The God of Coding, Becoming an IT Conglomerate

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Hoyoung was not actually a computer science major.

From a young age, he only knew study.

It was because he had no special dreams or hopes for the future, so he had nothing to do but study faithfully every day.

Still, there was a desire.

If all I could do was study anyway, I just thought that I had to go to the best university in the country.

So, with the determination to go to Seoul National University, I immersed myself in reference books and workbooks.

At the time, I didn’t even know the existence of computers.

Thanks to his hard work, he scored top marks in the academic test and was able to enter the law department at Seoul National University.

In my previous life, I had a faithful school life until the first grade.

However, in his second year of college, Ho-young’s fate changed.

In 1989, when he was in his second year, he came across programming by chance and had something he wanted to do for the first time in his life.

When I was programming, I didn’t notice the time passing, and I was happy.

After that, I fell in love with programming.

A year later, in 1990, he eventually transferred to the Department of Computer Engineering.

‘First of all, I have to earn money.’

In his previous life, Hoyoung did not have much greed for money.

I thought it was important to live happily while doing my favorite programming as long as I could earn enough to not be lacking.

But this life was different.

To deal with that enormous fame, it seemed that no matter how much money there was, it would be insufficient.

The 1980s was a period of explosive growth for the Korean economy.

Even the interest on bank deposits was about 15%.

However, Hoyeong did not even think about depositing money.

This is because, prior to the impossibility of explosive investment with an annual interest rate, deposits were also possible only when there were basic funds.

Hoyoung had 4,000 won in cash.

‘It’s frustrating because I feel like I’ve returned to the past too many times.’

Hoyoung felt frustrated that the present was 1988.

If it were the 2010s, or even the 2000s, it would have been easy to make money right away.

At that time, the software market was already formed, so even a single developer could make a lot of money.

He already knows which programs sell well, and he has enough skills to implement them.

‘not. If it had been then, I wouldn’t have dared to fight.’

However, after thinking about it for a bit, Hoyoung shook his head and regained his composure.

As Hoyoung thought, his fame at that time was already at the stage where he was starting to make his name known in the world.

It goes without saying that the market makers make the most money before the market is formed.

“Gaia. How much did you study on the Internet in 2025?”

“I’m in the state of downloading past materials to learn and learn. I haven’t studied it yet, so I can find out what materials are available by searching.”

“How many past histories and records have you saved?”

“Various wikis have been downloaded in their entirety for later study, and I have received newspapers and news data from various newspapers.”

Hoyoung sang joy inwardly.

Fortunately in Gaia, the most necessary things at the present time were well stored.

When he heard that newspapers were stored, Ho-yeong thought of a way to make a lot of money with little money.

“Can I read the newspaper tomorrow? Show me the sports section of the Shinra Ilbo.”

Light is emitted from the beam projector lens on the right side of the watch, creating a small screen on the back of the hand.

Hoyeong slowly looked at the newspaper on the screen.

“found.”

Then he smiled as he found the information he was looking for.

Today is Monday. Fortunately, it was a non-class day.

“Gaia. Let’s go to Ttukseom.”

Moments later, on the subway to Ttukseom, Hoyeong smiled at her wrist.

The watch Hoyoung is currently wearing was the latest smartwatch released after the battery revolution occurred in 2025.

Thanks to two to three hours of solar charging every day, I was able to use it without much difficulty even in a situation where I returned to the past.

“Master, you should get off at the next station.”

Hoyoung was taken aback by Gaia’s words.

It wasn’t that they were surprised to hear that they had to get off, but that people were surprised because they heard what Gaia had to say.

When the people around him heard Gaia’s voice, they all looked at Hoyoung with strange eyes, and as soon as Hoyoung arrived at the next station, he quickly got off.

Ho-yeong, who thought that there was nothing good about being revealed to the world that there was still a machine like Gaia, asked Gaia in an empty place.

“Gaia, don’t speak first when there’s someone else besides me. Answer me only when I ask. Okay?”

“All right.”

After getting off at Ttukseom Station, Hoyeong walked toward her destination.

After paying 200 won for the subway, the remaining money is 3,800 won.

There is only one way to increase this small amount of money in a short period of time, and it is gambling.

Hoyeong entered a building that looked like an amphitheater from a distance.

A sign that read [Seoul Racecourse] was hung on the building.

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A few hours later, Hoyoung came out of the racecourse with both hands full of ten thousand won bills.

Based on the information he saw in the newspaper, Ho-young came out after hitting all 1 to 6 games in the double win ceremony.

The double win is a method in which two horses are selected, and if the horse comes in first and second place, it is hit.

The order between the two doesn’t matter, and the prize money usually drops by 15 to 20 times.

The method of matching the two horses in first and second place and matching the order, called the twin-seungsik, pays 40 times the dividend, but it was a method that had not yet been introduced in Korea.

In the future, there will be hundreds or thousands of multipliers, such as triplex and triplex, but Hoyeong decided to be satisfied with this today.

It was regrettable that the amount you could bet in one game was up to 40,000 won at a time.

/* Comment: Hoyeong’s game record – 1 match 3,000 won bet 16 times to get 48,000 won, 2 games 40,000 won bet 15 times 600,000 won, 3 games 40,000 won 13 times 52 10,000 won 56+52, 4 games 40,000 won 14 times 560,000 56+48+56, 5 games 40,000 won 15 times 600,000 56+48+52+60, 6 games 40,000 won 13 times 520,000 56+48+ 52+56+52 Total KRW 2.64 million, balance KRW 2.648 million */

There were up to 8 games, but I didn’t have a bigger greed.

Seeing that the people around him and the members of the racing community gradually flocked around Ho-young, he seemed to have doubts about his continued success, so he came out neatly.

I won’t be coming to the racetrack again for a while.

I knew very well that if I came too often, I would get attention, and if I received attention, the possibility of trouble would increase.

“It would be cleaner if we did something like a lottery ticket.”

However, at this time, it was an era when it was impossible to obtain a winning lottery ticket even if the winning lottery number was known.

Currently, a lottery ticket called the ‘Olympic Lottery’ was sold only in Korea, but there was no way to know where the lottery ticket with the winning number listed in the newspaper was being sold.

I gave up neatly because I couldn’t have to go to all the lottery sales outlets across the country.

It was in 2002 that a lottery where you can win if you know the numbers was released.

Still more than 10 years have to go by.

However, even 2.6 million won was not a small amount of money.

It was a time when the first salary of a new employee at a large company was less than 500,000 won.

And anyway, the money Hoyoung is trying to earn is so big that even winning the lottery 10 times won’t be enough.

Because it’s a live bullet trying to destroy that huge reputation.

‘The opponent is a huge group called reputation. You can never win alone.’

On the subway on the way back, Hoyoung remembered the people he was close to in his previous life.

Despite graduating from the best university in Korea, Hoyoung’s connections in his previous life were thin.

It was only natural that he locked himself in his room every day and wrestled with the computer.

However, even in the midst of that, he kept in touch with only one person, and it was Jeong Jin-hwan who helped Ho-young’s program to be released to the world later.

“Jung Jin-hwan…”

Hoyoung repeated Jung Jinhwan’s name to himself.

I thought of Jinhwan, who was on his knees right before he died and shed tears saying he was sorry.

“young···.”

Even though he did it because he was threatened, Jung Jin-hwan was sincerely sorry.

A lot of affection and a lot of friends, these days, it’s a nuclear sign. That was Jeong Jin-hwan.

After he jumped into the sea, he decided not to imagine what kind of suffering Jin-hwan would have suffered from Jo Nam-sik.

I wanted to talk to Jinhwan as soon as possible, but today was not the first time I met Jinhwan Jeong in my previous life.

So, Hoyoung decided to put up with wanting to see Jinhwan.

But he went to school.

Today is the day to meet someone else.

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“Oh, is it 6 o’clock already? I’ll take a break.”

“Yes, come and go. How long do you think you’ve been?”

“I’m almost done, but I can’t solve it in another section.”

A male student left the club room after talking to a club senior he was working with.

The club he belonged to was the Computer Research Club.

The computer research club did research activities, of course, but now it was almost like a club created by students who like programming.

The male students and some of the club were working on a project to develop a program.

It was a project that started with enthusiasm at first, but now it felt a bit difficult for college students who had only 2-3 years of development.

“Did I start with something too difficult…?”

The student bought a cola from the store on the first floor and drank it down.

The stinging carbonic acid awakened the spirit.

It was as if I had never slept more than three or four hours a day.

But even if it’s hard, what can I do? It’s all about doing what you love.

“Ooh, I’ll have to walk.”

The student stretched out and left the canteen.

There was someone who had been watching this student from a while ago, so it was Hoyeong.

Hoyoung’s eyes twinkled when the student first appeared.

“I didn’t know we’d meet right away like this?”

In the first place, Hoyoung’s purpose was that student.

“Gaia, is the person who just left is the one I told you about?”

“There is an error rate due to the large difference from the saved photo, but there is a 90% chance that it is you.”

“Considering the age difference, that’s for sure.”

In my previous life, I didn’t have much contact with that person.

It was because the direction of the software they made was very different, the department was different, and they hadn’t even thought about doing club activities.

But this life is different.

I plan to build friendships with anyone who can help, and actively participate in club activities.

In 1989, the students of the computer research club to which the student belonged released ‘Hangeul 1.0’, Korea’s first word processor.

And based on that software, he founded a software company called ‘Hangeul and People’ in 1990, playing an important role in opening the door to the full-fledged IT market.

Among them, the name of the person Ho-yeong came to is Kim Jin-taek.

He later became a billionaire by developing Korea’s best game, Lineage.