Miracle Professor 02
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A woman in a jogging suit. It was running from over there.
The sky is still very dark.
Hyeon-jun, who had been inhaling the cigarette smoke for a long time and then spouting white smoke, quickly extinguished the cigarette and stirred it in all directions with both hands.
It was because the smell of cigarettes he had smoked was all over the place.
A woman who got close.
“Uh, how are you?”
A woman who recognizes Hyun-joon right away and greets him casually.
Looking at her who had come nearby and stopped slightly, Hyeon-joon also replied.
“hello?”
“Did you come out to smoke again?”
“···yes.”
Hyunjoon laughed awkwardly.
She wants to run again.
At that moment, Hyeonjun’s mouth opened.
“Hey, maybe…”
“yes?”
Eventually, the woman stopped running a few steps. And I looked at Hyunjoon.
“Is it okay to jog in the morning? Aren’t you a bit cold?”
“Ah… I’m fine. The air is nice and the park over there is even better.”
“But… hey, it’s a bit dark, isn’t it a bit scary?”
“yes?”
She asked back, and that made Hyeon-jun a little embarrassed.
Fortunately, she spoke again.
“it’s okay. Even after that, I have Taekwondo 3rd dan certificate.”
Taekwondo 3 Dan?
It would be great if he was 3rd Dan in Taekwondo with that slender body, but wouldn’t it be dangerous if someone came out here and there with a weapon in a dark place?
Then, Hyun-joon soon became serious.
Why did he suddenly become so concerned?
What a strange thing.
In the end, Hyunjoon smiled and replied.
“Still, I think I’m scared.”
“no. If you go out there, there are quite a few people exercising in the morning.”
“Then when do you usually come out?”
“yes?”
Hyunjun’s continued question.
Perhaps because of that, the woman stared at Hyeon-jun for a moment before opening her mouth again.
“5:20 or 30. I can’t even run if I have a job. It just comes out as it happens.”
“You wake up early, too.”
“But you know what’s really funny?”
“yes?”
“You wake up really early, too.”
that one?
The other time he said ‘mister’, and this time he said ‘that one’.
Hyunjoon raised a corner of his mouth and smiled.
At this time, the woman said hello right away as if she thought it was too late.
“Then I’ll go.”
“Hey, wait a minute.”
“yes?”
“Excuse me, may I ask your name?”
“Me?”
“yes.”
“ah···.”
After hesitating for a moment, she looked at Hyeon-jun once more and said her name.
“…Kim Chae-won. What about that one?”
“Yes, I am Choi Hyun-jun. nice to meet you Chaewon.”
“Ah, then.”
As if embarrassed by something, she quickly bowed her neck and ran away.
Hyeon-jun looked at her from the back and smiled, then took out another cigarette and put it in his mouth. He couldn’t even smoke properly and turned off the light.
Then, leaning against the wall for a while, Hyeon-joon puffed out cigarette smoke, and this time, he did not burn all the cigarettes and turned off the light in the middle.
Soon, Hyeon-joon was holding the butts in his hand, looked at the direction where she had disappeared, and was slowly entering the officetel.
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Tuesday, March 26, 2019 at 10:00 AM.
Hyeon-joon, who woke up after sleeping for about 3 hours, hurriedly got ready and arrived at school.
Soon, I started working in the morning as usual.
I checked the e-mails that came to my school e-mail account.
After entering some information in the excel file sent by the Academic Support Team, it was resent to the Academic Support Team.
And I also looked at the experimental data sent by graduate students one by one.
While spending time like that, Hyeon-jun suddenly received a call from the dean of the pharmacy school.
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“Hey, Professor Choi, I have something to say to you, so please come to the dean’s office for a moment.”
“all right. Dean.”
After putting down the office phone, Hyun-Jun took the professor’s diary and pen, and immediately left the office and headed for the dean’s office at the College of Pharmacy.
Then, after knocking lightly, Hyun-joon stepped inside.
There he met Kim Ryun-ki, the dean of the College of Pharmacy.
“Ah, Professor Choi! Come on. Sit over there.”
Then, the two of them sat facing each other at a table in the middle and had a brief meeting.
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“Professor Choi, then, are the preparations going well for the contract renewal review at the end of the year?”
Kim Ryun-ki, the dean of the College of Pharmacy, has almost gray hair. He was out of luck at first.
Hyeon-jun felt strange for a moment as he looked at Dean Kim Ryun-gi.
Professors usually don’t dye their hair well even when they get older, and Dean Kim Ryun-ki was the same.
The white snowy hair looks like a symbol of a noble scholar, and Dean Kim Ryoon-ki was exactly that.
Come to think of it, isn’t it bad to grow old like that? Hyeon-jun suddenly had such a thought, but soon he broke his thoughts and opened his mouth.
“Currently, there are several more papers submitted and about four papers have been published. Fortunately, I guess I was lucky.”
“Oh yeah? If that’s enough, there will definitely be no problem with the contract renewal review. Professor Choi is definitely a talented person. ha ha ha.”
Usually, publishing a research paper based on experimental results is not an easy task for those in their first or second year as professors.
But if you just stay still, you will be eliminated from the contract renewal review, and you will be kicked out of school again.
So, most professors deal with it in a tactful way.
The method used by most professors is usually to select the research they have done during their postdoctoral program (postdoc) and present it as a thesis.
Or, with the help of an advisor during the postdoctoral program, they publish review thesis (research trend research thesis) to fill the number of thesis required for contract renewal review.
In other words, Hyun-joon is also going through that process.
Of course, even at this time, the thesis should not be presented in the form of a simple co-author, and the professor must participate as the first author or corresponding author.
On the other hand, the first author here refers to the first author in the list of authors of the paper.
Those who were mainly in charge of experiments and wrote thesis manuscripts fall into this category. So, most of the papers currently published by Hyun-jun were first-author papers.
On the other hand, if you accumulate a little more years, professors will publish papers specifying their position as a corresponding author.
This corresponding author can be said to be the author who is responsible for the entire research in addition to being responsible for communication related to the thesis.
Therefore, the students who are in charge of the experiment become the first author, and the person who comes up with research ideas and provides advice on research methods as well as supervises the overall experiment becomes the corresponding author. In general, this is a form in which the professor becomes the corresponding author.
However, there is a clear difference between theses in the humanities field. Since most humanities papers do not divide into first author, co-author, and corresponding author, the position of the first author is unconditionally important.
On the other hand, in science and engineering papers, including medicine and pharmacology, the first author and corresponding author were strictly divided, and the contribution of the thesis was given equally to the first author and the corresponding author.
Anyway, fortunately, Hyeon-joon had already filled all the papers required for renewal of the contract.
“Then…the thesis presentation seems to have gone well. How is the course evaluation?”
Hyeonjun replied with a smile this time as well.
“Until last semester, my department average was well above.”
“Oh yeah? That won’t be a problem either. Great. ha ha ha! Then, Professor Choi, you should feel a little more at ease now. In fact, the evaluation of student lectures received in the first year of appointment as a professor is the most salty, but if you have already received it well, the evaluation of lectures this semester and next semester will be okay. Well then Professor Choi! How about doing some work on behalf of our department?”
At that moment, the smile on Hyunjoon’s lips disappeared.
It was a belated realization, but without knowing it, the dean who was like a serpent had hit him.
In other words, it is clear that he did not ask about this and that because he was worried about himself regarding the evaluation of the renewal of the professor contract at the end of the year, but to show condescension to himself before doing something.
“Are you fine?”
“···yes. Well, that’s fine.”
At this time, Hyun-jun barely answered ‘yes’. You can’t even say ‘no’.
This is because a second-year assistant professor cannot say such a thing to the dean.
“Then what is it?”
When Hyeon-jun asked, dean Kim Ryoon-ki slowly opened his mouth with his arms crossed.
“This time, a national new drug project planning project came in, and pharmaceutical companies participated as well as professors from other schools. It sounds like it will be a pretty big project. From what I heard, someone recommended that Professor Choi has wide feet these days. In general, it is appropriate to take on this kind of planning at the level of an associate professor. Still, Professor Choi will give it a try. How is it? Can I?”
“What if you say it’s a plan?”
“Get into the committee. If Professor Choi agrees, I will contact the planning manager right away. Well, the job won’t be that difficult. You can research this and that, bring it to a meeting, and discuss it appropriately there. For example, it is the process of deriving new drug task themes to be supported by the state. If you participate there, you will learn a lot of things. How is it?”
Hyunjoon thought for a moment, then nodded.
There is absolutely no reason to hate the dean, who has full authority at the pharmacy school, and if you participate in these planning task meetings, you may build up a lot of personal connections. However, the problem is that it takes some time.
Nevertheless, Hyun-joon readily agreed.
“OK! Well then, I’ll do it, and I’ll contact the secretary. Well, as Professor Choi knows, once you get into this kind of planning, not only public officials, but this and that will broaden your stride. That’s all personal connections, and those personal connections will be of great help later on. Based on these connections, you can get a large-scale research fund worth billions of won later.”
“yes. Okay. Dean.”
“As expected, Professor Choi is always cool and I like it. Oh, and you said you were preparing to start a business?”
“yes. That’s right.”
“And what is it? I mean approved.”
“yes?”
“It was approved by the president. I thought it would work out soon.”
“Dean, what are you talking about?”
“I attended the faculty meeting last week. When I heard the story at that time, it became a story that Professor Choi’s business would be approved soon. I don’t often give such approval to assistant professors, but the president made a decision. I think I can prepare for the next job now.”
Oh, that’s how it is.
In an instant, Hyeonjun’s expression immediately brightened.
“thank you. Dean!”
“And maybe Professor Choi, this is a different story, it’s a bit private, can I tell you?”
“Yes, please.”
“Well then, Professor Choi! Are you still single?”
“yes. Is that so?”
“You don’t have a lover?”
“yes.”
“Haha, that’s good. Our vice-president says that someone he knows well is looking for a son-in-law right now. Professor Choi, are you interested in that? Your family is great. Director of Gangnam Hospital. If our Professor Choi wants it, I can talk to the vice-president.”
At that moment, Hyeonjun was straight.
Gangnam hospital director’s daughter.
Although it is a great condition.
However, it is not an exaggeration to say that Hyeon-jun’s wealth is more than that.
Hyunjoon immediately shook his hand.
“no. Dean, I will take care of that.”
Then, Dean Kim Ryoon-ki frowns.
“You wouldn’t find a good marriage like that. Don’t do that, think carefully. Because there is still time. Oh, are there any lectures? I have lectures too.”
After the meeting, Hyun-joon came out of the dean’s office.
After checking the time on his watch, Hyeon-jun hurriedly moved.
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And after that, time passed and it was already 2:55 PM.
Hyun-Jun called Kim Yo-Han and made him look into a KOSDAQ stock called [Delta Omics].
After that, I went back to the office and lost myself in my thoughts for a while.
and after a while
Hyun-joon scribbled the name of the company, Farm Blockbuster Inc, on a piece of paper.
Then he continued to look at the letters.
The name is a combination of Pharm and Blockbuster.
In fact, among new drugs, drugs that generate huge sales in the market are called ‘blockbuster drugs’.
Hyun-joon simply tried to name a new company by combining the name he had conceived here with the word Pharm (pharmaceutical).
while thinking so much
um, that’s fine
After thinking that, Hyunjun wrote the words ‘Farm Blockbuster Inc’ on a post-it note and put it next to his monitor.
After that, I accessed my school e-mail account again and checked the e-mails received a while ago, and resumed my professorship.
Among the new emails were several from editors of international journals.
These were e-mails requesting a review of an international academic paper submitted to the journal.
So Hyeon-joon, who spent time dealing with this and that, came out of the office at 5:00 in the evening.
I went to the parking lot and got into my Audi car and headed to an apartment in Gangnam.
Now I’m thinking of buying a real house.
So whenever I had time, I thought of stopping by the real estate agent’s office to check out good listings.
