Coder Lee Yongho Chapter 55

Coder Lee YongHo – Chapter 55: Development Specialist (1)

 

In the middle of Myeong-dong, Seoul.

In front of the glass wall-window was a man.

It was the CEO of Shinseki Group, Jeong JinYong.

“Please don’t touch our team members.”

Jeong JinYong spoke, while his gaze was still directed to the scenery of the city.

“They’re moving quite busily. What did I tell you before?”

“The number one CEO of the economic world once said this. That one talent feeds 10,000 people. Let’s say one person spends one million won(≈870 USD) a month, then how much money would be spent by 10,000 people?”

Jeong DanBi quietly sat down on a seat and answered Jeong JinYong’s question. Heaviness could be felt from the furnitures in the office, rather than luxuriousness. They were something you could see chairman Jeong JinYong’s character from.

“A, about 10 billion, sir.”

“No, not the total, the sales per month.”

“So you are short of 96 billion.”

With 10 people, achieve 100 billion won in sales for just one month.

However, before that, whatever you do, you won’t be able to get out of Shinseki’s eyes. ‘Not able to get out’ included marriage.

It was a test that Jeong JinYong gave to Jeong DanBi, a child of the CEO. It may be difficult and seem impossible. However, to achieve what others deem as impossible was an ability in itself, and the words also implied that as long as she proved her ability, she would be given her freedom.

“Bring me results. I won’t listen to anything else.”

Jeong DanBi stood up, still biting her lips.
She was frustrated, but it wasn’t like chairman Jeong JinYong wanted something that was impossible. In fact, there were numerous cases where a small number of people achieved massive sales. In the end, it ‘looked impossible, but is possible’.

“How do you feel now, that you are going on a business trip?”

“You are going to come back here after the opening ends, so don’t worry about anything else. We have no intentions to let go of a talent like you, Mr.YongHo.”

He was feeling unfair due to going to Busan so suddenly, but at Jeong DanBi’s acknowledgement, his mood got better. And also he was thinking of another thing.

He only saw them in TV dramas.

In contrast, worry couldn’t be erased from Jeong DanBi’s face.

Confidence was taking root in Jeong DanBi’s eyes, which were looking at YongHo. To pass Jeong JinYong’s test, she could have selected 10 people who went to top universities.

She needed to break common sense.

YongHo was, in a sense, a joker. She knew of his ability through Stack Overfly, but she selected YongHo, who had no real work experience, as a bet.

“I’m thankful for your words. I’m not going there to die or anything, and it’s only Busan. You don’t need to worry so much about me……”

YongHo also had ears. He vaguely felt that the relationship between Jeong DanBi and Jeong JinHoon was not that good.

The occasion just fit Jeong JinHoon’s needs too.

However, the important thing for YongHo was not intra-company politics.

YongHo resolved that he would undertake anything to improve his own ability. And to do that, he needed to experience various different kinds of work. There is no such thing as ‘almighty’ but becoming a close to almighty programmer – that was YongHo’s aim.

And so, he wasn’t that repulsed, nor was he worried.
He needed to do his best in his position. It was obvious, yet not obvious. YongHo resolved.

She was happy when she heard he was going to America, but YongHo’s mother was also happy when she heard YongHo was going to Busan.

She did odd jobs all her life, with a high school degree. She never had a chance to go to a middle scale company, much less a big one.

Business trip.

He already had experience going to America but this was his first time going on a business trip to work.

‘It seems to be here.’

Buildings with light pink color were placed, and brand YongHo saw for the first time was emitting their dignified aura from the signboards.

The only thing the company told YongHo, who was going to Korea, was a phone number.

That was it.

The person YongHo called was named Seo JooShin, and he was an assistant manager at Shinseki I&C. YongHo was placed in Jeong DanBi’s team as soon as he entered so the number of people YongHo knew in the company were extremely small.

Just that, he looked too busy. Without even unpacking his belongings, YongHo was put to work right away. That work – was extremly absurd.

“Yes. The ones you see here are the POS terminals that will be used in the store, and they need one final check.”

There were at least 100 of them. And the words meant that he needed to test these one by one.

“If there are any that have problems, then you can organize it and send them to me.”

Not only that, there were some people who came to him to ask things.

When YongHo said in confusion, while tilting his head, Seo JooShin stiffened his face.

Then he picked up the call and left the place.

He never knew when he bought things.

And when he was the one doing that on the POS, just the normal patterns went over 30 in number.

Card transaction.

Gift card transaction.

‘*Sigh*……’

It was a document he gave YongHo to test according to the scenario and write the serial number of the POS and the problem.

Son SeokHo caused chaos in the office, saying he wanted to meet the personnel management team himself to not let YongHo go on this trip.

He didn’t know why Son SeokHo was so over-reactive at the short business trip. He didn’t know what store openings implied.
He now knew why Son SeokHo was so against it.

‘My arm hurts now.’

He didn’t even have any time to wonder why he was doing all this.

Some minor bugs could be seen when he underwent the transaction. They were minor, so he wrote them in a simple manner on the test scenario.

-I shouldn’t be doing this.

After finishing the standardized tests, YongHo tried to do the non-standard test, aka monkey test.

He swiped the gift card, inputted 5000 won, swiped a credit card, and cancelled the 5000 won cash input.

‘Huh?’

There was an error message on the bug window, which only YongHo could see.

For dinner, he ate a lunch box someone brought to him(Korean convenience stores sell microwave lunch boxes), and the test only ended when the sky was dark.

It was past 10 o’clock at night.

‘Is it the same for developers no matter where you go?’

“I only need to do a few things before I finish so please wait a moment.”

Seo JooShin pointed at a mobile phone with one hand and looked at YongHo.

“Oh, ok.”
The phones died down after it was past 11.

2 people needed to use one room, so YongHo used the same room as Seo JooShin.

After unpacking, Seo JooShin took YongHo out. When they went to a sushi restaurant after leaving the motel, there were already some people who took tables and were sitting.

“Manager, thank you for your hard work today. Please take care of me tomorrow too.”

Perhaps they worked together for a long time already, but the atmosphere wasn’t awkward at all.

An employee from a cooperating company checked that everyone was drunk, and spoke out.

“Let’s do that.”

YongHo also barely scraped his conscious before following.

“There is somewhere I know, so let’s go there.”

Seo JooShin, who blurred the end of his words, also didn’t seem to hate it that much. YongHo who was closing his eyes due to being drunk, also vaguely knew what those two were on about.

Then he clicked a few buttons on the side as if the time was wrong. Seo JooShin approached YongHo who was fiddling with his watch.

Seo JooShin grabbed YongHo’s arm while pulling him towards the car. A car was already waiting on the road.

Someone grabbed YongHo’s arm, who used the excuse of ‘I am too tired since I only arrived today’.

“Why don’t you come with us, assistant manager Lee? We will be working together in the future. Must you be so distant from us?”

YongHo felt that he would be dragged there if he answered vaguely.

When YongHo kept refusing, the employee from the cooperating company, who was grabbing YongHo’s arm, seemed to think that they will ruin the atmosphere if this went on, let go of the arm.

“I’m sorry. I’m too tired today.”

YongHo refused Seo JooShin’s offer to the end, saying he was tired. The employee from the cooperating company also seemed helpless as he called for a taxi and left.

‘I’m becoming Gab too, huh…’

Translator’s notes

Regular chapter 1/3

Uhh… what to say here… YongHo has become assistant manager now, if people didn’t realize already, refer to glossary for the word ‘Gab’…And minor spoiler: Watch out for that watch.

I was so sad because of the comments…. in the last chapter…. (There were some unapproved comments that made me cry). I guess I’m never doing an FAQ again… If you guys want to insult me, then just don’t read… why do you even read if you’re going to insult me? I’m sorry I know Korean which you don’t and I’m sorry my translation quality is horrible, and I’m sorry that you hate me to the point you have to insult me. But please, f*ck off if you want to insult me, in fact, just don’t comment and keep it to yourself. If you keep insulting me, then believe me: I will drop this series. (what keeps me going is the kind commenters and people who participate in the LCD on NUF, Thank you) Why don’t I let this series gather some dust like what happened with God of Cooking? I can get more attention when I resume that way. Also, there are plenty of other novels I like on Munpia and those I’d love to translate. There is already one series I have translated 8 chapters for (Not GoM), and in my opinion, this series is MUCH better than those xuanhuan/xianxias that everyone likes. Besides, this novel isn’t that popular anyway. I have plenty of reasons to drop this series and pick up another one.

…. that was enough ranting (finally, got some steam off my head)… Also, there was some controversy with YongHo’s prize money…. I will explain it here:
The total prize ‘Shinskei Maut’ received was 2 million USD. Which is more than 2 billion KRW. You will know if you have checked the glossary page (the glossary page exists for a reason), but 1 USD = 1150 KRW. So if YongHo has received 1 billion KRW, it is actually less than 1 million USD. However, Korean people just round down 1 USD to 1000 KRW since that’s easier to calculate. In this story, currency conversion I use will be 1:1150 ratio. But Author may use 1:1000. Heck, if you keep going on about this, I will stop converting money, it’s much better for me to stop typing large numbers on the calculator and dividing it by 1150.

Nice reading~ (Let’s not bully the staff in comments, please ^-^)

Translator : Chamber

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