75. Seon Seventy-nine
Before the interview started, reporter So-jeong So-jeong took pictures of various places in the office, and I also took pictures of me and Yoon-seok hyung sitting side by side on the camera.
“The pictures I took right now, is it okay to go out with the driver?”
“sure.”
In response to Yoon Seok-yi hyung’s answer, reporter So said to me.
“Are you okay, Jeongho-kun?”
“yes I’m okay.”
“OK! Then we can see that both of them have agreed to use the portrait rights.”
The first question in the interview was the sales of Yun Sung Soft last quarter.
It’s been a while since the interview started,
There was no talk of the missing child program, all only questions about Yunsung Soft’s assets, operating profit, and employee salaries.
After a while, she said, counting the numbers she had written down in her notebook.
“Since there is no monthly rent for the office, let’s see… The net profit will be quite good! For an IT venture company these days, it’s really worthwhile, isn’t it?”
Yoon Seok-yi hyung smiled at the reporter’s praise.
“thank you.”
“and… I’m just asking because there are no other employees right now. How much slush funds have you saved at the company?”
“yes?!”
Reporter Soh opened his eyes thinly and said, seeing Yoon Seok-yi hyung’s bewildered expression.
“a! They say that all the IT venture companies that are doing well these days make slush funds, right? Let me know. I won’t put it in the article. yes?”
“ah… ! What about other companies? But we don’t really have a slush fund.”
At his brother’s words, Reporter So smiled and opened his mouth.
“Really, really, really. If a reporter from a major daily newspaper visits the company on a Sunday like this, shouldn’t the company also show some sincerity?”
“yes… ?”
“For a company that makes this kind of profit, it’s usually about 500 dollars to reporters for coverage.”
Yoon Seok-yi hyung had a puzzled expression on his face, and I felt like the nightmare of my past life was coming back to me.
There was an awkward silence in the office, and at the end of the silence, Yoon Seok-yi hyung carefully changed the topic and opened his mouth.
“Aren’t you going to ask about the contents of the questionnaire you sent me the day before yesterday?”
“A question? ah… ! It was sent out formally… . To be honest, reporters like us at the National Police Agency don’t like to write scripts and interview them in advance. That’s 80’s dictatorship style, isn’t it?”
At most, the reporter So So-jeong, in her late 20s, looked as if she had been a journalist in the 80s.
However, even if she was speaking nonsense to me as a high school student, at first she was kind of respectful to Yoon Seok-yi, but now she has completely stopped talking.
Looking back, I thought that it was really fortunate that In-cheol did not come to the interview today.
If he had seen Yoon Seok-yi, who was no one else, be treated like this, In-cheol would have slammed the reporter at all costs.
Reporter So said while checking his notebook.
“Actually, I’ve asked everything I could ask, and there are only two important questions left. Do you have a program to find the missing child?”
In today’s interview, the missing child program was mentioned for the first time.
She continued to talk as she saw Yoon-seok-hyung’s expression brighten.
“Did you hear that the contract with the Ministry of Government Administration and Home Affairs will be signed soon?”
Currently, the missing child search program is under contract with the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency.
The contract with the Ministry of Government Administration and Home Affairs meant that the missing child search program would be distributed to police stations across the country.
Yoon Seok-yi hyung said with a surprised expression.
“no. This is the first I’ve heard of this, is it true? How did you know?”
Reporter So said with a triumphant expression.
“My name is a reporter who entered the National Police Agency, so you should know that level of information. If a contract is signed with the Ministry of Government Administration and Home Affairs, sales and net profit will increase dramatically… .”
She shifted her gaze and looked at me and continued.
“Shouldn’t an important contract be breached because of a partner’s weakness?”
What weaknesses do I have?
what is this sound?
I opened my mouth carefully.
“that is… now… What do you mean?”
Instead of answering my question, she gave me an eerie smile, and I asked again.
“To say that I have a weakness, that is… What does it mean?”
She said with a sly smile.
“Are you sure you don’t know? Where is Jung-ho’s stepmother’s family now?”
Yoon Seok-yi hyung kicked off his chair and got up.
“What, you! Are you threatening us now?”
I got up to dry my brother, and reporter Soo sat down and put his notebook into his bag with a relaxed expression.
“Oh my goodness? Isn’t that a threat? I’m here to help Yunseong Soft.”
A reporter who asked for money from his father in the past said the same thing.
He said he had a good opportunity and came to help me.
“Get out of here right now!”
What Yoon Seok-yi hyung said was the same as what his father had said to the reporters in his past life, and it felt as if the events of his past life are being repeated again.
At the words of Yoon Seok-yi to leave the office, reporter So opened his mouth to me with a calm voice.
“I think you have to persuade the president well. Please tell me this is not going to come out emotionally. You can think of it as paying a small advertising fee… .”
She gave me a bad smile and continued.
“Actually, this is much more effective than advertising. I assure you, once an article is published, the sales of V-Stop and Michael Security will also double.”
“… .”
She said as she placed her business card on the table.
“You talk well with CEO Cho, so please contact me by tomorrow. Understand?”
I too wanted to yell at her to leave, but I couldn’t.
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No, I wasn’t able to do that.
As she said, I was in a situation where the contract with the Ministry of Public Administration and Security could be broken because of me.
“If you don’t get out of here right now, I will call the police.”
At Yoon Seok-yi’s words, reporter So finally got up from his seat and spoke to himself with a short sigh.
“under—! difficult, difficult That’s why the company should have separate sales staff.”
Reporter So Soo-jeong left the office, and Yoon Seok-yi hyung opened his mouth not long after.
“Jeong-ho, I’m sorry. I guess I just asked you to come today. I have to focus on my studies since I’m in high school, but I think I’m too greedy.”
“no.”
I remembered my father’s rejection of a reporter’s request in the past.
Maybe that’s when everything in my past life started to go awry?
If my father had given the journalist a little money that day, would I have had a different life?
Did my father not want to show shame on me that day?
So, wasn’t it that the reporter was kicked out in front of me?
I opened my mouth carefully, looking at reporter So’s business card on the table.
“Brother, how about doing what the reporter said? I’m actually fine. I don’t know about Michael Security, but V-Stop is definitely an advertisement… .”
Yoon Seok-yi hyung cut off my horse and said.
“Jeong-ho, look at me.”
“… .”
“hey! Chae Jung-ho! Look straight at me!”
I looked at my brother and he continued.
“You didn’t do anything wrong, so don’t do it!”
“Brother, though… .”
“You did nothing wrong! Even if you don’t sign a contract with the Ministry of Government Administration and Home Affairs, it has nothing to do with the Yunseong Soft business! Some beggar crawls in without even taking off his shoes, begging, but he’s still acting like a bastard!”
I stared blankly at Yunseok hyung.
It was the first time he had seen his brother like this.
I started thinking about whether it was the Yoon-seok hyung I knew.
Yoon Seok-yi picked up reporter So’s business card from the table and threw it in the trash, sat down next to me and opened his mouth.
“I am well aware of these facts.”
“yes?”
“This is what my father told me when he opened a restaurant back in the day. Do you know what happens if you do whatever you ask when the truth comes first?”
“… ?”
“Everything else is gathering in the neighborhood. Then you have to close the business.”
Yunseok hyung tapped my shoulder and continued.
“It’s not your fault, don’t worry!”
two days later.
After studying at Youngmi’s house, I came home in the evening, and my mother told me.
“I just got a call from In-cheol and he asked me to call him.”
“okay?”
I checked the time and continued.
“I’m late today, so I’ll call you tomorrow.”
“I told you to call me right away because it was important. Since you’re young, it seems like you’re trying to call over there.”
I called In-cheol, and In-cheol’s urgent voice was heard along with the ringing tone.
“Hey Jeongho! Haven’t you seen the internet news?”
“Internet news?”
“Yeah, check the internet news now!”
Incheol’s words reminded me of the interview two days ago.
“What news? Could it be Yoon Sung Soft’s work?”
“It’s not about Yunseong Soft, it’s about your family!”
“… !”
As soon as I finished talking to Incheol, I ran to my room, turned on the computer, and connected to the Internet.
The article located at the top of the portal news caught my eye.
＜Lessons from the Battle of Yeonpyeong. National Security and Finding the Lost Child, What Matters?>
I clicked on the article and checked the reporter’s name first.
Reporter So-Jeong is right.
The content of the article began with the story of the Battle of Yeonpyeong between the South Korean Navy and North Korean forces in June.
The reason why our navy was able to win this battle was because it had sufficient prior information about the patrol boats and torpedo boats owned by the North Korean army.
The article continued with the story that the outcome of the battle would have been different if the North Korean army had known in advance the information about our navy’s corvettes and high-speed boats.
And a picture that had nothing to do with the Battle of Yeonpyeong came out.
It was a photo of me and Yun Seok-yi hyung taken at the Yunseong Soft office.
The article did not mention Yun Seok-yi hyung and me by name, but anyone who knew us could fully recognize who we were just by looking at the photos.
There was talk that the missing child search program developed by a new IT company would soon be released to police stations across the country.
The article added that the Ministry of People’s Armed Forces is equivalent to the Ministry of National Defense in Korea, and the General Bureau of Reconnaissance is an institution similar to the National Intelligence Service, which oversees operations in South Korea.
In particular, there is a rumor circulating among employees of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency regarding the missing child search program, which is that the computer slows down whenever the program is run.
And at the end of the article.
Reporter So-jeong said that he was a reasonable suspicion as a reporter for the National Police Agency, and wrote that he was deeply concerned that the malicious code that may be contained in the missing child program is stealing information from the National Police Agency.
The article ended with a story that said that if the missing child search program was released to the National Police Agency, the key information of the police responsible for public security would be passed on to the agency that commands North Korea’s operations against South Korea.
When I read the article, my first thought was ‘It’s ridiculous’.
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No, we have to weave something to weave in the world!
It was surprising that such an article was published by weaving a program to find a missing child that had nothing to do with the Battle of Yeonpyeong.
For reference, when using the Missing Child program, if you use an image file of too high quality, your computer will inevitably slow down, and this fact has already been sufficiently explained to the police officers.
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Not only that.
Since the source code of the missing child program is all provided to the National Police Agency, it was impossible for the malicious code to be inserted.
There were hundreds of comments below the article.
B Are you using a program made by a redneck? Isn’t the police department crazy?
B The reporter doesn’t know much about malware. When properly infected with malicious code, police computers across the country are all-stopped and the state of security becomes blank. Then, when the North Korean army comes down, you have to hit GG.
B comment above! it’s creepy
B Not the Korean police, but the North Korean police? Stop using the Missing Child Finder right now!
While I was checking the comments like that, I heard a phone ringing in the living room.
My mother answered the phone and called me.
“Jeong-ho, answer the phone. I’m your school friend.”
I went to the living room with an answer, and my mother handed me the phone and said:
“Mom is the first name I’ve ever heard, but did you have a friend named Kim Jung-soo?”