The next morning.
After the meeting, Cheolsu Kim immediately checked his email.
I checked each of the 91 emails and sent confirmation and response emails.
After following up on the ongoing transport case, I finally opened the email that Mark had sent me.
There were several photos attached to the email, and it was clear that Kim Cheol-soo was the person he was looking for.
– Kim.
First of all, I am a supporter of Yushenko of the Regional Party.
So the moment I saw that photo, I knew who it was.
She is the wife of Yushenko’s second son.
It was a shocking fact.
Kim Cheol-soo’s spine shivered at the thought that the Yusenko camp could be completely destroyed with just one video he had.
‘That video could play a decisive role in winning this contract.’
But at the same time, I felt something was strange.
According to the data handed over by Director Ahn Jung-gyu and the information I continued to search, Yusenko was a fairly upright person.
He was able to become a competitive opposition party presidential candidate because he never committed corruption or any actions that could be criticized throughout his life.
This situation was a great contradiction to Kim Cheol-soo, who believes that you can figure out what kind of person a person is by looking at their life path, not their actions or words.
‘Something isn’t right. Strange.’
Lee Jun-hak called out to Kim Cheol-soo several times, who was engrossed as if he could penetrate the monitor, and when there was no answer, he approached him.
A family photo displayed on Kim Cheol-soo’s monitor came into his field of vision, and one of them looked familiar.
“Yushenko? Why the Yusenko family photo?”
“Ah! Chief.”
Lee Jun-hak bent down and looked at the photo in detail.
“The sons are just like their father. They all look good. Why are you so caught up in this picture that you can’t even answer when I called you?”
“Is it identical?”
Kim Cheol-su answered like that and then turned his eyes again and looked at Yusenko’s sons.
If you didn’t look closely, they all looked similar.
We were also similar in height.
“Have you sent confirmation emails to both sides regarding the import volume of wheat feed from Australia and the Philippines?”
“Yes, Chief.”
“When Hansoo comes, I’ll teach him what to do. He’ll be in charge from now on. But did you find anything important?”
Lee Jun-hak turned his eyes to the photo again, and Kim Cheol-soo shook his head and answered.
“Oh, no.”
No matter how you look at it, it was an ordinary family photo.
A doubt flashed across Lee Jun-hak’s face, but it soon disappeared.
“If you find anything, tell me quickly. We don’t have much time left.”
“Yes, Chief.”
When Lee Jun-hak returned to his seat, Kim Cheol-soo closed the email and got lost in thought.
**
Around 11 o’clock.
After returning home, Kim Cheol-soo played the video and observed it in detail again.
When I only watched the video, I couldn’t tell them apart because of the low resolution, but when I looked at each cut separately using a video editor, I was able to tell them relatively accurately.
Slightly graying hair, plumper cheeks and wrinkles.
It was definitely Yushenko.
‘Hmm. Was it rain?’
Then, I suddenly remembered the photo Jang Yu-mi sent me.
In the 2020s, thanks to technological advancements, anyone can easily edit video.
Fake news, fake videos, and fake transcripts abounded and were used politically.
‘no way.’
Kim Cheol-soo moved his fingers quickly to open several cuts, and soon found something strange.
There were many unnatural marks centered on the man’s face.
As I looked at each page, the direction of my gaze was very awkward.
It was a synthetic trace.
Kim Cheol-soo put the CD in the case and lay down on the bed.
Then, he twirled the CD around his fingers and got lost in thought.
‘If you make a deal with the Yanukovych camp with this, it’s 100%. Because it is clearly a video made with the purpose of ending Yushenko’s political life. And if I want to do business with Yusenko using this video, I have no choice but to threaten him, but the risk is too high.’
“Should we still choose Yanukovych?”
Although Yushenko was a more upright person than Yanukovych, from the perspective of Korea-English Corporation, it did not matter who did it as long as they won the construction.
Just when his thoughts were almost solidified, Kim Cheol-soo discovered something on the cover of the CD case he was turning around.
A mark where something was pressed down.
A man’s weakness is a woman
“Director. This is Assistant Manager Kim Cheol-soo.”
“Ask them to come in.”
Kim Cheol-soo received a call from Executive Director Choi Young-jun and went to his office.
“Hello, Managing Director.”
Youngjun Choi smiled brightly and nodded.
“Is this the first time since we had drinks at the Talent Center?”
“Yes, Managing Director.”
“I feel somewhat dependable that Assistant Manager Kim has returned to the company.”
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Cheolsu Kim scratched his head and shook his head.
“Oh, no. Director.”
“I called you because I wanted to talk to you for a moment. Is coffee okay?”
“yes.”
While Choi Young-jun and Kim Cheol-soo were having a brief conversation, the secretary brought in coffee and refreshments.
After taking a sip of coffee, Youngjun Choi asked about the plan he submitted at Injaewon.
“I have a story to tell you about that smartphone we talked about at the bar.”
“Yes, Managing Director.”
“Do you think the plan submitted to the Human Resources Development Institute is feasible?”
“It will take time, but I think it is feasible.”
Choi Young-jun nodded slightly when he saw Kim Cheol-soo answering with a confident attitude.
“If you were to create a business plan based on that plan, where should you place the most emphasis?”
Kim Cheol-soo’s eyes sparkled for a moment when he heard the word business plan.
The plan could have literally ended up as just a plan.
However, if Executive Director Youngjun Choi was planning to create a business plan based on the plan, it meant that Hanyoung Group was interested in his plan.
‘I thought it was a conservative company, but isn’t it surprising?’
The Hanyoung Group that Kim Cheol-soo experienced conservatively maintained its existing businesses but began to collapse in the late 2010s.
I came up with a plan based on my past experiences, but I didn’t expect feedback to come so quickly.
It may be thanks to the presence of Executive Director Choi Young-jun.
“maybe,”
When Kim Cheol-soo opened his mouth, Choi Young-jun began to focus on what he was saying.
Even today, there are things like PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants).
I was able to use a simple dictionary, calculator, and manage my personal schedule.
Although there were mobile devices specifically used in industrial settings, understanding the concept of a smartphone and commercializing it could be said to be an difficult and difficult adventure.
In fact, Kim Cheol-soo also only used smartphones, but had no idea exactly how to make one.
Even the smartphones he experienced were largely categorized into iPhones and Android phones, and other operating systems were not even able to compete.
‘After all, is it software?’
“I think the software that runs a smartphone is the most important thing. What the device looks like and how it is made may not be as important to customers as they think. Isn’t what functions it provides a more critical issue than the design?”
“Software.”
Youngjun Choi frowned and thought for a moment.
Now that I think about it, I only thought about how to make a device called a smartphone, but I didn’t think about how to run it.
“How about installing Windows on your computer?”
At Choi Young-jun’s words, Kim Cheol-soo shook his head slightly.
“Smartphones must run on batteries and use small storage devices, but it seems difficult to load heavy programs like Windows.”
“ah.”
Choi Youngjun’s face darkened in an unexpected moment.
“Are you thinking of turning smartphones into a business?”
“The Chairman is very interested in Deputy Director Kim’s plan.”
Of course, a company as large as the Hanyoung Group could not handle it alone, no matter how much the chairman was.
There are creditors, major shareholders, and the board of directors, and only by persuading them can a high-risk business proceed.
Of course, if the group president pushed ahead, it was common for most people to support him.
Kim Cheol-soo’s heart pounded slightly at the fact that Chairman Kyung-hoon Choi, the absolute leader of the company, was very interested in the plan he had presented.
However, he was also well aware that if he left everything out here, the success of this plan might not be his credit, but Executive Director Choi Young-jun’s credit.
‘It’s an opportunity.’
“I am proud that the Chairman is interested in my plan.”
Kim Cheol-su took a sip of coffee and nodded.
Choi Young-jun waited for a while, hoping that Kim Cheol-soo would say something, but Kim Cheol-soo just sipped his coffee as if he didn’t think anything of it.
‘Do you not know or are you pretending not to know?’
However, when I looked at Kim Cheol-soo’s performance and actions so far, I thought it was closer to pretending not to know than to not knowing.
Choi Young-jun smiled as he saw Kim Cheol-soo looking at him with an innocent expression, then lifted his cup and took a sip of coffee.
“I heard that you are meeting with Choi Hye-na.”
Kim Cheol-soo, who was wondering how much to talk about if he offered to include it in the business plan, got a little nervous and straightened his back when the story about Choi Hye-na suddenly came up.
If Choi Young-jun and I hadn’t talked about Choi Hye-na before, I would never have understood this question.
‘You said you’re close, so you could talk to Executive Director Choi.’
“Yes, Managing Director.”
“Do you like her?”
“yes.”
Youngjun Choi asked with a calm smile.
“Do you intend to marry her?”
Kim Cheol-soo scratched his head with a puzzled expression and thought of Choi Hye-na.
Unlike in the past, when I married Choi Hye-na late in life, I had a lot of fun dating Choi Hye-na.
I liked the meticulousness with which she secretly took care of her family, as well as the way she was bold and not petty.
In addition, she had a close relationship with Choi Young-jun.
Choi Hye-na could be of great help to her own ambitions and future.
“yes.”
“I’m talking about this because I’m close to Hye-na.”
Kim Cheol-soo focused on Choi Young-jun’s words.
“Her family is quite wealthy.”
Kim Cheol-soo also had a rough guess because he saw someone of similar age running a big business and living alone in a big house in a neighborhood where only rich people lived.
“Yes, I know. Managing Director.”
“Oh, I see. And I’m quite close with her father, and he’s a very strict and picky person.”
Kim Cheol-soo automatically swallowed his saliva when he heard that he was Choi Hye-na’s father, and Choi Young-jun did not miss the movement of Kim Cheol-soo’s uvula.
“If you help me, I’ll tell her father good things about Assistant Manager Kim. He’s a very nice guy.”
Kim Cheol-soo, who was acting with an innocent expression, went somewhere, and Choi Young-jun smiled and raised his coffee cup while looking nervous.
‘A man’s weakness is a woman.’
**
“Come in.”
Ahn Jeong-gyu bowed his head to Shin Byeong-hun and sat down on the sofa.
“You’ve been having a lot of trouble these days?”
“No, Vice President.”
“It’s written on your face. Do you look 10 years older?”
“Huh? Is that so? I still hear presbyopia, so this is a big problem.”
Shin Byeong-hun chuckled at Ahn Jeong-gyu’s sly reply.
“Okay. Is the Ukraine matter going well?”
“It’s a bit of a difficult situation.”
When Ahn Jeong-gyu gave a brief report on the Ukraine incident, Shin Byeong-hun also nodded.
“Now that I hear it, the choice certainly won’t be easy.”
“Yes, Vice President.”
“But so far, you have never let the company down. I believe you will do well this time too.”
“Don’t worry. We’ll do it somehow.”
“okay.”
Ahn Jeong-gyu felt a great burden due to the vice president’s trust, but he did not show it on his face.
“A new employee has joined your department, right? Lee Han-soo?”
“Yes, Vice President.”
“Do you know who that friend is?”
Looking at the personnel record sent by the human resources team, he was a new employee with nothing special about him except that he graduated from Seoul National University.
“What do you mean?”
“Oh my. I guess you didn’t know either. That Lee Han-soo. He’s the youngest son of Shido Group Chairman Lee Geon-wook.”
“yes?”
“Well, you didn’t do anything wrong, right?”
“Haha. It was my mistake.”
Although he said that, Ahn Jeong-gyu remembered all the nagging he had said to Lee Han-soo.
“But why in our company?”
“It looks like he came because he wanted to learn properly about trade. He said he didn’t want to work while receiving special treatment.”
“Ah. He’s a healthy young man.”
“You could say so. What do you think?”
As the youngest son of the Shido Group, he would have been the successor to the Shido Group, but there was nothing arrogant about Lee Hansoo’s appearance in the department.
“I thought you were just a new employee.”
“Hahaha. Is that so? The chief secretary of Shido Group is my best friend from high school. He also wanted to know his evaluation of Hansoo Lee, but he’s just a new employee. I guess I get it roughly.”
“Yes. I will not pretend to know anything from now on.”
At Ahn Jung-gyu’s words, Shin Byeong-hun smiled and nodded.
“As expected, I like that you’re quick-witted. I don’t have to say much.”
“No, Vice President.”
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