Real Man-Chapter 773

Swipe.

Yoo-hyun picked up his phone and typed a message to Won Gi Jun.

The screen was filled with content that would make him respond, even though he was deliberately avoiding contact.

-We got a call from Il Sung Legal Team. The company is going to handle it, so you don’t have to worry anymore.

Won Gi Jun was doing his best to prevent any damage to Reverb.

He resigned and cut off his ties with the company.

At the same time, he hired a lawyer on his own to deal with Il Sung Legal Team, blocking any contact from Reverb’s site.

Thanks to that, there was no real access to Reverb yet.

But the message he sent now twisted the situation a little.

From Won Gi Jun’s perspective, wouldn’t it be shocking to hear that Reverb was meeting with Il Sung Legal Team?

He had no choice but to contact him first to prevent the meeting.

As expected, his phone rang after a few minutes.

Ring.

Yoo-hyun smiled as he saw Won Gi Jun’s name displayed on the screen.

“What a curious person.”

That evening.

Yoo-hyun sat in a coffee shop in Incheon and looked out the window as it got dark.

It felt desolate, as it was approaching winter.

Clang.

He turned his head at the sound of the door opening and saw Won Gi Jun walking in.

He stiffened his expression as he met Yoo-hyun’s eyes.

What was so serious?

Yoo-hyun lifted the corners of his mouth and Won Gi Jun blurted out as he approached.

“What the hell is going on? There’s no way that could happen.”

“Let’s have a cup of tea first. I’m thirsty after a long trip.”

“I’m fine.”

“Then I’ll just drink by myself. Sit down.”

Yoo-hyun gestured with a smiling face, and Won Gi Jun reluctantly sat down.

Won Gi Jun remained silent until the tea was placed on the table.

Yoo-hyun took a sip of his tea and then he finally let out the words he had been holding back.

“You can’t meet with Il Sung Legal Team. If the company apologizes and deletes all the negative reviews, no one will be able to post honest reviews on Reverb…”

“Wait a minute.”

Won Gi Jun stopped talking as Yoo-hyun raised his hand.

“Please go ahead.”

“That’s not something you should worry about. How can you care about the company first in this situation?”

“It’s because of my review that they got hurt.”

“Hurt? There was no actual damage. You just assumed that by yourself.”

“No. I checked and acted accordingly. If I hadn’t left the company, there would have been a problem.”

What did he check?

He thought he knew everything after exchanging a few words with a lawyer.

He sighed as he saw him carrying the burden alone with such a low level of judgment.

“Sigh.”

“You don’t seem to know the situation well…”

“You’re the one who doesn’t know. Do you think you can solve the problem with what you’re doing now?”

“I’ll do whatever it takes to prevent any damage to the company. Don’t worry.”

It was true that Won Gi Jun had put a lot of effort in the middle.

It was not easy for an individual to face Il Sung.

But he had no intention of praising him.

He knew that it was not the role of a representative to only say nice things.

He had to correct what was wrong, and sometimes he did not spare harsh words.

That rough process was necessary to understand and trust each other.

Yoo-hyun faced Won Gi Jun’s hardened face with that in mind.

“Your unilateral actions are causing more damage to the company. Why don’t you understand that?”

“Damage? Didn’t Il Sung suffer any harm?”

“Is Il Sung everything in the world? Absolutely not. This is just a process that Reverb has to go through for its growth. Don’t you trust the company enough?”

“It’s not that I don’t trust them.”

“Then why are you trying to take all the responsibility by yourself? Or at least, if you had explained, we could have prepared together. Why did you make such a foolish decision?”

“…”

Won Gi Jun swallowed his words as Yoo-hyun shot him sharply.

His face was flushed, and it seemed like he had something to say, but he instinctively did not cross the line.

He understood that he had closed his heart because of his father’s disregard, but he would be alone wherever he went if he acted like this.

He was still my person.

As long as he did not close his heart first, Yoo-hyun was determined to take responsibility for him until the end.

“The biggest loss is your absence. You should have watched over your idea until it was well finished. That’s your role, isn’t it?”

“I’m sorry, but I have no attachment to Reverb anymore.”

“You seem to care too much about Reverb for someone who has no attachment.”

“That’s…”

Won Gi Jun trailed off, and Yoo-hyun appealed to him.

“I know you love Reverb a lot. We can solve this together. Please trust me a little.”

Thud.

This one word seemed to touch something in Won Gi Jun’s heart.

He poured out his pent-up emotions.

“Sir, why are you trying to make a fuss? If it’s because of me, just stop. I’m not worth enough for you to suffer for no reason.”

“No. You are worth it. You are a very special person. Reverb needs you.”

“…”

Won Gi Jun’s eyes shook violently at Yoo-hyun’s sincere answer.

‘He still has feelings for Reverb.’

Yoo-hyun was grateful and sad for Won Gi Jun, who thought of Reverb’s future first.

“Please return to the company when you sort out your thoughts. As I said, I will take care of the matter with Il Sung.”

“It won’t be easy to solve.”

“Please keep your place. I will protect my people.”

“If you have nothing more to say, I’ll get up.”

Won Gi Jun got up from his seat and turned his body sharply.

He dismissed anything he couldn’t accept as impossible.

“He’s similar to his father.”

Yoo-hyun chuckled.

He never intended to fight or comply with Il Sung Legal Team in the first place.

If they got involved, it would inevitably cause damage to not only Won Gi Jun, but also the whole Reverb.

Even if that wasn’t the case, turning Il Sung into an enemy was not a direction that would help Reverb in the long run.

As long as Il Sung products were getting a lot of reviews, he had to embrace them.

But how?

He needed a completely different solution, and Yoo-hyun was ready now.

He sat in his office and opened the documents he had prepared one by one.

-Il Sung Mercury 4 explosion cause. Not a charger problem, but a system design problem.

As cases of explosions without charging emerged, reports from expert analysis companies also came out one by one.

He could tell from this alone that Il Sung was cornered.

Il Sung knew it too.

This was not a problem that could be solved by silencing the reviewers.

It was time to make a decision.

Click.

-Mercury 4 domestic recall estimated cost about 300 billion won.

Considering Il Sung’s operating profit, this amount of cost was enough to pay.

But he couldn’t decide easily because of the image of Choi Min Yong’s phone.

And there was another reason.

If he recalled at this point where he was fiercely confronting Han Sung, he would give them a chance to attack.

If the media war was added to that, the meaning of the recall would be completely faded.

Han Sung had a knife to do that.

But that didn’t mean Han Sung was in a comfortable situation.

-The fight with Il Sung is getting bigger globally. The money that goes into it is astronomical.

According to Park Doo Sik, the team leader, it took a lot of money to maintain the long-lasting fight with Il Sung.

There was another problem besides the cost.

As the domestic representative companies fought, the public opinion was not good as China showed signs of rising.

The political circles also made remarks that they should stop fighting and cooperate in a grand way.

But this was not a problem that could be solved easily.

“I can’t back down because of useless pride.”

Yoo-hyun knew it too well, as he had been with Han Sung for a long time.

So he thought differently.

Wouldn’t a new answer come out if he solved this tangled problem?

Click.

-SNS opinion change according to Standard One review.

Yoo-hyun looked at the documents prepared by Lee Ji Hyun and made up his mind.

He picked up his phone.

The names of two people who moved the domestic industry appeared on the screen one after another.

Shortly after that, news that would shake the world came out.

-Il Sung Electronics Choi Min Yong revealed the background of this recall, saying that Il Sung’s quality philosophy is to not tolerate even a little defect. In response, Han Sung Shin Kyung-wook praised Choi Min Yong’s leadership publicly and…

Thud.

Choi Min Yong, who put down the newspaper, asked the secretary general sitting across from him.

“How’s the market reaction?”

“Much more positive than expected. Especially the existing Mercury 4 customers are very enthusiastic.”

“Of course. But it still hurts.”

“It’s still early, and it’s fortunate that we can limit it to a domestic problem. If an explosion had occurred on a plane…”

“That would have been the end. That’s why I decided.”

Choi Min Yong nodded his head and recalled Yoo-hyun’s words that he had confronted a while ago.

-If you’re a little late, you won’t be able to stop it with a hoe, let alone a straw. If you decide, I’ll support you as much as possible from Han Sung.

As promised, Han Sung did not attack the sensitive part, and thanks to that, Il Sung was able to recover quickly.

If not?

There would have been no result of leading the recall to praise for leadership.

“This is it, I owe it to the hidden Han Sung Electronics major shareholder.”

“Yes?”

“No. Stop the fight with Han Sung for now, and weave a story about the reviewer I told you before. Let’s take care of our image this time.”

“Yes. I understand.”

The secretary general’s answer echoed in the president’s office.

At that time.

Yoo-hyun was on the phone in Reverb’s office.

He heard Shin Kyung-wook’s voice over the receiver.

-We never thought we would give Il Sung media support fire.

“Thanks to that, Han Sung also has a positive part, right?”

-That’s true. The image of cooperation was created.

“And the money for the patent fight was also saved.”

-That’s temporary. It will start again.

As long as Han Sung and Il Sung were rivals doing business in the same area, the confrontation was inevitable.

But he couldn’t keep fighting endlessly.

Yoo-hyun suggested.

“How about officially reconciling with Il Sung and ending it for now? China and Japan are eyeing us, we don’t have to fight each other, do we?”

-There’s a lot involved in that. And you have to come to the board and say that yourself.

“The board?

-Didn’t you promise? If you help me with this, you’ll come.

Attending the board means giving opinions on major decisions.

If he put his name on the list, he would be known externally, whether he liked it or not.

‘It’s going to be noisy.’

He wanted to expand his business quietly, but a promise was a promise.

“I understand. And…”

Yoo-hyun continued the conversation with Shin Kyung-wook’s suggestion.