friday.
“Whew!”
Hansoo Lee finished his work and glanced at his watch.
It said 7:53 PM.
When I glanced to the side, I saw Kim Cheol-soo still motionless, looking at the monitor.
There hasn’t been a movement for half a day already.
“Sir!”
Kim Cheol-soo flinched and turned his head.
“If you sit in that position for a long time, your back will get worse.”
“Oh, thank you.”
“But what’s going on that keeps you glued to the computer all day?”
“I’m looking for someone.”
Hansoo Lee slowly tilted his head.
“Who?”
“Secret from spies.”
“Sir!”
Hansoo Lee was in tears.
Kim Cheol-soo also looked as if he felt unfairly treated.
“Honestly, I’m upset. Thanks to my plan, only the city and city groups were excited.”
“I’m sorry, sir.”
“Haha, it’s okay. It wasn’t Hansu’s fault, so there’s no need to apologize.”
“I will pay this debt.”
“really?”
When Kim Cheol-soo asked, Lee Han-soo nodded with a firm expression as if his life was at stake.
“yes!”
Kim Cheol-soo, looking at Lee Han-su’s expression, smiled strangely.
“Hansoo, you said you graduated from Seoul National University, right? Do you know many alumni there?”
“I know a lot up and down.”
“Do you know any people who went to America to study?”
“It’s not much, but we might be able to contact you.”
Kim Cheol-soo nodded at Lee Han-soo’s confident expression.
“Is there anyone among them who got a job at Microsoft?”
“There won’t be any.”
“I need to know more about these three people now.”
In the future, you will be able to search for anything through pages like Wikipedia, Google’s powerful search system, and search channels like YouTube.
But unfortunately, today’s Wikipedia is an empty page with nothing in it.
The situation was similar for Google and YouTube.
No matter how many times I searched using various keywords, it was difficult to find even brief news related to them.
The reality is that there is no data.
In the end, I had to rely only on the data provided by Executive Director Choi Young-jun, but I had no idea what to do with that alone.
Kim Cheol-soo took out a notepad and wrote down the names of three people.
“Are these three people working for Microsoft?”
“yes.”
“Why do you care about them?”
“It’s confidential from there.”
“ah···.”
Hansoo Lee stared at their names and opened his mouth.
“I will help you. This is your reward for keeping my secret.”
“So you still have the Volkswagen gun?”
“Of course. It’s worth it. I’ll make up for it later.”
“Does this seem like too much compensation for an office worker?”
Lee Han-su quietly looked at Kim Cheol-soo.
“Do you consider yourself an office worker?”
Kim Cheol-soo tilted his head, and Lee Han-soo raised his head and looked around.
“Actually, Hye-na and I were decided to be each other’s mates from the moment we were born.”
“yes?”
There was a bitterness on Lee Han-su’s face that I had never seen before.
“But Hye-na wasn’t the type I liked. Anyway, in the end, she was able to escape from her parents’ promise. Hye-na used to run out of school as soon as the bell rang. One day, when I asked her why, she said she didn’t want her father to come visit her.”
Hansoo Lee wet his lips for a moment and then continued speaking.
“I was really jealous of that horse. My father never came to visit me on my way home from school. Even when I went home, it was hard to see my father’s face.”
Kim Cheol-soo was already concentrating on Lee Han-soo’s story.
“Later, I found out that Chairman Choi Kyung-hoon especially cared for Hye-na. He did not do the same for his other four sons. I could see how much he cared for Hye-na.”
Lee Han-soo looked into Kim Cheol-soo’s eyes and said.
“I was asking whether the assistant manager who is dating such a person really thinks of himself as an office worker.”
‘Chairman Choi Kyung-hoon and Chairman Lee Geon-wook were that close? Enough to pair up Lee Han-soo and Hye-na? “It was something I couldn’t find at all when I was researching Chairman Choi Kyung-hoon’s past.”
Feeling the look in Lee Han-su’s eyes, Kim Cheol-soo shook his head lightly.
“….I am a salaried employee at Hanyoung Trading Company. No matter who I am dating, that remains the same. I have tried to do the job given to me as best as I can, and I plan to continue to do so in the future.”
Lee Han-su quietly looked at Kim Cheol-soo.
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“Really… I think it would be nice to have someone like you next to me.”
“Haha, is this a scouting offer?”
“I have that feeling a little bit. About 99%?”
“I might become Chairman Choi Kyung-hoon’s son-in-law in a little while, so I’ll decline it for now.”
Kim Cheol-soo smiled and spoke jokingly, and Lee Han-soo also laughed lightly.
“If you fail to be your son-in-law, how about holding my hand?”
“I’ll think about it after I’m eliminated.”
That time when the two people were giggling silently.
– Tuk!
Kim Cheol-soo and Lee Han-soo turned their heads in surprise at the sound of banging on the partition.
Jang Yu-mi was not coming out of the bathroom for a long time due to constipation.
She asked with wide eyes.
“Son-in-law? Elimination? What are you talking about? Assistant manager… Mr. Hansu?”
“Ah…it’s nothing, Yumi.”
Kim Cheol-soo quickly turned off the computer and stood up with his bag.
“It’s already 8 o’clock. I’ll leave work first because of work.”
“Ah, yes. Please go in carefully, sir.”
As Kim Cheol-soo left work in a hurry, as if running away, Lee Han-soo, who remained, could only roll his eyes.
Jang Yu-mi looked at Lee Han-soo with suspicious eyes.
‘I think you said Choi Kyung-hoon…? Our group president? Did I hear it wrong?’
**
“Really! It’s really too much. Ah!”
Catherine was filling her stomach with beer with Andy instead of dinner.
Not only did they criticize their own work for “something that wasn’t that big of a deal,” they were even insulted by saying that they were “only 8 people.”
Catherine’s anger seemed to have not subsided, and she was still pouring beer into her mouth with a red face.
“How much did it cost to get here?”
Andy said to Catherine, who was complaining.
“Even if they had offered to invest, I would have rejected it.”
“Oh my! That’s great.”
“I had vaguely heard about the corporate culture in the East, but I had no idea it was to that extent. In that kind of atmosphere, it would be absolutely impossible to work creatively there.”
Catherine also nodded as if she agreed with those words.
“Well, it seemed like they were more rigid than the mafia in the movies.”
The two clinked their beer glasses and turned to the stage in front.
On stage, there was a man singing ‘Let it Be’ by the legendary band The Beatles.
The two quietly listened to the song without any conversation.
The live performance he presented felt like comfort given by a close friend.
The song ended before we knew it, and Andy let out a long sigh.
Andy’s complex expression seemed to have become a little more relaxed.
“You sing well.”
“I agree. Your pronunciation is really good!”
“Words of Wisdom.”
Two people who were die-hard Beatles fans.
Andy tried saying out loud one of the lyrics from Let it Be.
“When that song came out, wasn’t it when the conflict between the Beatles band members reached its peak?”
“Yes. This song was included in the last single released by Paul McCartney before leaving the Beatles.”
“Let it Be.”
Catherine asked Andy, who seemed to be accepting his fate.
“why?”
“Should I just meet Larry Page?”
Catherine was pleased with Andy’s words.
“That’s the best option we can make at the moment.”
A new operating system created by Andy.
Google founder Larry Page had expressed interest in acquiring Andy’s company, but Andy had rejected the offer.
After the company that I had risked my life to build was acquired by Microsoft, I was left with the trauma of being discarded like an old shoe, so I was very negative about being acquired by a huge company anymore.
“I will be abandoned again.”
“What’s wrong, Andy? That’s different from MS.”
“Is that so?”
“It would be best to get investment and grow our company, but realistically it is difficult. For now, it is best to accept Larry Page’s offer. Let’s just leave it at that.”
“···.”
Andy gulped down his beer without saying a word.
Catherine was quietly looking at the stage with Andy.
After a while, she suddenly woke up.
“Wait!”
“Why? What?”
Catherine ran towards the young man who had been singing on stage a moment ago.
And then he hugged me tightly.
“thank you!”
When a blonde foreign woman suddenly hugged him, Kim Cheol-soo looked the most embarrassed he had seen this year.
“W-what…”
“I’m Catherine Andrew from America. I think you helped my friend change his mind, so I came to say thank you.”
Kim Cheol-soo still looked bewildered.
“and···.”
Catherine said, squinting one eye.
“If your skills are as good as yours, you will definitely succeed in America.”
Surprised staff members approached to stop her, but Kim Cheol-soo signaled with his hand as if it was okay.
It is very rare for Koreans to behave like this, but foreigners knew that the culture was very different.
“I don’t know how I helped, but I’m glad anyway. And thank you for the compliment. But I’d like you to let me go now?”
Catherine then quickly let go of her arm.
“Sorry, hehe. Anyway, thank you so much!”
She narrowed her eyes at Kim Cheol-soo once again and walked off the stage.
Kim Cheol-soo opened the door under the stage with a still embarrassed expression.
Since I still didn’t understand the situation, I shook my head and went in, and there…
Choi Hye-na was waiting with her arms crossed.
Kim Cheol-soo felt nervous for no reason.
just as expected.
“Did you like it?”
changed my mind
A week later.
The Grain Team of Sales Division 3 was having an emergency meeting in the conference room.
The world’s crop conditions have improved significantly due to three consecutive years of good harvests, which has led to a sharp drop in overall grain prices.
Therefore, the need for a new contract between trading suppliers and buyers has emerged.
The buyer filed a claim first, and the supplier was in a situation where they were making a fuss, saying they could not sell it at that price.
Suddenly, the grain team found themselves in a situation where they had to persuade both sides.
“It must be difficult?”
“Why not keep the buyer and change the supplier?”
“Agencies expect grain prices to continue to decline for the foreseeable future.”
“Then claims will continue to come in. Is there a good alternative?”
Ahn Jeong-gyu, Pyo Il-soo, and Lee Jun-hak, who were the main players in the grain trade, had a serious conversation in the conference room.
Kim Cheol-soo was quietly listening to people’s stories in the conference room.
Then, I was suddenly drawn to the white silhouette outside the window and looked at the window.
“It’s snowing.”
“what?”
Everyone turned their eyes to Kim Cheol-soo’s unexpected words and looked out the conference room window.
It was really snowing.
The snow soon turned into rain and began to wet the world.
“It’s June and it’s snowing! The weather is crazy.”
Ahn Jeong-gyu looked out the window with an uncomfortable expression and muttered.
The team members looked out the window for a moment in wonder, and there was silence for a moment.
Kim Cheol-soo took advantage of the silence and opened his mouth.
“If the climate changes, crop production cannot be good. Grain prices have fallen significantly now, but I don’t think grain prices will remain low in the future.”
“So, Manager Kim, do you think grain prices will rise in the future?”
“Hasn’t it become possible to see with our own eyes abnormal weather phenomena that we only heard about through the media? From a common sense point of view, I think grain prices will rise in the future.”
When told that grain prices would rise in the future, Pyo Il-su and Lee Jun-hak nodded in agreement.
“That’s right. The question is when it will go up. Anyone can make that prediction.”
Hanyoung General Trading Company.
There are many general trading companies in Korea, and Hanyoung General Trading Company was just a mid-sized company.
Although we quickly rose to the top 5 in the industry by winning a large construction contract this time, it was true that we were still at a newborn level compared to Japanese general trading companies and many overseas trading companies.
Kim Cheol-soo, who wanted to become the president of this company, wanted to grow Hanyoung General Trading Company further.
To become a global company.
“When there is a good harvest, grain prices fall, and farm owners face difficulties. If you take out too many loans and farm on a large scale, you may go bankrupt.”
2nd year at the company, Assistant Manager Kim Cheol-soo.
Looking at his actions and performance so far, Ahn Jeong-gyu believes that his influence has already reached the level of a manager.
I had no idea what Kim Cheol-soo was talking about, but that didn’t stop him from talking.
So did others.
“Cargill, ADM, Bungie, and Louis-Dreyfus. These four companies monopolize 70% of the global grain market. Marubeni and Itochu Corporation hold 20%, and Switzerland’s Glencore holds 5%. A total of 7 companies account for 95% of the world’s grain trading. Many other companies are risking their lives on the remaining 5% of grain trading, and Hanyoung Corporation’s grain team is among them.”
Internally, they thought they were doing a huge job, but when looking at the global grain trade roadmap, Hanyoung Corporation was nothing.
An Jeong-gyu rested his chin and quietly listened to Kim Cheol-soo’s story, then quietly opened his mouth.
“so?”
“In this monopoly structure, we do not believe that price changes are determined solely by changes in production.”
“Yes, the tricks of the companies that distribute it also play a role.”
“Not only that, but speculative forces are also entering the market. The size of the derivatives market, including commodity futures, options, and swaps, is also growing very quickly. The derivatives market, which was worth $770 billion in 2002, has grown to $2.9 trillion in just two years. “We are forming a dollar-level market.”
“hmm.”
“Increasing speculative capital inflows into commodity markets will trigger price increases for energy and non-energy commodities, and their movements will lead to similar fluctuations in commodity prices. And if extreme weather events accelerate and crop production declines, this will “The derivatives market causes grain prices to rise at a faster rate.”
Only then did Ahn Jeong-gyu realize what Kim Cheol-soo wanted to say.
It wasn’t about the contract renewal being discussed now.
It was a story about a new business model.
Unlike Ahn Jeong-gyu, who was quietly contemplating, Lee Jun-hak opened his mouth.
“I don’t think it fits the topic right now, Assistant Manager Kim?”
“Renewing a contract is a simple matter of how to handle the process smoothly once the direction has been decided. However, if you do not discuss what is necessary when grain prices have fallen, you may be giving up a tremendous opportunity.”
When Lee Jun-hak was about to answer, Ahn Jeong-gyu stopped him.
“Are you talking about stockpiling grain when it’s cheap and selling it when it’s expensive?”
“If grains are stored for a long time, their commodity value decreases.”
“then?”
“If we can secure long-term contracts with farmers who are at risk due to low grain prices, we can make huge profits when grain prices rise in the future.”
Pyo Il-soo opened his eyes and nodded.
“Of course.”
One of the things that a general trading company could easily do was financing.
Even if they do not have a lot of money themselves, banks easily lend money to general trading companies.
If you can use that money to secure contracts with farmers in crisis, it will be possible to generate more profits than expected during a period of rising grain prices.
‘New business model.’
Ahn Jeong-gyu’s eyes became sharper.
The organization was already in the process of being reorganized.
Rather than simply arguing for the need for executives to manage a bloated organization, it would be much more advantageous to persuade them that greater power was needed to make a new business model successful.
“Assistant Manager Kim.”
“Yes, manager.”
“Make a plan for what I just said and bring it.”
“all right.”
Kim Cheol-soo answers confidently.
Local university, applied music department, 2nd year since joining the company?
The performance he showed was frankly incomprehensible.
I thought maybe he was a genius that the world didn’t recognize.
Thanks to Kim Cheol-soo, Ahn Jeong-gyu, who had not been able to present any plan to the headquarters as the Volkswagen matter went through, was given a new opportunity.
‘I am very kind. This guy is already doing more than just being a manager in the department.’
Ahn Jeong-gyu soon turned his eyes to Lee Jun-hak and Pyo Il-soo.
“Hey, do you guys have anything?”
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