Lee Yeon-bok, Sighs “There is no one I can trust” on the takeover of the store of the son who hit him in the back of the head (Trade Secret) [TV General]
On the 7th episode of ‘Detectives‘ Trade Secrets’, the ‘Seagull Detectives’ continued to track down the case of a mother and daughter who lent their names to a man they knew as an acquaintance and ended up becoming the borrowers of ‘17 cars’ that they had never seen, even taking on a huge amount of debt. However, the male acquaintance who had borrowed the name of the client’s mother claimed that the client had set up the scheme to cover up his wrongdoing. He stated, “I know the locations of all 17 vehicles and can tell you right away. They are all out of operation, so we can‘t even operate a cannon.” However, when the ‘Seagull Detectives’ had already confirmed the whereabouts of four vehicles that had been completely burned down and scrapped, and continued to question them about the vehicles, the man changed the subject, saying, “(The client) was on drugs.” As evidence, the man played a recording of a phone call in which the client was talking nonsense. He also said, “Drug addicts know right away. The kids who were on drugs listened to the phone call and confirmed (that) it was true,” expressing his client’s drug use. The man threatened, “If you want to resolve your debt, explain and apologize for your wrongdoing. And cancel the stalking report.”
The detectives met with the client to confirm the facts. However, in the recorded phone call, the client was suffering from side effects after taking the tranquilizer the man had given her. Furthermore, the client confirmed that he had nothing to do with drugs based on the ‘negative’ results from the medical institution. When the male acquaintance ‘requested an apology’, the client‘s daughter refused, saying, “We are the victims, so should the victim apologize to the perpetrator?”. When all the conditions he had proposed became useless, the man changed his words and told the detectives, “You find it yourself”, and cut off contact. Then, out of the 13 remaining vehicles, one truck was reported as a hit-and-run, and the police contacted the client, the owner of the car. The client got the vehicle back, and the driver of the truck testified that the vehicle had been used as a cannon car.
The true story reconstruction corner ‘Case Notes - A Very Ordinary Family’ featured ‘Chinese Cuisine Master’ Chef Lee Yeon-bok, who runs a Chinese restaurant with his son. In this true story, the detective agency receives a client from the owner of a Seolleongtang restaurant that became a ‘legend’ after losing her husband at a young age, the client raised three children on her own while running the Seolleongtang restaurant. She wanted to pass on the restaurant, which had captured the taste of even the president, to her eldest son and enjoy a comfortable retirement.
However, after the eldest son took over the restaurant, the female waitress started fighting with the customers every day, and word of mouth gradually worsened. Eventually, the employee quietly worked in the kitchen instead of the waitress, and after three months, she quit. After that, the woman reappeared near the client‘s restaurant with a sign saying ‘Original’’,’ and the client was shocked when the food tasted exactly the same. The client suspected that the “recipe book” that was given to his son when he handed over the store was missing and that the woman had stolen it,” and asked for the truth of the case to be uncovered.
After the investigation, the detective found out that the woman was a “pro” who had made some money by copying other people’s stores, marketing them, recruiting franchises, and selling the stores to private equity funds and running away. In particular, when the store was struggling, the woman offered her eldest son a large sum of money, saying, “Sell the store on the condition that I will never sue you.” The second son, who was also running the store, also conspired with the woman to resolve debts from coins and gambling. They tried to make the Seolleongtang restaurant go bankrupt by making it a store with a false country of origin and then make a quick buck. Furthermore, the youngest son-in-law, a celebrity, had slept with the woman in question. The youngest daughter stole the “recipe book” at the woman’s request in order to cover up her husband’s corruption. The woman stole all the trade secrets that were embedded in the client’s life by using the client‘s children.
After learning all this, the client said, “I raised my children wrongly, only looking at Seolleongtang. I lived wrongly, so I will spend all the money I have as punishment,” and closed down the Seolleongtang restaurant. It was reported that the three siblings, blinded by money, still harass the client, demanding that he inherit the property. As a chef, Lee Yeon-bok lamented, “There is no one I can trust,” as he sympathized with the bitter story.
“Detectives’ Trade Secrets” airs every Monday at 9:30 p.m. on Channel A.
Jeon Hyo-jin, Donga.com reporter jhj@donga.com
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