Real Man

It was pitiful to see him rack his brain to get out of this situation, but he was already in Yoo-hyun’s palm.

“Why would I be bad? Oh, the advance payment through the agency? I’ve already taken care of that.”

“There must be a record of using the company’s money, right?”

“Who said I used the company’s money? It’s my personal money. There’s no problem even if there’s a record. The contract is canceled, so I don’t have to pay anything.”

“…”

Did he plan this from the beginning?

As he quickly retraced the series of events, Director Choo Seunghwan felt cold sweat on his spine.

It was when he realized the whole story and touched his numb back of his head.

Bang.

The man, who had a rather sharp look as if his eyebrows were raised, was ready to cut ties with these worthless people here.

“What are you doing? I’m leaving.”

“Sit down.”

But that was only his thought, Yoo-hyun had a different position.

At Yoo-hyun’s gesture, Reporter Nam Minsik snarled with a vicious face.

“Who are you to tell me what to do? Do you want to die?”

He honestly wanted to let loose and fight.

But as a cultured citizen, he couldn’t do that, so Yoo-hyun calmly spoke with words.

Of course, he responded exactly with informal speech to informal speech.

“Minsik, if you’re a reporter, you should assess the situation. Do you think I came here for nothing?”

“What?”

Yoo-hyun threw a thick white envelope at him for his sake.

Thud.

He took out the paper that was rolled up in the envelope he received by surprise.

There were detailed records of him receiving money from Hansung Precision and publishing proxy articles.

Yoo-hyun said something that made him shut his mouth at once.

“Oh, did I tell you? I met with Editor-in-Chief Kim Jaepil.”

“What, what do you mean? Don’t tell me…”

“Well, I haven’t said anything yet. But, the editor-in-chief knows the situation. He also knows that this news could go to other newspapers.”

It wasn’t a problem that he would be kicked out of Hanseil Daily, but that he might be sued by Hanseil Daily.

Reporter Nam Minsik, who grasped the urgency of this matter, lowered his head.

“I’m, I’m sorry.”

“Now you’re talking. Sit down.”

Yoo-hyun smiled and gestured, and Reporter Nam Minsik sat down.

“…”

A complete silence fell over the room after the shock.

Yoo-hyun, who looked around, spoke in a very soft voice.

“Let’s all think about it. Why didn’t I tell the company about this? I have all the evidence, why didn’t I report it?”

“Then…”

Director Choo Seunghwan opened his eyes that he had clenched tightly.

Yoo-hyun explained it more easily.

“Do you think I have anything to gain from you guys being arrested or paying money?”

“That’s right. You would never do that.”

“Factory Manager Ahn, you really understand me for once.”

Yoo-hyun praised Factory Manager Ahn Honggu, whose face was flushed.

Director Choo Seunghwan, who was rolling his eyes quickly, asked.

“What do you want?”

“Well, before I say that, fill up your glasses. It looks like a pretty expensive drink, don’t you think it’s a waste?”

“…”

“Cheer up, everyone. What are you doing without following this team leader?”

At Yoo-hyun’s chin gesture, Team Leader Lee Seongryeol, who got up from his seat, filled everyone’s glasses with trembling hands.

Yoo-hyun stopped him from sitting down again.

“While you’re up, why don’t you propose a toast?”

“A toast?”

“Yes. Everyone, raise your glasses.”

As Yoo-hyun turned his head and glanced, everyone reluctantly raised their glasses.

Among them, Reporter Nam Minsik’s hand was the fastest.

Team Leader Lee Seongryeol, who caught Yoo-hyun’s eye, asked cautiously.

“Uh, what should I say?”

“Just follow what I say. We all.”

“We all.”

Team Leader Lee Seongryeol repeated Yoo-hyun’s words in a fairly loud voice.

He definitely had a higher understanding than Factory Manager Ahn.

“For a win-win negotiation.”

Yoo-hyun said softly, repeating the words that Director Choo Seunghwan had said earlier.

Team Leader Lee Seongryeol, who was looking around, closed his eyes and shouted.

“Fo, for a win-win negotiation.”

“For a win-win.”

The rest of the people echoed with a rotten expression.

Only Yoo-hyun was smiling here.

After the glasses awkwardly clinked, he opened his mouth.

“Listen comfortably. In this labor-management negotiation…”

“…”

He said to listen comfortably, but it was something that no one could do.

There was nothing for the five people here to win-win, let alone win.

Rather, they had to give up everything they had.

Still, no one raised a voice of objection.

They just lowered their heads to the floor.

Yoo-hyun, who finished his one-sided announcement as if he had finished a negotiation, summarized the content.

“Then I’ll take it as you all agree. It must have been a tough decision, but thank you for being proactive.”

Director Choo Seunghwan, who swallowed his saliva and looked around, asked carefully.

“Are you really going to let it go if we just follow?”

“What if I don’t? Do you have a way?”

“…”

“Hahaha. I’m kidding, kidding.”

Everyone felt a chill at Yoo-hyun’s innocent laugh.

In the completely frozen atmosphere, Yoo-hyun comforted the tense people.

“It’s the principle of a person to keep a promise. I’m not going to stab you in the back like someone.”

“That’s not what I meant…”

As Director Choo Seunghwan tried to make an excuse, Yoo-hyun raised his glass.

“I won’t say anything about the past. The future is more important, isn’t it?”

“Y-yes.”

Factory manager Ahn Hong-gu nodded vigorously and held his glass with both hands.

Then, executive director Choo Seong-hwan, who looked resigned, team leader Lee Seong-ryeol, who was only looking at the situation, and reporter Nam Min-sik, who was sweating in the corner, offered their glasses in turn.

Clank.

Only after a few rounds of clinking glasses did the suffocating time end.

A few days later, the executive meeting room of A factory was full of people.

A reporter from Hanseil Daily, who was standing on the back wall of the meeting room, pressed the shutter button of the large camera he was holding.

Click.

Along with the shutter sound, the words written in large letters on the front screen of the meeting room appeared in the center of the small LCD attached to the camera.

On both sides of the screen, 10 union executives and 10 management executives were sitting side by side on a long table, facing each other.

The picture did not show, but the staff members of each affiliation were sitting in a row with their backs against the wall.

It was a tense situation, as it was the last negotiation that would determine whether to strike or not.

But the atmosphere was strange.

The key decision-makers on both sides kept turning their heads to the back door.

Yoo-hyun was sitting there, the place where the management staff were sitting at the end.

When he checked the time and nodded, executive director Choo Seong-hwan, who had been holding his breath, nodded his head.

“We will start the 5th labor-management negotiation. We will hear from the management side first.”

With his words, the negotiation began.

The first speech was given by team leader Lee Seong-ryeol.

“The management side of Hansung Precision proposes to implement a realistic wage increase of 3.8 percent, and…”

The basic salary increase of 20 percent and the additional incentive of 500 percent were changed to 3.8 percent and 150 percent, respectively.

It was a condition that was ridiculously different from the figures that the union members had put forward.

They should have strongly opposed it, but no one challenged it.

Rather, union representative Jang Seok-joon, the head of the union, nodded his head calmly.

“I agree.”

Buzz.

The union staff sitting in the back showed expressions of disbelief.

The union executive who turned on the microphone in front of the table did not care and continued to express his opinion.

The private clauses for the union executives that they had demanded were all gone.

“What the union side proposes is to secure housing for the factory relocation personnel, expand the rest facilities for each factory, hire new personnel to abolish the two-shift work, improve the treatment of non-regular workers, replace all old equipment, etc…”

“I agree.”

Factory manager Ahn Hong-gu accepted the conditions without asking or questioning.

Thanks to that, many sub-items for the welfare of the employees were included in the negotiation results.

There were quite a lot of contents that the union side had not considered.

The improvement of the treatment of non-regular workers, such as the part that was in the blind spot of the union and management, was typical.

Yoon Joon-woo, the section chief who organized and uploaded this part, expressed his concern to Yoo-hyun, who was sitting next to him.

“It’s the right direction, but it won’t appeal to the employees.”

“Why do you think so?”

“They will think that the wage increase rate is too low. They will probably rebel.”

“Don’t worry. It won’t happen.”

Yoo-hyun said with confidence, and Yoon Joon-woo, the section chief, agreed.

“You have a way.”

“Yes. Do you want me to tell you?”

“No. You must have thought of it yourself. I’ll follow you from behind.”

Yoon Joon-woo, the section chief, who bowed his head, looked at the meeting room again.

Yoo-hyun chuckled as he looked at the still stubborn section chief.

“You’ll know tomorrow. You’ll be holding the camcorder yourself.”

“What do you mean…”

It was when Yoon Joon-woo, the section chief, looked at Yoo-hyun with a puzzled expression.

Bang. Bang. Bang.

Executive director Choo Seong-hwan opened his mouth as he tapped the gavel.

“I hereby announce that the 5th labor-management negotiation has successfully ended.”

The negotiation ended without any problems, and the result was also as the management expected.

But why was the expression of executive director Choo Seong-hwan, the chief in charge, so dark?

The key executives of both sides who led the agreement all had a bitter expression.

Click. Click.

The expressions of these people were clearly captured by reporter Nam Min-sik’s camera.

The expression of the reporter who took the picture was not very bright either.

The next day, the picture that reporter Nam Min-sik took at the end was published on the front page of Hanseil Daily’s Wonju newspaper.

The expressions of the people in the picture were dark, but the title of the article was very bright.

Below the title, the final agreement items were listed.

There were many good things for the employees, but they were buried by the low wage increase rate.

There were complaints everywhere about the results below expectations.

The people who were sitting in the break room of C factory were the same.

A man who was reading a newspaper in the corner table spat out a harsh remark to his friends.

“Come on, even so, 3.8 percent is too much, isn’t it?”

“Right. The union side said they would definitely get 7 percent, what is this?”

“The bonus is worse. Why did they make a fuss and vote if they were going to do this?”

“That’s right. They didn’t take money and collude, did they?”

Among them, there was someone who hit the nail on the head, but that was definitely a misunderstanding.

They never took money.

They just looked at Yoo-hyun’s face.

Yoo-hyun, who was sitting at the next table and listening to the conversation, pounded his chest.

“Ah, I’m frustrated. I can’t even tell them the truth.”

“What truth?”

Yoo-hyun, who had been drinking coffee, asked.

He had become quite friendly with him as he had been working together on the site.

“I had no choice but to accept that increase. The welfare level is not bad compared to other company factories.”

“How would they know that.”

“Of course. That’s why you’re having a corporate briefing this time.”

As the section chief clapped his hands, Yoo-hyun looked dumbfounded.

“Why are you pretending to ask? You wrote and sent the draft of the article for the corporate briefing.”

“That’s why I’m curious. How can you make the management and union sides have a tearful reconciliation at the corporate briefing?”

The section chief had written the draft of the article that reporter Nam Min-sik would write in advance, but he didn’t know the details.

He just added flesh to the skeleton that Yoo-hyun had given him.

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