74. Seon Seventy-Three
Young-mi’s father’s excited voice over the receiver echoed through my room.
I opened my mouth in a calm voice.
“Yes, it is. Data on automation equipment purchased earlier this year were not hacked. Neither the machine data nor the purchase-related files were included in any of the 17 combinations.”
-If you’re talking about automated equipment, are you talking about that stud crimping machine?
The part that protrudes sharply from the bottom of a soccer shoe and increases friction with the ground is called a stud.
The old stud crimping machine had to be operated manually, and the defect rate was high depending on the skill of the staff.
In addition, the slowest step in the soccer shoe manufacturing process was the stud compression, as the cooling time was long to prevent deformation after plastic compression.
For this reason, a new stud crimping machine was purchased earlier this year, and the introduction of the new machine was expected to increase the production of soccer boots by up to 40%.
However, the machine’s automation program was in trouble, and the machine was not used properly until the end of last month.
I said to my uncle’s question.
“yes that’s right. At that time, I didn’t know that wasting my time arguing with Lee Su-jeong’s side would be helpful in this way.”
-Did you say that fighting with the machine maker was helpful? I don’t know what you mean.
The hackers took our factory production data from the second quarter, and since our factory didn’t use the new stud crimping equipment until June, they probably have a much lower estimate of our factory’s production capacity than it actually is.
In other words, it meant that the unit price of our soccer shoes was viewed as 30% higher.
When my explanation was finished, silence passed over the receiver, and at the end of the silence, the sound of Young-mi’s father’s laughter was heard.
The old man said after laughing for a while.
– Yes, yes! It seems that this hack will be rather helpful for us! Ahahaha—!
Saying it was helpful to us.
This meant that we could bid a little higher than the originally planned delivery price.
When the conversation about the specific bid was over, the uncle strengthened his voice and spoke to me.
“This export to Europe, from start to finish! Jungho, you do it all. Really great! awesome! ha ha ha–!”
“I was just lucky. But are you going to fax the bid documents now?”
– Yeah, that’s right. I’ll check it one more time and send it right away.
I checked the clock on the desk.
5:05 in the morning.
The closing time for bidding is 7:00 a.m.
1 hour and 55 minutes left.
I struggled for a while, and after thinking about it, I said to my uncle in a cautious voice.
“I… mister. Do you have any bidding information? . Can’t we keep this secret until the bid deadline?”
– Are you keeping it a secret? What do you mean?
“I don’t want you to tell the rest of the company until 7 o’clock.”
– Yes, no. But now, the only employee I have at the company is Manager Kim, so even if I want to talk, there is no one to talk to. haha!
“I mean… It means that I don’t want you to tell Manager Kim too.”
Silence passed over the phone, and after a while the uncle’s low voice was heard.
-Perhaps… Why are you telling me not to talk to Manager Kim?
“There is no particular reason. Before the bidding this time, the computer network was hacked, so I think it is better to be careful.”
-Yeah, you’re right. I don’t know that.
So I ended the phone call with Yeong-mi’s father, and I was able to lay myself down on the bed.
By the way… Is this magic?
It was just that I closed and opened my eyes once, but two hours had passed.
I got out of bed, brushed my teeth, and I’m getting ready to go to school… mind is fuzzy
I slept only 3 hours two days ago,
I’ve only slept 5 hours in the last three days.
The good news is that today is Saturday, and after the vacation after the second period is over, you can come home.
When I returned home from school vacation, I changed clothes and collapsed on the bed.
When I woke up again, it was already Sunday morning the next day.
You’ll sleep for 20 hours.
Thanks to you, my body and mind became more refreshed.
I was a little worried about taking a shower and getting dressed.
Yoon Sung Soft’s office is a space converted from a basement room in an ordinary house.
It must have been a gloomy atmosphere, but I thought I should wear bright clothes.
I chose relatively bright clothes and headed to Yunseong Soft, and was able to arrive at the office 30 minutes earlier than the interview time.
“Wow! The office is really neat.”
Yoon-seok hyung smiled at my words and said.
“Is not it? I’ve only cleaned three times since this morning. ha ha ha—!”
Yoon Seok-yi hyung looked around the office and continued.
“after—! Would this be enough?”
“I didn’t know our office was so neat.”
“ha ha ha—!”
Yoon Seok-yi emptied the trash can and changed clothes for the interview.
I said with a thumbs up to my brother.
“Because I wear a suit like that, I really look like a representative.”
“okay? But since this is a basement, wouldn’t the atmosphere be too heavy if I wore a suit like this?”
I said, pointing to the light blue tie he was wearing.
“The tie is bright, so it’s not like that at all.”
“okay? Looking back, I think Eunseong has a good sense of choosing clothes. This is what Eunseong coordinated this morning.”
“okay? But is Eunseong okay?”
“Yeah, the cold is all over, and you came to my house yesterday. I asked him to come with me to take a look around the office today, but he said that he had work to do until lunchtime.”
“That’s fortunate. We were on vacation yesterday too, so I’ll contact Eun-seong and meet with In-cheol sooner or later.”
As I was talking with my brother like this, the clock was pointing to 10 am.
It was the time the reporter was supposed to come.
The older brother adjusted his outfit once more and put on a suit jacket.
10:30.
Yoon Seok-yi hyung took off his jacket and hung it on a hanger and opened his mouth.
“Jeong-ho, isn’t it a little hot?”
“No, it’s okay.”
Yunseong Soft’s office was very cold in the winter, but fortunately, it manages to tolerate it without air conditioning in the summer.
Yunseok hyung sat down and said.
“Is the Riemann hypothesis research going well these days?”
“That’s probably what Texas supercomputers are doing well.”
“okay? Do you think parallel computing with a friend named Lucas went well?”
A supercomputer’s computations use thousands of CPU cores at the same time.
This method is called parallel computing or parallel operation, and for this, it is necessary to know a coding method that assigns an operation algorithm to each processor.
For reference, as of 1999, there are few supercomputers in operation around the world.
This means that few people know about supercomputer parallel computation programming, and it is not easy to find books or materials on it.
In the end, I had to save someone from Texas State University, where there is a supercomputer, and it was Lucas Garcia, a graduate student in mathematics, who was introduced through my major sister.
Looking back, it seems that there is a real relationship.
In my past life, Lucas Garcia was the first graduate student I coached, possessing a uniquely South American optimistic personality.
When I read the jokes that Lucas used to say frequently in my past life via email, I used to feel strange.
I said to Yoon-seok-hyung’s question.
“Lucas has the basics of numerical analysis and coding, so it is very helpful.”
“That friend said that he majored in topology, so do you think he can do numerical analysis as well?”
“I must have studied statistics and numerical analysis since my undergraduate days. And he’s a friend who likes to try new fields.”
“ah… ! okay? How do you know that?”
“haha! Just. I just feel it.”
I checked the clock and the time was passing 11 am.
Yoon Seok-yi, who called reporter So-jeong again, shook his head and said.
“I’m not answering the phone. Hmm–! I feel sorry for you.”
“no. It’s been a while since I’ve been to the office, so it’s nice to talk about various things, isn’t it?”
It was March of this year.
Yoon Seok-yi hyung banned In-cheol and I from entering the Yunseong Soft office, but it was his consideration that he should concentrate on his studies since he was a senior in high school.
In the meantime, I was only responsible for updating the Missing Child program, and even that was often done at home, so I rarely came to the office from the beginning.
However, for In-cheol, a computer geek, Yunseong Soft was literally the best playground.
In-cheol threatened to report to the police for unfair dismissal, with the coercion that In-cheol would never go to college. In the end, he promised Yoon-seok-hyung that he would be able to work at Yunseong Soft on the weekend if he passed 300 on the mock test. received the
And when a month passed, In-cheol came to Yunseong Soft with his 307-point mock test report card.
However, Yoon Seok-yi hyung overturned his promise on the spot.
The standard was changed so that it had to exceed 350 points instead of 300 points.
In-cheol strongly resisted saying two words with one mouth, and in the end I had to intervene between In-cheol and Yoon-seok.
Through my intervention, Yoon Seok-yi hyung bought the bulgogi pizza 3 times at Pizza Hot, but the standard for the mock test went up from 300 points to 350 points.
Two months later, In-cheol came to Yunseong Soft with his mock test score of 353.
However, the standard was only raised to 370 points.
Of course, three more meals were added at Pizza Hot.
I said to Yunseok hyung.
“Brother, but this time, it was a little close.”
“what?”
“In this mock test, Incheol got 367 points. I got 3rd place in our school’s liberal arts department.”
“ah… ! okay? ‘Cause I knew it would be like this ha ha ha—-!”
“What?”
“It’s because In-cheol didn’t study, so I thought that if I did it right, my grades would go up terribly. Working together, I found out. In-cheol is not an ordinary person.”
I nodded my head at my brother’s words.
“That’s right, In-cheol is not normal. We think differently than we do.”
“But why did In-cheol go to the liberal arts department?”
Two years ago, In-cheol obviously chose science, but when he entered the second year, In-cheol was assigned to the liberal arts class.
It is also in the same class as the author.
Yoon-seok-hyung continued speaking with a curious expression.
“Even if I went to the liberal arts department, I don’t know why I wanted to go to the Japanese department.”
“I heard that there is a Japanese manga that you like, but you don’t want to wait for it to be translated, so you go to the Japanese language department?”
“a! no way! I heard that too, but that must be a joke.”
I said, shaking my head with a serious expression.
“no. If it’s Incheol… That could be the real reason.”
When I first heard that Incheol was going to study Japanese, the first person I thought of was Jieun.
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Naturally, I thought that the author wanted to go to the Japanese language department, but the major she wants to enter is political science and diplomacy.
I continued what Yunseok was saying to his brother.
“I told you. Because Incheol thinks very differently from us. ha ha ha!”
“Yeah, right, right! Ahahaha—!”
That was then.
A knock was heard on the office door.
“ah… ! I think the reporter was here.”
At Yoon Seok-hyung’s words, I checked the watch.
11:50 am.
It was 1 hour and 50 minutes late.
The older brother got up quickly and opened the door, and a woman with a sharp impression entered the office.
“Reporter So Su-jeong?”
At Yoon-seok-hyung’s words, she shook her head and entered the office.
I had no choice but to stop her as I tried to greet her.
“uh… ! Hey, you can’t come in wearing shoes like that.”
Yoon Sung Soft’s office is not a cement floor, but a floorboard.
So, there was a shoe rack in front of the door, and there were shoes and slippers that Yoon Seok-hyung and I had taken off, but she didn’t seem to see them.
At my words, she gave me a slightly bewildered expression, but it wasn’t an embarrassment of apologetic emotion.
She smiled and said to Yoon-seok-hyung.
“These shoes are new, so they won’t be very dirty.”