119. Information and Communication Policy Bureau (1)
two days later.
Hoyoung flew 14 hours and arrived at Narita Airport in Tokyo.
“Hoyoung!”
“Oh, senpai, have you been waiting?”
Ho-young waved happily at Kim Ju-jung, who was waiting at the arrivals hall.
“When did you come?”
“I’ve been waiting for you for two hours.”
“thank you for your effort.”
“What is suffering? So, I was resting comfortably for the first time in a while. I don’t know how long it’s been since I’ve been blank for two hours doing nothing.”
Hoyoung smiled at him, who looked really happy.
“You don’t have to go around saying that you’re usually struggling a lot.”
“ah. Did you catch it?”
Kim Joo-jung smiled.
There was no malice in his words.
“When you finish this work and go back to Korea, you will go on vacation for a few days. In the meantime, I will be doing some company work.”
“Really? Then I’m taking a week off?”
“Gosh. Okay. Take a whole week off.”
They simply unwrapped their clothes and left the airport.
Hoyoung and Jujeong got into the back seat of Miru’s car and set off for the meeting place.
“Isn’t everything going well with our Hermes? Well, it doesn’t look like anything has happened since I never got a call.”
“Even so, I got a call from the Korea Telecom yesterday.”
“From Korea Telecom? What happened?”
“They also wanted to start an ADSL service, so they asked us to use technology patents.”
Hoyoung nodded.
It could have happened at any time.
Even though it is a Korean telecom that takes a huge percentage of 30% of sales, it must have been quite painful to see Hermes providing ADSL service using the phone line they had installed.
“What did you answer?”
“answer? You were kind to me.”
“What did you say?”
“I am not in charge. The person in charge is on a business trip abroad, so I will contact you when I get back to Korea.”
“Why isn’t the senior in charge? The representative is a senior.”
“But you were the first to talk to Korea News Agency, right? Of course you can talk better than me.”
“Isn’t it because you don’t want to run into people over there?”
“yes?”
Kim Joo-jung could not immediately answer Ho-young’s question.
Hoyoung laughed.
“I know. Okay. I will go to Korea and contact you right away.”
“OK.”
Kim Joo-jung’s expression brightened a little.
Hoyoung thought to herself that there was nothing she could do.
Still, South Korean state institutions were clinging to an overbearing bureaucracy.
So, not only Kim Joo-jung, but all other seniors were reluctant to talk to government agencies.
And Korea Telecom was still unable to easily abandon the bureaucracy of the days when they were a state agency.
“What are you going to say when you meet the Korean news agency?”
“You have to listen to the conditions first. Hand it over if the conditions are right, otherwise don’t.”
“okay. Talk to me and tell me too.”
“I know.”
While the two were talking, the car arrived at the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications in Japan.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications functioned similarly to the Ministry of Public Administration and Security in Korea, and the Information and Communications Policy Bureau was an organization directly under it.
And the communications agency they promised today was a subdivision of the Information and Communications Policy Bureau.
“By the way, Hoyeong-ah, are you really okay?”
“What?”
“It’s been less than two hours since you got off the plane, so wouldn’t it be difficult to go straight into the meeting?”
“haha. If that’s the case, don’t worry. Don’t you know the most comfortable way to rest on that plane?”
“I know that, but I’m still worried.”
“thanks. Do not worry too much.”
The car was about to enter the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, but the front gate attendant blocked their car.
“Wait a minute.”
Kim Joo-jung lowered the window and told the worker that she had made an appointment to meet today.
The attendant passed the papers one by one and then let them pass.
And he kindly taught them in detail what kind of building the communication agency they had to go to was using.
“Are you great?”
Hoyoung honestly exclaimed in admiration.
Kim Joo-jung’s Japanese language skills were so close to perfect that one could be mistaken for a real Japanese.
I could see how hard he worked for the Japanese business.
“what?”
“Senior Japanese. I knew you were good at it, but looking at it like this, you’re really good at it?”
“Like me, live in Japan with only meetings for a few months. It happens automatically.”
Kim Joo-jung said it was not a big deal, but the back of his head turned and looked outside through the window for some reason seemed pleasant.
Upon arriving at the communications office building, they briefly checked their belongings on the first floor and then went up to the top floor.
In front of the office door on the top floor, there was a plaque reading ‘Communication Application Center’.
“Shall we go right in?”
“Let’s go in.”
smart-
Kim Joo-jung boldly knocked on the door.
Then a woman dressed in a suit came out.
“Are you Hermes’ Yoon Ho-young and Kim Joo-jeong right?”
“you’re right.”
“I was waiting. Come over here.”
When I opened the door that I thought was an office door, the space where the secretary was sitting came out, and there was another door in it.
The secretary opened the door and guided Hoyeong and Jujeong inside.
As soon as Hoyeong and Jujeong passed through the inner door, they found a middle-aged man waiting for them.
“hello. My name is Shinichi Hasegawa, the head of the Communications Agency.”
“hello. This is Yun Ho-young.”
“Nice to meet you. This is Kim Joo-jeong.”
Hoyeong secretly checked Hasegawa’s whereabouts.
His skinny body, tight-fitting suit, and torn eyes made him look like a very sensitive person.
“To be honest, I was a little surprised. Less than a week has passed since I asked Shigeru Miyamoto to arrange a meeting, but I received a call to meet right away.”
“The offer was timely. Coincidentally, we were also very interested in the communication technology that your company had.”
“Good timing.”
Following his guidance, Hoyeong and Jujeong sat down on the sofa, and the secretary from earlier served tea.
Hasegawa quenched his throat with warm tea and opened his mouth.
“I recently had a business trip to Korea. I was shocked to see that Korean government offices already have a significant PC penetration rate.”
Hoyoung thought inwardly that it was worth it.
Compared to the past, when Hoyoung lived once, at least 5 years was a rapid development.
“In addition, the spread of PCs was not the end. PC communication in government offices is really comfortable.”
“We call it ‘the Internet.’”
“Right. It was such a name. In addition, I thought that central business processing was very efficient thanks to the fact that the whole country was tied together by a common network called the Internet.”
“Good to see you. In addition to government offices, many companies are already using PCs and doing business using the Internet.”
Hasegawa nodded his head broadly at Kim Joo-jung’s words and continued.
“So I wanted to talk about whether we could introduce that communication technology to our country.”
“You said I had to come, can you tell me why?”
“Shigeru and I are close friends. He asked me to meet you.”
“Is he me?”
“yes. They say you are a person who knows how to find the best way out of any situation.”
“Oops, it seems Shigeru exaggerated about me.”
Hoyeong spoke of modesty, but Hasegawa could feel the confidence emanating from Hoyoung’s expression.
“Then let’s stop talking about me and listen to them. Why did you want to meet me?”
“It is similar to what the chief said. It was because we wanted to export our technology, ADSL to be precise, to Japan. In Japan, all communications and broadcasting are managed by the Information and Communications Policy Bureau.”
“That’s right. It is our top department.”
“As far as I know, the management of telephone lines among the many affiliated organizations of the Information and Communications Policy Bureau is carried out by the Korea Communications Commission. Our ADSL technology is a technology that uses telephone lines. So, I wanted to talk to the head of the Korea Communications Commission first.”
Hasegawa nodded his head with a satisfied face.
If ADSL were introduced in Japan, it was thought to be a foregone conclusion that it would bring tremendous development.
And he decided that most of the balls would belong to him, who was talking to Hoyeong for the first time.
“okay. It seems that Shigeru brought me a great bond.”
“I think so too.”
Ho-yeong, alcohol, and Hasegawa had a meaningless conversation for a while.
Hasegawa asked about the quality of service in Korea and the cost of maintenance, and Kim Joo-jung answered his questions sincerely.
“Doesn’t maintenance cost more than you think?”
“Except for the cost of physically disconnecting the phone line or replacing the old phone line, the maintenance cost itself is not much except for the labor cost. But there are other things that cost a lot of money. ADSL technology requires repeaters to be installed wherever the telephone line passes. The price of the repeater is not cheap.”
“Yes, it means that the initial amount is not formidable.”
“That’s right. We will need at least 3 billion yen.”
Hasegawa was in trouble.
He wanted to finish the story about introducing ADSL on his line, if possible.
However, there were limits to the funds he could mobilize.
“All right. Could you send me more accurate data about the technology and the costs involved?”
“of course. We already have materials prepared, so you can receive them by fax with just a phone call.”
“Please, right now. We plan to organize the data as soon as they come in and formally request the introduction of the technology to the Director of the Information and Communication Policy Bureau.”
“good.”
Hoyoung nodded happily.
And Kim Joo-jung got up from her seat to contact Hermes in Korea for a while to send the data.
Hasegawa lowered his voice slightly when he saw Kim Ju-jung leaving the office.
“By the way···. If I ever meet the director, can’t I pretend that I contacted Hermes first?”
“All right. It’s not difficult.”
“thank you.”
Hoyeong understood Hasegawa’s intentions at once.
If he reports that he contacted him first, Hasegawa is simply reporting Hoyeong’s suggestion.
However, if Hasegawa had made a proposal to Hermes first, he would have been seen as a hard-working subordinate who was looking for new technology.
“Then, I will talk to the director and inform you of the schedule later.”
“How long do I have to wait?”
“If you give me your accommodation phone number, I will call you back tonight or tomorrow morning at the latest. When the data arrives, I will immediately run to the director’s office.”
“All right. Then there is nothing to do here.”
Hoyoung jumped up from her seat.
“I will try to go back.”
“You have suffered a lot. Enter carefully.”
Hasegawa bowed slightly and greeted.
Hasegawa, who he experienced for a while, gave the impression that he was a very weak person.
Hoyoung turned around and left Hasegawa’s office.
“uh? Are you done talking?”
“yes. I guess I’ll just have to go back to the dorm and wait.”
Coincidentally, Kim Joo-jung was about to return to Hasegawa’s office after finishing the phone call.
“okay? Well, then what?”
Hoyoung took Kim Joojeong and passed by the secretary, left the Communications Agency building, and went back to the hotel in the car Miru had prepared.
“Is it still only three o’clock?”
“Would you like to change your clothes and come and have a meal?”
“Would you like a drink rather than a meal?”
“Good. I won’t have anything to do until tomorrow anyway.”
Hoyoung and Jujeong decided to meet in the lobby in 15 minutes and went to their respective rooms.
I asked him to change into more comfortable clothes, but Hoyoung didn’t have any clothes other than a suit, so he just changed into a suit that was a little wider.
thump thump- thump-
Just then, someone knocked on Hoyoung’s door.
“who···. senior?”
“Fortunately, you haven’t changed your clothes yet, have you?”
The person who knocked on Hoyeong’s door was Kim Joo-jeong.
He didn’t notice that Hoyeong had changed her clothes.
“What’s going on, senior?”
“We’ll probably have a drink later.”
“why?”
“I got a call a while ago, and the Director of Information and Communications Policy said he wants to meet right now.”
“Right now? Then, should we start right away?”
Hoyoung couldn’t hide his absurdity at Kim Joo-jung’s next answer.
“Nope. You don’t have to. Did you already leave here?”