The first thing YongHo did after he woke up in the morning was to check his e-mail. The most important thing in being active in websites such as Stack Overfly or gethub was a fast feedback.
As he became more proficient in English, his answer came out faster.
There was one e-mail that caught his eyes since it was the only one written in Korean amongst the English e-mails.
YongHo opened it thinking that it might be from Son SeokHo or Jeong DanBi.
Greetings, I’m from Shinseki’s future strategy team.
The reason I have sent you this e-mail is not for any other but in order to meet you and speak to you about something.
The e-mail was around one page of A4. There were all sorts of descriptive words and polite speech.
One line of ‘meet me once’ was puffed up to a page of A4. It was a stereotypical method of Shinseki’s.
YongHo expressed his condolences to the employee who would have written this and clicked a button on the e-mail.
Permanent delete.
He didn’t even allow it to go to trash.
‘What is this… I didn’t even do much though.’
That included online activities.
As he became used to English a little bit, he didn’t experience a lot of difficulty in translating. YongHo quickly read down the e-mail.
The majority was asking him to meet them. Lately, he wasn’t that active on Stack Overfly so there wasn’t much change in his rankings there.
The rest of the e-mails were mostly asking to meet them.
The reason was the OH! System that Shinseki had.
After checking his e-mails, he stood up to do his next job.
In front of a silent room – this was the room where Dave slept.
One Piece, Naruto, Hunter X Hunter, Doraemon, etc – they were uncountable.
“DAAAAAAAAAAAAAVVVVVVVVVVVEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!”
“Let go!”
And so, they could leave the room after tackling each other for a long time. Originally, his was Jessie’s job. It had become YongHo’s job since he was guilty of living together
Dave, who still had the expression of not having woken up completely, shook his head with a cup of coffee in front of him/
Jessie’s vicious smash landed on the back of Dave’s head, hard to the point that it made one wonder if Dave was alright.
“Just until when are you planning to sleep?”
“I’m not sleeping. I’m not!”
Jessie asked YongHo.
From some time, James was also sitting there. The solid muscular body on the small chair produced a very pitiful scene.
It was an amazing scene.
And they frowned again.
Jessie asked YongHo.
YongHo’s face looked excited. It was his expression when starting something interesting.
And finally, he came up with an idea.
“Looking at it now, it isn’t optimized in processing images so the speed is quite slow. Also, a lot of data is used… Can’t we improve those parts?”
At Dave’s words, James, who sat next to him, also nodded his head. He seemed to agree completely.
“You must have written the competitive business prohibition clause, too. Will you be alright when you go back to Korea?”
This was kind of an oath written when leaving the company. There were all sorts of clauses within that oath to prevent the leakage of technology to similar other business within the industry. Jessie mentioned that point.
They only seemed to think about how to develop it.
Not listening to Dave, YongHo looked at Jessie.
YongHo also seemed to be worried as he blurred the end of his sentence. This was also the reason why he was talking to Dave and the rest.
“If you didn’t go back, it isn’t a problem……”
James was also with him with his sleeves folded.
The process of an idea becoming a real service goes through many stages. The mid stages may be different from case to case but the start was the same.
It needed a proposal to do one kind of service.
“We do not only sell clothes, but it is something worth considering.”
“It’s not a bad idea, but… I think wok may progress faster if you show me the results first.”
As Shinseki’s example had shown them, if they could upgrade it a little more and put it on the market, then there will be good responses.
He had thought that doing another work now was impossible.
“Yes, if that’s the case, then I’m all for it.”
YongHo’s mind became more urgent when he heard the PM’s, Brad’s, words.
“And so?”
“If there’s no reply, is it the end?”
“There’s another method. To go to America and meet him personally.”
However, even that method didn’t satisfy Jeong JinHoon.
“Yes. It’s in the company.”
“T, to who, sir?”
“……”
The man thought this was going overboard, but he couldn’t say anything. Since if he didn’t listen to Jeong JinHoon, he would be the first one to get fired.
Son SeokHo looked a the certificate of content that was in front of him with a sweet bean bread in his mouth, the first thing in the morning. His stiff face indicated that he was under considerable stress.
“A certificate of content?”
Jeong DanBi whisked away the envelope Son SeokHo was holding and quickly read it. The two were both waiting to leave the company after the had handed in their resignation forms.
Certificate of Content.
Name of Receiver: Son SeokHo.
Name of Sender: Shinseki Inc.
Title: Prohibition of Competitive Transaction Notice
It was, in a sense, a warning. A warning and a threat. If you go to another place after leaving the company, you will be sued. Jeong DanBi bit her lips after reading all of it. The already red lips puffed up in a brighter red.
“It seems I wasn’t the only one to get it.”
The figure of the people that could be seen through the office window didn’t seem that good. All of them were looking towards Jeong DanBi’s room with an envelope in their hands.
YongHo, who was far away in America, also received an e-mail about the same thing.
YongHo’s face turned darker as he read the e-mail. He didn’t even read the previous e-mail sent by Shinseki and deleted it permanently.
‘I think I need to do something…..’
Swoosh.
“What is it?”
YongHo’s voice was powerless as if he was worried. He couldn’t think of anything that could be done if he was really sued.
“Why are you so fussed up about something so simple? Go to sleep.”
“It really isn’t a big deal?”
“Oh… You didn’t know? Go look up code 16600.”
When he first heard it, he thought that it was some computer code. However it wasn’t.
Every contract by which anyone is restrained from engaging in a lawful profession, trade, or business of any kind is to that extent void.
This was the abbreviation of the law clause that was added to the Californian civil law in 1827.
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