The God of Coding, Becoming an IT Conglomerate

22. Educational software distribution project (2)

“What the hell is typing practice?”

“It is literally typing practice. We, Hangeul and People, have created a typing practice program for those who are new to computers. It will be added to Hangul 1.0 and sold soon.”

At Hoyeong’s words, the administrator could not answer anything.

I just rolled my eyes and looked at Kim Kyuhyun.

“What other typing practice do you need? That’s enough for our program alone.”

“By the way, word processors are office programs, not educational programs, right?”

“You can teach writing documents with a computer, and you can also use a computer…”

Kim Kyuhyun was taken aback and did what he said earlier.

In fact, he hadn’t prepared anything here today.

He didn’t even read the proposals made by his subordinates.

It was because the story he heard from the upper level was that it was a single bidding, so all he had to do was go and sign and come.

“It cannot be called educational. If so, are cars for driving practice and pianos for playing, not for playing? It’s just practicing using a program to create documents, but I think it’s important what the main purpose is in the first place.”

“to···. So, isn’t that the point of buying two programs after all? We are going to provide soft for 20,000 won per piece, neatly only as a single item. Even in the country, it is not because the budget is full and overflowing that this kind of business is started!”

Hoyoung opened up page 6 of the proposal again and said.

“When did we say sell? If you look here, it says offer. Hangeul typing practice is also installed on all computers that have purchased and installed Hangul.”

At Hoyoung’s words, Kim Kyuhyun also looked at the administrator to see if he had anything more to say.

But the administrator had nothing to say either.

“In addition, we composed examples of typing practice by excerpts from our nation’s literature. It is an opportunity to naturally learn our poetry, novels, and the essays of ancient sages while practicing typing. The name Hangeul 1.0 is not simply a name given to it. Make our Hangul like Hangeul. That is our slogan.”

Hoyoung continued talking as if he were running away from the clearing.

Everyone sitting here already knew.

This means that Hangeul 1.0 should be adopted for educational program projects.

The administrator thought as he looked at Hoyeong, who was arguing.

‘Here is Hangeul and people…’

Then he turned his head and looked at Kim Kyuhyun.

‘This is Myeongseong Electronics…’

Then, as if thinking about something for a moment, he closed his eyes tightly.

After a while, when he opened his eyes again, he had an expression of determination.

“I have heard from both sides. But there is no turnover. I will entrust the supply of this software to Myungsung Electronics.”

Lee Jin-chan shouted at the administrator’s words that he couldn’t understand.

“Are you kidding me?!”

“I thought about the future rather than the level of the current program. We decided to choose a large company in consideration of future program updates and post-management.”

Lee Jin-chan slumped in his seat.

The magistrate’s brief new excuse was quite convincing.

Hearing those words, Kim Kyu-hyun’s face turned bright.

“The magistrate is right. Isn’t it possible to get away with only this software business with stupid words and run away without any next measures? We are now in a position where we can’t run away no matter where we want to run away in Korea. There is no one in Korea who does not know fame anymore, right?”

Kim Gyu-hyun was excited and talked.

In fact, he didn’t know much about programming.

Recently, in an organizational reorganization, I moved from Mulsan to the IT division.

At the time, it was a desperate measure for reputation, where there were no employees well versed in programming yet at the manager level.

As the head of the IT division, the first job he took on was the delivery of educational software.

In addition, it was a job that Nam-shik Cho, the managing director he was working on, gave him to make a profit.

He almost lost that job to a small company he hadn’t even heard of, but when the tide turned, he got so excited that he said something he shouldn’t have said.

“Even if it is not as good as our reputation, we can compete only when the class is matched to some extent. No matter how well you’ve made the program now, you can’t believe it, right? faith.”

“This business is a business that supplies educational software used in educational PCs for national offices, middle and high schools. Shouldn’t we raise our hands for the sake of the students’ education?”

Lee Jin-chan ignored Kim Gyu-hyeon and spoke to the administrator.

But the administrator was silent.

In place of the administrative officer, Kim Gyu-hyeon stepped forward and spoke.

“It would be useless to say such things to the magistrate who kept making decisions. I don’t know if there’s even a warranty somewhere decent. A company that cannot be trusted cannot be trusted, no matter how good the product is.”

After hearing Kim Gyu-hyun’s words, the administrative officer finally opened his mouth.

He thought inwardly about how to avoid the maximum damage to himself.

The secret agreement with Myeongseong Electronics is also a secret agreement, but it was obvious that things would escalate if the people of Hangeul and people filed complaints in higher organizations or other departments such as the Ministry of Education.

After finishing the calculations in his head, he opened his mouth while looking at Hoyeong and Jinchan.

“I also feel very sorry for you. In fact, the program itself is really well made. But how can we trust you and entrust this business to you? As you said earlier, if you really want to educate students, isn’t it right to supply software that can be developed and shared with you over the next 10 or 20 years, rather than software that will only be provided once?”

At the administrator’s words, Kyuhyun nodded.

Lee Jin-chan had a dejected expression as if he had given up on everything at the words of the administrative officer.

At that time, Hoyoung, who had been silent, spoke softly.

“So, are you saying that if we were a fairly large company, or if we had been endorsed by another reliable organization, Hangeul 1.0 would have been adopted?”

“Do you have any guarantees?”

“If there is?”

“Then it’s something to think about.”

Kim Kyu-hyun’s expression, which was laughing in earnest, hardened.

The administrator also had a look of regret when he realized what he had said.

Hoyeong looked at the watch instead of them.

‘It’s time to come…’

And like a lie, someone opened the door to the bidding booth and came in.

“senior. Hoyoung. I’m sorry for being so late. I barely brought you back because you were stubbornly holding on when you said you wouldn’t come.”

“uh? Jintaek, why are you here?”

It was Kim Jin-taek who opened the door and entered.

Hoyoung’s face lit up when she saw him.

“This is the old man.”

“You keep asking me to come to you!”

Following Kim Jin-taek, an old man wearing a traditional Korean coat entered the bidding area.

“Outsiders are not allowed to enter here.”

“it’s okay. He came as a key figure in our Hangeul and people.”

When the magistrate tried to stop the old man, Hoyeong stood up.

“A key person? Who the hell are you?”

The moment Hoyeong was about to answer the administrator’s question, the old man spoke ahead of Hoyeong.

“me. A man named Gong Byung-ju will come.”

“A sapper?”

Kim Gyu-hyun and the administrator did not recognize the old man at once.

The old man frowned as if he didn’t like it.

“This is Dr. Gong Byeong-joo, who is currently the director of the Hangeul Cultural Center.”

Hoyoung quickly gave an additional explanation.

The magistrate then looked at the old man with startled eyes.

Who is Dr. Gong Byeong-ju? He was the first ophthalmologist in Korea and the first person to make a three-way typewriter.

In fact, it was not a very important background for the administrator.

It was important that Dr. Gong Byeong-joo was a person who was rumored to have numerous connections in politics through the independence movement in his youth and the democratization movement in the 1970s and 1980s.

The Hangeul Cultural Center, which he opened in early 1988, was also opened with funds from various companies with the help of political connections.

“one···. How did the director get here…?”

Realizing the identity of the old man, the administrator asked in a trembling voice.

“How did you come! The young man here asked me to stand for a guarantee or something, so I followed him.”

The administrator’s pupils shook.

“That word…”

“You’re not old enough yet are you already deaf!”

The administrator was in his late 40s, but he was no different from a child to Dr. Gong Byeong-ju, who was 82 this year.

“ruler. Administrator. The Korean Cultural Center is willing to vouch for our company. How would the story turn out?”

At Hoyoung’s words, the blood drained from Kim Kyuhyun’s face.

His face had gone white, to the extent that the blood was draining.

This is what Jintaek said was difficult to discuss with the Hangeul Cultural Center.

In fact, there was not much to discuss about just using the work.

Dr. Gong Byeong-joo readily accepted the offer as he loved Hangeul and felt it was an opportunity to publicize Korean literature more widely.

However, there were numerous difficulties before it was decided to provide a guarantee for government delivery.

The biggest reason Dr. Gong Byeong-joo stubbornly refused to give a guarantee was that Hangeul 1.0 only supported double input.

Dr. Gong Byeong-joo, who devoted his life to developing and researching three-bolt typewriters, did not like Hangeul 1.0, which is based on two-bolt typewriter input.

However, from the next version, we negotiated to make it possible to use both two and three sets, and finally got a guarantee.

“Well···. I···. So···.”

The administrator looked at Dr. Gong Byeong-ju and Kim Kyu-hyeon alternately and stuttered.

Then he let out a big sigh and said to Dr. Gong Byung-ju.

“after···. Dr. Gong Byeong-ju. Are you sure you vouch for Hangeul and people?”

“Otherwise, why would I come here?”

A face full of worries.

However, the outcome he would bring was as if it had been decided just a moment ago.

I didn’t know what would happen if that old man put his mind to it.

In the end, the determined administrator spat out his words powerlessly.

“This project will be given to Hangeul and people under the assumption that the Hangeul Cultural Center guarantees it. Do you have any objections from Myeongseong Electronics?”

Kim Kyu-hyun’s face was full of dissatisfaction and objection.

I just can’t express it.

“If you don’t have it, we will proceed as it is.”

Kim Gyu-hyun did not say a word in response until the administrator’s words were finished.

I couldn’t figure out how to make an excuse for Jo Nam-shik. My head hurt.

“great. It has to be right.”

“I’m really glad he showed up at the right time.”

Lee Jin-chan and Kim Jin-taek were delighted with the overturned result.

But instead of being happy, Hoyoung only let out a sigh of relief.

“Iknow, right. It could have been over if it had been 10 minutes later.”

Even in the previous life, Hangeul and people stole the right to distribute software that Myungsung Electronics had in 1992 during the second educational PC distribution project.

At that time, the way Hangeul and people acquired business rights was to receive a guarantee from the Hangeul Cultural Center, and Hoyoung reproduced it as it was.

If there is a difference from the previous life, the original Hangeul and people set up a company in the Hangeul Cultural Center building on the condition that the three-dimensional input method was produced from the beginning and loaded into Hangeul and distributed.

“Jintaek sunbae also suffered a lot.”

“What did I do, sir? I didn’t do anything other than bring you here.”

“Because that was the most important thing after all.”

Hoyoung did not hide his happy face.

“Are you Yun Ho-young?”

“yes. I am Yun Ho-young.”

Dr. Gong Byeong-ju called Ho-young to his feet.

Kim Jin-taek told him that there was a genius in his company, and he asked for help so that the genius could bloom more.

Dr. Gong Byeong-joo was curious about how great a child Jin-taek, who looked smart and spoke well, would be enough to call him a genius.

‘It’s an intelligent but humble look with ambitious eyes. You look like him.’

In fact, he was a sapper who came along with Jintaek, but he was in a state of doubt whether or not to give a guarantee.

I just followed it out of curiosity.

However, he decided to help Hoyeong after seeing him in person.

This is because Dr. Gong Byeong-joo seemed to overlap with Lee Geuk-ro, a Korean scholar and independence activist who made him devote his life to Hangeul in his youth.

“Come and see.”

Hoyoung stood up straight in front of Dr. Gong Byungju.

Gong Byeong-ju saw Ho-yeong and had an intuition that he was a promising young man who would lead the times.

And I thought that it was the role of an old man who was fading with the times to light the way for a promising young man.

“Thank you very much. old man.”

Hoyeong bowed deeply to Gong Byung-ju.

“done. what a difficult Don’t mess with the company and put shit on our cultural center’s face.”

Gong Byeong-ju left only one word for Ho-yeong and immediately turned around and went out to bid.

“Then, Hoyoung. I’ll take the elder and go to the office.”

“yes. Senior, you are having a hard time.”

“What is suffering?”

And right after that, Jintaek chased after him.

“With a guarantee that doesn’t even sound like a guarantee, the big one got caught.”

At the bidding site, the sapper muttered in a voice no one could hear.

These young people are young people who would have worked hard even if they hadn’t stood up for guarantees.

He felt good at the thought that he owed a debt to a promising young man.