NOVEL NEXT chapter 25
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“I’m sorry, sir.”
I shook my head at Kim Deok-bae’s apology.
“You didn’t know.”
“Of course I didn’t know. Had I known, I wouldn’t have even pursued joining.”
Kim Deok-bae said with an angry face.
“You don’t have to listen to such nonsense. There is no need for an association or anything like that.”
“You say you have good skills and connections?”
“It’s good to have it, and it doesn’t matter if you don’t have it. Skeleton is that overwhelming. If there are connections, I have enough.”
“You seem to have a lot of acquaintances, but is it okay if I go out like that?”
Kim Deok-bae said with a determined expression.
“I am small, but I have been in business all my life. There are things that can be accepted and there are things that can’t. As long as I’m in Seron, except for my family, Seron is my number one priority.”
that’s a good attitude
I said with a smirk.
“Didn’t you feel anything anyway? Judging from the looks of it, it seems that someone was instigating the wind.”
Then Kim Deok-bae said with a firm expression.
“Even so, I came out of the welcome ceremony and contacted my acquaintances separately, but the president of the association and his aides told me not to tell anyone about it because it’s a secret, and I was told that Ceron would lend me some of the skeletons.”
I’m sure.
It was intentionally created to create that kind of atmosphere.
The purpose is, of course, a skeleton.
Now all that’s left is who made the agitation.
“It seems certain that the president of the association is holding on to the wind… Would the president of the association directly lead?”
“It doesn’t seem like that. Now that the association has become obsolete and only symbolism remains, the president of the association is just an honorary post with no special authority.”
“Then, who can get the president of the association to move behind the scenes?”
Then Kim Deok-bae thought about it for a while and said.
“If we say that the president of the association is someone who can move behind the scenes… honestly, there are too many people outside the association, so there is no way to know. That’s why the association has no power.”
The unavoidable limitations of the collapsing association.
“Then what if it’s inside?”
“If inside the association, Mankyung Unemployment, Taeheung Trading, and TAL International. There are only three of these.”
“What kind of companies are they?”
“They are the biggest shoe manufacturers in Korea. Average annual sales are around 500 billion won to 1 trillion won.”
uh?
Wait a minute.
Are you saying that all of them have gone bankrupt and that such a mid-level shoe company still exists in the association?
Then Kim Deok-bae, who immediately knew what I was thinking, said:
“Only the head office is in Korea, and the production plants are all companies in China and Southeast Asia. These are the companies that survived by going overseas when the Korean footwear industry was dying.”
Ahh.
Now I understand.
“These three companies are the so-called big hands that pay the most to the association. To be honest, it’s just to watch. It’s a Korean company, all factories are overseas, and foreign investors, including China, own more than half of the stake.”
“Are you maintaining your membership in the association while paying money to wrap up saying, “This is a Korean company?”
“That’s right.”
“However, they are big companies, so moving the president of the association is not an issue, so you are saying that those three companies are powerful?”
“Exactly, except for those three companies, all the other members of the association are small companies, so you can think of them as having no means at all.”
ruler. So let’s summarize.
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Most likely, one or all of those three companies that are insiders of the association.
However, the possibility of external intervention cannot be ruled out altogether.
Skeletons are something that everyone in business can’t help but covet.
It’s burdensome to go out on your own, so it could be a gimmick to get my reaction out of the shoes association.
“Let’s start with identifying the pia. I am generous with my allies, but strict with my enemies. Small businesses, are you the enemy?”
Kim Deok-bae pondered for a moment at those words and said.
“Honestly, it must be serious that small businesses covet skeletons.”
“It would be.”
“But those people were just shaken by the fact that the president of the association and the guys behind him caught the wind. To be honest, if I was in the same position as them, and if I had been told to lend a skeleton… I would have been excited and ran to the welcome ceremony.”
“OK. That’s a pass.”
If you judge the enemy simply because you agree with them, there are too many enemies in the world that you have to deal with.
The more allies, the better, and the fewer the allies, the better.
“For now, the only thing that is certain is that the target is a skeleton.”
There is so little information that it is unknown who the opponent is and how the incitement was induced to obtain the target skeleton.
But no problem.
“Then it’s simple.”
I said with a smirk.
“All we have to do is to kill all three insiders and all the outsiders.”
“Yes?”
“Do you know why I stopped making lucrative transportable skeletons?”
“That’s good for me too.”
“There are so many people working there. If you can’t eat them all and make them all on your side, then you just decide it’s right not to do it.”
The porter industry is too large and still growing, so as Seron grew, there were too many times when it was created.
“But the shoe industry isn’t like that, is it? Now that I have grown quite a bit, I think I can digest that much with just one bite.”
On the other hand, here, it’s in a state where it’s just right for chewing in one bite.
“···Yes?”
“If I make all the small businesses on my side and take control of the association itself, whatever I do outside is of no use. Then, if you pick out those three companies inside, it will be very neat.”
The entire association itself, which the opponent used as a weapon, was taken away by me.
“You want to take over the association? Wouldn’t it be better to just ignore it neatly?”
“Maybe I’m doing it because of their instigation?”
Three mid-sized companies have maintained their membership in the association for image making.
Is it because they are stupid?
Absolutely not.
Even if there is only one press conference, the ripple effect itself is different from speaking out by the company alone and hiding behind the association and saying it as if it were the opinion of the entire shoe industry.
If it can be completely taken over, the symbolism of representing the industry of the Association can be used as a great shield and weapon.
At the same time, it can be used as an example to show that a coexistence between a skeleton and a human is possible.
In other words, the intangible benefits I get are much greater than the effort I put in.
Then Kim Deok-bae said with a hopeful expression.
“By the way, do you mean that you want to take over… lending skeletons to small businesses?”
“a. What nonsense.”
You can’t borrow it.
It is questionable whether it will be well managed by lending it, and above all, it is stupid to take away the strengths of Seron with my own hands.
Besides, if all the 7,000 shoe factory workers lose their jobs because of the skeleton spray, what will they do with that resentment?
It’s an association that should be a model for coexistence, but it’s difficult for unemployed people to come out.
“Will you lend me the skeleton until I go crazy? If I had, I wouldn’t have done business this way.”
“Then what are you going to do?”
“It doesn’t have to be similar to lending. So······.”
When I told Kim Deok-bae about my plans, Kim Deok-bae smiled brightly and said.
“ah! That way, both Ceron and its members will benefit! The factory workers will be retained!”
To be precise, only the members of the association, their staff, and Ceron benefit, and the rest have to suck their fingers, but there is no better alternative for the association members than this.
“Yes?”
Fucking the people who instigated it, earning money, and gulps the association.
I said with a smirk.
“If you have any rules written on them, please bring them. Let’s see how we can eat it so that it will pass easily through the throat.”
*
“You are amazing, President Yoo.”
“I think it will take my breath away.”
The members of the Korea Shoes Association gathered in the auditorium after hearing the news that Ceron had agreed to lend a skeleton.
Since the qualifications for membership are limited to the executives of shoe companies, only 330 members of the association belong to the association.
However, this time, when they heard the news that Seron had directly mentioned the skeleton rental, 250 people flocked to it.
And Yoo Yong-oh, who provided the start of all this, shrugged his shoulders at the praise of the association members and the association members.
“What. I was just saying the obvious.”
“By the way, how did you convince Seron? After hearing about the welcome ceremony last time, I thought it was just going to go away.”
Actually, after the welcome ceremony, I didn’t know the exact story because I had never personally contacted each other until I got a call from Kim Deok-bae to lend me a skeleton, but that doesn’t mean I really don’t know in front of the members of the association who exalt themselves as great.
“Is there anything? I just tried my best.”
At Yoo Yong-oh’s words, a member of the association said with a moved expression.
“You jumped on your feet for us.”
“I don’t mean to say it in front of the president of the association, but I was very skeptical about the role of the association, but I saw it again this time.”
At that, Yoo Yong-oh clicked his tongue and said.
“So, don’t push the dues in the future and pay the dues in full. In any case, would the association promote bad things to its members?”
“haha. Is there any possibility?”
When we were talking about things like that.
The auditorium door opens and Han Ji-hyeok and Kim Deok-bae enter.
Seeing this, Yoo Yong-oh smiled brightly and approached him.
“CEO Han Ji-hyuk, thank you for the really big decision……”
However, Ji-hyeok Han and Deok-bae Kim walked past Yoo Yu-oh and walked towards the pulpit.
Yoo Yong-oh waved his swollen hands and said with an awkward expression to the members of the association who were standing around him with a puzzled expression.
“You didn’t see this, you just passed by.”
However, Han Ji-hyeok, who strode up the podium, said while holding the microphone.
“Ahh. microphone test. nice to meet you This is Han Ji-hyuk.”
Han Ji-hyeok ignores the hassle-free procedure and grabs the microphone first.
The members of the association were bewildered at the sight, but they applaud.
clap clap.
“thank you. Anyway, it’s not about anything else, everyone must have come about skeletons, right? Yes. Well, I know. I know. What a coveted worker. I don’t eat, I don’t sleep, and I don’t even get paid.”
Han Ji-hyuk nodded his head and said.
“It is natural for humans to be greedy. I understand. So, I thought about it, and decided to borrow a little bit. Well… it’s probably going to be a little different from what you’re imagining, anyway.”
There was an unknown addendum behind it, but only the words of the loan agreement were emphasized in the ears of the excited members of the association.
“thank you!”
“Han Ji-hyuk! Han Ji-hyuk!”
But then, Ji-hyuk Han taps the podium twice.
thump thump.
Then the association members were silent.
“By the way. I have a very twisted personality. Rather, I could have helped if I asked for help because it was difficult, but it made me feel very bad because I was pressured by announcing that I didn’t even make an appointment in advance.”
As Han Ji-hyuk looks at Yoo Yoo-oh, the eyes of the association members also turn to Yoo Yoo-oh.
Then Yoo Yong-oh, who was bewildered, said:
“Well, that’s….”
“Wow, whoa. Don’t tell me, I’m not trying to make excuses, because it’s true that I came to lend you a skeleton anyway. Instead, there are conditions.”
Han Ji-hyuk said with a smirk.
“Isn’t it something that a person can do work with excitement once he or she has a heart? I don’t want to work with someone I don’t like. So I’m officially proposing. Impeachment of the current president, if this is settled, I will join the association and lend a skeleton.”