Chapter 202

Chapter 202

T/L note: I will start the unlocked chapters to 214, but dont worry about the free chapters (139-213), I will still translate it.

Yoo-hyun nodded his head with a smile.

-You don’t have to do this. You should focus on other things, Yoo-hyun.

Kim Seondong, the team leader, always tried to take over the tasks that were assigned to Yoo-hyun.

He was the type of person who was willing to sacrifice himself for others.

He endured all kinds of unpleasant work without complaining.

He had a lot of ideas and was smart, but he was too busy with trivial tasks that he couldn’t concentrate on his own work.

Despite that, he played a crucial role in the development of the ultra-high-resolution panel.

Looking back, he was an amazing person.

Swish.

Yoo-hyun sat down and touched the soldering iron.

It felt very unfamiliar.

It was even more so because he hadn’t used it for a long time.

Then, someone passed behind Yoo-hyun.

He glanced and saw that it was Kim Hogul, the senior engineer.

“...”

He seemed to have checked what Yoo-hyun was doing, but he didn’t show any reaction.

His expression was as grim as yesterday.

He looked at Yoo-hyun as if he was testing him.

-The product planning guys should do this too. Then they would understand the difficulties of the engineers.

Yoo-hyun recalled what he had said in the past and smiled.

Back then, he wasn’t a timid team leader who only cared about others’ opinions.

Under his professional guidance, Yoo-hyun gained a lot of experience.

It became a great foundation for Yoo-hyun’s growth later.

With that memory in mind, Yoo-hyun turned on the soldering iron.

There were countless components on a yellow film that was slightly smaller than his palm.

They were so close together that it required a lot of skill to detach one of them.

Yoo-hyun removed them one by one by applying solder on both sides of the small components.

It had been a long time ago, but his hands still remembered the experience.

And since he had good concentration, it was quick after he got used to it.

“This is fun.”

After detaching them, he also enjoyed attaching them with solder using tweezers.

It felt natural to repeat the same task over and over again.

It was like disassembling and reassembling a gun in the army.

A while later.

Kim Seondong, the team leader, and Maeng Giyong, the senior engineer, came back after finishing their conversation.

There was a box containing touch PCBs on Kim Seondong’s seat.

They were neatly packed as if they were new products.

Maeng Giyong was surprised and asked Kim Seondong.

“What? You’re done already?”

“Of course not...”

Maeng Giyong looked around and quickly said to Kim Seondong.

“Check it with the measuring device. Hurry up.”

“Okay, okay.”

Kim Seondong brought the measuring device and checked the resistance at the position where it needed to be changed.

He checked several devices, but the values were all the same.

The connections were also neatly done.

After confirming everything, Kim Seondong said to Maeng Giyong.

“Senior engineer, I think it’s all done.”

“There’s not a single mistake. Wow...”

Maeng Giyong felt a bit awkward.

He had asked the team leader to make Yoo-hyun do some hard work, but he finished it in no time.

That’s how Yoo-hyun accomplished something every day.

Even if it was a small thing, he always left a good impression.

As he did so, the evaluation of others around him gradually changed.

From a shameless guy, a rude guy to a necessary guy.

Thanks to the halo effect that Kim Hyunmin, the director, had given him, his speed accelerated even more.

It was Friday, the first week since Yoo-hyun came to work here.

That morning, Maeng Giyong and Lee Jinmok, the team leaders, were at the smoking area next to the fourth factory building.

They were smoking when Maeng Giyong suddenly said:

“That guy Yoo-hyun has something special.”

“Yes, senior engineer. I thought he was just a rude guy, but he’s not.”

“Me too. You know that IC company thing he mentioned?”

“Yes. At the weekly meeting?”

“Yeah. He was right about everything. Geez.”

Maeng Giyong exhaled smoke and chuckled bitterly.

Yoo-hyun asked Kang Junki, who was sighing.

He was having fun with his work and he must have checked it already.

As expected, he got the answer he wanted.

-We still have time, don’t we? If we customize it as you said, we have enough room.

“Okay. That’s it.”

-But why do you need another mockup?

“No. Not me. There’s someone called Lee Jinmok, the team leader.”

Yoo-hyun lifted his head and looked at Lee Jinmok, who was next to Kim Seondong, the team leader.

He was organizing data without knowing anything.

Kang Junki asked him:

-Really? When are you going to contact him?

“I’ll do it later. Anyway, I got it. Let me know if there’s any change.”

-Okay. Bye.

Yoo-hyun looked at the phone that was hung up.

No one cared about it now, but there would be a time when they needed a mockup for Apple’s demo.

He had to prepare from now on to make a big impact then.

What would be good to demo the ultra-high-resolution panel?

Realistic images were essential.

But that wasn’t enough.

He had to make a UI that felt like a next-generation Apple phone to convince them for sure.

Yoo-hyun knew someone who could help him with this kind of thing.

He picked up his phone and called his sister.

“Hey, Jaehui, how are you?”

-What’s up, bro? You never call me these days.

“Just wondering how your studies are going.”

-I almost died because of the midterm exams.

“Did you finish them?”

-Yeah. I guess so.

He had checked his sister’s midterm schedule before calling her.

It was his brotherly heart to give her some consideration before asking for a favor.

Yoo-hyun said with a pleasant voice:

“That’s good.”

-What? You sound suspicious.

“Well...”

As Yoo-hyun was explaining, he heard a sharp voice from the other side of the phone.

-No way. I don’t want to do it.

“What? What’s wrong?”

-No, nothing.

When Yoo-hyun asked her, Han Jaehui pretended that nothing happened.

But that wasn’t true.

He clearly heard a man’s voice nagging her.

-Hey, I’m on the phone. Stop it. Ugh. Why are you like this? Ugh, really.

“Jaehui, what’s going on?”

-No, it’s just that a senior keeps talking to me.

Yoo-hyun felt it intuitively.

He had a name in his mind.

“Is it Yang Woochan?”

-...No. Just continue what you were saying.

When Han Jaehui avoided the question, his suspicion turned into certainty.

She was definitely involved with Yang Woochan.

And not in a good way.

Yoo-hyun said with determination:

“No. I have to see you in person. Are you okay now?”

-Uh, I guess so...

“Okay. I’ll be there today.”

-What?

Yoo-hyun ignored Han Jaehui’s surprise and hung up the phone.

Click.

He immediately looked for a bus ticket.

There wasn’t much time left until the end of work, so he had to check it now to catch it on time.

As he was searching the internet site, Maeng Giyong, the senior engineer, glanced at him as if he was aware of him.

He licked his lips as if he had something to say.

He felt like asking him for a drink.

He could reach out and grab him, but he couldn’t do that now.

He had an urgent matter to solve.

In the end, Maeng Giyong wandered around and returned to his seat.