The 3th Generation of the Chaebol Wants to Live Quietly - Chapter 218



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#218.

“Where on earth is such a fucking case? So, Director Jang, are you saying we should close down the TRS business now?”

“That is also an alternative.”

“What are you going to do with the employees you hired now? If you just liquidate the business like this, I think the media will stay quiet. They’ll chew everything out and say all sorts of things.”

“I have to accept it. But I’d rather be cursed at now. I can just turn my business in a different direction.”

“No, what kind of business are you going to do? Do you think that a business can be started just by thinking about it for a day and churning it out?!”

“I will do my best.”

“Wow, this is really going to happen.”

Vice President Choi Moon-kyung kept getting up and sitting down because she thought she was going crazy.

“This isn’t Director Jang’s arbitrary decision, is it?”

“I have already reported this to the Chairman.”

While he was pondering the absurd answer from Director Jang Seung-il, he suddenly remembered the situation with Director Lee Il-tae.

“Could this also be Minhyuk’s doing? Isn’t he putting on this show to cover up the problem with Director Lee Iltae?!”

“… … .”

Because it was the correct answer, Director Jang Seung-il couldn’t answer at all.

The problem is that even if I know that, I have nothing to say to Choi Min-hyuk.

At this time, the important thing was not Choi Min-hyeok’s intentions, but how to handle the TRS Geotech KM business.

“Wow, I’m sick of this. Choi Min-hyuk, this kid is really creepy.”

Vice Chairman Choi Moon-kyung, with a dejected expression on her face, seemed to be quite troubled, but then suddenly looked at Director Jang Seung-il with a scary look and eventually quietly left the conference room.

It was only too late that he realized that going further from here was the picture that Choi Min-hyeok wanted.

Deputy Director Gu Gil-mo, who had been swallowing dry saliva, only then approached Director Jang Seung-il.

“Is it okay?”

“Vice Chairman Choi Moon-kyung isn’t stupid either. He probably knows Director Choi’s intentions by now.”

“Huh? What do you mean?”

Director Jang Seung-il also shook his head.

“What Director Choi wants is to use this incident to have the Vice Chairman fight with the Chairman. If he does that, the result is obvious. When the TRS business collapses, this incident will also be treated as a wholesale issue. Whatever happens, it will deal a huge blow to Vice Chairman Choi Moon-kyung.”

“… Did you really think that? Even in the report, it was mentioned that the TRS business would completely fail, but it is a future event.”

“No, it will definitely happen. For now, let’s just let go of Director Lee Il-tae’s work and watch. I will report that to the Chairman.”

“Will the Vice Chairman just stay still?”

“I’ll probably stay quiet. If I mess up this time and get destroyed again, Mrs. Kim Yi-kyung won’t just sit by and do nothing. And I want to see the results. Whether it really goes as Director Choi Min-hyeok intended.”

“Is that so? But this isn’t some kind of butterfly effect, and I don’t know what the hell is going on. I can’t understand why Director Lee Il-tae’s agenda is shaking up the group headquarters like this.”

“That’s right.”

* * *

Minhyuk Choi also heard about Vice Chairman Moonkyung Choi’s action(?) at the KM Group headquarters, but was disappointed. He had expected some great action, but it ended up being just a simple pun.

What is more disappointing is the behavior of Director Jang Seung-il and Chairman Choi Yong-wook.

They suddenly became silent as if they had taken a sleeping pill.

There was no such warning.

Initially, Choi Min-hyeok was satisfied because he did not want Chairman Choi Yong-wook to get involved in this matter, but he was still uneasy about the fact that it was a sweet potato instead of a cider.

‘Well, if you keep acting the same way after being treated like that, you’re a real idiot. It’s time to realize it. I have to be careful from now on.’

Instead, he looked at internal reactions to the incident.

The main target is, of course, the planning team.

Deputy Director Jeong Seong-geun, who had been in contact with the U.S. corporation and mediating the matter of contract adjustment related to Walmart, tilted his head at the sudden chaos.

Park Gwang-min was not much different.

“Manager Jeong, what on earth is going on?”

Deputy Jeong Seong-geun, who was rubbing the bruise on his eye with an egg, had no particular expression on his face.

“Do you hear that sound when you look at the Walmart contract right now?”

The various contracts proposed by Walmart were floating on the screen of Deputy Jeong Seong-geun’s computer. He couldn’t pay attention to satellite work while looking through each document.

“But wasn’t the satellite business originally in charge of Manager Jeong?”

right.

The satellite business division, which was not making money, was previously managed by Jeong Seong-geun.

He also met and talked with Manager Heo Hoon frequently, even though it was unintentional.

However, the satellite business itself is not yet profitable.

No matter how capable he was, Manager Jeong Seong-geun could not create work with a business that did not exist. He had only done wasteful work up until now. That is why Manager Jeong knew better than anyone how incompetent Director Lee Il-tae was.

“Since the satellite business division wasn’t doing its job properly, Director Choi may have looked into it separately.”

“Uh, what does that mean?”

Manager Lee Jeong-won, who had been excited by the disturbance caused by the satellite business unit staff, tilted his head.

“Manager Jeong, what does that mean?”

Seong-geun Cho, who was very nervous about the Walmart contract issue, complained.

“Don’t you know that the satellite division is incompetent? Why are you pretending not to know? If I had a satellite business item, I would have looked into other channels before working with the satellite division.”

Chief Bae Jong-dae, who had been whispering conspiracy theories with Vice-Chief Park Sang-gi, suddenly came up to me and sighed.

“Ka, right, I think that’s the right answer.”

“I was just guessing.”

“It’s hard to see it that way.”

“Is there anything else?”

Team Leader Jo Seong-don was thinking of ignoring his team members’ stories, but he couldn’t just keep his mouth shut.

“The Ministry of Information and Communication originally planned to allocate four of the 12 satellite channels through test broadcasts next year, but that schedule has been brought forward. So the situation is bound to be a bit different.”

Vice President Park Sang-ki expressed interest.

“Are you saying that ETRI pushed the schedule forward?”

“Yes. I understand that each major broadcasting company has assigned a channel. However, I understand that satellite broadcasting businesses of large corporations and newspaper companies have been excluded.”

“Were the big companies just watching that?”

“I don’t think you’re watching. Things are different now.”

“What does that mean?”

“We have already started developing the next-generation TDI-ATM switch. In other words, the reliability of the satellite business system has already been verified. I know that even large companies have something to say about this.”

That’s right.

ETRI’s capabilities themselves are so unreliable commercially that it has not been involved in much of the work set by the Ministry of Information and Communication.

But things changed when talk of a new satellite broadcasting system came up.

The Ministry of Information and Communication also visited ETRI and treated this issue as a serious matter.

The problem is that 10 major Korean companies have shown interest in this, knowingly or unknowingly.

In other words, separate from what the working-level staff, such as Director Kwon Tae-seong and Director Lee Chang-myeong, are doing, there is also separate lobbying going on at the higher-ups.

Then, no one knew how the situation would change.

Team Leader Jo Seong-don shrugged his shoulders at the sharp gazes of the planning team members.

“So to speak, the situation is different. That alone makes the situation more complicated than we thought, and it is not something we should get involved in and meddle in.”

“No, but why did Director Lee Il-tae come to our team and cause such a fuss?”

“Don’t you know the answer? And ETRI will give you the exact answer.”

“… It seems like they are doing all the work behind the scenes and putting ETRI first and pretending not to know anything.”

“… I don’t know about that either.”

Team Leader Jo Seong-don also wanted to say everything if he could. Unfortunately, he couldn’t. This is because Choi Min-hyeok was the only one who planned the satellite broadcasting system.

The planning team also clicked their tongues when they realized belatedly how the situation was unfolding.

‘This was all planned by Director Choi.’

* * *

ETRI is a national security facility and filming is not permitted, so filming could only be done in permitted areas.

ETRI, which consists of more than 10 buildings, conducts individual research in each building.

There are various convenient facilities, including a restaurant, inside the building.

The interior of the office is not much different from that of a typical public institution building, with conference rooms and a large auditorium. The only difference is that it is difficult to leave out the laboratory.

There were unexpectedly many people coming and going in the ETRI Satellite Research Institute building where rain was falling lightly.

Team leader Oh Hyeon-jong, who was working on the satellite business project, suddenly called in all of his staff.

Because of this, researchers who had nothing to do with this also started walking towards the satellite research center building one by one.

Many of them were also interested in the satellite broadcasting business.

Because this study itself can be applied to other studies as well.

Professor Lee Dong-ho and Professor Song Han-seong, who were involved in this incident, also showed up on time. Since the two had already kissed Dr. Oh Hyeon-jong, they were conscious of the attention of those around them and did not talk in detail.

In particular, Professor Song Han-seong asked in a worried tone while holding an umbrella.

“Isn’t everything really okay?”

Dr. Oh Hyeon-jong was confident.

“There is no way out now. Or will Dr. Song consider our ETRI position and negotiate the royalty again?”

Professor Song Han-seong, who has always been absorbed in research and lectures, glanced at Professor Lee Dong-ho.

In fact, Professor Lee Dong-ho, who was merely a third party in this incident, shook his head.

“The patent owner related to the satellite broadcasting business is KM Electronics. I am simply carrying out the work by receiving services from them.”

“Is that so?”

Although he put out the fire for the time being by shifting all responsibility to Director Park Jae-ho, Dr. Oh Hyeon-jong, who was not satisfied with the situation itself, glared at the two people.

Professor Song Han-seong, who was only wearing the hat for this research, shrugged his shoulders. He felt hesitant to say anything because there were many seniors and juniors among the researchers within ETRI.

In fact, among Director Park Jae-ho’s acquaintances, there were some who called Professor Song Han-seong separately or visited the research institute to put pressure on him.

Even when Professor Lee Dong-ho made excuses, people did not believe him.

Team Leader Oh Hyeon-jong waited while harassing the two people who were in distress, and at that moment, the car that Choi Min-hyeok was riding in arrived at the parking lot. Team Leader Oh Hyeon-jong gave a signal to another researcher.

“… … .”

Of course, Dr. Kim Moon-ho, who led this revision under the direction of Dr. Oh Hyeon-jong, was just observing because he did not know the details yet.

‘What on earth do you want to do?’

* * *

Minhyuk Choi got out of the car and looked around the lonely ETRI building. He saw people entering the satellite research center building in groups of three or five.

He originally planned to just attend the event, but when he heard that Director Lee Chang-myeong was also coming, he was worried about how he could get away with it.

It was actually impossible to even guess how much damage Oseong Electronics suffered from this incident.

‘I can’t tell you the whole story, but it’s still fun to just sit and watch.’

An interesting fact is that Director Lee Chang-myeong was getting out of another black Benz vehicle that arrived following the vehicle that Choi Min-hyeok was riding in.

He frowned as soon as he found Choi Min-hyeok.

As soon as Director Lee Chang-myeong saw Choi Min-hyeok’s face, he started thinking about Director Lee Il-tae and then the satellite broadcasting system issue.

‘Surely the satellite broadcasting system isn’t that bastard Choi Min-hyeok’s doing?’

The next person who came to mind was Director Park Jae-ho. He was suddenly hit in the back of the head by Team Leader Oh Hyeon-jong and came to me to ask for help.

In fact, I was dumbfounded after hearing Director Park Jae-ho’s complaints.

If it had been a normal day, Director Lee Chang-myeong would have started a commotion right there by swearing.

However, when Director Lee Chang-myeong saw Choi Min-hyeok, he couldn’t go wild as easily as he did last time.

Rather, it was Choi Min-hyeok who started the fight first.

“Yes, sir, I see you here.”

“Watch what you say.”

“If you speak nicely, you will hear nice words in return. Can I say nice things to my secretary in front of a person who is so clingy?”

“I have never done that.”

“There was a fuss on TV. Are you saying you’re going to stick your feet out? Should I show you some evidence?”

Choi Min-hyeok immediately motioned to Manager Kim Myeong-jun and asked for a photo of Secretary Oh Hye-jeong.