Rookie Employee Kim Cheolsu Chapter 81

At that time, President Yoo Ji-hoon was quietly looking at Kim Cheol-soo’s personnel record in his private office.

The personnel records were one of the most valuable materials the group had developed for a very long time.

If you knew how to read personnel records properly, you could identify people and most of them were within your range of understanding.

However, no matter how much I looked at the personnel records, there was no explanation at all for Kim Cheol-soo’s current performance.

At the time of joining the company, TOEIC scores were the only objective data for English, and there was no second language.

But now.

Kim Cheol-soo speaks both English and Russian at a native level, and his performance evaluation on trade in particular was close to the highest level.

Moreover, in a situation where it was difficult for even elite graduates of Korea’s top universities to fully adapt to the work, Kim Cheol-soo was receiving contracts day after day like a veteran.

His background and his current appearance did not match at all.

If things continue like this, another early promotion would be natural, and if that happens, he could set a record of becoming a manager in his late 20s.

Even though he was Choi Young-jun’s person, he had the attention of the chairman and the secretary’s office at a glance, so it was difficult to do anything recklessly.

– Knock knock.

“President. This is Managing Director Park Jun-hyung.”

“I ask you to come in.”

“yes.”

After the secretary opened the door and waited for a moment, Park Jun-hyung came in and said hello lightly.

“Welcome. Did you have a good strategy meeting?”

“Yes, boss. The planning team leaders of affiliates are all keeping an eye on Hanyoung General Trading Company. They envied me, thinking that the era of general trading companies that was popular in the 1980s might be coming again. Everyone wanted to meet the president.”

“It’s so strange. It’s getting attention thanks to Executive Director Choi Young-jun.”

“Everything is the president’s ability. Anyway, Executive Director Choi Young-jun seems to have a very long lifeline.”

A slightly displeased smile appeared on Yoo Ji-hoon’s face.

After checking his expression, Park Jun-hyung flattered him to the point of exhaustion and brought up stories from the strategy meeting.

“What happened to your request?”

“I met with CEO Choi Oh-joon and reported on information about Kim Cheol-soo.”

“What was the reaction like?”

“I didn’t think it was a good idea.”

‘You probably don’t like the background of the personnel record.’

When Yoo Ji-hoon nodded, Park Jun-hyung continued.

“However, he was interested in winning big contracts day after day. In particular, he praised Hanyoung Group for its ability to pioneer a new market in Africa through this project.”

Yoo Ji-hoon smiled in satisfaction at those words.

“Once we got interested, we did our part.”

The next successor to the Hanyoung Group that Yoo Ji-hoon is pushing for is Choi Oh-jun.

Choi Gyeong-jun was very ordinary, and Choi Sang-jun had no ambition.

We judged that the future of the Hanyoung Group would not be bright if a dull person takes over, so we chose Choi Oh-jun, who has a cold and cold side, but is talented and ambitious.

Because Choi Oh-jun was the type of person who was overconfident in his own abilities, he did not try to listen to others.

That’s why, rather than directly telling people to embrace someone, I chose to talk back.

“By the way, you will see our Managing Director Park’s face on TV.”

At those words, Park Jun-hyung made a sad expression.

“It’s a shame that the main character is someone else.”

“Hahaha. That’s what young people do. Managing Director Park is perfect for a supporting role.”

Park Jun-hyung almost lost control of his expression for a moment when Yoo Ji-hoon said something that seemed to strangely belittle him.

“Haha. If it’s the boss, then that’s probably it.”

After chatting with Yoo Ji-hoon, Park Jun-hyung left the president’s office and thought as he adjusted his suit on the way back to his office.

Having one’s face and name known on the airwaves could be a useful means of solidifying one’s position.

Therefore, he entertained the PD and writers in his own way, and until then, there was no suitable character, so Park Jun-hyung was half-convinced that he would be the main character.

However, I never thought he would be pushed out by Kim Cheol-soo in the end.

‘I guess I’m like a tool used to catch Kim Cheol-soo, President Yu. If I stay under you, I feel like I’m going to throw up someday. I also need to make my own connections.’

Park Jun-hyung turned around and went up to the sky garden on the rooftop alone.

I was lost in thought while smoking three cigarettes in a row, and then I picked up my cell phone and called somewhere.

“This is Executive Director Park Jun-hyung.”

Park Jun-hyung said as he flicked the butt into the ashtray.

“I’ve made up my mind.”

I’ll say that wherever I go

– Mr. Cheolsu! where are you?

– It’s a company.

– to? I heard you arrived last night?

– Eating well and sleeping well at home is enough.

– Aren’t you overdoing it? Does your company absolutely want you to come to work today?

– haha. I told him to rest, but when I woke up in the morning, I wasn’t really tired.

– Ah really.

‘What if the company told me to take a break? Take a break and go on a date with me! This person, really!’

It was Choi Hye-na who almost screamed at her to work harder.

However, all my feelings of disappointment were blown away by Kim Cheol-soo’s next words.

– How are you tonight?

It was the first time I called first and asked to have dinner.

– …great.

Choi Hye-na stood in front of the full-length mirror happily contemplating what kind of clothes to wear.

After thinking about it for over 30 minutes, I finally chose one suit, put it on, and left the house much earlier than the scheduled time.

This is because if you want to go on a date in the evening, you have to give work instructions to your manager in advance.

Choi Hye-na arrived at the Blue House earlier than usual and started writing a note that said,

While I was worried and couldn’t think of a list of things to do due to my excitement, the bar door opened and a familiar face suddenly appeared.

It was Choi Youngjun.

“brother!”

Choi Hye-na got up quickly and took out some fruits from the refrigerator.

“What are you doing at this hour?”

“Your father suddenly asked me to check on you and see if you were okay.”

“Why do you keep bothering to send your brother when you could have come in person?”

“Because your father has to take care of the whole group. He doesn’t have as much time as I do.”

“Do men have to be so busy all the time to feel happy?”

Youngjun Choi chuckled as he picked up a piece of fruit.

“Why? Is the person you’re dating too busy?”

“I feel like I’m crazy about work. No, what company lets you go on a business trip for more than 10 days and then come back to work right away?”

“Is there a company like that? We don’t go that far.”

Choi Hye-na said, ‘It’s your company!’ “She held back what she was about to shout.

This is because I had no idea what would happen if the story about Kim Cheol-soo reached my father’s ears.

Aside from hearing nagging, the last thing he wanted was for Kim Cheol-soo, who worked day and night, to get scratched and get welts.

Choi Young-jun laughed to himself when he saw Choi Hye-na’s sullen expression.

‘This guy. ‘My father and I already know that you two are dating.’

“Why are you looking like that? Are you from our company?”

“No. Anyway, you too, huh? I’m telling you to pay more attention to the people under you. They take good care of me even though I only have 20 employees. It’s even worse in big companies anyway.”

“It’s case by case.”

“I mean, force them to take a break.”

“You keep talking like you’re an employee of our company? Who are you?”

In response to Choi Young-jun’s question, Choi Hye-na turned her head, pretending not to notice, and Choi Young-jun smiled faintly and opened his mouth.

“There is an assistant manager at our company, Kim Cheol-soo.”

When the word Kim Cheol-soo came out, Choi Hye-na’s eyes turned round.

“…Well…but?”

“I got a huge contract this time.”

“Uh, really?”

“I was recently added to the list of key talent in the Hanyoung Group, and my father is paying a lot of attention to me.”

Choi Hye-na’s eyes grew even wider at those words.

“really?”

Choi Young-jun felt proud for some reason as he looked at Choi Hye-na, who seemed to have never even heard of facial expression management.

‘It looks like you’re giving a lot of your heart.’

“Now that I think about it, that friend came back from a business trip yesterday. Why does he overlap with the person you’re talking about?”

I was caught off guard because I thought it was Choi Young-jun who had no clue, but when an unexpectedly sharp question was asked, Choi Hye-na was taken aback and waved her hands in a panic.

“What are you talking about…”

“That’s just the way it is.”

“What are you talking about, really!”

When Choi Hye-na screamed with a red face, Choi Young-jun, who momentarily flinched, quickly changed the topic.

“Oh, by the way, what are you going to do during the Lunar New Year holiday?”

“What should I do? Let’s go our separate ways like before.”

“Are you going to Damyang alone?”

“I’ll take care of it.”

Choi Hye-na must have felt that her answer was too blunt, as she glanced at Choi Young-jun as she put a piece of kiwi in her mouth.

Choi Youngjun, who was looking at his younger brother, quietly opened his mouth.

“When the time comes, I will visit you someday. I don’t know what it was like for the other brothers, but in my memory, you were as warm a person as my mother.”

“I can’t say anything. Can’t I just go and come back?”

“If you don’t show it, no matter how good you are, no one will notice you.”

“What do you want to gain by doing that? I don’t have much to give?”

Choi Young-jun, smiling, suddenly caught the eye of Hye-na’s outfit.

It was a complicated costume with a jumbled pattern, but it was something I rarely wore unless it was important.

The first clothes Choi Hye-na made herself while majoring in costume design in France.

“You don’t have to have something to be able to give. Sometimes just being there is helpful.”

Huh! Choi Young-jun cleared his throat and pointed to Choi Hye-na’s clothes with his chin.

“But it’s been a while since I wore those clothes. Are you meeting someone important today?”

Choi Hye-na raised her eyebrows and shook her head.

“Hmm. I suddenly hate you. You know too much about me.”

Youngjun Choi stood up and answered.

“Then is it time for me to leave?”

**

“I think it would be a good idea to select a design company first for the Kenyan project. However, we are in a situation where we do not have enough manpower to push forward with the Nigerian project, the Singapore project, and the recently concluded Kenya project. I can’t possibly take care of everything by myself. It’s too much.”

Ahn Jeong-gyu nodded at Shin Kyeong-mi’s words.

It was a valid opinion.

Executives expected that the resource development team would suck their fingers for a year after the reorganization, so they did not hire additional personnel.

It was not that easy to sign a contract, especially because no one expected that such development-related contracts would pour in right before the reorganization.

Moreover, the contract brought by Kim Cheol-soo this time is a large-scale mining development project, including an infrastructure project in the Kwale region.

The scale of the project was close to $1.5 billion, and it was a large construction project that took almost five years to complete.

“Manager Shin is right. It’s hard to handle it all with our staff. But we already fully appealed this situation at the executive meeting yesterday, so we’ll be hiring additional experienced employees soon.”

Shin Kyeong-mi nodded and opened her mouth as if she was glad.

“That’s fortunate. However, in addition to hiring experienced employees, I think it’s also important to find a company to partner with us. After the design begins and a construction company is found, construction will begin, and from that point on, I will be responsible for supervising and auditing the construction situation. “We need a trustworthy company, because we can’t take care of everything.”

Deputy Director Pyo Il-soo opened his mouth when he heard that it was a trustworthy company.

“What about soapstone construction?”

Shin Kyeong-mi shook her head.

“Usually, it is divided into engineering companies and construction companies. Engineering refers to EP companies that include engineering, procurement, and PMC (development managers, auditors). Soapseok Construction is not an EP company, but a construction company. “It’s a company so its personality is different.”

The team members listened closely to Shin Kyeong-mi’s explanation.

“Are you talking about a company like AMEX that is designing and auditing the Nigerian project?”

Shin Kyeong-mi answered Ahn Jung-gyu’s question.

“Yes, team leader.”

“What about AMEX?”

“It is a trustworthy place, but from a long-term perspective, I think it would be better to form a partnership with a domestic engineering company.”

“Do you have a company in mind?”

“I’m thinking of a few places.”

“Then, write a relevant plan and upload it. This is an issue that must be finalized by the board of directors after confirmation by management.”

“I understand. Team leader!”

At Shin Kyeong-mi’s lively answer, Ahn Jeong-gyu nodded with a satisfied expression and turned his attention to Kim Cheol-soo.

“Assistant Manager Kim.”

“Yes, team leader.”

“What happened to this contract? Why did someone who never gave up an inch suddenly change his mind at the end?”

“I think my younger brother, Bohoho, did a good job of persuading me.”

Kim Cheol-soo left out the details about the bet he made with Uhuru and gave a plausible reason.

‘I should be able to believe everything this snobby bastard says.’

“You didn’t do anything else, did you?”

Kim Cheol-soo shook his head sharply with a sly expression.

“No, team leader.”

“Good. What kind of person is Uhuru? In the report, it says that he is preparing for the next presidential election. The management seems to be quite curious as well.”

Kim Cheol-soo nodded.

In the past, Korea-English General Trading Company was unable to do any major transactions with Africa.

Not only Hanyoung but also many of the top five domestic conglomerates have not been able to enter Africa easily.

“He is a person who weighs pros and cons quite thoroughly, but on the other hand, he also has an exciting side. If we support him here first and build a strong relationship with him, it will be of great help when we advance into Africa later.”

Ahn Jeong-gyu quietly looked at Kim Cheol-soo.

‘The report that I was running for president wasn’t something I just wrote. Were you considering expanding into Africa from the beginning? This guy…’

An Jeong-gyu also knew through Choi Young-jun that the entire Korean-English group was moving in relation to this issue.

Did he even calculate the possibility that the Korean-English group might move in one page of his report?

Meanwhile, Lee Jun-hak was also quietly watching Kim Cheol-soo.

Although it was a joint venture between 5 sales teams and 2 teams, it was the largest amount of construction in history for a single contract.

Moreover, it wasn’t just a contract.

It was clear that the fact that the client with whom he was doing business was a person running for president and who had a fairly high probability of being elected would give Kim Cheol-soo wings.

It was both proud and scary.

– I think our team should go together.

What Kim Cheol-soo said to himself the first time he had a drink alone with this guy.

If Kim Cheol-soo hadn’t said that at the time, Lee Jun-hak would have felt a clear sense of crisis toward Kim Cheol-soo by now.

Perhaps there was an attempt to cut Kim Cheol-soo from the team.

Ahn Jeong-gyu turned his gaze to look at Lee Jun-hak, who seemed to be thinking deeply about something.

‘As good as Cheolsu is, this guy might actually feel anxious. The key is whether I can lead these two well.’

Meanwhile, Shin Kyeong-mi was confused by her teammates who suddenly became quiet.

‘Why is this happening all of a sudden?’

“Hmm! Khum!”

An Jeong-gyu, who read Shin Kyeong-mi’s puzzled eyes, cleared his throat a few times and nodded.

“If this goes on and the Hanyoung Group really enters Africa, Assistant Manager Kim’s contribution will be huge.”

“No, team leader. It is the achievement of our 5 sales teams. All I did was create a business plan and get the contract signed.”

“Are you just going to say that to us?”

Kim Cheol-soo shook his head sharply at Ahn Jung-gyu’s words.

“I’ll say that wherever I go.”

“okay?”

“Of course. I think our team should go together until the end.”

Pyo Il-soo must have been impressed by those words and said, ‘Oh!’ He exclaimed.

“You bastard! You can say some pretty cool things, right?”

Lee Jun-hak slightly raised the corners of his mouth, making a sound of wind at Kim Cheol-soo’s words, and Ahn Jeong-gyu sighed briefly inwardly as he looked at Lee Jun-hak’s smile.

Shin Kyeong-mi also couldn’t take her eyes off Kim Cheol-soo.

‘I’ve felt it before, but Assistant Manager Kim is not showing off at all.’

Usually, when things go well, there are bound to be unlucky moments.

‘He’s a hard person to dislike.’

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