Real Man

Kwon Se-jung, the deputy who understood the situation, asked.

“So, that’s true. But so what? Do you want to revive this?”

“No. We have to adapt it to the current situation.”

“Adapt? That’s not something we can do…”

He stopped.

The deputy who was about to object was startled by the content that appeared on the screen.

“What is this, you already made another alternative?”

“Jae-il sent it to me. He was thinking of a supplementary plan in advance.”

“Complaint handling team? Wow, he had a lot of complaints. It’s very detailed.”

“But what is this education part?”

Kwon Se-jung pointed to the window next to it, and Yoo-hyun explained further.

“That’s the education system for office workers that Jae-seung organized. There’s also a sales planning education.”

“Education team Byun Jae-seung?”

Kwon Se-jung asked and Yoo-hyun calmly explained.

“Yeah. He knew there was a need from the employees. He was going to prepare it, but he couldn’t get the approval, so he put it on hold. The content is good. The external instructors are competent too.”

“Wow.”

“Why?”

“No, did you go to the peer meeting to get this?”

Yoo-hyun waved his hand at the incredulous look of Kwon Se-jung.

“Of course not. I’m not that conscienceless. I just wanted to know what other departments think.”

“Really? There’s an easier way for that.”

“An easier way?”

“Going up is faster. If you ask Oh Ju-hwan, the executive director, the management support departments below will move right away. You might get much higher quality materials.”

“That’s true, but I don’t think that’s the way to handle this. We need the perspective of the lower people, not the upper ones.”

It’s not just a matter of how to do the work.

The higher the rank, the more likely it is to face the reality of the company and compromise with the system.

At some point, they become stuck in their fixed ideas and can’t even recognize the wrong parts.

Yoo-hyun was not free from this flow and wanted to change it.

Kwon Se-jung nodded as if he agreed with this part.

“True, the five-year deputies are fresh. So, are they all willing to change?”

“My peers don’t know exactly what I’m trying to do yet.”

“Even so, they gave you these materials?”

“They’re my peers.”

Yoo-hyun’s words explained everything.

Kwon Se-jung, who recalled the old memories, smiled faintly.

“Yeah. It would be nice if we could change it together later.”

“Before that, did you check it out?”

“Checking the work details of the future product manager?”

“Yeah. We haven’t paid attention to the future product manager for a while.”

Yoo-hyun wanted to know the overall problems of the company through his peers.

Apart from this, Yoo-hyun wanted to check the problems of the related departments first.

He thought there would be side effects because he pushed it in a short time.

The most worrying thing was the future product manager.

He had already checked it and Kwon Se-jung answered right away.

“I looked at the group report and the progress was clean. There was nothing that didn’t meet the schedule. Well, I guess the work went well.”

“Is there any problem left in the CTO side?”

“It seems to be neatly organized. The semiconductor display related department in the CTO was completely transferred. The KPI also removed the related contents.”

“I guess it’s right to say that the surroundings are settled.”

Yoo-hyun nodded and it was then.

Suddenly, Jang Jun-sik came over and sparkled his eyes.

He caught Yoo-hyun’s gaze and reported what he had investigated about the future product manager as if he had been waiting.

“Sir, the work progress related to Shinwa Semiconductor was fine even if I looked at it in detail.”

“Really? How about the handover?”

“The handover is going smoothly. The equipment company setup is also progressing a lot. They all seem to be working hard.”

“Working hard…”

There was no problem on the paper.

Rather, they deserved to be praised.

But why did he feel uneasy?

“Hyun-woo?”

Yoo-hyun asked after a moment of hesitation and Kwon Se-jung shrugged his shoulders.

“I don’t know. He went up to the 12th floor in the morning and hasn’t contacted me yet.”

“Really? It must take some time to investigate.”

Yoo-hyun answered and it was then.

Bang, the door opened and Jung Hyun-woo came in.

His face was shadowed, unlike his usual bright expression.

The reason why Jung Hyun-woo’s expression was somewhat uncomfortable was revealed at the team table a moment later.

Jung Hyun-woo recited the data he had collected in front of the TF members.

“I went to check the work environment of the future product staff. First of all…”

They had suddenly moved their base from the Anyang CTO Research Center to the Ulsan Factory.

Everyone had a rough idea that there would be problems in this process.

But the words that came out of Jung Hyun-woo’s mouth were too much.

Kwon Se-jung, the deputy who was listening, was shocked and asked.

“More than 20 people are goose couples? That’s almost like living separately.”

“Yes. Most of them live in dormitories. Some have rented a studio.”

“Why? Didn’t they get the rent loan support?”

“I thought so too, but they can’t change their environment easily.”

Yoo-hyun supplemented Jung Hyun-woo’s words.

“You can’t find a house in Ulsan with a 50 million won interest-free loan.”

“Is Ulsan more expensive than Anyang?”

“It’s not the price of the house, it’s that they have to sell their previous house if they want to move. And they probably have children’s schools, spouses’ jobs, or parents’ issues.”

Yoo-hyun had not paid attention to this obvious part.

Kwon Se-jung, who was the same, nodded and asked.

“That makes sense. But what about the people who rented a studio?”

“That’s because the dormitory is a bit poor. Let me show you.”

Click.

Jung Hyun-woo showed the inside of the dormitory on the screen.

There were only three beds lined up in a small space of about 16 square meters.

“Wow. It’s very narrow?”

“The problem is that most of them squeezed into the rooms of shift workers. They can’t sleep properly because the sleeping hours don’t match.”

“…”

Yoo-hyun lost his words and Kwon Se-jung clicked his tongue.

“Now that I see it, I can understand why the CTO staff hate going to Ulsan.”

Yoo-hyun recalled the worry that Kwon Se-jung had made in the past from the one word he threw.

-They all seemed to have important reasons. I think I was too pushy.

What did he say then?

He said that personal sacrifice was inevitable for the organization.

He knew it but ignored it.

Jung Hyun-woo, who was in charge of this part, also felt the same and bowed his head.

“I was too carried away by the mood and pushed it too hard.”

“Hyun-woo, you did a great job. It’s me who didn’t care.”

“Hyung, this is not the end, there’s a bigger problem…”

Ignoring Jung Hyun-woo who was hesitating, Kwon Se-jung raised his voice.

“Yoo-hyun, are you a god? You tried hard to make everything work. And if you didn’t do this, this wouldn’t have been successful.”

“I know, but I feel like I lacked consideration.”

“Consideration?”

“Still, I’m the head of the upper department. I think this problem wouldn’t have happened if I had gone down and listened to the employees’ complaints once in a while.”

Yoo-hyun didn’t touch it at all, thinking that he trusted and entrusted them.

He didn’t even have a memory of meeting the future product staff.

What if he had met them once?

He would have known about the dormitory problem and he could have solved it.

If not, he could have bought an unsold apartment with the company’s capital like he did at the Hansung Precision Wonju Factory.

He thought of several assumptions and Kwon Se-jung spat out a harsh word.

“That’s why you have a manager. The leader who is in charge should take responsibility.”

“It’s the first time. And it’s also because they didn’t make a development planning team. And…”

“What?”

Yoo-hyun shook his head and brightened his eyes.

“No. It’s better this way.”

“What do you mean?”

“We know now, so we can change it.”

Yoo-hyun decided to think easily.

If it was later, the side effects would have been too big to reverse.

It was rather fortunate that he could change his perspective before moving the whole group after the acquisition of Shinwa Semiconductor.

At least he wouldn’t repeat the same mistake.

Yoo-hyun sighed with relief.

Jung Hyun-woo, who was watching the situation, cautiously intervened.

“Hyung, there’s a more serious problem than that.”

“What is it?”

“Attendance problem. Take a look.”

The moment he saw the screen that Jung Hyun-woo showed, Yoo-hyun’s eyes widened.

“What, there are people who work 80 hours a week?”

“That means they worked every day without weekends, right?”

Kwon Se-jung, who was also surprised, blinked his eyes.

Jung Hyun-woo explained more about this.

“There’s still some handover left, and there’s a lot of interest from above. There are a lot of customer responses, and the staff is scarce.”

“No matter what, this doesn’t make sense. The big things are over.”

“I think I went a bit overboard. It seems like there’s some internal issue…”

Even Jung Hyun-woo, who had experienced many development teams, felt awkward.

It meant that there was nothing more to find out here.

“It’s not working.”

“What are you going to do?”

Yoo-hyun conveyed his intention to Kwon Se-jung, who asked him.

“First, let’s go down and see. The answer must be at the site.”

With this one sentence from Yoo-hyun, the TF members decided to go on a business trip.

What on earth was happening at the Ulsan factory?

Curious, Yoo-hyun headed to Ulsan the next day.

Yoo-hyun, who arrived at the OLED 2 factory around the end of lunchtime, asked his colleagues who came with him before entering.

“They must be nervous that we’re here. Let’s check quietly without giving them any pressure.”

“I already said it’s okay to show us around the equipment. We’ll have a light chat over a cup of tea.”

“Okay. Hyun-woo, you’re close with the staff, so please get a good grasp of the overall atmosphere.”

“Yes. I understand.”

Jung Hyun-woo decided to go into the future product staff.

Kwon Se-jung and Jang Jun-sik also took their own roles.

“I’ll meet the purchasing team first and check the progress of the Shinwa Semiconductor contract.”

“I will check the collaboration with the process team and the handover part.”

“Okay. Let’s meet again after checking.”

Yoo-hyun, who went up to the third floor office, took a different course from his colleagues.

The place Yoo-hyun headed to was the future product manager’s office.

Squeak.

As he opened the door, he saw Hyun Geun-young, who had long curly hair and a somewhat thin face.

He looked like he had been through a lot, as his eyes were more sunken than before.

He greeted Yoo-hyun with a smile and opened his arms.

“Oh my! Manager Han, how long has it been?”

“Have you been well?”

“As you can see. I’m living fiercely. Hehe.”

“…”

Hyun Geun-young pointed to the corner seat, and Yoo-hyun lost his words when he saw it.

‘I see why the staff’s attendance is like that.’

Yoo-hyun swallowed a laugh and sat on the sofa. He calmly asked.

“Manager, why is there a folding bed here?”

“It’s an important time, isn’t it? I have to respond right away if there’s a problem.”

“Don’t tell me you sleep here?”

“Once every two days? I can’t sleep every day as I get old. Hehe.”

Hyun Geun-young laughed and patted his shoulder with his fist.

Does he know what he’s doing right now?

Yoo-hyun was speechless, but he tried to be patient and said.

“You need to sleep at home to relieve your fatigue. And you don’t have to do this, manager.”

“No. I’m fine right now. I can do anything if I can make the work go well with this one body.”

“Manager, you don’t have to stay up all night.”

“Why? Don’t you know how much the decision is delayed without me on the site?”

It’s an engineer’s mindset to try to take responsibility for everything.

A leader should know how to use his staff.

Hyun Geun-young misunderstood himself as an engineer, not a leader.