The God of Coding, Becoming an IT Conglomerate

71. someone in the know

“Yoon Ho-young. how are you?”

“Thanks to you, I had a really good time. Vice President… No, now you are the president. How has the boss been? Congratulations on your promotion to president.”

The last days of 1990.

Ho-young was having dinner with the adjustment ceremony at a restaurant in Mt. Cheonggye the other day.

‘I’m not used to being alone in this large place.’

Jo Jung-sik always rented out the restaurant whenever he came here.

Jo Jeong-shik probably meant to keep anyone from finding out that he and Ho-yeong were meeting in this way, but Ho-yeong always thought it was too much.

“You’re welcome. What should have been sweetened in the second half of next year was sweetened quickly. It is all thanks to Hoyoung that we were able to advance the timing. thank you.”

Jo Jung-sik said as he brought the steak to his mouth.

“What have I done? I just did some programming. It’s the only thing I know how to do.”

Hoyoung completed the software for the mobile phone that Jo Jung-sik requested about two months ago, and this occasion also served as a celebration for the adoption of Myungsung Electronics’ mobile phone software as well as Hoyoung’s software.

“How is your brother?”

“A boy?”

“yes. Executive Director Jo Nam-sik.”

Hoyoung glanced at the Jo Jung-sik.

The reason why he supports Jo Jung-sik was the most important question because he wanted to compete with Cho Nam-sik to slow the growth of Myeongseong and weaken Jo Nam-sik’s power.

“Kuh-kuh… My younger brother is doing very well these days.”

Jo Nam-sik giggled like a villain.

His face was a look of joy.

“My younger brother wasn’t upset when he lost in competition with Hoyoung’s software twice in a row. As you may know, my youngest brother’s personality is really no joke. He stormed into the electronic IT team he ran and got so angry that two of them resigned the next day.”

“Is that so?”

Hoyoung pretended to be surprised, but of course he thought it could be.

The Jo Nam-sik he remembers was a person who was angry and couldn’t stand losing.

“But the important thing is that the news reached my father’s ears. You must have heard a lot of sermons, such as not losing to another company, but losing to my software team, is it so frustrating, think about the interests of the entire group.”

“Your younger brother must have lost some of the trust of the Chunbujang.”

Jo Jung-sik smiled broadly at Ho-yeong’s words.

“That’s right. I have good news for you.”

“What is it?”

“It seems that Myungsung Electronics’ IT team will be disbanded and absorbed into my software team. However, not all come over, and the former started to use PCs to handle their work, so there is a high possibility that I will be in charge of all the software that goes into Myungsung products in the future, leaving only the minimum number of people who operate the PC business.”

“That went really well. I think it will have some influence on Myeongseong Electronics in the future.”

“That’s right. ha ha ha.”

Jo Jung-sik seemed to be in a good mood, so he drank a glass of wine and continued.

“And, we are also gradually collecting shares in Myeongseong Electronics.”

“Is that so? When Myungsung Electronics’ products come on the market, they disappear like ghosts, but they are all the works of the president.”

This time, Jo Jung-sik’s brow narrowed slightly.

“It is not. I am not collecting market shares.”

“then?”

“I do not know. By the stake I meant I was building a friendly stake.”

“okay.”

Although Hoyoung is ignoring it now, in fact, it was Hoyeong who was sweeping the market share of Myeongseong Electronics.

To be more precise, it was the result of Eric under Hoyoung’s instructions.

However, Hoyoung did not express it.

“Among the employees and among the shareholders, there are many shareholders who have more shares than expected. There are some shareholders who approached me first and said they would give me strength, and some are approaching from our side and embracing them. In the case of the market share, I suspect that Nam-sik, who felt a sense of crisis, might have done it.”

“That makes sense too.”

“That’s right. However, if it is Nam-sik’s behavior, what kind of expert is attached to collect stocks as if blindfolded… Even the financial PBs I have are at the level of sticking out their tongues.”

Hoyeong felt better inside, but her expression was serious.

“It could still be a coincidence, so why don’t we wait a little longer?”

“Yes. It could be the result of countless ant investors looking only at Myungsung Electronics stock.”

Hoyoung agreed with his words.

“Anyway, I will pay more attention to stocks.”

Jo Jung-sik raised his shoulders and said, as if he couldn’t help it.

‘I’ll have to tell Eric to be a little more careful.’

Jo Jung-sik became a good source of information for Ho-young.

He was a person very close to the top of fame, so his words had credibility.

Jo Jung-sik borrowed Ho-young’s strength and showed a good performance in the competition with Jo Nam-sik, so trust in Ho-yeong was gradually building up.

“Then, shall we talk about our tomorrow?”

“good. By the way, even though you brought the IT team, are you going to give me a task?”

Jo Jung-sik hesitated for a moment before saying.

“For a while, until my IT team is up to the level, I will have to keep the program level without errors.”

Hoyeong thought to herself that she was going back as she intended.

At first, when I received a proposal related to printer software and mobile phone software from Cho Jung-sik, I was worried about whether I should make a program with a lower level of completion on purpose.

It was because I was afraid that realistic software would not come out unless I deliberately set it up so that an error occurs with a probability of 1 in 1,000.

However, Hoyoung immediately gave up on that idea.

‘Now, if it’s not my software, I won’t be satisfied.’

It was the famous IT team that was created by gathering talented people who fly and fly in Korea.

The software they make is actually not that low in perfection.

It was because it showed a high level of perfection at the level that people of the present era could make.

However, no matter how high-level software is, it seems infinitely far from perfect.

“All right. What should I make this time?”

“It’s a word processor. Would that be possible?”

“yes?”

Hoyeong couldn’t hide her momentary embarrassment at the unexpected words.

Cho Jung-sik smiled and continued.

“haha. Aren’t you a key member of H&H, which created Hangeul 3.0, which is currently the best in Korea? It is already known that Hangeul was developed early. But don’t worry too much. I have no intention of selling the word processor made by Mr. Hoyeong.”

“Then what is the purpose of making a word processor?”

“For internal use within our company.”

Only then did Hoyoung realize what Jo Jungsik was about to say.

Jo Jung-sik continued to speak.

“Now we already have a word processor built on our reputation.”

“Hunminjeongeum, right?”

“you’re right.”

Inside the Myeongseong Group, the self-developed word processor Hunminjeongeum was already in use.

Hunminjeongeum was previously submitted to the educational software distribution project.

However, it is also a poorly completed program with too many errors and almost no functions.

“Right now, inside the group, we are slowly starting to work on documents using word processors. It’s much faster than writing by hand, and it’s printed neatly. But now, there are cases where Hunminjeongeum gets in the way of work rather than helping.”

“Why is that?”

“It is not uncommon for the program to shut down, saying that it is a fatal error, and all the documents that have been written are lost.”

“That’s why we need a new program. But isn’t it possible to use Hangul 3.0? It’s a bit embarrassing to say with my own mouth, but I can proudly say that Hangeul 3.0 is the best among all existing word processors.”

Jo Jung-sik made a troubled expression at Ho-young’s words.

“I know that too. In fact, I also use Hangul on the computer I use separately. But the problem is my father.”

“Chairman Heechang Cho?”

“yes. My dad dropped the instructions to use his own word processor. In our reputation, the father’s word is a thousand mandates.”

Jo Jung-sik’s expression hardened a little.

Hoyoung looked at him and nodded slightly.

“It seems that this is a problem that cannot be dealt with.”

“yes. The decisions made by the Father are not of an irreversible nature.”

“Aha, it’s a word processor that you have to use anyway, and if it’s something that Chairman Cho thinks is so important, you’re planning to get points by making it right.”

Jo Jung-sik claps! and hit

“you’re right. That’s it.”

“Hmm… I see. Let me try this too. But there are conditions.”

“What is?”

“Promise me you’ll never commercialize it. I can never do anything to harm H&H with my own hands.”

“All right. I promise you. So how long should it take? In fact, I had no intention of asking Hoyoung about this. So I called the head of the software team I was with and told him that I had to fix it from the basics, so I had to wait at least six months.”

Hoyoung thought for a moment and said.

“Two months is enough.”

“Is that so?”

Jo Jung-sik’s face lit up at Ho-yeong’s answer.

“Two months is perfect. Our group usually starts the year plan in March. It is to prepare for the year-end settlement of accounts and plan for the first two months of the year and implement them in March.”

“It is unusual.”

“yes. That’s because the group’s founding date is March 1st. Anyway, it’s not that important, and if it takes two months, I’ll go into production right away, and I can announce that the new word processor will be available from March 1st.”

“All right. Let’s try to match the timing as much as possible. Could you also send me the source code of Hunminjeongeum?”

“I will find it as soon as possible and send it to my secretary’s side.”

“yes. I will make sure not to deviate too much from the current framework of Hunminjeongeum.”

Cho Jung-sik, perhaps pleased with Ho-yeong’s boastful words, pours wine into a wine glass and pours a glass into Ho-young’s glass, then takes out a document and hands it to Ho-young.

“And I have another favor to ask of you.”

“What is this?”

“Would you like to take a look?”

“This?!”

Hoyeong was a little surprised when she flipped through a document.

The document Jo Jung-sik handed over was the result of the year-end settlement meeting of Myeongseong Electronics.

The performance of Myungsung Electronics for the year was written in detail, and plans for the next year and the future were written.

“Why did you give me this document?”

“As you can see, this is Myungsung Electronics’ plans for next year and beyond. From next year, we plan to target Myungsung Electronics more aggressively.”

“What if it’s an attack?”

“Shake the fame electrons with all possible moves. When Myeongseong electron is out of his mind, I will take over the electron.”

Hearing Jo Jung-sik’s words, Ho-young’s eyes twinkled as she turned over the document with a serious expression.

‘This?’

The part that caught Hoyoung’s eyes was that Myungsung Electronics was planning to enter the telecommunications industry next year.

“Do you know anything about this?”

When I unfolded the information about entering the telecommunications industry and showed it to Jo Jung-sik, Jo Jung-sik opened his eyes wide and spoke about the content.

“You also have eyes to see. Entering the telecommunications industry is the part that Electronics will be most concerned about next year.”

“Do you have any idea how to enter the telecommunications industry?”

“of course. It must have been planned after obtaining information that a domestic research organization is jointly researching a new mobile communication technology with a foreign company, and that it is almost completed. I understand that they are trying to approach the foreign company and obtain the right to use the patent for the source technology… Was the name of the foreign company Qualcomm? It will.”

Hoyoung smiled deeply.

“Then, for now, one thing can be thoroughly ruined.”

“yes?”

“The name of the foreign company you mentioned is Qualcomm, not Qualcomm. And I know the majority shareholder of Qualcomm very well.”