– People who drink, meet people, and do business talk about what they know about IT?
– There are a lot of business graduates from Seoul National University here too.
– 8th place in the ranking of large corporations? You’re kidding, right? What are those guys doing? Emergency management team? are you kidding?
– Have you tried it? Have you ever made a cell phone?
– Is something like this coming in to say restructuring?
Kim Cheol-soo, who was assigned to the SKY Teletech emergency management team, sighed as he left the conference room.
The evil eyes of SKY Teletech employees looking at them.
I felt like I was sitting on a thorn cushion.
It was the same for Park Hae-seong and Lee Jun-hak.
They sat on a bench in a corner of the park in front of the headquarters building and complained.
“It’s a very rigid organization, more so than you might think.”
Deputy Director Park Hae-seong sighed and smoked a cigarette.
The communication process was no different from the military.
Even though it was a team leader-level meeting, there were no employees who expressed proper opinions.
There were many cases where, as soon as a progressive story came out, it was shot down with an absurd counterargument.
It was an error in itself for an IT company to return to such an old-fashioned decision-making process, despite having to keep up with the rapidly changing times.
“It’s a big deal.”
Park Hae-seong smoked a cigarette with a frustrated expression.
Lee Jun-hak also continued to smoke without saying anything.
He also said something at a meeting, but was scolded and asked, ‘What do your bosses know about IT?’ and was completely upset.
It wasn’t just that.
Their pride in being the 3rd largest conglomerate in Korea and a subsidiary of the SKY Group was truly incredible.
“Smug things don’t matter, you bastards.”
Deputy Director Lee Jun-hak also swore in a stuffy voice.
“Did you do that too? This is my first time being ignored like that. Is there such a shitty organizational culture? Just the military, what company is that? Me, indeed! “I really need to replace all of that!”
Park Hae-seong also looked feverish.
Kim Cheol-soo, who was sipping coffee and quietly listening to the two people’s story, opened his mouth.
“Changing organizational culture is quite difficult.”
“I heard it’s the same as telling your wife to change her personality. “I’d rather change my wife.”
Lee Jun-hak chuckled at Park Hae-seong’s words.
“He’s not even married.”
“That’s common sense, man.”
Kim Cheol-soo just shrugged his shoulders.
“Anyway, yeah. Manager Kim is right. “It’s such a difficult problem that even if you think about it, it won’t be solved right away.”
Lee Jun-hak also nodded as if he agreed.
“Stacked inventory is the problem right now.”
“Exactly. We need to resolve that first, but we can’t come up with a proper opinion. “Everyone is taking care of themselves for fear of being criticized.”
Park Hae-seong rumbled for a while longer.
I felt like I would go crazy if we didn’t get together like this and swear at each other.
Kim Cheol-soo, who had been listening quietly, cautiously opened his mouth when Park Hae-seong and Lee Jun-hak’s anger seemed to have eased to some extent.
“If SKY Teletech is not willing to solve the problem, is it okay if we come up with a solution ourselves?”
“Do you have any good ideas?”
“If there is no answer domestically, it seems good to penetrate overseas markets.”
Lee Jun-hak tilted his head.
“I don’t think there will be any more answers in the overseas market?”
When camera phones were released, the products were selling like hot cakes in advanced markets such as North America and Western Europe until mid-2004.
However, starting in December 2004, the growth began to decline rapidly.
In Korea, replacement demand also increased with the introduction of the number portability system, and sales were hot like hot cakes last year, but that was not the case this year.
Small and medium-sized mobile phone manufacturing companies such as Standard Telecom and Sewon Telecom went bankrupt in the aftermath.
Moreover, the overseas market was already dominated by companies such as Nokia, Motorola, Sony, BenQ, Samsung, and LG.
Therefore, Park Hae-seong and Lee Jun-hak decided that it would be difficult to enter overseas markets.
“Looking at the data, most people only analyze the North American and European markets. What about Africa?”
To Kim Cheol-soo’s words, Lee Jun-hak and Park Hae-seong answered in unison.
“There is no way that a town like that would have proper communication facilities, right?”
Kim Cheol-soo scratched his head and answered.
“Actually, I thought that too, but after researching, I found out that wasn’t the case.”
“okay?”
“I contacted ATC and asked for some data. Since 2000, the growth rate of mobile phone subscribers has reached an average of 53% per year. As of the end of last year, the number of mobile phone subscribers exceeded 100 million.”
“uh? okay?”
Lee Jun-hak and Park Hae-seong opened their eyes wide and focused on Kim Cheol-soo’s next words.
“yes. But the major mobile phone companies that dominate the global market have not even entered there.”
“I guess so. “It will definitely cost less to target the existing market rather than pioneering that wasteland market.”
“yes. So now, companies such as Kuwait’s MTC Group and BV and Sudan’s MOBITEL are producing and supplying mobile phones. “When I looked at the specifications, the specifications were so low that they couldn’t even be compared to SKY Teletech’s mobile phones.”
“Then… a black market must have developed?”
Kim Cheol-soo nodded at Park Hae-seong’s words.
“It seems like premium mobile phones are imported and used very expensively.”
“her···?”
“There are already 100 million mobile phones installed in Africa?”
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“yes. Considering the population of 1 billion, it is only 10%, but isn’t it a market worth targeting?”
Park Hae-seong and Lee Jun-hak looked at each other and started tapping calculators in their heads.
If you target just 1% of 100 million people, you will get 1 million units.
There was enough to resolve the excess SKY Teletech inventory.
Moreover, through Kim Cheol-soo, he has a solid connection with ATC, which boasts enormous influence in Kenya.
Park Hae-seong, who finished calculating first, nodded his head sharply.
“Are you okay? “I think the inventory problem will be solved if we can penetrate the African market.”
But soon Park Hae-seong asked with a questioning expression.
“But why didn’t you mention that at the meeting?”
Kim Cheol-soo smiled and answered Park Hae-seong’s question.
“It’s obvious that even if you just mention Africa, there will be an uproar over what kind of cell phone such uncivilized countries and people use.”
“You just have to submit the data, right?”
“I guess they would have dismissed it as unreliable fake data? “I’m already upset because we were acquired by Hanyoung Group, which is far lower in the industry rankings, and no matter what I say, it won’t work.”
“hmm···.”
“For them, the facts are not important right now.”
Park Hae-seong opened his mouth with a playful expression.
“I’m not going to curse at you, right? “He’s the chairman’s son-in-law?”
“Haha, that’s right.”
“Ah, conductor!”
Hae-seong Park took a sip of coffee and then nodded with a serious expression.
“yes. No matter how much credible data we present, they will not acknowledge us. “Do you have anything else in mind?”
“I’m thinking of taking a SKY Teletech phone with me when I go to Kenya this time.”
“Kenya? Oh, on Kenyatta’s birthday?”
“yes.”
“Can I get your attention?”
Kim Cheol-su grinned while looking at them.
“I wish my phone was a little shiny.”
“It’s sparkling…?”
Park Hae-seong tilted his head, and Lee Jun-hak smiled and clapped.
“yes? “Do they really like shiny things?”
If you go to a duty-free shop at an African airport, about half of the items on display are all shiny items.
It may seem tacky to Koreans, but African people really like shiny things.
“It would be nice to have diamonds inset to match the SKY logo… “I think artificial diamonds would be fine.”
As Kim Cheol-soo spoke, Lee Jun-hak nodded even louder.
“A few would be enough.”
“Wouldn’t it be a bad idea to give it a try?”
Park Hae-seong answered.
“I’ll talk to the vice president. It may not be possible to produce it in large quantities, but it would be possible to make a few. If you can get an export contract with that, it’s a risk worth taking. “As expected, you’re Manager Kim?”
Haeseong Park gave a thumbs up.
“Of course it’s Manager Kim.”
Lee Jun-hak also nodded.
“Why are you doing this so embarrassingly?”
When Kim Cheol-soo responded by throwing up both hands, Lee Jun-hak spoke emphatically, shaking the butts that only had a filter left in the ashtray.
“Manager Kim.”
“yes. “Deputy director.”
“Make sure it succeeds. So, let’s break those bastards’ noses.”
You’ll know when you meet
SKY Teletech President’s Office.
Vice President Shin Byeong-hoon requested a meeting with President Lee Jang-hoon.
“Let’s put a faux diamond on the logo?”
Lee Jang-hoon looked at Shin Byeong-hun with a puzzled expression.
From Shin Byeong-hoon’s perspective, he didn’t like the idea of someone 10 years younger than him rolling his eyes, but anyway, the person he was dealing with was the president of SKY Teletech.
“Look, there is something called the trend of the times. “I know you’re older, but if you’re vice president, shouldn’t you pay attention to trends and things like that?”
Obvious provocation.
However, Shin Byeong-Hoon just smiled and pushed it behind his ears.
“I don’t know either. I came because the Chairman ordered me to do so. Well, I’m not saying we want to make everything. “If you make a sample, we will somehow find a place to sell it.”
“Well, really. Since they come from a business background, there are a lot of things they don’t know about IT. “This is not just a simple matter of taking a finished product and selling it.”
“Haha, is that so?”
“We have to match the frequency band and look into the laws of the country where it must be sold. It’s very complicated? “It’s not something that can be achieved by putting in a few artificial diamonds.”
Lee Jang-hoon keeps making excuses and refuses to even try.
Shin Byeong-hun was annoyed.
I felt like I wanted to fire everyone above the team leader level right away.
However, since everyone at SKY Teletech was united around President Jang-Hoon Lee, it was not as easy as it seemed.
Shin Byeong-hun felt his blood pressure rise rapidly and could barely suppress his anger.
“Please make it for me. “I will take care of the rest.”
“If you want to change the design, you have to redo the injection design. “How are you going to pay for it?”
“They only put artificial diamonds on the logo, so what kind of injection design do we have to do again?”
“What kind of glue do you think they’re using to hold it together?”
“Ha, is that not possible?”
The last time Chairman Choi Kyung-hoon visited, I got a vague idea.
That the chairman does not like him.
After some time, the board of directors held an extraordinary shareholders’ meeting, appointed the old man in front of him as vice president of SKY Teletech, and even created an emergency management team.
There was a high probability that Shin Byeong-Hoon would take his position in the future.
The only thing Lee Jang-hoon could do was to make Shin Byeong-hoon an invisible person in this company.
‘Artificial diamond? Where are you selling such tacky items? Anyway, these are low-level things.’
“···Well, I can do it for you.”
Lee Jang-hoon raised one finger.
“However, there is a condition.”
“Please speak.”
“If you can’t sell all the products this time, don’t attend any future management meetings. “The entire emergency management team.”
Shin Byeong-hoon did not mention anything to Lee Jang-hoon about what the emergency management team secretly discussed.
I already compared it with the documents sent by ATC and thought it was quite possible.
However, Shin Byeong-hun hesitated for a while, pretending to think about it.
‘yes. There’s no way I can be sure.’
Lee Jang-hoon sneered, and Shin Byeong-hun quickly nodded with a stern expression.
“···great. If we fail, the entire emergency management team will not attend the management meeting.”
“How many do you want me to make for you?”
“I’d like about 10.”
“All right. Be sure to keep your promises. “I believe there is that level of trust.”
Shin Byeong-hun sighed and nodded.
‘A stupid person who makes bets without even listening to the situation. With a person who is stuck and impatient as the CEO, there is no way for the company to run well.’
After all, the company was an interest group.
What if the emergency management team dispatched from Hanyoung Trading Co., Ltd. solves the current problem of enormously accumulated inventory?
Even that tight-knit group had no choice but to be greatly shaken.
Ambitious employees who will grasp the situation and take advantage of it to rise above their superiors will pop up here and there.
Meanwhile, Lee Jang-hoon did not know that Shin Byeong-hun’s sigh was sarcastic at him.
‘If you don’t have confidence, don’t do it or don’t do it because you’re too old. This is why second-rate people are not allowed.’
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