77. Seon Eighty Nine
Yeong-mi turned on her computer, opened an internet browser, and clicked on the notice written by Silver Castle.
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hello.
Silver Castle.
Because of the article posted on the Internet yesterday, it seems that there is no one who does not know the missing child program anymore.
＜Lessons from the Battle of Yeonpyeong, which heated up the Internet yesterday and today. I would like to talk about the article about national security and finding missing children, what is important?>.
You’re probably wondering what kind of absurd situation this is.
Still, I ask you to be patient and look at my story.
So let’s start the story.
I have two names. There are two saints.
There are two fathers and two mothers.
They even have two social security numbers.
Of course, one is the now expunged social security number.
Can you guess roughly?
Yes, that’s right.
I was a missing child.
It was the summer of 1985.
Found at the Daejeon Express Bus Terminal, I was placed in an orphanage, and soon after, my adoptive parents adopted me.
They are the people I am most grateful for.
That’s how I got adopted, and 11 years passed.
It’s a long time.
Even the fragmentary memories of my biological parents, which remained vaguely, all faded and disappeared.
So I forgot even the existence of my biological parents.
Then, when I turned 16, something really magical happened.
My biological parents came to visit me in Daejeon.
How did they know where I was and came to see me?
It is said that it is thanks to the Missing Child Finder program.
To be more precise, they said that they created a missing child search program to find me.
For reference, the CEO of Yun Seong Soft is my older brother, and the Yun Seong Soft executives and staff teamed up to find me through the Missing Child Program.
For me, I owe a lifetime of debt to the developers of the Missing Child program.
At one time, my future hope was to be a newspaper reporter.
I once heard a story like this when I said that it was my dream to become a newspaper reporter.
It was said that the job of a journalist is a very dirty job, contrary to what it looks like.
One of the stories I heard back then was an article-type advertisement.
Article-type advertising refers to receiving money back in return for writing articles that promote a specific company, and the fact that this is a savory source of income for many journalists is an open secret.
It was last Sunday.
It is said that a reporter from a newspaper found Yoon Sung Soft and asked for 5 million won with the word that he would write a good article.
It is said that the CEO of Yoon Sung Soft refused on the spot and expelled the reporter from the office.
By the way, the reporter said that he recorded all the interviews with Yunseong Soft, so if my story that he asked for money is not true, the reporter and the newspaper will not leave me alone.
The article written by the reporter who was kicked out of Yunseong Soft was ＜Lessons from the Battle of Yeonpyeong. National security and finding missing children, what is important?>.
There are two things I want to point out in this article.
First, none of Yunseong Soft’s employees have close relatives of high-ranking North Korean officials.
Second, there is absolutely no chance that the missing child program will contain malicious code.
I’m not sure what the source code means, but it is said that all the source code of the missing child program is provided to the National Police Agency.
If the story I’m talking about is false, the Police Department probably won’t let this post go.
In other words, ＜Lessons from the Battle of Yeonpyeong. National security and missing children, what is important?> means that the article is based on false facts.
Why did such a malicious article come out?
As a writer who writes science fiction where probability is life, if I have a reasonable doubt, it is possible that the reporter who was rejected by the offer of an article-type advertisement wrote the article with vindictiveness.
read at noblemtl.com
Now that the story has come out, I would like to say one more thing about the missing child search program.
This is how my biological parents describe the day they found me again.
The day when hell-like pain is over.
In the past year, a total of 87 missing children have been returned to their families using the missing child search program, and the number of long-term missing children for more than three years is over 300.
If the missing child search program is expanded to police stations across the country, it will be a great hope for the families of these missing persons.
For this reason, Yunseong Soft is supplying the missing child search program to the National Police Agency at a price close to free.
After a malicious article in the newspaper was published, I wanted to inform you of this fact in a sad heart after seeing public opinion to stop using the missing child search program.
That is all.
By the way, the next episode of ＜Synapse> will be uploaded around lunchtime tomorrow.
ah… right!
It is said that the reporter who demanded money and valuables for writing an article-type advertisement in Yunseong Soft is reporter So-jung So of the Daedong Ilbo.
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There were already over 500 comments on Silver Castle’s notice posted 30 minutes ago, and new comments were uploaded every time the refresh button was pressed.
‘Exit reporter So Su-jeong!’
‘This is the beginning of the Daedong Ilbo boycott.’
‘It’s a really serious problem to ask reporters for money.’
‘I work at the Police Department of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency, and it is true that the program to find a missing child is almost free. Since yesterday, every time I see people asking me to cancel this contract, it’s ridiculous.’
‘Reporter So Su-jeong? Are you not a minority from a free orphanage? Back then, I was in the personality change class, are you doing the same thing when you grow up?’
While scrolling down to check the comments, a long comment caught my eye.
‘The hospital where I work was also hit by reporter So-Jeong a while ago. It’s the first time I’ve had hair like that. There was no riot at our hospital, threatening to post accusations while receiving a spot removal procedure, showing a scar on his face, and showing his press ID. For reference, when the name of a plastic surgery clinic in Gangnam appears on the news, the hospital must close the next day. That’s why he kept the reporter’s mouth shut and said that he spent 30 million won on 20 million won in cash and a luxury bag and shoes.’
Underneath this comment was a line of great comments.
‘Reporter So Su-jeong!!! Our company suffered too! I asked for 5 million won in return for the interview, so I prepared it in a hurry, and they said I brought it by check. I went back to the bank and exchanged it for ten thousand won, and I was told that I had to put it in my handbag and put it in a paper bag. I really felt the urge to kill. ah!! When I think about it, my blood pressure rises again. Fuck!!’
‘My parents also run a high-end restaurant, and they stole 1.5 million won. Since the repertoire is the same, it seems like they are the same reporter.’
‘I’m a nurse who commented on the above, and my director is also reading this post now ㅋㅋ I saw my comment and asked me to correct the number so I re-posted it ㅋㅋㅋㅋ Cash 20 million won. Hermesi bag 5.2 million won. 6.9 million won for a pair of fun shoes. A total of 32.1 million won hahaha
I accessed the portal and checked real-time search terms.
1. Reporter So-Jeong
2. Daedong Ilbo Sosujeong
3. fun
4. Yunseong Soft
5. Yunseong Soft V-Stop
The ripple effect of the notice posted by Silver Castle was enormous.
That evening, the article written by So-jung reporter disappeared from the Internet, and an official apology was posted on the Daedong Ilbo website the next morning.
It was an apology stating that an internal fact-finding investigation is currently underway, and that disciplinary action will be taken against the reporter as soon as the self-investigation is over.
Hundreds of angry comments were posted on the apology, most of them demanding the dismissal of reporters, or if they did not fire the reporters, they would attack all articles in the Daedong Ilbo in the future.
The public opinion of comments saying they would terrorize comments led to immediate action.
Every article in the Daedong Ilbo had hundreds of identical comments that read ‘Small Sujeong fired’, one after another.
the next morning.
The police summoned and investigated reporter So-jeong on charges of intimidation and bribery, and an article was posted that the Daedong Ilbo requested data.
and that evening.
The news of a press conference of 13 members of the National Assembly made the headlines of the evening news.
It was a press conference about the preparation of a bill to expand the scope of punishment for article-type advertisements.
So far, it has been viewed as an individual deviation from reporters, but he said that if a new bill is passed in the future, not only reporters but also the relevant media will be liable for article-type advertisements.
However, the nuance of the news was a little strange.
Rather than a detailed explanation of the new bill, there were more stories about the background of the lawmakers who introduced the bill.
The reporters and anchors who delivered the news emphasized the fact that all 13 members were first-time lawmakers with no experience in government affairs, 5 of them did not step on the threshold of college, and 7 of them had criminal records, such as violating the National Security Law and the Gypsies Law. did.
just as expected,
From the morning of the next day, articles of the press started pouring out.
As I was watching the press repression article, the phone in the living room rang.
Yoon-seok was the older brother.
-Jungho, are you very busy?
When Yoon Seok-yi hyung asks me if I am busy, it means that something is urgently going on.
Besides, Yoon Seok-yi hyung has been preventing me from even going to the office since I was a senior in high school.
“no. Not at all! There is no such thing as a vacation these days.”
– Then, can you help me with my work at the office for just one day?
Also… ! what’s going on
I said in a cautious voice.
“Yes I will. But what happened?”
– Now, the Yunseong Soft server has exploded again.
Server crashes?
Besides, the word ‘again’ means that now is not the first time.
no way… ! Wasn’t it hacked?
Yunseong Soft’s main item is Michael Security, that is, an Internet security program package.
“The server is down, what do you mean? no way… Isn’t our server hacked?”
-haha! It’s not a hack, the server connection is overloaded.
“Are you overloaded?”
-Yes, the number of V-Stop downloads exceeded 100,000 in just one day yesterday. Last night, the manager and I had it restored, but it went out again in the morning. Can you come to the office now?
“Yes, I will go right now.”
-okay, thanks. In-cheol also said that he was leaving now, so the two of you should come together.
I got on the bus with Incheol towards Yunseong Soft.
When he took a seat on the bus, Incheol opened his bag, took out a piece of paper sandwiched between thick notebooks, and handed it to me.
It was a luxurious and stiff blue paper, and the small letters were printed in light gray at the bottom of the paper.
“What did you print here?”
“＜Synapse> Prologue.”
“That internet novel? Why did you print it here?”
In response to my question, Incheol said with a triumphant expression.
“I’m going to get Silver Castle’s autograph there.”
“Silver Castle? Eunseong?”
“Yeah, now Eunsung is with Yunseong Soft. The boss and Deputy Lee are installing a new server computer together.”
I just thought it went well.
I wanted to say thank you to Eunseong directly, and there was one question I wanted to ask.
This is because there was one strange thing in the contents of the notice that Eunseong posted under the name of Silver Castle three days ago.