The owner of the chicken house, who served chicken for free to his brother in need, finally declared defeat.
Jae-Hwi Park, the franchisee of Cheolin No. 7 Hongik University, announced that the business will be discontinued. On February 28, Mr. Park posted a post in the’A Word from the President’ section on Feb. 28, saying, “The order is overflowing due to a lot of interest. We want to accept all incoming orders, so we can’t guarantee 100% quality, so we will stop the business for a while.”
He said, “I will come back in a short time” and “I will repay you without forgetting your interest.”
He did not forget the promotion, saying, “We use Younggye No. 7 chicken and give it a deep taste through aging.”
The fact that Mr. Park provided chicken to his brother in need was made known by Kim Hyun-seok, CEO of Chul-in No. 7, when he published a letter of two A4 papers sent by an anonymous student on Instagram. CEO Kim said, “I am so grateful that such an inspiring person is the owner of our brand,” and released a letter from high school student A (18) at the headquarters of Cheolin 7th. The letter is as follows.
Hi. I am an 18-year-old ordinary high school student living in Mangwon-dong, Mapo-gu.
The reason I am sending this letter is because I wanted to express my gratitude for the unforgettable grace and love that Cheol-in No. 7 had given me, so I visited again and made a call, but I kept refusing to think about what to do. I searched the Internet for Cheol-in No. 7 I did.
I learned that there are many places in the country like BBQ and Kyochon Chicken, and I wanted to thank the president of Cheol-in No. 7, so I wrote a little.
When I was young, my parents died in an accident and I live with my grandmother and my younger brother, who is 7 years old. Since last year, the coronavirus has gotten worse, and I was cut off at the tonkatsu house where I was working, and I am still looking for work places here and there. By tricking my age, I sometimes work on a parcel delivery service to earn the living expenses of my grandmother and younger brother. I am grateful that my brother and grandmother and I can not go hungry, although it is difficult.
One day, my younger brother came home to me and said that he wanted to eat chicken, so he took him outside to comfort his crying brother, and when I saw the younger brother asking me to go over there, it was very heartbreaking. I went into a chicken house near my house and asked if I could eat it for 5,000 won, so I and my brother drove out. I walked into other chicken restaurants from Mangwon Market, but I couldn’t eat them all.
While walking along the street, I accidentally saw a sign that says the No. 7 handmade chicken specialty store, and when I saw us standing in front of the store, the boss told us to come in. When I told my circumstances, the boss told me to eat without packing, so I sat down at a hurry. The name of the menu was known later, but he gave us a menu called Nanri Set.
At first glance, it seemed that the amount of chicken was too much, so I told the boss that it was wrong. When the chicken cooled, he brought two bottles of cola and told me to eat it quickly. I was worried about whether I was going to give me something expensive and pay me somehow, but when I saw my younger brother who was happy and eating, I forgot that thought and ate all the chicken deliciously.
It was then that I was dark to pay for the calculations, and it was a bad idea, but I also thought of holding my brother’s hand and running away. Did the boss smile wide and enjoyed it? I asked him, and he asked about this and that, so we sat down and chatted together. Unlike his appearance, he seemed to be very friendly, and each word was very warm.
I’ll pull out a receipt for the chicken, so he told me to come and pay for it later. He gave me a candy and refused to pay me even 5,000 won, and he let my brother out. I was so sorry that I tried to see you the next day and pay for it, but rather loudly and did not take the money. Even now, nearly a year later, I remember vividly the warmth I felt after a while.
After that, I don’t know when my younger brother got his business card from the boss, but I secretly went to the boss and boasted that he went to eat chicken, so I chastised him not to do so. It seems like the boss served the chicken back then. One day, when I saw that my shaggy brother’s hair was clean, and when I asked if the worker had gone, it turned out that when he saw his brother who went to eat chicken, the boss took him to a nearby beauty salon, shaved his hair, and returned it to the house.
Since then, I am sorry and honestly embarrassed, so I haven’t been able to see you. According to the news, self-employed people are the hardest these days. Yes, I hear a lot of things, so I am curious and worried about whether the president is doing well. There were a lot of things I wanted to say, but when I held the ballpoint pen, it seemed that none of the words were correct, and it seems strange. I ask for your understanding. However, I hope that the feelings of gratitude I felt are well expressed and conveyed in this letter.
Lastly, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to the boss for giving warm chicken and interest to our brothers who have never seen it for the first time. In the future, I will become an adult and earn a lot of money, so I will become a cool person like the president of Hongik University, No. 7, who can live by helping people in need like me. Thank you very much and thank you again.
Netizens who encountered the story showed reactions such as “I read the letter and cried” and “Thanks to it, love for humanity was charged.” He didn’t stop there, and he said, “You have to pay’don’t chew’ at a store like this.”
On February 26, Jae-Hwi Park posted a post on the’President’s Word’ of the people of delivery and said, “As one day, I couldn’t sleep because I thought of the store, and then fell asleep only after the morning sun rose. He said, “I’ve been opening up and I’m having a dream-like time so far,” he said, adding that the order suddenly increased. As the interest of netizens exploded and orders were flooded, an unintended business suspension occurred.
