episode_0047

“Public opinion is slowly starting to heat up, so we’re also taking action.”

“The whistleblower came out, which was huge. I thought it would take at least the first half of the year.”

“Let’s send a protest email first. If they ignore us again, we’ll sue them.”

“I don’t think I can sue you right away… I’ll force you into negotiations.”

“Forced?”

“There are many ways.”

***

The association was in a state of crisis.

“I received a complaint email from KIN.”

“Damn it! That fucking supporter ruined everything!”

“Well… You’re openly telling me to negotiate. What are you going to do?”

“We should ignore it and hide it from other departments. If Ilmbo leaks this to the outside, it will cause more chaos.”

“…Okay.”

The president of the association was a bigger idiot than I could have imagined.

‘While we’re at it, we should get exclusive rights and broadcasting rights in Korea through negotiations. Without us, you can’t do business in Korea, so what can we do?’

…I’ll correct this. He was not a fool, but a brat with a brain of his own.

It was not particularly strange that the association president, who remembered the Geumdeungwi incident after receiving a threat from KIN saying, “If you don’t come out right now, we will block the pipes in Korea,” moved around hesitantly.

So, the association president set foot on American soil on a business trip, enjoyed some sightseeing, and then appeared at the negotiation table with KIN.

‘It’s a shame you guys are the ones who should have come. You guys don’t even have the basics down. Tsk tsk.’

It was an attitude that was worthy of being called the owner of a sloppy way of thinking.

“First of all, the reason we gathered here is to hold the association accountable for various license violations committed without our consent.”

“What responsibility do you mean by responsibility?”

“…They held a competition without a license and claimed exclusive rights to Starcraft in Korea, and they even sold tickets for money and sold the broadcasting rights to broadcasters, right?”

” Hehe, aren’t you being too harsh? You don’t exercise your rights in Korea, so we’re just temporarily taking over those rights on your behalf. ”

“We decided to call it Bong-i Kim Seon-dal.”

Something… a lethal dose of frustration comes from shamelessness beyond imagination.

“Then why did you ignore the request for cooperation at Gamescon?”

“Why would we send players?”

“Are you crazy?”

“Yes?”

“Oh, it’s nothing.”

Oh, I accidentally said it out loud. You didn’t hear me, did you?

“…So then there is no responsibility…?”

“Yes, yes. That’s right.”

“Then, from now on, if we exercise our rights directly in Korea, the association will no longer be involved and will only be responsible for player management, right?”

“…Huh?”

“Even without that, as we have grown in size and are providing services all over the world, we have felt the need for overseas branches, and the first Korean branch will be taking its first steps. Don’t you feel a surge of nationalism?”

“Korean branch…you mean?”

The president of the association suddenly frowns as if he heard something he shouldn’t have heard.

“Before April, the association should stop all related work and if you really want to do something, you can get a license first.”

Yeah, yeah. You’re screwed.

“Oh, no. That, if a branch is to open in Korea, it will be a lot of trouble and costly.”

“We are not a company that has so little money that the president would worry about us. Haha.”

“Cha, it would be better to entrust the license to us and handle it easily…”

Aha? So that was your true intention?

It was not for nothing that he came to the negotiating table with such shamelessness and no intention of taking responsibility.

From the beginning, they didn’t even think about what they had done and used the negotiation table as a dialogue window to only obtain their own rights. That was the true intention of the association president who was always slacking off.

“Why do you only pick out the shittiest things to say?”

If you say something shitty, shouldn’t you say something shitty?

Those kids keep being nice to me first, so they’re really turning into dark creatures and putting a sheet of iron on my face and doing this crap. Do I really have to put up with it?

“What, what did you say?”

“You’re the one who picks out the shit out of anyone. How many layers of iron plates did you put down to make you bigger than a medieval plate armor? Even a beast would say, “We don’t handle this kind of stuff either.” ”

“This, profit…! There’s nothing more to say! Do what you want!”

In the end, the association president kicked open the door and left the negotiation room.

“You’re right.”

Kim Jeong-jun said to me with some surprise.

“I scratched it on purpose… I didn’t know it would get that good of a reaction. That person was more incompetent than I thought.”

“The recording… seems to have gone well. Are you going to release this right away?”

“No. It would be a really stupid thing to release a recording during a negotiation… I think the situation will go towards the worst case scenario, so if the negotiation falls apart, then we should release it.”

“…That’s vicious.”

The scenario is roughly drawn up… We need to hurry up and push forward with the Korean branch. This empty promise will be exposed.

***

Korea was thrown into chaos as copyright disputes began to surface in earnest.

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