I Become a Chaebol in Korea: Unique Insight

After experiencing a tragic car accident, Liu Zhengjie, whose ancestors were from China and who was now an ordinary Korean worker, woke up to find himself the eldest son of the powerful Korean chae...

Chapter 31: Some things cannot be told even if you know them

As the storm swept across the entire DS construction, the atmosphere in the DS Group chairman's office was also not calm.

Deputy Director Hyun is reporting the situation to Park Jun-wan.

Park Junwan smiled and said to Xuan Yizhu:

"Deputy Director Xuan, how long have you been working with me?"

Xuan Yizhu lowered his head and replied:

"President, this year marks my 15th year working for DS, and I've worked under you for five of them."

"Well, you've been doing a good job."

Park Junwan made a gesture as he spoke, and Secretary Huang walked forward and handed a folder to Hyun Yizhu.

Xuan Yizhu took the folder with both hands and started reading.

That was an evaluation report of DS Construction executives, which included a detailed analysis of performance, whether there were any violations of discipline or laws, and whether it would be beneficial to the company's future development.

"Look at the last page."

Xuan Yizhu turned directly to the last page.

That is the list of executives who should be dismissed based on the evaluation results.

"After watching it, what do you think?"

Of course he had some thoughts, but Xuan Yizhu didn't intend to tell the president. He understood that there were some things that he couldn't say even if he knew them.

Because what a leader hates most is his subordinates bragging about their abilities.

Seeing Xuan Yizhu didn't say anything, Park Junwan looked at him, leaned back in his chair, and said:

"Regarding the organizational restructuring, I previously gave you some tips and suggestions and asked you to conduct further research. I was worried you didn't have enough time, but I didn't expect you to have such strong information-gathering abilities."

After saying that, Park Junwan glanced at Secretary Huang and a smile appeared on his face.

In an instant, cold sweat broke out on Xuan Yizhu's back.

“How long did it take us to investigate the executives’ illegal activities?”

"It took six months."

Secretary Huang, who was standing by the desk, answered.

Park Junwan nodded and crossed his arms across his chest.

"Well, it took us six months to come to the conclusion you just saw, but it took you less than a month to discover the problem with the domestic sales of two Director Zhengs. How did you do it?"

Park Junwan looked at Xuan Yizhu meaningfully.

Bosses all hope to have a group of capable subordinates, but no matter how capable they are, they cannot be beyond the boss's control.

Once out of the boss's control, the subordinates may turn from a tool into a knife that hurts themselves, which will naturally arouse the boss's vigilance.

Now, the look in Park Junwan's eyes when he looked at Hyun Yizhu revealed this suspicion.

Xuan Yizhu shook his head, handed the folder back to the president, and said:

"President, how could I possibly accomplish in just one month what you accomplished in half a year? This isn't something I discovered through research."

"Didn't you find out by investigating? The report you submitted just now clearly stated that Director Zheng should be dismissed. Did I misread it?"

"You're not mistaken."

"Then why did you remove him from his position? His performance evaluations were excellent."

Hearing Park Junwan ask this, Xuan Yizhu couldn't help but think of what happened two days ago.

At the coordination meeting for the executive evaluation results, he and Park Jin Hyuk had a serious disagreement regarding Director Zheng's issue.

Park Jin Hyuk explicitly stated that Director Zheng should be dismissed, but Hyun Yi Soo strongly opposed it.

According to the information he has, Director Zheng of Domestic Sales Department 2 should not be dismissed, but should be promoted and trained as a candidate for future vice president.

But Park Jin Hyuk's opinion was completely the opposite.

Because in his eyes, Director Zheng's number is even lower than President Park Dong-hyuk's number, only 100,000.

Even if this person has abilities, he has used them for corruption and abuse of power.

Therefore, Park Jin Hyuk refused to give in and insisted that Director Zheng must be fired.

He even believed that whether Director Zheng could be fired would determine the success or failure of the entire executive personnel adjustment.

In the end, Xuan Yizhu had to give in.

After much deliberation, he decided to report the matter to the president.

Although this might seem like gossiping, the matter was of such serious importance that he felt obligated to do so.

Xuan Yizhu thought of this and bowed his head to the president and said:

"Because Director Zheng's performance evaluation was good, I originally put him on the list for retention."

"Yeah?"

Park Junwan lowered his hands that were crossed in front of his chest.

He seemed to relax again because his subordinates were no better than him.

He looked at Xuan Yizhu, waiting for what he was going to say next.

"It was Director Park Jin Hyuk who proposed that Director Zheng must be fired."

"Jin Hyuk? Why?"

Did Secretary Huang say something to Zhenhe? Park Junwan turned and looked at Secretary Huang.

Secretary Huang quickly shook his head.

Xuan Yizhu looked at the president and said:

"President, I don't know if this is a proper question, but you really didn't say anything to me, Minister?"

"Me? What did I say to him?"

"Before I came to see you, I always thought that you had said something to Director Park."

"Haha, this is really interesting."

Park Junwan turned his head again and looked at Secretary Huang.

Secretary Huang waved his hands quickly.

"President, I have never said anything to the young master about personnel issues."

"He didn't tell me? Then how did he know? Hmm? How did he know?"

Park Junwan turned his head towards Hyun Yisu in disbelief.

Xuan Yizhu said with a serious expression:

"President, I want to know what kind of person is Director Park?"

"Why do you ask that?"

Xuan Yizhu looked at the chairman.

"At first, I thought he was bluffing. He said he didn't need to see the performance review results and could make a judgment through the interview. I thought you must have said something to him, but he only took 10 minutes... no, 5 minutes..."

"etc!"

Park Joon-wan interrupted Hyun Yi-soo.

"You just said that he didn't look at the performance review results and only based on a five-minute interview..."

“Yes, the interview was originally scheduled to last 10 minutes, but he later said it was too long, so it was shortened to 5 minutes. He also gave the evaluation results as soon as the interview was over.

Do you think I should assume that you told him something beforehand?"

"This is so strange! What's going on?"

Park Junwan looked at Secretary Huang and spoke loudly.