At 15:48, the inschool website resumed network service, at 16:02, sohan.com resumed network service, and at 17:02, Yahoo Korea resumed network service.
At 17:30, South Korean Minister of Science and ICT Chen Se-ho apologized to the Korean public for the inschool Internet outage incident.
Chen Shihao said that he has asked relevant Internet companies to take corresponding security measures to prevent similar Internet outages from happening again, including ensuring that user data is backed up and incidents are reported promptly.
Chen Shihao was about to invite SA Soft President Song Yi to visit the damaged Pangyo data center in the southern part of Seoul, but Song Yi declined. He and Song Suying were already on the plane back to Deyogi Island.
"You asked me to go to Deyogi Island to celebrate your birthday at this time. Aren't you afraid of making An Yuan angry?" Song Suying asked curiously.
"Cui Anyuan and I were only maintaining a superficial harmony. The one who benefits the most from the cooperation between SA and SK is you, not him. He has always been dissatisfied with me. Since we have already fallen out, should I still be afraid that he will be dissatisfied with me?" Song Yi replied.
"I said hello to him before I got on the plane and told him I would not be returning to Seoul tonight. He was too lazy to pretend and just replied that he knew. It seems that he is ready to divorce me now, and the woman he is having an affair with seems to be pregnant." Song Suying said.
"Choi An-won is quite interesting. It was SK Telecom that disconnected our SA Soft from the Internet, but it made it seem like we, SA Soft, deliberately disconnected the Internet for our users."
"Does he think that if he lets Chen Shihao come forward, I will give him some face and make this matter a minor one? What can he find out by visiting the Banqiao Data Center with a leader like Chen Shihao who doesn't understand technology?"
"Why should I go to the Banqiao Data Center? To watch them act, listen to them complain, and then put the disguised evidence of damage in front of us to shirk responsibility? SA Soft has terminated all telecommunications service contracts with SK Telecom. Doesn't Cui Anyuan want to give me a warning? I will simply not play with SK Telecom!" said Song Yi.
"Okay, okay, don't be angry! Your backup server is working. Cui Anyuan was waiting for you to beg him so that he could control you, but you turned around and activated SA Telecom's server. To be honest, have you been waiting for this day for a long time?" Song Suying asked Song Yi.
Song Yi held Song Suying's hand and said, "If you hadn't reminded me, I wouldn't have such a strong sense of crisis. If SA Telecom had given priority to providing communication and network services to the Kaesong Industrial Park and Mount Kumgang International Tourist Area, we would have been caught off guard by SK Telecom."
Song Suying complained in a low voice, "You are going to die. If other people on the plane see me, how can I live like this?"
Song Yi smiled and kissed Song Suying. "On this plane, besides the crew and us, Xiu Na is the only passenger. She is sitting in the back with her eyes closed, so she has no time to ruin my good thing. If the time was not so short, I would have wanted to pull you into the bedroom at the back of the plane to have a good intimate time."
Song Suying pinched Song Yi's thigh and said, "It seems that Chairman Song is very experienced. Tae Hee and Hee Won will definitely not accompany you to fool around on the plane. Then who have you experienced it on the plane with? Let me guess, Choi Sun Hee or Kang Soo Na? No matter where you fly for inspection, the two of them are inseparable from you. They are the most suspicious."
Song Suying's father is former President Song San Gong, and she graduated from the prestigious Yonsei University. She has been a good girl since she was a child. Before she met Song Yi, she had always been a model of a good wife and mother, but after meeting Song Yi, she learned a lot of new knowledge.
"Don't talk nonsense. Xiu Na and I are innocent. She has been married for less than two years. If her husband hears it, it will be bad if the couple quarrels." Song Yi hurriedly distanced himself from the matter.
"Since Xiu Na is not married, I can understand why you don't do anything to her. But Xiu Na has been married for such a long time, and her figure is getting more and more plump. I am surprised that you can still hold back. You just like to do something to other people's beautiful wives." Song Suying teased Song Yi.
"A rabbit doesn't eat grass near its burrow. If I do something to Xiu Na, where can I find such a capable and considerate secretary? Sister Suying, isn't your son suffering from diabetes? Have you ever considered having another healthy child?" Song Yi asked seriously.
"Although Cui Anyuan and I haven't divorced, we are already separated. We don't even have sex as husband and wife, so how can we have children?"
Song Suying suddenly understood, "You want me to have a baby with you like Fuzhen? Are you crazy? If I get pregnant, Cui Anyuan will definitely know that I have someone else outside."
Song Yi was somewhat disdainful, "What if he knows? Why, he can have children with other women, but you can't have children with other men? I don't think your marriage will last long, why don't you think more about your future."
Song Suying said, "You are wrong. Even if Choi An-won has many women outside, I will not divorce him easily. My three children have not yet joined SK Group to take over. I can't give away the business that Choi An-won and I worked hard to build together to that vixen, right?"
"You are so amazing now. Not only do you want to sleep with other people's wives, you also want to get them pregnant. Song Yi, Song Yi, you have become a lot bolder after becoming the richest man in South Korea. I feel like you have become a little inflated." Song Suying said.
Song Yi said awkwardly, "I'm just making a suggestion. I definitely won't do it if you don't agree."
Song Suying glanced at Song Yi with a half-smile, "Cui Anyuan has offended you, what's the point of you bullying me. If he knew I cheated, he would probably jump for joy. He would like to find my fault, divorce me, and marry that little witch of his. But I can't do what he wants."
"If you want to take revenge on Choi Anwon, you should find a way to kidnap Kim Hee-young, the person he's obsessed with. If you can make Kim Hee-young pregnant, Choi Anwon will probably be so angry that he will vomit blood." Song Suying joked.
"Kim Hee-young hasn't divorced her American husband yet, right? She's so bold to get pregnant with Choi An-won's child before the divorce. Isn't she?" Song Yi also admired the energy of this lady from Hannam-dong.
"She is not a pushover. She is a real psychologist who can provide emotional value to Cui Anyuan. Why do you think she doesn't divorce her husband? Is it to satisfy Cui Anyuan's desire to sleep with other people's wives? Isn't this the same as your character?"
"Alas, ever since my father fell from power, he has never been shy about playing with women like me. A few years ago, he was fooling around with Jang Dong-gun's girlfriend Ko So-young, and in the past two years, he's hooked up with this Kim Hee-young. He and Kim Hee-young even deliberately showed up in front of me, as if they wanted to piss me off to death. I just don't understand. People say that a husband and wife are bound by a hundred days of grace after being married for a day, but does he have such a great hatred for me?" Although Song Suying had long seen through Choi An-won's character, she was still a little sad.
"Cui Anyuan was in jail before, and you were the one who rescued him. But now he still hasn't learned to be grateful and wants to divorce you again."
"I have evidence of Choi An-won's embezzlement of public funds and illegal fraud. The funds involved in this illegal fraud case are as high as 1.5 trillion won. Didn't he want to divorce you? I will send him to prison for two years. You should train your two daughters well during these two years and let them enter the core departments of SK Group first."
"After Cui Anyuan is released from prison, you two can slowly fight the divorce lawsuit. Even if he doesn't die, he will be skinned alive." Song Yi said.
"I didn't ask you to do anything. Song Woo-sik's daughter Song Jingyan has just been engaged to Lee Sang-dae's son Lee Won, and Lee Won now needs a merit to be promoted to prosecutor. He is still working in the Suwon Prosecutor's Office. We can't let him and Song Jingyan live apart right after they get married, right?" Song Yi said.
When Song Suying heard Song Yi say this, she was also jealous of Choi An-won for having a mistress outside. Choi An-won embezzled public funds from the SK Group account in order to buy a Hannam-dong apartment for his lover, Kim Hee-young, and she also wanted to teach them a lesson.
"Okay, then you arrange it, and I'll pretend I don't know. SK Telecom cut off InSchool's Internet connection, and you sent Choi An-won to jail right after. You really take revenge without delay." Song Suying said.
When Song So-young arrived at Deyogi Island, she found that there were many familiar faces on the island, not only Chen Fuzhen, but also Zheng Enxuan who came here specially.
"Everything has been arranged. Inschool, Sohan.com and Yahoo Korea have all announced our SA Group's compensation plan. You really spent a lot of money this time."
Song Yi didn't care. "Fortunately, SA Soft is not listed, otherwise the shareholders' meeting might not approve this marketing plan."
At 22:08, inschool, Sohan.com and Yahoo Korea posted apologies for the Internet outage on their official websites, and also provided a compensation plan for SA Soft.
At this time, users of inschool, Sohan.com and Yahoo Korea all received an apology email from SA Soft, which also emphasized that SA Soft gave Sohan.com coupons of different amounts to users who were affected by the outage.
"Hello, SA Soft users. Due to a technical failure of the Internet communication service provider, SA Soft's three major websites, inschool, Yahoo Korea, and Sohan.com, have been down for different periods of time, causing great inconvenience to your work and life. We express our deepest apologies for this."
"After the Internet was disconnected, our SA Soft immediately activated our SA Telecom backup server and restored the data of our friends."
"To show our sincerity, we at SA Soft have also provided corresponding compensation plans. We have provided an 8-dollar Sohan.com coupon to users who experienced inschool downtime, an 11-dollar Sohan.com coupon to users who experienced Sohan.com downtime, and a 23-dollar Sohan.com coupon to users who experienced Yahoo Korea downtime."
"Inschool and Yahoo Korea users can log in to Sohan.com directly with their Inschool and Yahoo Korea accounts. Once you log in, you will be able to see this coupon in your personal account."
"You can use this coupon directly to shop on Souhan.com and purchase all kinds of products on Souhan.com. As long as the total amount of the products in your shopping cart is greater than the coupon, the coupon can be directly deducted from the amount on the coupon to complete the payment."
“For example, if user A of inschool buys a $9 item on Sohan.com, he only needs to pay $1 to buy the $9 item.”
"If user B on Sohan.com buys a product worth $15, he only needs to pay $4 to complete the transaction."
"If user C of Yahoo Korea buys a product worth 30 USD, he only needs to pay 7 USD."
"Except for the total amount of purchase, there is no threshold for using this Souhan.com coupon. If you don't see the product you like on Souhan.com, or the product you are going to buy is sold out, it doesn't matter. This coupon is valid for a total of 30 days, and you can use it at any time in the next month. I wish you a happy shopping on Souhan.com!"
Among the three major websites, Yahoo Korea had the longest downtime, lasting 114 minutes, inschool was down for 40 minutes, and Sohan.com was down for 54 minutes.
After Chen Fuzhen saw SA Soft's compensation plan, she figured it out. SA Soft's coupons are based on the downtime of users. The longer the downtime, the larger the Sohan.com coupons SA Soft provides.
She couldn't help her curiosity and took the initiative to find Song Yi, "Song Yi, how did you calculate the amount of the $8, $11, and $23 coupons? Is there any standard?"
Song Yi explained the secret of the coupon, "According to the latest statistics from South Korea, the average monthly salary of South Koreans this year is US$2,440, and the average working hours per month are 24.25 days."
"Assuming that an average office worker works eight hours a day, the average wage for an average Korean office worker is $12 per hour."
"Inschool was down for 40 minutes, so they were compensated with an 8-dollar coupon. Sohan.com was down for 54 minutes, so they were compensated with an 11-dollar coupon. Yahoo Korea was down for 114 minutes, so they were compensated with a 23-dollar coupon."
"I just want to create a concept for users of SA Soft's websites that their time is valuable. Now due to our SA Soft's work errors, they are unable to enjoy SA Soft's Internet services. Then we are willing to provide them with cash compensation based on the average hourly wage of Koreans." Song Yi said.
"According to your estimate, how much coupons will you distribute in total this time?" Chen Fuzhen asked the question that concerned her most.
"Currently, SA Soft has issued 40 million USD worth of coupons. In fact, I just took advantage of the inschool outage to advertise for Sohan.com."
"The user data between Yahoo Korea, inschool and Sohan.com have also been completely connected. Inschool and Yahoo Korea are expected to bring millions of new users to Sohan.com. In fact, every new customer an Internet company acquires costs $5 to $10 in promotion fees. From a marketing perspective, the $40 million is well worth it," Song Yi replied with a smile.
Chen Fuzhen never thought that Song Yi could turn a passive situation into an active one, using the inschool Internet disconnection to help Souhan.com acquire new customers, and also took the opportunity to launch a new wave of advertising for Souhan.com.
She thinks that SA Soft's practice of giving users coupons for Sohan.com is simply the best advertisement for Internet companies in 2005! Thank you for your monthly votes, see you tomorrow.
(End of this chapter)