The Magician’s Memorial - Chapter 359



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359. New building (3)

Cheon Min-jeong has already perfected the remote conference system.

He even took out his laptop and demonstrated it, and except for some picture quality issues, there was nothing to improve.

“So you made this for working from home?”

“Actually, I created it for employees who leave work on time. The electricity goes out at the office at 6 o’clock, so they have no choice but to leave work, and a video conferencing system is needed to communicate while handling the remaining work at home.”

Cheon Min-jeong was always like this.

When an uncomfortable situation arises, I somehow find a solution.

When I told him to study English, he created an English translation program.

This time, I told him to leave work on time, and he created a remote meeting system that would allow me to work from home.

“Will employees like it? No employee likes having to work from home after work.”

“Really? I created it because I thought it was a necessary system for my employees.”

“Not all employees are workaholics like Cheon Min-jeong.”

If the remote conference system is released like this.

The possibility of employees working from home has increased, as Cheon Min-jeong wants.

Since this was not the picture I wanted, I had to impose one more limitation.

“We need to prevent superiors from making personal contact with subordinates after work. If they need to contact us, we need to create a system that allows them to do so through the head office.”

“Isn’t it okay to have public contact instead of private contact?”

“If you receive an official call even after leaving work, does that mean you have left work? I believe that work efficiency increases when there is a clear boundary between coming in and leaving work.”

Many foreign companies had this system.

Of course, in the finance and IT fields, like in Korea, there were many cases where overtime was worked like a meal and work had to be done even after work.

However, there was no need for us to do that.

In order to become the world’s best group, it had to have a corporate culture worthy of the world’s best.

“Do you know what Taewoo Group has been saying for a long time?”

“Isn’t this the No. 1 group in the business world?”

“You often hear the term ‘military school for large corporations.’ If you are from the Taewo Group, you are labeled as good at your work wherever you go. This means that the intensity of work at the Taewo Group is higher than that of other companies.”

People from Taewoo Group did not have to worry about changing jobs.

Because other large companies are competing to recruit each other.

Now it was time to break away from that outdated image.

“If the intensity of work is high, wouldn’t the results be good?”

“Would you like to come here for a moment?”

I walked to the window and called Cheon Min-jeong.

She stood next to me and looked down at the window.

“What do you think? How does it feel to look down from the top of the new building?”

“People look like ants. And it feels like the sky is closer than the ground.”

“Do you feel that it has changed a lot since the old office building?”

“It’s changed so much that it can’t be compared.”

“Only the building cannot be changed. The corporate culture, image, and everything else must change for Taewo Group to continue to grow.”

Cheon Min-jeong reluctantly nodded.

As expected, it was difficult to persuade Cheon Min-jeong, who was severely addicted to work, with these words.

Still, Cheon Min-jeong was someone who would understand what I meant, and even if she couldn’t understand it, she was someone who would move in the direction I wanted.

“We will add a few functions to the remote conference system. We will add a function that requires permission from headquarters when using the remote conference system after work, and create a system so that it can be treated as overtime.”

“With just that little bit more, employees will welcome the teleconferencing system. It will make working from home truly possible.”

“Starting this month, we plan to require employees working from home to use a remote meeting system.”

“Please do so. And after all the parts that need to be modified, open it up on the market so that other companies as well as Taewoo Group can use it.”

We had to quickly take advantage of the remote conference system.

Of course, there were already several sites based on remote meeting systems or video chat systems.

But it was not yet settled in.

If you create a remote conference system based on Taewoo Group’s outstanding video and audio capabilities, monopolizing the market would be no problem.

“To officially launch a remote conference system, we need to improve picture quality, sound, and functionality even more than we do now.”

“Minjeong Cheon, just make the framework. You can leave the video and picture quality updates to the experts. Also, prepare for the official launch of ‘BlahBla’, an anonymous office worker communication site. It’s a waste of a system for only the Taewo Group to use.”

“Then I’ll go down to the office right now and start editing!”

Is this what an artist would be like if he were embarrassed to present his unfinished work to the world?

Minjeong Cheon rushed down to the office without even saying hello in order to improve the work she created, BlahBlah, and the remote conference system.

* * *

After work.

I stopped by Captain Kang’s office.

“You’re late from work.”

“The new office building is all good, but it’s too high, which is a problem. You have to take the elevator down from the 100th floor to get off work, so it’s a huge waste of time.”

The new building was equipped with a high-speed elevator.

Although it is a state-of-the-art elevator that can get you to the 100th floor in 50 seconds, it still felt like a lot of time was wasted.

“Isn’t there bound to be pros and cons to everything?”

“I thought about moving the office to a lower floor, but I couldn’t help it because I thought it would make my employees uncomfortable. But now I have to start working on projects related to the presidential election in earnest.”

“Since the beginning of this year, we have already started working to promote Governor Choi Jae-seok through social media and portal sites to sway public opinion.”

There are two months left until the presidential election.

Pushing too quickly and too hard could have the opposite effect, so I only fanned myself with a gentle breeze.

“A full-fledged public opinion poll will begin.”

“If you look at the results of this poll, the race is very close.”

It was Captain Kang who found out the results of a public opinion poll that had not yet been released to the media.

National Economy Party candidates were 34%, ruling party candidates were 32%, opposition party candidates were 19%, and independent candidates were 12%.

“Governor Choi Jae-seok is in first place by a narrow margin.”

“It is only 2%. And it is said that unification of the opposition party and independent candidates is being discussed. If that happens, the pan-opposition candidate will immediately gain an approval rating of about 31%.”

1+1=2

It was a very simple arithmetic that even kindergarteners could understand, but it was a formula that did not work in politics.

“Even if unification is accomplished, it will not be a big problem. The pan-opposition candidates will not be able to fully absorb the votes of the candidates who resigned. Governor Choi Jae-seok will absorb at least some of them, and then at least the current gap will be maintained.”

“I think the same thing. The media is showing great interest in unifying the pan-opposition candidates, but in reality, the ruling party’s candidate is the problem. They are receiving full support from those in their 60s and older.”

The current ruling party candidate was a person with enormous presence.

In fact, the last presidential election was such that it was said that the ruling party’s primary was a close race, and the candidate was defeated by the current president by a narrow margin.

And he was also a person with a political halo.

Therefore, it received stronger support from the elderly than concrete.

“In the current situation, if you attack the ruling party candidate, you can actually rally more supporters.”

“Are you saying it can arouse sympathy?”

“So let’s try the opposite strategy this time.”

“If you say the opposite strategy, is it a strategy of not attacking?”

Before returning.

The starting point of the 18th presidential election was a broadcast debate.

What a candidate from a progressive political party said there became so popular that it was used in entertainment.

‘I’m out to drop you!’

It was literally a progressive party that launched an indiscriminate attack to defeat the ruling party candidate.

However, that strategy failed and only had the effect of rallying supporters.

So, we need to prevent that situation from happening this time, but it increases the chances of Governor Choi Jae-seok being elected.

“Please do not stop at not attacking, but rather hold a revival meeting.”

“You are saying that we should use SNS and portal sites to publish articles praising them.”

“Just praising is not enough. Try to praise in a way that no one can see as excessive.”

Who doesn’t like praise?

And praise has a positive effect on those who watch it.

Therefore, politicians often do volunteer work that they do not want to do in order to publish a positive article.

“Wouldn’t it be helping the ruling party candidate if we published an article that praised the ruling party too much?”

“You know the saying that politicians and celebrities are similar, right?”

“I understand that there are many similar trends as it is a profession that relies on the public’s love.”

“It is said that in extreme fan clubs, if there is someone they want to attack, they do not post malicious comments, but rather overly praising comments. Then, people who see the comments think: ‘It’s not that bad.’ The same goes for politics.”

To put it vulgarly, it is a ‘pull back’ strategy.

It was a type of strategy to exaggerate the other person’s abilities and provoke resistance.

“As the Chairman said, I think you can only see that effect if you publish an article that is really over-hyping.”

“Spread it all over social media, and if necessary, get help from the media to post it.”

“But if we move like that, won’t the pan-opposition group fiercely attack the ruling party candidate?”

“Then it’s better for us.”

The more the ruling party and the pan-opposition candidates fought, the better it was for us.

In the process of fierce fighting, supporters tend to fall away, and they end up flocking to the National Economy Party, which is a neutral party, rather than to the opposing party.

“Ah! Now I understand. The strategy is to increase opposition to the ruling party’s candidate and encourage the opposition and the ruling party to fight each other.”

“That’s right. When the ruling party and the opposition party fight fiercely, the National Economy Party gains support by calling for economic recovery.”

This presidential election was like a complex, twisted skein of thread.

If I pulled one side too hard, it got even more twisted.

I had to unravel the threads step by step to achieve the desired result.

* * *

A few days later.

I received a call from Dimon.

Dimon called me about once a month, and it was like a regular report.

[The response to Together Walk is quite enthusiastic. It is also in the spotlight in Silicon Valley and is very popular in areas where rent is expensive.]

“The financial industry is also showing interest.”

[It is said that there are a significant number of investors on Wall Street who are anxious to invest in Together Work.]

The goose that lays golden eggs.

From Wall Street’s perspective, Together Work would have looked like this.

However, this was a reaction that came from not knowing that the goose lays not golden eggs but rotten eggs.

“Just raise the drug a little more. That way, you won’t be able to catch a big fish, right?”

[So I advised them to reject all Wall Street investments. Beryl, the representative of Together Work, seems quite useful. He was very loyal and he seemed to have a good grasp of what he should and should not do.]

Beryl, heir to the farm.

However, because he was a Wall Street person, he understood what was being said well.

“If you give the right direction, there won’t be any accidents.”

[And the U.S. Federal Reserve is showing signs of gradually reducing quantitative easing.]

“It’s time to start tapering.”

[Was there even a term called tapering?]

Was it a word that hadn’t appeared yet?

The act of slowly reducing quantitative easing was called tapering.

When I thought about it carefully, the year the economic term tapering was coined was next year.

Reduce quantitative easing.

There is not much time left when the global economy, including the United States, will be shaken once again.