The 3th Generation of the Chaebol Wants to Live Quietly - Chapter 215



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#215.

However, Vice Minister Park Sang-ki, who had already heard the inside story, stuck out his tongue.

‘Team Leader Cho’s appearance is amazing.’

The person who wouldn’t even blink an eye if an earthquake occurred and the building collapsed at the company was Team Leader Jo Seong-don.

So, even Manager Lee Seok-woo, who was angry and working alone, was startled when he got no response.

I wondered if I had misunderstood.

Instead, the one who stepped forward was Director Lee Il-tae, who had just received a phone call and appeared.

He is in a situation where his anger has reached the top of his head.

Suddenly, I remembered all the resentment I had felt towards Choi Min-hyeok and I couldn’t bear it any longer.

He couldn’t stand what Choi Min-hyuk did to him while harassing him.

“I’ll kill you!”

Eventually, Director Lee Il-tae, unable to contain his anger, ran to Team Leader Jo Seong-don and grabbed him by the collar.

The surprised manager Bae Jong-dae intervened to stop this, and Manager Heo Hoon stepped forward to help Director Lee Il-tae. In the end, they grabbed each other by the collars and screamed at each other.

In the process, Deputy Manager Jeong Seong-geun was hit by Manager Heo Hoon.

A situation that flows as if a fight is going on.

It seemed like it would never be fixed.

Other team members standing next to the planning team also stared at this scene with their mouths wide open.

After letting out his pent-up emotions, Director Lee Il-tae finally came to his senses and realized belatedly that he had done something wrong. He hastily pushed back the Satellite Business Team staff, including Manager Heo Hoon.

“Manager Heo, step back for a moment. I told you to stop. What are you doing?!”

Manager Heo Hoon, who was always grumbling, was also different than usual. He also couldn’t easily let go of the grudge he had against Director Choi Min-hyeok.

Director Lee Il-tae gritted his teeth.

“Team Leader Cho, isn’t this wrong? If there was something related to the new satellite business, shouldn’t the planning team have discussed it with our business division first? Does it make sense that we would hear about it through a partner company and not ETRI?!”

Most of the information was already known through ETRI, which received the order from Choi Min-hyeok, but the story heard through a partner company clearly showed the location of the KM satellite business division.

Director Lee Il-tae could no longer contain his boiling anger.

“How could our division, which is in charge of the satellite business, not know about it? Everyone who should know, including Oseong Electronics, knows about it!!”

Director Lee Il-tae’s appearance, shouting with his neck bulging, is something we have never seen before. When he was pushed to the edge of a cliff, Director Lee Il-tae also rushed in with an attitude of wanting to see it through to the end.

Team Leader Jo Seong-don, whose suit was disheveled, did not change his relaxed attitude as he straightened his tie.

“Since you keep pushing me like this, I’ll say it again. Our planning team was never involved in any satellite business.”

“Then how do you explain the current situation?!”

“We are conducting joint research through Professor Lee Dong-ho, and he has helped Professor Song Han-seong, an expert in the satellite business.”

“That means… … .”

“Yes. We are not in a position to manage Professor Song Han-seong’s projects one by one. We knew there was something there, but we couldn’t necessarily increase the workload since we have a satellite business division.”

That’s right.

In fact, the person who directly intervened with Professor Lee Dong-ho, Professor Song Han-seong, and the ETRI research team was none other than Director Choi Min-hyeok. As a result, even Team Leader Jo Seong-don did not know exactly what Director Choi Min-hyeok had done.

Team Leader Jo Seong-don did provide various information under Choi Min-hyeok’s instructions, but that was all.

Even Team Leader Jo Seong-don was not fully familiar with the service expertise of the satellite broadcasting system.

Strictly speaking, even ETRI’s satellite division was not aware of the inside story.

Team leaders Oh Hyeon-jong and Kim Seung-gu, who were struggling with internal conflicts at ETRI, could not promote this issue here and there, as it was something that affected their future.

Team Leader Jo Seong-don only knew some of the situation going on, including Sizbell.

However, that does not mean that Team Leader Jo Seong-don could not have known about this at all. If he had asked Choi Min-hyeok specifically, he would have found out.

But Team Leader Jo Seong-don didn’t necessarily do that. This part is related to Choi Min-hyeok’s ability, and the questions that have piled up until now are already mountains.

Adding a piece to it doesn’t make a difference.

There was no reason to ask for detailed information.

Moreover, it did not seem likely that Choi Min-hyeok would give a proper answer to the question of how he redesigned the new satellite broadcasting system.

So, even though it’s like covering one’s eyes and pretending not to know, what Team Leader Jo Seong-don said is not entirely a lie.

Director Lee Il-tae, who was unaware of these details, could not believe it.

“… Does that make sense? Even the planning team leader didn’t know the inside story!”

Team leader Jo Seong-don grumbled as if he knew absolutely nothing.

“The person who coordinated everything was Director Choi Min-hyeok. So if you really have something to complain about, don’t come to our planning team and complain, but instead go see the director.”

When Director Choi Min-hyeok’s story came up, Director Lee Il-tae flinched like a child who had been possessed by a horse. He did not want to see Director Choi Min-hyeok’s face if possible.

“Sure, are you saying that Director Choi planned all of this?”

“I don’t know the details, but as I have already said, KM Electronics cannot interfere with the research projects of Professor Lee Dong-ho’s research team or Professor Song Han-seong’s research team.”

“… … .”

Director Lee Il-tae pondered Team Leader Jo Seong-don’s words in a daze. However, he could not understand them with his common sense.

There was no way of knowing how a 20-year-old college freshman could have gotten his hands on a new satellite broadcasting system.

But, judging from Team Leader Jo Seong-don’s expression, he definitely didn’t look like he was lying.

‘Are you saying that there really is a research institute that is managed in secret? Wait, there is also a research institute that Team Leader Choi Byeong-yeon manages separately. I’m going crazy.’

“Excuse me, the planning team really doesn’t know about this?”

“I have no idea.”

Director Lee Il-tae eventually turned around after looking around.

Director Lee Seok-woo and Manager Heo Hoon, who were greatly shocked, also had no choice but to turn around with questions.

They couldn’t even imagine what on earth Director Choi Min-hyeok had done.

* * *

When the executives and staff of the satellite business division disappeared, Vice President Park Sang-ki ran to Team Leader Jo Seong-don and asked him a question in a subtle manner.

“Are you okay?”

Only then did Team Leader Jo Seong-don take off his suit jacket and look around, and he chuckled.

“Fortunately, I’m okay.”

His gaze naturally turned to Deputy Jeong Seong-geun, who had been hit once.

“Manager Jeong, are you okay?”

“Oh, it’s not a big wound.”

Deputy Jeong Seong-geun, who was hit hard in the face, ended up laughing awkwardly.

“Just in case. Go to the hospital.”

“All right.”

Only then did Vice President Park Sang-ki look at Team Leader Jo Seong-don again.

“Did you really plan this whole thing yourself, sir?”

“… I don’t know the details either.”

“No, are you saying that Director Choi didn’t tell the team leader either?”

“Unlike other tasks, modifying satellite system services is not an easy task. Even within ETRI, we only focused on finishing the task by thinking about the results and schedule. The number of people involved is over a hundred. Can an ordinary person who has never learned related expertise properly finish the task that even they could not do?”

“Why don’t you just ask Director Choi? He could be running a separate, secret research lab, or he could have hired someone to do the research.”

Team leader Jo Seong-don chuckled and confessed the questions he had been pondering.

“No matter how incompetent ETRI doctors are, ordinary people can’t be like that. Anyone who sees ETRI doctors would think they are idiots. Who can do what they can’t do? Can Director Choi do that?”

Words filled with sincerity.

In fact, even Team Leader Jo Seong-don had many doubts about the orders that Choi Min-hyeok would occasionally throw out. When he confessed, even Deputy Director Park Sang-gi stopped being suspicious.

“… That’s a bit like that.”

Vice Minister Park Sang-ki also discovered the inconsistencies only later. If it were a somewhat reasonable inference, it would have been reasonable to say that Professor Song Han-seong voluntarily conducted the research with his own abilities.

This was his limit.

However, it is absolutely not because the ETRI staff is stupid that there is no way around it. The satellite broadcasting system itself is entangled with several patents, and the work is still ongoing.

In other words, the satellite broadcasting system service was a task that pioneered a new field. So, it was not something that the ETRI research team could easily do.

In fact, the fact that Choi Min-hyeok came up with a new satellite system service was rather strange.

This part was also something that ETRI’s Dr. Moon-Ho Kim’s research team found questionable.

So, it was not a category that KM Electronics Planning Department or Satellite Business Division could have thought of even once.

Only then did Vice President Park Sang-gi frown. He stared blankly at Team Leader Jo Seong-don. It was only later that he realized one thing.

‘There’s something. Well, there really are a lot of things that don’t add up when it comes to Director Choi.’

Of course, I thought Team Leader Jo Seong-don would know. But judging from Team Leader Jo Seong-don’s actions now, there was something he didn’t even know.

‘There were so many strange things related to Director Choi. Collins said so, but MP3 was a different story. Even Team Leader Choi Byeong-yeon said he received instructions from Director Choi.’

All that was added to it was a new satellite system.

The most important thing is that even Team Leader Jo Seong-don doesn’t know much about it.

“Okay, I understand. But I feel uneasy because I feel like I’m possessed by a ghost.”

“There will come a day when Director Choi will tell you everything.”

“I see. But I was really surprised. I never imagined that Director Lee Il-tae would act so rashly.”

Team leader Jo Seong-don also did not know that Director Lee Il-tae would fight. Instead, he was worried about Director Lee Il-tae’s future.

“That’s also a concern. I don’t think Director Choi would let something like this go.”

“I guess so.”

* * *

At first, Choi Min-hyeok also laughed a lot at the CCTV footage of Director Lee Il-tae, who didn’t know how to be afraid of a one-night-old puppy. However, he couldn’t just leave it like that.

There was just a little problem.

Chairman Choi Yong-wook’s emotions had not yet been resolved.

‘It’s different from the DL Group or Oseong Electronics cases. It’s ambiguous to deal with… … .’

It wasn’t a question of whether Chairman Choi Yong-wook cared about Director Lee Il-tae or not; he had clearly told him to be careful, and it was obvious that he would get angry if he didn’t follow those instructions.

Moreover, what Choi Min-hyeok himself wanted was a conflict between the DL Group and the Oseong Group.

Chairman Choi Yong-wook did not want to get involved in this matter.

It would not have been desirable to give Vice Chairman Choi Moon-kyung an excuse through this incident.

Minhyuk Choi eventually received a list of recent projects being carried out by KM Group from Team Leader Seongdon Jo.

Even Team Leader Jo Seong-don tilted his head as he handed over the data he received from Director Jang Seung-il.

“Why are you suddenly looking at that document?”

“I’m trying to create some work.”

“yes?”

“Oh, there is something like that.”

“Is it because of Director Lee Il-tae?”

“Of course. Do you really think that someone who commits violence in the workplace would be left alone?”

“But for the time being, there are also instructions from the Chairman, so wouldn’t it be better to be careful?”

“That can’t be done. As the saying goes, attack is the best option, and in times like these, we must retaliate thoroughly. But we don’t have to fight with Grandpa, so we need appropriate means.”

“… … .”

Team Leader Jo Seong-don also didn’t say anything more to Director Choi Min-hyeok, who had made up his mind.

Minhyuk Choi suddenly checked the list of companies disappearing while looking at KM Group affiliates. Among them, one affiliate that seemed just right came to mind.

“Ah, there was TRS Geotech KM.”

“Huh? Why are you suddenly looking into that company?”

“That’s right. Hmm, this company won’t last more than a few years and it’ll go out of business.”

“It’s a company with a considerable amount of capital, so how could that possibly happen?”

“If you keep hoping, you’ll fail. Just know that you’ll fail.”

“…What on earth does that mean?”

Choi Min-hyeok hesitated to explain, but then he remembered what Team Leader Jo Seong-don said in the video and snickered.