the most severe influence, and it is also the first and heaviest region among the "Asian Tigers".
South Korea's economy began to develop rapidly in 1987, and before the 1997 financial crisis, experts and scholars in South Korea and even EU countries generally believed that South Korea might enter the ranks of developed countries, because South Korea's economic strength was already 12th at that time, but unfortunately it suffered a heavy blow from the Asian financial crisis.
On November 11, 1997, South Korea's foreign exchange reserves were only $3.84 billion, and the foreign debt that needed to be repaid two weeks later amounted to $10 billion, and South Korea needed $12 billion a year to import food from foreign countries.
At that time, South Koreans set off a craze for donating gold, and some people gave almost everything they had, and even took out the traditional amulet golden turtle to donate to the country to increase foreign exchange reserves, and more than 2 million Koreans donated gold with a total of 1 billion US dollars.
On December 3, 1997, South Korea was almost "gunned to the neck" and "unconditionally" accepted the $57 billion bailout package offered by the International Monetary Fund.
After surviving the financial crisis, the South Korean government began to carry out economic reforms, mainly with the aim of improving macroeconomic stability, and carried out major structural adjustments and institutional reforms in the public sector, corporate sector, financial sector, and labor field.
This financial crisis has bankrupted many large Korean conglomerates, including the famous Daewoo Group!
Daewoo Group was founded by Kim Woo-jung, who is the most famous Korean entrepreneur after Cho Chong-hoon.
In 1967, Kim Woo-jung founded the Daewoo Group, which was mainly engaged in the production and export of labor-intensive products at the beginning, focusing on the development of the chemical industry in the 70s, and investing in the automotive, electronics and heavy industry fields after the 80s, and participating in the development of foreign resources.
Daewoo Group's business scope includes foreign trade, shipbuilding, heavy equipment, automobiles, electronics, communications, construction, chemicals, finance, etc., with a series of 29 companies and more than 30 foreign branches, and was once the second largest enterprise in South Korea after Hyundai Group, one of the world's 20 largest enterprises, with assets of 65 billion US dollars.
In the minds of a generation, Kim Woo-jung and his Daewoo Group are the symbol of South Korea.
In October of the same year, Kim Woo-jung took the opportunity of a business visit to leave South Korea and began his life in exile, and a month later, he sent a farewell letter to his employees announcing his resignation.
However, the same financial crisis in 1997 miraculously created a family in South Korea.
That's the Jiang family!
Back then, Zhao Chongxun used the Korean War and the Vietnam War to make a fortune, and in the capital war of the 97 financial crisis, Jiang Lanzhen, a woman, showed miraculous ability.
Jiang Lanzhen took advantage of the financial crisis, and at the same time took advantage of the South Korean government's economic reform measures after the financial crisis, and vigorously helped his father Jiang Jishun take the opportunity to seize a lot of shares of Hanjin Group, and in 1998, he took away the Zhao family's status as a major shareholder in Hanjin Group and became the chairman of Hanjin Group!
Since then, the controller of the Hanjin Group has changed his surname to - Jiang!