Dear Comrade the Leader, Episode 213
Soon the papers were moved from hand to hand, and officials from both parties and the private sector began to review the papers in huge interview rooms.
Ideas full of ambition, regardless of age or career, were carefully written in each document in the hopes of active investment by the state and the party.
Many of them sent not only business plans, but also prototypes and blueprints.
It was Choi Seung-il and Joo Seong-hwan’s job to hold a place once a week in this Deep Red Investment conference room to discover a local company that will inspire new growth engines and create higher added values for the Republic of Korea’s industry.
And the person who gave them these instructions was, of course, Jeong Hwan, chairman of the board of directors of Peony Holdings and general secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea.
-President Choi’s comrade knows finance well, but there are some shortcomings related to information and communication technology.
‘If it’s an investment decision, I can leave it to myself… … It is said that the general secretary is close to private market entrepreneurs these days and uses them in various places closely related to the affairs of the party… … . You must have felt something from the words of President Moon-Young Jung before he died.’
In contrast to the time we had just exchanged polite greetings, Choi Seung-il glanced at Joo Seong-hwan, who was reviewing documents together, with such a faint dissatisfaction inside.
Joo Seong-hwan was the CEO and CEO of ‘Union Co., Ltd.’, which started service in 1997 and became the largest portal site in the republic in 7 years, recording a market capitalization of 2.2 trillion won.
Among those who are now called ‘the river Thames’ in the Republic, half joking and half serious, Joo Seong-hwan was one of the talented people who went to England to study in the UK while studying at Kim University while studying at Kim University.
Originally born in a poor fishing village, he quickly adapted to the British liberal schooling as he was a student of English literature at Kim University. .
As the computer and internet lines were distributed throughout the republic, Union quickly emerged as a major portal site with a significant stake not only in the republic but also in South Korea, where the same language is spoken, thanks to the Party’s investment and support.
One day, in an interview with the South Korean Goryeo Ilbo, when asked, ‘Why did you name the service Union?’, he answered with a smile haha in a proficient Seoul dialect that doesn’t have a Hamgyeong-do accent at all.
-The word uni can also be read as ‘Yunhee’ in the Joseon language, and it is easy to read in Chinese or Japanese. It can also be read as the nicknames of the English names of Eunice and Eugenie, so it is a mission appropriate for the era of globalization and globalization.
-… … So what is ‘on’?
– It’s simpler. Isn’t Union, a company that aims to serve as the No. 1 Internet search engine of the 21st century? It can be either Log On or On Line. Besides, it is also ‘on’ when we speak of our pure Joseon language, the whole nation, and the whole nation, so isn’t it ‘union’? haha.
Whether he came up with it on the spot or he had been thinking about it for a long time, Choi Seung-il purely admired it as a smooth wit and response to the media as a representative of the company.
As a representative of a company that receives investment from the North Korean Workers’ Party of Korea and provides services from both sides of the North and South, it was an interview that did not cause any controversy with either name.
After the interview, the Goryeo Ilbo pointed out that the English word “union” means “federation” in a broad sense, and said, “North Korea may not have abandoned the ambitions of the Goryeo federal system!” , but Choi Seung-il had a slightly different opinion.
Indeed, as the Goryeo Ilbo speculates, the name “Union” may have been chosen to imply the Federation of Goryeo as an aboriginal level to receive investment from the party, but it may also imply a country completely unrelated to the Korean Peninsula in the first place.
‘Maybe it’s the Union Jack that symbolizes England, the United Kingdom?’
If Choi Seung-il’s conjecture is true, an apology publicly at the plenary meeting of the Workers’ Party after 90 days of revolutionary education was not enough, literally, it was an act of ungrateful disrespect for the party and general secretary.
Perhaps the fact that the general secretary was jovial as soon as he heard this name could have been that he noticed Joo Seong-hwan’s calculations and the life-savers underlying it and burst into laughter at the thought of it being absurd.
But, if you knew that, why did you decide to move the Investment Corporation to support and invest in Joo Seong-hwan and Union at the party level?
Choi Seung-il’s thoughts were shattered this morning by a voice announcing that the third and most important guest of the investment meeting was held in the 40th floor conference room of the Chosun Investment Corporation.
“The General Secretary is here!”
“good morning… … To say that, I was late for the general secretary’s face. Maybe it’s because I slept late after returning from my Singapore tour yesterday? Or maybe it’s just that I’m over forty and it’s getting harder to get out of bed in the morning. ttt.”
This was the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Chosun Investment Corporation and the supreme ruler of the Republic, General Secretary Kim Jeong-hwan.
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“Are you here, comrade general secretary?”
“It’s been quite a while since President Choi’s comrade and President Joo. Yes, even today, do you see any number of young IT workers who have revolutionary ideas that will lead the future of the republic?”
“Haha, everyone must have their eyes wide open when they hear that Deep Red Investment Capital, run by the party, is going to be an investor. There are 13 internet shopping malls, 9 video streaming services, and 4 internet payment service projects only in the business plans I have reviewed so far.
“This is an excruciating feeling. As you can see, the purpose of this meeting is to find the real ones among them and invest the party’s finances made up of the people’s blood.”
In contrast to Joo Seong-hwan, who is polite but has a rather confident long conversation with the general secretary, Choi Seung-il, as always, when Jeong-hwan came in, he bowed deeply with a short greeting.
As Jeonghwan pointed out in the first place, he had only been managing and rolling money for the rest of his life, but he was slowly adapting to the potential of the latest IT technology.
“Then the time has come, so let’s get started without delay. Let them in.”
“I got it. Then from the first comrade,”
Soon the door to the conference room opened, and a group of applicants, dressed in suits, but very nervous, entered one by one.
Those who run their own small start-ups mainly on Tapje Street are looking for investors who can make their ideas come true, and when they hear that Chosun Investment Corporation, a state-owned fund, has opened a startup capital, it takes a month to apply. It came to this place through
In addition, the general secretary, who has led and transformed the republic to this point, is directly seated in this place, so I couldn’t help but be nervous.
“Leave your shoulders and come up with a revolutionary idea your comrade has. Please explain slowly why the Korea Investment Corporation should invest the people’s blood money in the company of comrades.”
“Yes, yes! Got it! Our company is a company that specializes in developing easy and effective Internet vaccines that can be distributed to the people on Tapje Street.”
“Hmm, if it’s a vaccine, it’s already imported quite a bit from abroad… … .”
“However, most of the installation process is complicated and the software is in English, so it is difficult for ordinary people to access. In the past 10 years, computers have spread to the extent that it is said to be a disaster in the republic, but only the people who know about computers know that computers can be infected with viruses. Based on this demand forecast, our company… … .”
“It’s faster and more accurate automatic translation software than anywhere else. In addition to the differences between cultural languages and South Korean dialects, English, Chinese Common Chinese, Cantonese, Min Nam, Vietnamese (Vietnamese), Russian, etc. 80 countries around the world with one click… … .”
“Why do the people of the Republic have to wear South Korean or US-made navigation systems in their cars? From Raseon to Gaeseong, isn’t it correct for national defense reasons to be guided by a Joseon-made guide? Currently, I don’t have the money to hire a professional overtone (voice actor), but if the party decides to invest in advance, we can even provide voice guidance service… … .”
“This iron chest in this screen is programmed to drop a first-class item with a 0.001% chance. Level 2 is 0.01%, Level 3 is 0.1%. If you purchase a silver chest or a gold chest through the cash payment button here, you can increase the chance of getting a high-quality item much higher than that of an iron chest. And in this computer game, you can only win by spending money to buy higher-level boxes and items that can only be found in higher-level boxes.”
“… … Well, is there any chance that a comrade will come out who wins by not purchasing the box, that is, just by skill?”
“I bet my money and promise, but there is no other way to die and not even wake up. So our comrades and players who play this computer direct game have no choice but to give us money. How about this business model, it is not enough to immediately recover the investment from the party, so dividends will pour into the investment corporation safe a year after the launch of the service… … .”
“… … .”
Of course, as I had a brief conversation with the general secretary, the head of state, I went through the process of carefully filtering once in the secretary’s office and the investment corporation in the middle, but it was a truly shocking event.
If anyone has fresh items and a serious business will, they can meet the general secretary, who is above the clouds for ordinary people, and even make an investment request. Isn’t that a modern business newspaper?
The reason why Junghwan chose this method was because he was so well aware of the characteristics of the IT industry that it is almost impossible for latecomers to catch up with the leading companies, although it can create great added value in a short time.
Of course, since the early 1990s, computers and modems have already been distributed at low prices by subsidizing them, and after an unconventional policy of including coding in the official education course not long ago, the potential of North Korea’s IT industry, centered on Tower Street, is already global enough to call it global. It did have a competitive edge.
Stanford University in the US, which can already be said to be the parent of Silicon Valley, has started sisterhood and exchange student programs with North Korean universities such as Kim Il-sung University and Pyongsong University of Science and Technology. .
However, the fundamental problem remained that the national weight class represented by the population was running and that there could be no less job creation than the manufacturing industry.
For this reason, Jeong Hwan is taking time out of his busy schedule to explore new business possibilities by himself in order to achieve his ultimate goal of industrial structure in North Korea.
‘Right now, China’s pursuit of the IT software industry has begun. It is difficult to preoccupy the industry as early as possible or to nurture innovative companies so that there is no room for footsteps. Because the brain pool and the domestic market are different in the first place.’
Regardless of China’s bloody shoveling in Afghanistan, those who are sensitive to signals from the wealthy among the 1.4 billion people under Jiang Zemin’s leadership and have been exposed to the potential of the information and communications industry in the West have already entered this field one after another, including Korea, Japan, and Korea. It was becoming a rival of the United States and North Korea.
And no matter how much national capacity was wasted in the war, if they competed without any preemptive effect, they would be pushed back in an instant.
While Jeonghwan was so contemplating the future of the republic, the next applicant crawled and began to explain, following the guidance of the staff in the clerk’s office.
Two things that were unusual compared to the previous applicants were that he was alone, unlike the others who had come with several other founding colleagues, and the second was that he held a machine in his hand that looked like a miniature military straight aircraft. it was
The only difference from the straight steer was that the machine had four pairs of propellers, which usually had one pair.
Seeing this, Seungil Choi narrowed his eyes and muttered.
“Wait, that comrade… … I must have read it beforehand and dropped it halfway through… … .”
“I put it back on the list. Even if you don’t know the president, Choi, I have a lot of potential.”
“what? chief comrade. Seriously, are you going to show these children’s toys in front of the comrade General Secretary, who has been on the brink of construction? I have no idea what that has to do with the alternative telecommunications business. No matter how much advice the president may give, keep in mind that it is the president of Deep Red Investment and I and the general secretary who make the final investment decision… … .”
“Haha, don’t you think it’s a revolutionary idea that deserves attention as well as that of my comrade? Please fix it and listen to it once.”
Choi Seung-il, who thought that Joo Seong-hwan, one of the three members of the meeting, had acted in excess, showed an unusually heated reaction, but Joo Seong-hwan smiled leisurely and lightly accepted Choi Seung-il’s anger.
Choi Seung-il, conscious of Jung-hwan, quickly lowered his voice at the thought that he had reacted too sensitively to Joo Seong-hwan, but he could not stop grunting complaints from coming out of his mouth.
“What is revolutionary… … ! A radio-controlled toy that high school students and less-tied adults play with, isn’t it? That kind of thing is that you can make something similar in no time at any industrial place in the Republic. I don’t know much about engineering, but that’s for sure.”
“no! I have this… … I don’t know what they say in the Korean language, but do you know how many times I have experimented with the propeller motion control of a quadcopter? Of course, there are still communication software and battery problems, but… … However, this is by no means something anyone can make!”
“Calm down, let’s hear about your comrade’s self-introduction and career.”
When the cold voice of leader Jeonghwan resounded in the conference room, Choi Seung-il, a furious applicant, and a young man with tangled hair wearing glasses that seemed to have spent half of their early 30s or so in the laboratory, all shut their mouths.
Then, the mouth of the young man who looked like a natural desk clench was opened, and a tense, small voice came out.
“Me, I graduated from the Pyongyang Kim Chaek University of Technology, Department of Control and Instrumentation Engineering… … After applying for the FANAC talent exchange program in Japan promoted by the general secretary, and after being accepted, I worked as a researcher at the FANAC headquarters in Japan for 7 years.”
“Oh, I remember. Obviously, I heard that the talented people sent by Son Jeong-eui and Son Masayoshi are playing a big role in the research center there. What did you mainly study there? Perhaps that was the result of that research?”
Only then did Jeonghwan nod his head as if he understood.
About 10 years ago, when Jung-hwan just started laying the foundations for the North Korean industry, Fujitsu acquired Fanuc and helped Son Jeong-ui to merge with SoftBank as an affiliate.
As a Japanese company, it is extremely closed to technical security, but if you had a career in the world’s best machine tool field, you could expect something that the applicant is holding in his hand.
“It was an industrial controller and a servo motor for motion control. While working there, you learn skills, and now you get an idea for a business, split your salary, open a company, and die there for two years.
“Okay, so what do you call that machine? Let me introduce you to Seungil Choi here.”
“that… … Actually, I didn’t invent it, but it’s already being used in many places including the US military… … . This guy has 4 wings so it’s called a quadcopter, but it’s also called a multicopter… … No, not this. According to the broadest classification, it is called this in English. Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV).”