A few days later.
A meeting of executives at the team leader level or higher.
“There are scandalous rumors going around the company.”
Kim Cheol-soo looked up from reviewing the business plan to be presented.
Yang Chun-sik was the manager of Sales Department 1.
“I don’t know how bold it is to commit adultery openly. Has anything this messy ever happened in our company? Does it even make sense that they are attending the same conference room as us, just waiting at the table as if nothing is happening?”
Kim Cheol-soo’s expression hardened when he saw Yang Chun-sik openly attacking him.
This is because quite a few people were nodding their heads at Yang Chun-sik’s words.
Yang Chun-sik turned his head towards Kim Cheol-soo, who was looking at him with a stern expression.
It wasn’t enough that Ahn Jeong-gyu, who was a long time junior, rose through the ranks to become an executive, and I saw before my eyes a guy with no special interests, married the chairman’s daughter, whom he had luckily kept hidden, and rose up the ranks like crazy.
It felt like everything I had done so far in my career was being denied.
‘How much I worked day and night for this position as manager!’
Park Moo-young, who attended the meeting, looked at Kim Cheol-soo with a secret smile.
Yang Chun-sik already had a lot of negative feelings toward Ahn Jung-gyu and Kim Cheol-soo, and Park Moo-young decided to use Yang Chun-sik as a target for his arrows.
When Yang Chun-sik, encouraged by Park Moo-young, did not hesitate to make excessive remarks in the conference room, Ahn Jeong-gyu took the microphone.
“Manager Yang! “Is there any need to bring up such unverified rumors in a place like this?”
“what? Manager Yang…!”
Yang Chun-sik’s heart fluttered every time Ahn Jung-gyu called him Manager Yang or Manager Yang.
It was Ahn Jeong-gyu, who came in as a new employee when he was an assistant manager in his later years.
On top of that, he even spoke informally to me, so much so that I almost rolled my eyes.
“why? Is there a problem, Director Yang?”
“That bastard…”
As Yang Chun-sik clenched his fists and his eyes sparkled, Choi Young-jun hit the table with a hard face.
“This is not the time to talk about such things. Manager Yang Chun-sik.”
But the murmur did not subside.
When Yoo Ji-hoon was in charge of the meeting, even if there was a fight, he would quiet down with a single word, but now, that was not the case at all.
“I think we should review it at least once. president.”
Park Moo-young’s soft voice rang through the microphone, and only then did the buzz disappear and it became quiet.
“There are bad rumors going around within the company. However, the Ethics Management Office is quiet, and the employees are greatly agitated. “If it weren’t for the background of being the chairman’s son-in-law, I don’t know if the Ethics Management Office would have been quiet.”
At those words, even executives who had taken a neutral stance began to mutter.
Kim Cheol-soo glanced at the executives who were looking at him with a stern expression, then fixed his gaze on Park Moo-young.
I understand that it has only been a few months since he took office as the head of the human resources team, and it seems he has gotten everyone on his side.
When CEO Yoo Ji-hoon was suddenly reassigned to a local area, people who were in the air flocked to Park Moo-young, so there was nothing strange about it, but I had no idea that he would exert this much influence.
‘I think I’ve included more people than I thought.’
Choi Youngjun frowned.
This is because if executives who are sensitive to the balance of power become agitated, the company will be shaken.
When Park Moo-young saw Kim Cheol-soo smiling calmly at him, he felt a little anxious without realizing it.
‘··· Why is that guy so relaxed?’
Kim Cheol-soo did not miss Park Moo-young’s momentary change in expression and responded with a smile.
‘It’s quite good, but that’s it.’
Kim Cheol-soo held the microphone in his hand.
“If the Ethics Management Office conducts an investigation, I will of course cooperate. But if we can bring this up in a formal meeting, I have something to say.”
As soon as the person involved spoke, all people’s eyes were focused on Kim Cheol-soo.
“Human Resources Manager.”
When Kim Cheol-soo called himself, Park Moo-young smiled wryly and nodded.
“Do you know anything about Article 356 of the Criminal Code?”
“How could you not know, Team Leader Kim? “It is a clause related to breach of trust in business.”
“Then do you know what Article 2, Paragraph 2 of the Unfair Competition Prevention Act says?”
“···.”
Park Moo-young barely managed to stop his voice from coming out.
I didn’t like how cheap it felt.
‘The Unfair Competition Prevention Act… Was there such a thing?’
Park Moo-young turned his head and looked at the head of the legal team, Managing Director Oh Jun-hyuk, who shrugged his shoulders and opened his mouth.
“The legal concept of trade secrets is explained. It refers to technical or management information that is not publicly known and has independent economic value, and is useful for production methods, sales methods, and other business activities that have been kept secret through reasonable efforts.”
“thank you. Oh, Managing Director. That’s right. “Management information is also included in the legal concept of trade secret.”
“But why are you bringing up that story here? Team Leader Kim?”
Park Moo-young looked at the legal team leader and Kim Cheol-soo alternately with a cold expression.
“It appears that our team’s business plan, which was scheduled to be presented today, was intentionally leaked to a competitor by someone.”
Kim Cheol-soo, who saw that the executives’ eyes were becoming sharper, looked at Park Moo-young with a calm expression.
Oh Jun-hyuk opened his mouth with an expression of bewilderment.
“that···. “Is this a confirmed fact, Team Leader Kim?”
“of course.”
“Where are your competitors?”
“This is Korean-English IT.”
The loud voices suddenly disappeared from the conference room.
‘Something is going wrong.’
Park Moo-young clenched his molars.
“Isn’t Hanyoung IT an affiliate of Hanyoung Group? How is that a competitor?”
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Someone did what he wanted to say for him.
“Are Hanyoung IT and Hanyoung General Trading’s investors the same person? Are the shareholders the same? Although they belong to one group, they are completely different companies. “Isn’t that right?”
“That’s true, but…”
“If Korea-English IT does well, will you all benefit? Do you really think so? Anyone who thinks like that should not work at Hanyoung Trading Company. You should go to Hanyoung IT. “Isn’t that right?”
“···.”
No one answered that question.
Choi Young-jun looked at Ahn Jung-gyu sitting next to him and said quietly.
“What does this mean?”
“Someone has fallen into a trap.”
Choi Young-jun could instinctively guess that that person was Managing Director Park Moo-young.
– You will be able to take control of the company starting next year.
‘That means it’s started.’
Choi Youngjun didn’t think much.
Because it was a collaboration between Ahn Jung-gyu and Kim Cheol-soo.
Youngjun Choi soon grabbed the microphone.
“Team Leader Kim’s words are reasonable. Your team strictly enforces confidentiality to prevent projects being promoted from being leaked, but it would be a big problem if they were leaked to another company. Legal team leader?”
“yes. president.”
“Please thoroughly investigate this matter.”
“yes. president.”
“Ethics Management Team Leader.”
“yes. president.”
“Please thoroughly investigate the rumors circulating around the company.”
“We will conduct a thorough investigation.”
Although the president was powerless, his orders were legally valid.
Moreover, since both were asked to be investigated, fairness could not be cited.
Park Moo-young glared at Kim Cheol-soo with a stone-faced expression, and Kim Cheol-soo smiled lightly and stood up.
“Then, a new project to be carried out by the corporate operations team… Oh, let me present the revised project.”
Upon hearing that it was a modified project, Park Moo-young became a plaster statue.
‘3 months… you two bitches!’
And whose work is all this?
Park Moo-young gritted his molars.
‘f*ck, if you think I’m going to fall asleep over this, you’re wrong.’
the earth turns
– I realized something while looking around at various companies. This means that you cannot survive in a company just by doing a good job.
Unlike usual, legal team leader Oh Jun-hyuk was unable to leave the office until late at night.
He recalled Park Moo-young’s advice with a worried expression.
Oh Jun-hyuk was also Yoo Ji-hoon’s man at one time, but now he holds Park Moo-young’s hand and rides Choi Oh-jun’s line.
However, after calling the server manager to investigate the contents and calling and interrogating the relevant people, it was confirmed that the business plan had been stolen through Hanyoung IT, just as Team Leader Kim Cheol-soo said.
After the incident in the past where the Volkswagen project planned by the sales team was transferred to Shido Group, Chairman Choi Kyung-hoon even issued a special order to take strong action against similar incidents.
A strong company regulation was created regarding this content.
– It’s better for everyone if we cover this up. If it explodes and causes damage to me, I can’t guarantee Director Oh’s future.
Choi Oh-jun even gave strength to Park Moo-young at the company dinner.
Hanyoung General Corporation said that his words were their own and even gave instructions to help Managing Director Park Moo-young as much as possible.
Oh Jun-hyuk, who was worried about work ethics and survival, looked at his watch and stood up.
“after···.”
I sighed and opened the door to leave the office, but was startled to see someone standing there.
“Oh my, what a surprise! ··· What’s going on here, Team Leader Kim?”
Kim Cheol-soo bowed politely to legal team leader Oh Jun-hyuk.
Even after becoming the chairman’s son-in-law, bowing and greeting did not change.
There is a saying that the more power you gain, the stiffer your back becomes, but that did not seem to apply to Kim Cheol-soo.
“I have something to talk about for a moment.”
“You?”
Kim Cheol-soo straightened his back and looked at Managing Director Oh Jun-hyuk.
In the past, when Choi Oh-joon, a member of President Yoo Ji-hoon, became chairman, he, along with Park Joon-hyung, was the most successful person at Hanyoung Trading Company.
Even when Yoo Ji-hoon and Choi Young-jun were in a confrontational structure, they made reasonable judgments on various plans coming from Ahn Jung-gyu’s team, regardless of the company’s political structure, and because of that, many plans were passed and put into practice.
– This person is such a waste.
– Who are you talking about?
– Oh Jun-hyuk, head of the legal team. He’s really good at his job.
– Is he on the list too?
– Even when CEO Choi Young-jun and Yoo Ji-hoon had a war of nerves, they did a great job from a neutral position, but it’s a shame that they took Park Moo-young’s hand.
Kim Cheol-soo, who briefly recalled the story he shared with Ahn Jung-gyu, waited for Oh Jun-hyuk’s answer.
“…There are a lot of eyes watching, so let’s meet at the bar in front of here in 10 minutes.”
“All right.”
Kim Cheol-soo bowed again and quietly left the hallway.
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“Has the investigation been completed successfully?”
“Are you curious about the results?”
Kim Cheol-soo answered while pouring beer into Oh Jun-hyuk’s glass.
“No matter what the results are… “The Earth spins.”
These were the words that Galileo Galilei muttered as he gave up his heliocentric theory at the trial to beg for his life.
– Still, the Earth rotates.
Oh Jun-hyuk, realizing the meaning of Kim Cheol-soo’s words, laughed briefly.
“yes. “The Earth is definitely spinning.”
“But the truth doesn’t enrich our lives.”
I couldn’t help but burst into laughter at these words.
When you see someone say something that completely penetrates their inner thoughts…
Because it felt like I was dealing with Park Jun-hyung.
“There is a saying that ignorance is medicine. That’s true. .··So what do you want to say to me?”
“They said that if I don’t look at it, my heart goes away. “If you ride a line you can’t see, you end up being pushed around by people who are close to you.”
Oh Jun-hyuk looked at Kim Cheol-soo with a soft expression.
“What Executive Director Park Jun-hyung said was true. He told me not to judge you for being a good worker. “How did you know that I was on President Choi Oh-jun’s line?”
“You thought about it for a long time. “The Earth is definitely spinning.”
Oh Jun-hyuk burst into laughter at the simple answer.
“haha! “How long have you been waiting for me?”
“I think it was two hours.”
“Let’s have a drink.”
Kim Cheol-soo clinked glasses with Oh Jun-hyuk.
“I don’t understand why someone as talented as you got on the line of President Youngjun Choi. Aren’t President Choi Kyung-jun and Choi Oh-jun already laying a good foundation and attracting talented people?”
Choi Kyung-jun was an icon of incompetence.
Choi Oh-jun was the one who brought down the group after taking over.
“It was an inevitable choice.”
He could have said something in detail, but Kim Cheol-soo did not continue his speech.
“It’s an inevitable choice…”
But that one word definitely stuck with me.
He also had no choice but to hold Park Moo-young’s hand, and this time he had no choice…
Oh Jun-hyuk closed his mouth for a moment and looked at Kim Cheol-soo.
“But, if I were to choose someone again now, I would still choose President Choi Young-jun.”
“…Why is that like that?”
“It’s because President Youngjun Choi is not competent.”
“what?”
Oh Jun-hyuk burst into laughter for a moment at the absurd reason.
“Then shouldn’t I choose him?”
“As much as they are not competent, their tolerance is wide. Because of this, employees like me were able to demonstrate all of our capabilities under him. “It became an environment that created the existence of Executive Director Ahn Jeong-gyu and myself.”
Oh Jun-hyuk quietly looked at Kim Cheol-soo for a long time.
Maybe it was the right story.
Within the group, Choi Oh-jun’s side is famous only for the person involved, and they don’t know much about who is underneath them.
However, at Hanyoung Trading Company, the reputation of those who worked there was higher than that of President Youngjun Choi.
“…Are you trying to recruit me now?”
“There are many people who feel sorry for Director Oh’s abilities.”
Oh Jun-hyuk took a gulp of the remaining beer.
After a brief conversation of about 15 minutes, Oh Jun-hyuk left the bar and walked down the quiet night street.
Even when parting ways, Kim Cheol-soo bowed to himself at a 90-degree angle.
Changing one’s mind… was more difficult than I thought.
Oh Jun-hyuk took a deep sigh and opened his cell phone.
– Yes, this is CEO Yoo Ji-hoon.
– how are you? This is Executive Director Junhyuk Oh. Sorry for contacting you so late. Are you okay?
– I’m at work now. Well, somehow I’m holding up well… What about you?
– Haha, somehow I’m holding on well too.
Yoo Ji-hoon’s light laughter was transmitted through the mobile phone.
– Seeing the words you’re holding up well coming out of your mouth, it looks like you’re worried a lot?
As expected, he was a person who understood his heart right away.
My heart ached for no reason.
– I have concerns.
– I miss you coming up to my office sometimes and telling me all about the stars. Let’s talk. I don’t know if it will help.
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