039 : Korean law and US law
A coffee shop near Geumseong Textile.
Sambok was waiting for an acquaintance.
“Chief Persimmon, it’s here.”
“Aww, senior. When did you leave the company, are you finally contacting me?”
Director Gam Yeong-hwan had worked with Sam-bok when he was working at Geumseong Textile.
“It was because I was busy earning and living. Chief Gam, hasn’t anything happened in the meantime?”
It’s been a long time since I called, but I came out willingly.
Sambok lived so busy that he couldn’t even talk on the phone, let alone drink, with his acquaintances.
“Nothing wrong. After my senior left, Geumseong Textile is also at a risk.”
“Why Venus Textile? Where else can business be better than here?”
“What are you talking about? The textile business is completely finger-licking these days. Wool and synthetics are the best. The industry is in trouble because of that.”
“Are you upset?”
“sure. As Hongyang Textile, Dongnam Textile, and Hansung Textile went bankrupt, there are many unemployed people in the market.”
I heard that the textile industry is struggling these days, but I didn’t know that three companies went bankrupt.
It was a fairly solid medium-sized company.
“Aren’t they all good companies?”
“It’s not like that, it seems that he hated the government. Rumor has it that he was caught trying to prey on a fledgling nylon company. The president there said that he was close with the Blue House or something.”
“what? nylon company? Blue house?”
No way… Are you talking about our company?
“There were rumors like that. But you’re probably right. All three companies placed large orders for Karl Mayer equipment. I heard that the president boasted that he would receive orders for tricots in large quantities from Southeast Asia, but the equipment went bankrupt before he even paid for it.”
“… that… that’s right.”
Damn, I was sure about our company.
The four months of two months ago were good in front of my eyes.
Things started to escalate when Chan-soo slammed his shoe into the prosecutor’s face.
“Because of that, the entire industry is in a state of flux. There are only three companies that do business properly, but a few big companies are probably all.”
“Apart from that company, why is Geumseong Textile? It went pretty well.”
“I think our boss is also looking elsewhere. The cement business is booming recently. Phew… Every day is a plate of thin ice.”
A sigh followed at the end.
“Chief Gam, would you like to come to our company?”
I still wanted to bring Chief Gam Yeong-hwan.
He spoke English well and was good at import and export business, so it was perfect to set up a branch in Busan and send it down.
In addition, it seemed that it would be possible to select and hire veterans among those who had lost their jobs through manager Gam.
Manager Gam is quite a knowledgeable person, so he must be well aware of the skills and reputations of experienced people.
“Senior, didn’t you go out because you were collaborating with a friend? Are you already hiring new staff? What is the company name?”
“Top unemployment. I’m the manager there.”
“I beg your pardon? Big Unemployment? So, is your friend the boss of the big business? The one who pours money all over his employees?”
“Pour money? Isn’t that enough?”
“They say that if you go to work on Sunday, your daily rate is doubled, and if you work overtime, you multiply it by another 1.5 times.”
“That’s what it’s like to give it like that. The trend is not special.”
“Please pull it out. I will work really hard.”
Chief Gam Yeong-hwan suddenly jumped up and bowed 90 degrees.
He seemed very excited about the recruitment offer.
Come to think of it, when I was at Geumseong Textile, I didn’t get holiday pay even if I worked on Sundays.
On the contrary, the superiors got angry when they couldn’t go out on holidays because they were sick.
At the time, I didn’t even think it was weird.
“By the way, do you pay for military service in the general unemployment?”
“yes? Gu… Military provision? summer solstice. Of course you should. The dispatch of troops to the Vietnam War is right around the corner.”
Since Chansu told him to start the military supply, he planned to participate in the bidding sooner or later.
“senior. Don’t get me wrong. Since I’m going to Daesae, can I ask you something to confirm?”
“ask. What are you wasting so much time on?”
“I’ve heard… but I heard that the big business is copying patents and trying to pierce military subsidies, isn’t it?”
“Copying a patent? U.S?”
“I hear it’s a patent for Polytech or something…”
Fire flew in Sambok’s eyes.
It’s Polytec! what bullshit is that?
That’s our patent!
I felt that something was very wrong.
The fact that Manager Gam knew the product name Polytech meant that the information had leaked somewhere.
“Sir, tell me. Where did you hear about that?”
“From a classmate who goes to Samo Textile. Polytech was co-developed by Sam-O after hard work with Gabone. I submitted a patent and started supplying the military, but the general public said they copied it openly without fear…”
Yeonghwan’s words made Sambok dizzy.
‘Three five? Sam-oh patented Polytech? until military service? Come to think of it… Chansu told me that I did a good job… I thought I was complimenting him in advance that he would do it soon. Could it be that Sam-O is really paying the bills? is that possible? where do things come from? Did our subcontractor stole the goods from Samo? Are you deceiving me for being bad?’
My thoughts wandered tail after tail.
“Senior Sambok…”
Director Gam’s words brought Sambok back to his senses.
“Chief Gam, I’m sorry. I have some urgent business. I’ll get back to you soon.”
Sambok hurriedly got up from his seat leaving Gam Yeong-hwan who was surprised.
Whether it was the Busan branch or hiring experienced workers, it wasn’t a problem. It was literally an emergency.
***
Front yard of Shinsin Synthetic Fiber
“Hey, you are this baby. Steal Polytech from us saying we did something disappointing!”
Sambok grabbed the boss by the collar and made a mess. The boss here was also a traitor.
After two days of visiting the Korean Intellectual Property Office and subcontractors across the country, the world looked different.
A dirty world without loyalty or anything!
“What do you mean? What do you mean you stole?”
It was a lie.
I raided the warehouse, but the warehouse where defective products were supposed to be piled up was empty.
It stole Polytech.
“You know I don’t know? I stole the polytech from Samo! I cheated and stole it! Not a single roll of defective products in the warehouse! Not even one roll.”
“It’s all burnt, it’s all burnt. I heard you guys burn bad stuff!”
“You guys? Are you done talking? You gave supplies to a factory that was in ruins, provided technical support, and even lent operating funds.
“a! I can’t eat it because it’s dirty.”
The president of Shinsin Synthetic Fiber threw Sambok to the ground. The skinny Sambok had no choice but to roll back and forth because of his physical strength.
“What are you all doing? Get that bastard out!”
“Sah… boss. How could this manager…”
The president of Shinshin Synthetic Fiber completely changed his face, but the employees had no choice but to hesitate. Indeed, the trend of unemployment was a prime request that was no different from benefactors.
“Because I’m kicking you out. Who can’t do business without the trend? There are countless requests for polytechnics.”
“Polytech is our patent. No one can produce without our permission. You even signed a non-disclosure agreement!”
“Sheesh! Samo also has the same patent. There are more items that Samo wants! go away!”
“Dog guy. It was true that I stuck with Samo.”
“Heh, you guys brought it on yourself. Why are you fucking with Samo and Chuck? What’s the point of fighting with such a big company? Seriously, even if you don’t know the world, there is a fountain. Wow!”
The president of Shinsin Synthetic Fiber even spat at Sambok.
“Hey, it’s a dog!”
Sambok rushed at him, but the employees quickly closed the factory door.
bang! bang! bang!
“Open the door! 문 열라고, 이 개새끼야! Polytech is ours! Ours!”
I knocked on the door, but the door once closed would not open again.
It was unfair, but there was nothing more I could do. In the meantime, it was fortunate that even one of the six subcontractors did not betray.
“You have to sing praises. This is not a problem that can be solved on my line.”
Sambok squeezed the last of his strength and stood up on the ground.
I couldn’t just lie down on the street because it was unfair.
I found out that the patent application was also a mess.
Due to the manipulation of the patent application schedule, Samo Textile was supposed to have issued the polytechnical patent first, and the patent documents were copied from the popular industrial patents.
It could not have happened without buying the Korean Intellectual Property Office official.
***
Sambok trudged back to the office.
The office was empty because he had been away for two days, and the curfew was near.
bang. bang.
I took a deep breath and started typing the telex.
「To President Woo Chan-soo. urgent report. Polytech patent theft. Samo Textile systematically bought subcontractors and the Korean Intellectual Property Office. Urgent return home. – Manager Lee Sam-bok-”
“I never thought I’d make a report like this… Damn it…”
Sambok felt sick to his stomach with a sense of shame while using the telex specialty.
Someone is making a lot of money on the battlefield, but this friend is forgetting money in the living room.
“What are you doing?”
“What are you doing, Telex… Ugh! Chansu!”
“How are you?”
“Hey, Mr. when did you come When did you come?”
When I pushed my face toward my shoulder, Sambok fell asleep.
“I just came. When you’re weaving.”
“Shiba… We’re done with X. The Polytech patent was taken away. Bastards from subcontractors also betrayed us… Stealing all the supplies… Fucked… It’s all my fault, I’m sorry, Chansu.”
Sambok was surprised for a while, and recited the situation.
“Did you know now that the patent was stolen? What if the guy in Korea doesn’t know more than me in Vietnam?”
“Did you know? how did you know?”
“That’s not important, let’s eat first.”
This guy must have been walking around all day without eating anything.
“What about rice! All the guys at the Korean Intellectual Property Office took bribes and turned around. Even the patent application was fabricated.”
“Don’t worry. This mess will solve everything.”
“solution? Will this work?”
“I have this.”
I held the special recruitment report written by Sergeant Mark in front of Sambok and gently shook it.
“what is that?”
“Let’s explain later and fill our stomachs first. On the way back, I bought soju and a whole chicken.”
I searched the house and the factory, but I didn’t see a peep, so I thought I’d crawl into the factory after the curfew.
This readiness to buy a whole chicken in advance for a friend.
“You, Chan-soo, are right. It wasn’t a ghost.”
“Kyaa, that’s good.”
When I ate a chicken leg in a glass of soju, the whole world was mine. Whole chicken in the 1960s was as good as chicken in the 21st century. I also liked that the soju was much thicker.
“… How was Vietnam? A real rain of bullets?”
Damn, I seem to be coming back to my senses a little bit now.
“Of course. You don’t know if you haven’t experienced it. As you drive the truck, bullets ping! Ping away! fly around.”
“Uh uh…”
I performed a saga with exaggerated body movements.
what is the bullet I haven’t even seen the Viet Cong’s Veja.
I was just busy picking up dollars because they fell in numbers here and there.
***
next day,
Together with the impatient Sambok, he took off the grime and polished it in the bathroom. How many baths is it?
He was dressed in a suit and new shoes.
“This… is it okay to go like this?”
“why? Are you going to carry an iron pipe?”
Already early in the morning, a telex declaration was made to Sam-O. He told me to come to the Bando Hotel to build a deal.
“Is it fun to tease me? I’m dying. Isn’t this enough to ask for help from the Blue House?”
Sambok doesn’t seem to understand my behavior.
He must have known that I would fight with the Blue House.
It’s a fight that the Blue House laid a mat on, but you can’t ask for help out of shape.
“Why are you including the Blue House? Then you couldn’t take out three or five money on your own.”
“Three o take money?”
“Of course. If you are going to fight, you have to aim for the place where the opponent hurts the most.”
“Where does it hurt the most?”
After talking with Sambok all night, there were not only one or two things to share with Sam-oh.
I thought I could understand why detectives like the word hit.
“Director Lee Sam-bok suffered a lot, but I have to get rid of it. Taking money is the best revenge for a person who reveals money.”
“!!!!”
Sambok’s eyes twinkled at my words.
As I walked, I saw the Bando Hotel in front of me.
“Gazua, Sambok.”
“Yep, boss.”
I took the lead, and Sambok stood next to me with his shoulders straight. The time has come to punish the thief.
**
Peninsula Hotel.
Although it was in the 1960s, the top floor was decorated like a sky lounge. It was the most expensive place in Seoul, so there were only us and 35 people in a large space.
“Hey, a lot of people have come.”
“How dare you make the president wait.”
“If you’re bored, you should have read the newspaper.”
“This guy dares.”
Chairman Eoju Samo stood still, but the neighbors next to him were in a frenzy.
“Chairman Joo, shouldn’t we talk?”
“By the river, you wait a little.”
river side? lawyer?
Come to think of it, he was a familiar guy.
It was the prosecutor I threw a shoe in my face.
Did you come with a former prosecutor and current lawyer on your side and a bodyguard on your back?
With a guy who knows a little bit about the law on board, it’s rather comfortable.
“Hey, the prosecutor is really good. Even if you are fired, you can quickly become a lawyer. Oh, I must have quickly resigned before dismissal. No matter what, do you rush under Chairman Joo as soon as you cast your resignation? The man is embarrassing.”
“Eik, this guy has a pierced mouth…”
“Oh hey, just stay still. It’s condescending to surrender.”
Chairman Sam-O-Joo pretended to, raised his arm to set the mood, and then looked at us with a grin.
“surrender?”
“If you don’t like the word surrender, why don’t you say something else? Would you accept me as a member? Or did you go abroad for a while?”
“You even write appeasements. The manipulation of evidence must have been incomplete.”
“It’s because I’m kind of tolerant of juniors in the industry.”
“You should be praying for me to be lenient over there.”
“This bastard!”
Took.
“I’m not a bully, let’s be a little gentleman.”
I threw Mark’s report onto the table.
“what? AR670-1? U.S. Army uniform regulations?”
“Chairman Joo, can’t you read the letters properly? The U.S. Army uniform regulations are written in the National Security Law. Can’t you read it right?”
“What bullshit?”
Chairman Joo made a dumbfounded expression, but Lawyer Kang’s expression changed when he heard the word National Security Law.
The scariest law in this era is the National Security Law.
It was a terrifying evil law that could punish an innocent person without a proper trial.
“why? If female workers ask for a small salary increase, the guy who calls himself a redneck and recites the National Security Law, doesn’t this look like the National Security Law?”
bang!
“What does this have to do with the National Security Law? this bastard.”
“Why not related! Polytech has already started supplying troops to the US Army in Powell! It was clearly stated in the report that I had been using Polytech since a month ago. See the picture there too?”
I opened the polytechnical page from the uniform rules.
“Ugh!”
“what’s the matter? riverside! Why are you surprised?”
“U.S. patents are inventors first. Priority is given to who actually made the invention rather than the filing date of the patent…”
Attorney Kang shuddered, but he was a lawyer and explained things properly.
As far as Mark’s report goes, Polytech’s U.S. patent rights fall 100% to me.
“U.S. patent rights are unconditionally mine. What then? Would Polytech’s customers want to double-triple patent fees? Wouldn’t you like to know who the real patent owner is, you or me? One of those customers is an American soldier.”
“……”
“If the United States raises my hand, will I keep the secret until the end as I am a public official in the Korean Intellectual Property Office and a subcontractor? Are they really that loyal?”
“This is Korea. not America Do as the law!”
Chairman Joo wrote evil.
“Korea is your domain, right? Misunderstanding is also oily resin. you know what There is something called the Mutual Security Act (MSA) where US troops are stationed. It is an agreement that strictly protects US military information, investment, and technological assets.”
“…that’s… what… well… that’s it!”
Perhaps feeling some unknown anxiety, Chairman Joo jumped up from his seat and pressed his face toward me.
“You just stole patents for U.S. military supplies protected by the Mutual Security Act. It promoted a dispute for the purpose of damaging not only Korea-US relations, but also US-Japan relations by attracting Japanese companies. who gave the order? Is this simply a matter of money? Couldn’t that be what the red guys up there ordered you to do?”
I jumped up and poked his forehead with my finger.
“Ugh! You crazy bastard!”
chin!
Chairman Joo swung his arm at me, but I lightly blocked it.
This body is already perfected through labor.
“Choose. Do you want to do it in Korean? Do you want to do it American law?”
If you think that only rich capitalists can blackmail you, Gyeonggi-do is mistaken.
I know how to make threats like this because I’ve been through so many dog-like things in my previous life.
“Yeah man…”
“According to US law, it is a violation of the patent law, but under Korean law, it is a civil war. What would you like?”
“By the river! Are you still going to hear this bullshit? Say something!”
“Please save me. I have nothing to do with this.”
Regardless of Chairman Joo’s screams, the riverside suddenly knelt down.
“I had no intention of attending this event originally. Seriously. Trust me..”
They also had no loyalty.
