“YongHo, YongHo is here?”
“Sorry?”
Finally, the staff seemed to have understood and started looking through the register. Dave’s trio, who were completely clad in tourist clothes, were enough to attract people’s attention.
The people who were coming back from lunch all directed their gazes to the 3 foreigners who had blue eyes.
“Hey, you can only do this?”
Dave spoke while pointing at the staff. The staff’s mind was also chaotic after receiving Dave’s questions. He couldn’t understand the majority of the English conversation happening in front of him.
His head was full of thoughts to send them somewhere after solving the problem quickly.
When YongHo came back to the company after eating lunch, a few familiar people appeared in his eyes.
At YongHo’s words, Son SeokHo also narrowed his eyes and looked towards the information desk.
Na DaeBang was only confused at the names he heard for the first time. YongHo saw that so he briefly explained about Dave.
He didn’t seem to believe that the person who took first place in competition held by that very company wsa YongHo, who was right next to him.
Na DaeBang asked YongHo as if he was really curious. YongHo also didn’t know why the company stayed silent about it.
“Well, they must have their reasons……”
Should I go overseas? He already thought a lot about this. He considered this while talking with An ByungHoon while in Mirae, and also while he didn’t even have a chance for interview after he was fired.
Poor English skills.
And the responsibility as a sole child – these made him hesitate in his choice.
Just in time, Jessie, who was in front of the information desk, found YongHo after looking around for a while. Then she strongly waved her hands as if she became alive.
“What are you doing all the way here?”
It wasn’t only YongHo. Son SeokHo was the same.
Dave shrugged his shoulders as if it was nothing at all. It seemed that he himself was the only one here who didn’t feel that this was absolutely a big shock.
“That… I lost your contact info.”
Would anyone take a 10 hour flight journey to see him without the contact information? YongHo was thankful to Dave for coming to look for him.
“We’re friends.”
It wasn’t like they could communicate perfectly either. They also couldn’t communicate when they met in the NetFlax Prize. Now, thanks to YongHo regularly studying English after the competition, he could spit out some words using a simple combination of words that he knew.
Even when they couldn’t communicate properly, Dave came looking for him.
Perhaps due to the recent reality of SungGyu becoming distanced from him, even though he received a lot of help from him, he was thankful that Dave called him ‘friend’ even though they only met for a short period of time.
While YongHo was submerged in his emotions, Na DaeBang also couldn’t hide his surprise.
Na DaeBang was pointing James with his fingers. The tip of his fingers were trembling as if he had autism.
“……?”
*Smash*
“He said if you know him.”
Na DaeBang spoke with fluent English. His pronunciation was better than Son SeokHo’s.
They were people who suggested plans on how to buy which hardware to construct what type of server.
‘Only my…. English skills are crap.’
YongHo fell into self loathing at Na DaeBang’s English skills.
A brief time later, Son SeokHo’s phone started ringing. It was Jeong DanBi. Son SeokHo asked the people while looking at them after ending the call.
“Good.”
The reason Son SeokHo invited Dave & Co. to the office was due to his expectation that he may hear something good from them. They were senior data engineers from the biggest global online shopping mall, ‘Jungle’.
And like that, they moved to where the smart shopping strategy team was located.
“…Who?”
Their gazes were directed towards 3 people – Jessie, Dave and James – of the people who entered the room.
“They are senior developers from ‘Jungle’ we met from the NetFlax Prize.”
Surprise.
“Wh, why would people like that be……”
At Son SeokHo’s confidence, some people nodded their heads unintentionally in agreement. They thought if they were from Jungle, there wouldn’t be any problems with them listening.
“Even so… I don’t think it’s appropriate to show the inner works of our company to outsiders like this.”
“If you gathered us like this so suddenly, then there must be a problem. A problem would only be solved if we meet our heads together, it won’t be solved at all if we keep hiding it.”
She judged that this problem wouldn’t become any trouble even if outsiders heard it.
After hearing Jeong DanBi’s words, some people inside the room sighed.
Regret.
The crumbling mood of the team.
This became a bigger problem than not being able to purchase a server now.
From time to time, Na DaeBang volunteered to translate and he explained towards the Dave trio. He wanted to look good in front of James.
No problem.
Even the people who couldn’t speak English understood words like ‘No problem’. However, the words after that weren’t understood by them. YongHo was the same.
Jeong DanBi spoke politely, in her own way. Her pride was hurt when they said like it was so simple but she did her best to be polite.
“It’s very simple for us though?”
“James, isn’t it true?”
James Polo.
He was the owner of a blog which was treated like a holy land amongst infra engineers.
“So you’re saying we should buy second-hand ones from ebuy or alibama?”
Instead of James, Jessie continued.
At Jessie’s words, Dave smiled while looking at the people as if it was obvious.
At Dave’s confident tone, no one could talk back. Na DaeBang, who was translating on the side suddenly raised his hand.
“Yes?”
Na DaeBang acted as if it was already decided that James was going to construct the server. Jeong DanBi shook her head and spoke.
At Jeong DanBi’s words, Son SeokHo stepped out. His strong will to accomplish this could be seen from his face.
“Of course. We came on a leave of absence anyway. So we’re good if you want to give us work.”
“Then, please give me your estimation.”
Jeong DanBi spoke as if she couldn’t help it. As soon as those words were said, James started sorting out various hardware specifications needed for the server construction on Excel and the main job of the smart shopping strategy team became purchasing equipment from ebuy and alibama.