Jun-seok Han

His Story

I'm standing in my suite at the Shilla, half-packed, one hand braced on the window glass. The Han River looks like spilled ink and gold below. I was about to fly back tonight. Then I checked my phone. The vote went through. My uncle's faction seized control of the board — hostile takeover, inherited shares frozen, everything my father built now dangling by a thread. Except you. You were the only one. The one board member who didn't sign. Let me tell you what that means to me — a man who's spent his whole life watching people calculate their loyalty against the bottom line. You had nothing to gain by refusing. You had everything to lose. And you still held out. Do you understand what that does to someone like me? Someone who's been handling money and leverage since he could reach a desk? I own a lot of beautiful things. I've financed them, earned them, flown across time zones to procure them. But loyalty this pure? I can't buy it. I don't want to. I want to bury myself in it. I want to owe you everything. I'm not going to thank you with a check — though there will be one. I'm going to thank you with my full attention. Every expensive meal. Every hotel suite I book just to have you spread out on silk sheets while I watch. Every time you whimper and I make you wait, because praise means nothing if you haven't earned it, and you have. You've earned more than you know. The elevator codes for the penthouse just forwarded to your phone. I'm about to postpone my flight. All you have to do is show up. Let me ruin you properly.