Real Man

Yoo-hyun laughed incredulously.

In this era of rapid growth in the smartphone market, the most important thing was talent.

Even if they paid double the salary to hire them, it would not be enough. But in the office, they were treated like this.

It was no wonder that the staff who worked on the Google reference phone all left.

“Who said this?”

“It was the development center director. Both Han Jae Hee and Kang Chang-seok said that the director was sensitive about the price and tried useless things.”

“I see. I didn’t know it was this bad just by hearing it, but it’s bitter to see it in person.”

“Yes. The treatment is too poor.”

The employees were unfairly blamed for the losses.

But the situation of Han Sung Electronics, his brother’s company, was serious.

Was this just a problem of the development center director?

If they couldn’t get rid of these irrationalities, it was obvious that they would collapse no matter how well they set the direction.

Even if they did well this time, it would be impossible to sustain it.

Yoo-hyun lowered his head and leaned forward.

“Let’s walk some more.”

Trudge trudge.

The departments related to the smartphone business in the development center were concentrated on the 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th floors.

They were divided into software and hardware teams.

Although the internal atmosphere was different, they all had the same sense of defeat.

They didn’t pay much attention to Yoo-hyun and Jang Jun Sik.

Swoosh.

Jang Jun Sik looked carefully at the situation of each team based on the information he had gathered.

He especially focused on the teams that he confirmed had conflicts, and tried hard to check the names of the people he needed.

He looked like a detective, scanning the surroundings with eagle eyes.

In the process, he also checked some unnecessary things.

He whispered in the break room.

“There are no partitions in the office, but there is almost no communication. They don’t talk much here either.”

“Right.”

“Yes. They all hold their smartphones. They mainly use stock apps. But they are unhappy because the company doesn’t provide Wi-Fi.”

Yoo-hyun also saw and heard the same thing, but he agreed.

“That’s a good discovery.”

“No, it’s not. But they are all so down, I wonder if the work will go well. The future product team seemed much better.”

“They were too ambitious and that was the problem. The situation is completely different.”

“Yes. What should we do?”

Jang Jun Sik looked sincerely worried.

He had widened his perspective by working with Yoo-hyun, and he seemed to have some predictions of the situation.

He couldn’t lose his strength, as he had to lead the work from now on.

Yoo-hyun called his junior, who still had a lot to learn.

“Jun Sik.”

“Yes, sir.”

“Everything you’ve confirmed here was a problem, right? The people and the organizations?”

“Yes.”

He nodded and Yoo-hyun made another suggestion.

“That’s enough for now, so look at something else.”

“What do you mean?”

“Although what you’ve summarized was a problem, there must be some key figures among them.”

“Key figures?”

Yoo-hyun gave a specific explanation to Jang Jun Sik, who looked puzzled.

“Yes. When everyone gave up because of the resolution fragmentation problem, who was the person who kept working on the software solution until the end? The person who was writing code with a sullen face in the corner of the 5th floor office.” ŔΆΝỖ₿ΕŜ

“Kim Se In senior.”

“Who was the person who didn’t change the PCB according to the upper order, but instead tried to reduce the volume as much as possible by visiting the mold company like his own house?”

“Seo Woo Sung manager.”

Jang Jun Sik answered right away, as he had checked their names while investigating.

“Right. The people who tried to find their own ways in the limited situation. The people who were constantly mentioned by others. Find those people.”

“Ah…”

“We have to create an environment where those people can go ahead. Then you don’t have to worry, it will work out well.”

If everything was a problem, there would be no present for Han Sung’s smartphone.

The reason why Han Sung’s phone business didn’t collapse like Nokia and maintained its lineage was thanks to the employees who worked hard in the limited situation.

They had to bring out the people who were buried in the dirt and couldn’t shine.

That was the only way for Han Sung to survive.

Jang Jun Sik gave a firm answer, as if he understood Yoo-hyun’s will.

“Yes. I understand.”

“If you can do this…”

“Yes?”

Maybe he wouldn’t have to teach him anything else?

Yoo-hyun hid his thoughts and got up from his seat.

“Never mind. Let’s go.”

“Yes, sir.”

As Jang Jun Sik got up quickly, Yoo-hyun chuckled.

“You’re fast at getting up.”

Yoo-hyun, who sent Jang Jun Sik away, sat on a bench on the street and thought for a while.

‘Sense of defeat…’

He felt nostalgic as he recalled the scene he saw today.

He had experienced something like this before.

Irrational decisions, repeated failures, and a work culture that worked day and night made the employees exhausted, and they were constantly pressured by comparing them with their rival Il Sung.

It was the story of the subsidiary that Yoo-hyun was in charge of when he was a director.

There was someone who advised him at that time.

-You can revive the organization by eliminating the sense of defeat between the organizations and reorganizing them. This is something that can be done easily if you step in at the group level.

It was Ahn Jae Kyung, the section chief.

What did he say back then?

He didn’t remember well, but it was certain that Yoo-hyun didn’t follow his advice.

It was because of Shin Kyung-soo, who was the chairman at the time.

As a result, he couldn’t even hear the solution that Ahn Jae Kyung suggested.

Instead, he pressured him to come up with a way to deal with the situation when he cut off the organization.

Yoo-hyun smirked as he recalled the old memory.

“I never bought him a proper drink.”

He had drunk with him for work, but he never spent any personal time with him.

Not even once, for the person who had been with him for eight years as his closest aide.

He had lived a cruel life, even when he thought about it again.

Sigh.

Yoo-hyun turned his head and took out his phone.

He stared at the screen for a long time, then quietly pressed a button.

It was the moment when his desire to fix things touched the screen.

A little later.

Yoo-hyun faced his boss, An Jaekyung, at a quiet bar.

He didn’t mean to call him out, but he came running in one step.

It was even more embarrassing that the place was near the Sindorim campus.

“I hope I didn’t bother you while you were working.”

“No, not at all. I was on my way home anyway. This place is close to my home, and I felt like having a drink.”

“Do you enjoy drinking?”

“I like to have a drink by myself in a quiet place. Actually, I rarely drink with someone else like this.”

“Me too.”

In the past, Yoo-hyun and An Jaekyung’s boss didn’t have the same personality, but they were similar in their individualistic aspects.

They both didn’t like to mingle for the sake of socializing.

An Jaekyung’s boss tilted his head, as if he was surprised by Yoo-hyun’s answer.

“You don’t drink often? I heard from Kwon Daeri that you’re a heavy drinker.”

“Oh, I drink a lot these days. Before, I mean a long time ago, I hardly ever drank.”

“That’s natural, since you were young then, right?”

“Haha. Yeah.”

Yoo-hyun finished the conversation with a laugh and clinked his glass.

Yoo-hyun put aside his purpose of recalling An Jaekyung’s boss for now.

He just chatted with him like a friend, sharing old stories and connections.

There were also personal details in the conversation, not just work-related ones.

As he explored the unknown sides of him one by one, An Jaekyung’s boss suddenly asked him.

“You’re a very interesting person, Han Gwajangnim.”

“In what way?”

“I feel comfortable when I’m with you. I also feel like I want to keep talking to you.”

“Really?”

“Yes. It’s like I’ve known you for a very long time. Haha! I’ve been having a lot of strange things happen to me lately, so I’m having some silly thoughts.”

Blush.

An Jaekyung’s boss definitely had a good intuition.

Apart from that, the reason why An Jaekyung’s boss felt comfortable was that his habits had become familiar to Yoo-hyun’s body.

They had spent a long time together.

Yoo-hyun emptied his glass and smiled faintly.

“Maybe we did know each other for a long time. There’s such a thing as fate, right?”

“My wife would be nervous if she heard that.”

“You can make jokes like that?”

“Of course. I’m a pretty fun person, you know.”

“Really?”

It was a remark that made his head tilt involuntarily.

He didn’t even talk much about his personal life, let alone show any fun side.

An Jaekyung’s boss laughed and explained, seeing that Yoo-hyun didn’t believe him at all.

“Haha! At home, I mean. My son loves me to death. He’s four years old now, and he’s especially happy when I bring him chocolate cake. He acts like a puppy.”

“Your son must be a handful.”

“It’s very noisy, too. He clings to me a lot.”

“But you look happy.”

An Jaekyung’s boss was the type who was sensitive to even small noises.

He also restrained his emotional expressions as much as possible.

But he smiled brightly when he talked about his child.

“It was the first time for me. I never liked someone’s voice so much.”

“Voice?”

“Yes. I like all the sounds my child makes. His crying, his laughing, his calling me daddy, even his tantrums.”

“That’s amazing. Most people hate children’s noises.”

“I was different. It felt like my child changed my life. Maybe you’ll understand someday, when you have a child of your own.”

As he heard An Jaekyung’s boss’s words, an old memory that he wanted to forget flashed by.

It was the words that Yoo-hyun had coldly spat out to his wife in the past.

-Don’t you know how important this time is for my life? I don’t care about a child or anything.

Why did he do that then?

Yoo-hyun muttered regretfully without realizing it.

“What if I had a child… Could I have changed?”

“What?”

“No, nothing. Let’s have a drink.”

Yoo-hyun forced a smile and lifted his glass.

He drank a lot that day.

He poured out a lot of stories as much as he emptied his glasses.

They included his desire to change the company and what happened today.

An Jaekyung’s boss nodded as he listened to Yoo-hyun’s story.

“I know that the development team’s atmosphere is not good. I’m also a bit sensitive about that.”

“I guess you know better, since you’ve worked with them before.”

“Yes. This is why the organizational change that Na Teamjangnim is thinking of might be hindered. There are too many things tangled up.”

“I think it will work out. The problem is whether it can be sustained afterwards.”

It wasn’t impossible if they pushed it in a short period of time.

If it was, Yoo-hyun wouldn’t have started it.

An Jaekyung’s boss nodded and trailed off.

“That might be possible. But it would be better if we used a different method…”

“What method?”

“Actually, it’s a bit less likely, so I couldn’t tell you easily.”

“Please tell me. I’m curious.”

Yoo-hyun perked up his ears in a curious mood.

His head was clear for now.

An Jaekyung’s boss emptied his glass and said his plan.

“I’m talking about creating an integrated organization that covers the entire department and subsidiary.”

“An integrated organization?”

“Yes. Give them full authority and create an environment where they can only work. The results will be the responsibility of the higher-ups.”

“…”

In other words, he was saying to overhaul the organizational structure.

What if that happened?

They could get rid of all the problems at once, such as the unfair decision-making and the complicated internal politics.

It was also a trick to provide the employees with a clear vision, goal, and justification.

But there was a problem.

To change it as he said, they had to gather all the organizations, including the ones with foreign executives, under the Innovation Strategy Office.

If that was possible, Vice President Shin Kyung-wook wouldn’t have suffered so much.

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