Lee Je-hoon has fallen from being a target for a super-fast promotion to being a target for an audit.

In episode 10 of JTBC‘s weekend drama ‘The Art of Negotiation’ (directed by Ahn Pan-seok, written by Lee Seung-young) that aired on the 6th, Yoon Joo-no (played by Lee Je-hoon), who stopped Song Jae-sik’s (played by Sung Dong-il) dangerous scheme to dream of rebuilding Sanin Construction, is named a target for an audit, and the Jumbo Pharmaceuticals incident that had been shrouded in mystery begins to surface. As a result, the viewership ratings for episode 10 once again surpassed its own record with 9.5% in the metropolitan area and 8.8% nationwide. (Nielsen Korea, paid households)

After discovering embezzlement during the M&A process for the golf course Green View CC, Yoon Joo-no and the M&A team immediately ran around everywhere to find the missing funds. The account from which the funds were withdrawn was a collection of money that Greenview CC CEO Lee Hyung-taek (played by Son Jong-hak) had received from his caddies as deposits, and only Lee Hyung-taek and the finance manager Jung Bon-joo (played by Jang So-yeon) had the authority to deposit and withdraw money.

Jung Bon-joo visited the M&A team office and confessed that she withdrew 100 million won with the consent of the employees in order to pay the settlement amount for a caddie who was in a lawsuit with a client after getting into an accident while driving an old cart. In the process, the M&A team heard that CEO Lee Hyung-taek had embezzled 1 billion won, and they immediately pressured CEO Lee Hyung-taek and succeeded in obtaining a confession.

Since the embezzlement was revealed during the M&A process, it is expected to have a major impact on the sale of Greenview CC, so Yoon Joo-no tried to meet with the buyer Lee Hoon-min (played by Yoon Je-moon) to sort this out. However, Lee Hoon-min embarrassed Yoon Joo-no by demanding a layoff of all employees, questioning the morality of the employees.

Behind Lee Hoon-min‘s demand was hidden the ambition of Song Jae-sik, the chairman of Sanin Group, who dreamed of rebuilding Sanin Construction. He was thinking of building apartments on the golf course site. When Sanin Construction was acquired by M&A, a clause was included that prohibited the company from doing business in the same industry for five years, but Song Jae-sik, who did not consider this a big deal, was planning to enter the construction industry again after the specified deadline.

Yoon Joo-no, who noticed Song Jae-sik’s intention to make Lee Hoon-min, the former CEO of Sanin Construction and an expert in apartment construction, an anonymous buyer, expressed his opposition based on the market atmosphere along with the condition of prohibiting the company from entering the same industry. Yoon Joo-no, who realized that there was no way to stop this with his own hands unless Song Jae-sik clearly revealed his intentions, tried to stop Song Jae-sik by leaking this fact to Bi-eum D&I CEO Ji Yeon-woo (played by Lee Chae-won), who had purchased Sanin Construction.


As Yoon Joo-no had expected, after meeting CEO Ji Yeon-woo, Song Jae-sik ended up giving up his ambition to rebuild Sanin Construction. Song Jae-sik, who ordered that the sale of Greenview CC be stopped, even withdrew Yoon Joo-no‘s offer to be promoted to executive, heightening the tension.

In the meantime, a whistleblower report about Yoon Joo-no’s alleged fictitious transaction with Jumbo Pharmaceuticals arrived at the Sanin Group‘s audit office, further increasing the sense of unease. In response, they notified Yoon Joo-no that they would be audited on charges of illegal use of insider information and transactions. Upon hearing this, Yoon Joo-no smiled meaningfully, saying, “So you’re saying that I planned it?” Starting with the audit of Yoon Joo-no, the Jumbo Pharmaceuticals situation that had been shrouded in mystery is slowly coming to the surface, and people are becoming curious about the true identity of the mysterious M&A team leader, Yoon Joo-no.

Reporter Hong Se-young, Donga.com projecthong@donga.com

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