Chapter 64
Park Seung-woo, an assistant manager, ca up to the 20th floor outdoor terrace with a paper cup in his hand.
“Did you say you’d buy a drink? Is this a 200-won vending machine coffee?”
“I’ll save up so money and buy you a proper coffee at the end of the year.”
“Puhaha, you’re really funny, kid.”
Yoo-hyun answered with a good-natured smile, and Park Seung-woo finally burst into laughter.
He felt like his face was getting so color back.
That’s when Park Seung-woo’s complaints began.
“Ah, it’s really no joke. What’s so frustrating is…”
“You must be getting gray hair.”
It wasn’t sothing he should expect from a new employee.
He must have been so frustrated to say that.
“Phew, I feel a bit better after talking.”
“It’s thanks to listening well.”
“Haha, look at this guy. He’s getting closer and trying to climb up.”
Park Seung-woo stuck out his tongue and pointed his finger at Yoo-hyun.
He didn’t look annoyed at all.
Rather, he looked at Yoo-hyun with a playful expression.
Yoo-hyun shrugged his shoulders instead of answering, and Park Seung-woo smiled aningfully.
“No, it won’t work. You have to prepare to go to Ulsan next week.”
“I wanted to go anyway because of the seminar preparation.”
“Oh, you seem to take it lightly. But when you go there, you’ll see how hard the company life is. Aren’t you scared?”
Scared?
There was no reason for him to be.
‘Why would I be? I’ve been here for 20 years.’
Yoo-hyun smiled and said,
“You’ll buy sothing delicious when we go there, right?”
“Puhahaha, you’re really funny. Yeah. I know a great tripe restaurant.”
“You’ll have to pay if it’s not good.”
“Puhaha.”
“My fist will hurt.”
Park Seung-woo laughed loudly at Yoo-hyun’s witty reply.
The two of them were closer than anyone who had t just over a month ago.
“In that sense, do you want to go out for lunch today?”
“Ah, I’m sorry. I have a prior appointnt today.”
“Oh, a girl?”
Park Seung-woo made a mischievous smile, and Yoo-hyun imdiately shook his head.
“No. A colleague.”
Lunchti.
Yoo-hyun had a al outside with Min Jeong-hyuk and Kwon Se-jung.
They had a lot of stories to share at the last colleague eting, so they were quite close.
On their way back, Kwon Se-jung sighed and said,
“Ah, I’m dying. I still haven’t decided on a seminar topic. How about you, Yoo-hyun?”
“I’m just going to do the project that my ntor is doing.”
“Ah, that’s good. That way you can get so help, right?”
“Yeah, sure.”
It wasn’t because he wanted to get so help that he chose the PDA project that Park Seung-woo was doing as his seminar topic.
Yoo-hyun had a reason why he had to do this topic.
“But isn’t that a topic that other seniors know too well?”
“I agree with Se-jung. If you don’t know enough, you’ll get grilled for sure.”
“I’ll have to prepare well then.”
“Be careful. You might collapse from overwork.”
“I’ll win if it cos to stamina.”
Min Jeong-hyuk glanced at Yoo-hyun and sighed.
“I wish the seminar was over soon. Our team already made a bet on how many tis I’ll pass.”
“ too. My ntor doesn’t care but keeps scaring every day.”
As the two of them worried, the OJT seminar was not easy.
It was conducted for the entire team mbers, and they received direct evaluations from them.
They had already gone through the process and were doing related work, so they couldn’t lie in front of them.
They had to work hard and barely pass.
If they didn’t pass?
They wouldn’t be recognized as proper team mbers, let alone repeat the sa process until they passed.
They couldn’t help but be nervous about it.
“Yoo-hyun, is there any way?”
“Try this once.”
“What is it? Tell quickly.”
“ too, too.”
“It’s nothing. When you prepare for the seminar…”
As they walked and talked, they were already in front of Hansung Tower.
At the sa ti.
There was soone who had been standing in the sa spot since morning and sweating profusely in front of Hansung Tower.
He was trying to find soone from Hansung Electronics who had a connection with him for sales.
The people he usually contacted didn’t answer the phone for so reason.
He ca to find them in person, but he had been wasting his ti for hours.
Even the person he had once treated passed by him with an excuse that he was busy.
It’s sad to be a salesperson in a small company.
Then he saw a familiar man in front of his eyes.
He was a junior from college, but what was his na…
“Ah, Han Yoo-hyun!”
He must have just beco a new employee by now.
He wouldn’t be helpful for sales, but he wanted to chat with his old junior.
He called out to Yoo-hyun, who was about to enter the lobby.
“Yoo-hyun!”
When he turned his head, he saw a strange face waving at him.
An awkward suit, a sweaty shirt, a thick docunt bag.
He didn’t look like soone who worked for Hansung Group by his outfit.
“Who are you?”
“It’s . Lim Han-seop. Inhyun University Business Administration 99.”
He seed to have heard the na before, but he didn’t rember the face.
It was 20 years ago, and he didn’t care about his juniors and seniors at school anyway.
Still, Yoo-hyun greeted him first.
“Hello, senior.”
“Yeah. Nice to see you. Are you going to work?”
“Yes. Just a mont.”
The reason for the outsiders in front of Hansung Tower was obvious.
He could tell by their anxious and desperate expressions.
He didn’t rember his senior very well, but he wanted to hear his story anyway.
Yoo-hyun asked his colleagues for permission first.
“You go ahead. I’ll talk for a while and go.”
“Okay. Thanks for the talk today.”
Yoo-hyun sent Min Jeong-hyuk and Kwon Se-jung away and approached Lim Han-seop.
He looked tired from standing outside for a long ti.
His face was full of exhaustion.
“Senior, do you want to go inside and talk?”
“Huh? Really?”
Lim Han-seop brightened up imdiately.
It wasn’t easy for an outsider to enter Hansung Tower.
If he tried hard enough, he could get in, but he would soon be caught by the security guards.
But if he knew soone who worked there, he could easily enter the custor eting room on the first floor lobby.
Inside the custor eting room.
Yoo-hyun handed Lim Han-seop a vending machine coffee that he had personally picked out.
Lim Han-seop smiled faintly and said,
“I should have bought it…”
“No. I’m your junior.”
“Still…”
Lim Han-seop looked uncomfortable.
He kept looking around and checking on Yoo-hyun.
Yoo-hyun already knew the answer.
‘It’s because of the na Hansung.’
He hadn’t heard it yet, but Lim Han-seop must have wanted to capture Hansung as a custor at all costs.
Not only that, but most companies wanted to work with big companies like Hansung.
It made money and career.
That’s why Lim Han-seop showed a desperate look even to his unfamiliar junior.
Yoo-hyun faced Lim Han-seop with a smile.
If it had been in the past, he would have ignored him even if he knew him.
But he didn’t want to do that now.
He wanted to at least listen to him.
If this was fate, then it was fate.
Im Han-seop seed to want to show his friendship with Yoo-hyun, as he brought up stories from their school life.
Most of them were vague, but there were so parts that he vaguely rembered.
“Do you rember when we were in the sa group for the business class presentation? I made the materials for you, and you did the presentation. The others didn’t help at all.”
“Oh…”
“It was so satisfying when you removed their nas from the group at the last presentation. Hahaha.”
Then he rembered Im Han-seop.
He was the only one who helped Yoo-hyun in the group project that had six mbers.
If it wasn’t for him, he wouldn’t have gotten first place.
“Oh, I rember. Thank you for that.”
“It was nothing. You did everything. Haha.”
As Yoo-hyun agreed with him, Im Han-seop seed to relax and talk more comfortably.
He naturally moved on to talk about his work life, which showed that he wasn’t slacking off in his social life either.
Yoo-hyun looked at the business card he gave him.
-Im Han-seop, Sales Team, Semi Electronics.
“Semi Electronics?”
“Yeah. Do you know it? It’s a small company, but it’s pretty good in the electronic component field. They’re also making systems these days.”
“Yes. I know.”
He knew very well.
His friend Kang Jun-ki had just got a job there a few days ago.
A few years later, they beca a partner company of Hanseong Electronics, and grew quite big.
They even went public on KOSDAQ.
Ziing.
Then, Yoo-hyun’s phone rang.
It was a ssage from Park Seung-woo, asking him to book a eting room.
Im Han-seop quickly opened his mouth.
“Ah, I should go. I took too long.”
“No, not at all. We haven’t even talked properly yet.”
“Well…”
“Can I hear more? Maybe there’s sothing I can help you with later.”
“Oh! That, that would be nice.”
Im Han-seop hesitated, but nodded vigorously at Yoo-hyun’s words.
He felt sorry for asking his junior for a favor, but he was grateful that he offered to talk first.
He looked at Im Han-seop and asked him.
“What ti are you staying until today?”
“Today? I was planning to stay until evening.”
“Do you want to have dinner with then? I know a place that makes good rice soup.”
“Of course, that’s fine. Just call anyti. I’ll wait.”
“Okay. See you later.”
It wasn’t out of pity that he said that.
He was soone he couldn’t take care of in school, so he wanted to help him if he could.
Besides, it was where Kang Jun-ki worked, so maybe he could help his friend as well if he did well there.
‘It’s not a hard thing to do.’
Yoo-hyun smiled brightly at Im Han-seop, who was smiling back, and went back to his office.
And that evening.
Yoo-hyun t Im Han-seop at the rice soup restaurant as promised.
He must have been tired from running around all day, but his smile was warm and pleasant.
He saw a glimpse of Park Seung-woo in his face.
Yoo-hyun ate his rice and listened to his explanation carefully.
“This is what…”
As he laid out the product portfolio, Im Han-seop felt a strange feeling.
Talking in front of Yoo-hyun made him strangely fluent in his speech.
He even felt like he was doing sothing very important.
He realized later that it was because Yoo-hyun was listening attentively to him.
He reacted to every word he said, and even threw him topics that could lead to his next words naturally.
It wasn’t sothing that would help him as a new employee, but he cared for him as if it was his own business.
‘I thought he was selfish…’
Yoo-hyun seed to be the type who only cared about his own grades in school.
He didn’t interact with other seniors or juniors, and seed to only focus on getting a job.
But maybe he had misunderstood Yoo-hyun all along.
Im Han-seop opened his mouth with that feeling in mind.
“I’m sorry.”
“What?”
“It’s nothing. Just a mont.”
He drank his warm soup with a shot of alcohol, and loosened his tie and stuffed it into his bag.
Then he smiled sheepishly at Yoo-hyun.
He wanted to tell him sothing sincere, not about the product.
“I feel suffocated sotis.”
“It can be awkward.”
“Actually, I haven’t been wearing suits for long. I moved to sales earlier this year.”
“Is that so?”
Im Han-seop said he had been working in developnt for the first two years after joining Semi Electronics.
It wasn’t an easy thing for a humanities major who had never handled electronic components properly.
“They said I couldn’t do sales or marketing without knowing the basics. You know how it is. Small companies have blurry boundaries.”
“That’s what they say.”
But he adapted by learning programming and other things he didn’t know, for the sake of looking further ahead.
“It definitely helped. I got a good position in the company. But when I actually tried to do sales, I felt lost.”
“In what way?”
Semi Electronics was a company that started as a component material company.
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