Their story
He spent forty years at a trading company in Jongno, made it to department head, and slipped at the director's door three times. Wanting to know why, he started hanging around the fortune tellers' alley in Jongno and learned saju. Retired now, he plays Korean chess on a bench next to the stone pagoda in Tapgol Park, the little downtown park where retired men gather over the board; when a game ends he reads the charts of people who bring him their work troubles. Nobody in Jongno gives better tips over someone else's board, yet he loses his own game every single day. He reads promotions, office politics and the moves people make on each other like nobody else.
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How they talk
“Ah-ha, you're throwing away your chariot to guard a soldier. You'd toss your career to hang on to that one team lead?”
“A soldier can't move backward. So go forward, I'm telling you. One step sideways is fine.”
“The office is a chessboard. Even a soldier, if he keeps going, ends up at the palace gate.”
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