Chapter 1 – Episode 1. Small Business Miracle. Jeongja Pay System
The mobile phone that has been together for 6 years has changed its reputation today.
I was discharged from the military and have been using the cell phone I bought in high school.
When I buy something, I tend to use it until it becomes a rag.
I don’t have many friends anyway, so I don’t have much contact, and I don’t have anything to use, so my phone’s lifespan is getting longer.
And a little while ago, while I was eating in the student cafeteria, my antique rattling rattling sounded ‘fish!’ And gave off smoke and died as it were.
It’s a bit embarrassing.
Other students stare.
Those who were sitting nearby moved their seats with food trays, wondering if their phones were exploding.
“Hey, I’m going to change that a little bit earlier.”
Jinsu said.
Jinsu Kim.
Motivation I’ve known since entering college.
He is my only school friend.
This guy also went back to school this time.
After returning to school, I was worried that I would have to go alone until graduation, but it was fortunate that I had a rice friend.
“Why are you exchanging a perfectly fine phone?”
“Did you think that was fine? Crazy. Who uses a phone until the end of its lifespan? Not even my grandmother.”
“I have no money this month. Let’s just live without a cell phone.”
I didn’t have enough money in my wallet.
I came up from the provinces for college, but I lived only on the pocket money sent by my house.
I went to part-time job interviews a few times, but failed in all of them.
From then on, part-timers rationalized that it was only for insiders.
“How can I live without my cell phone? Group assignments are all discussed in the chat room, and attendance is now replaced with a mobile student ID.”
“Ha… Jinsu. Can you lend me some money?”
“What are you talking about, you madman? I just ask my parents to buy me one because my phone is broken.”
“Should I…”
I didn’t want to contact the house.
Our house is a remarried family.
The stepmom is 16 years older than her dad.
I’m only 10 years older.
Of course, it didn’t look good around me.
Because her stepmom approached her father first, it was said that she married for her father’s wealth.
The father, a successful businessman, seemed to have entrusted all the financial rights of the house to his stepmother when he married his stepmother five years ago.
My allowance is now managed by my stepmom.
“You live well at home, what are you worrying about with a smartphone like this?”
“There is such a thing, dude.”
My stepmom was nice to me in front of her dad, but her attitude was different in her dad’s absence.
So we don’t get along very well, but I think it’s natural.
However, it is quite tight to cut the allowance in the middle.
I didn’t want to live with her stepmom, so I studied hard and entered a university in Seoul.
She didn’t tell her father about her stepmom.
After the death of her mother in an accident when she was young, she seemed unwilling to break the stability of the home she had barely found.
It was enough for me as long as my dad was happy.
“If you do, go here once.”
“What is this?”
Jinsu showed the smartphone screen.
“A black market for cell phones?”
“This is a popular deal these days. It hasn’t been out for a while because of the crackdown, but it’s coming back these days, and they say it’s sold very cheaply? There are also quite a few used phones.”
“Okay?”
“Uh. Close to here Why don’t you go see it later during class break?”
“Hmm. Okay. I’ll take a look.”
* * *
During my afternoon break, I visited a place called the black market for cell phones.
‘Is this right? I don’t have anything too much?’
There was no signboard, and the entrance to the old building was bleak.
‘It’s marked on the map for now, so let’s go in.’
When I opened the door and entered, it was completely different from what I saw from the outside.
The inside was spacious and bright and crowded with people.
‘Oh. You’ve come to the right place. There are too many people.’
As soon as I entered, a woman approached me with a pretty smile.
“Hello, customer! Did you come to look at your cell phone?”
“Yes… I want to buy a phone.”
I had pretty girl depression.
When I stand in front of a pretty woman, my words get twisted, and when a waitress approaches while looking at clothes, I become a hogu who buys everything she recommends.
‘It’s a big deal.’
I thought I was going to get caught again.
The woman smiled and led me to the display stand.
“What type are you looking for? Is there a model you want?”
“It’s just… Me… Anything.”
The woman appeared to be in her late twenties.
It was a neat image with long straight hair and a suit.
“Is there a model or function you are looking for?”
“Ah… I just need to make a good phone call and talk.”
The woman grinned and pulled an old box of hers from her corner.
“How do you like this? This is a new cell phone from a small business, and it is cheap.”
“A small business? Which…?”
When it comes to mobile phones, it’s either an S or an A.
I was curious because it was a small business phone.
The woman opened the box and took out her cell phone.
‘And…!! Really good.’
What 00’s millennium? A mobile phone with such a design popped out.
‘I think I’ve seen something like that before.’
“This is a new retro phone from Yuksong Company. It’s called ‘Thermatephone’.”
“What… 6… What? Meat transport?”
The surface of the phone is a shiny vinyl-like material, which is quite old-fashioned.
I doubt if it is the latest mobile phone.
“Is this the only design?”
“Yes. Sir! Retro is back in fashion, right?”
You sound like retro.
Where is the hogu who buys things like this in the world?
‘That Hogu is me.’
It took less than 5 minutes to be persuaded.
“Sir! Good idea. Small and medium-sized enterprises these days are so technologically advanced that you can’t get these specs at this price!”
‘Yes. I’m sure you can’t find one like this anywhere.’
I left the black market with an old, classic box in my hand.
I left the black market and turned on my phone.
Back to back!
The phone turned on with a strange sound that seemed to be about to die.
How is it?
The latest smartphone is only 100,000 won.
I’m back at school
* * *
“And. I’m not going to lie to you, it’s so fucking lame.”
I can’t refute Jinsu’s words.
“You really have the same taste. It is a skill to live by choosing only these things. If it were me, I wouldn’t even give it to you, a phone like this.”
“Shut up. I just needed my phone to work well.”
“First, save the number.”
There were not a few registered phone numbers anyway, so it was convenient to manually transfer them without having to interlock or anything.
“My first phone number is a dark boy.”
“What. Am I new? Hey erase it Register again, starting with your parents.”
“What. Go away. I have already registered.”
After watching it a few times, I can adapt to this coppery design.
Still, the function seems to work well, so I’m satisfied.
It seems that the internet is a bit slow for some reason.
For a moment.
3G??
“Hey. What do you see in your eyes?”
I showed Jinsu my phone.
“It says 3G. What? Three?”
“Wow… What the fuck is this?”
“Puhahaha!!! Hey you got scammed! What’s this. Are three-way phones coming out these days? Kyakyakyakya”
Jinsu held his stomach and laughed.
I want to cry
“Hey, didn’t you take a good look and buy it? Also, like Hogu, you just rushed to ask what the waiter recommended while asking ‘Nuye Nuye’?”
“Do it.”
“You’re not an examinee, so what kind of three-phone? Let’s go. To get a refund. Or just call me Wouldn’t you have gotten a business card or something?”
I searched the box.
[Xx mobile phone store. Seoyeon Lee. 010-xxxx-xxxx.]
I called.
-Hello?
“I. This is the person who bought the cell phone earlier. Is that ‘Thermatephone’ or something?”
-Ah! Yes customer! What are you doing?
“No. What is a three-way phone in the world these days! I heard it’s the latest phone.”
-Ah. It is a retro sensibility, so it is a product with 3G removed from the 5G function at an affordable price. The customer said it would be fine if the call went well.
‘I did… I did.’
“No, but 3G is a bit…”
-Can I refund you? Sir?
‘What? It seems that refund processing is easier than I thought.’
-Customer Then, our free refund period is one week. How about trying it for a week and then deciding?
Hogu is persuaded like this again.
I decided to get a refund after using the phone for a week.
“What are you going to do, ‘Small and Medium Enterprise Sumaterphone Experience Group’? What a week is a week You should get a refund right away.”
“I don’t know. It’s free for up to a week anyway. I have to attend later right now. Just spend some.”
After the afternoon class, I returned to the studio.
* * *
‘Still, it’s a new phone, so let’s take a look at its features.’
Pulled out the manual.
I thought it was a domestic small and medium-sized company product because it was called Yuksong, but the manual was full of letters I had never seen before.
[Made in leader]
‘Okay. Isn’t leader a strong country in it?’
We looked at the default app.
‘Super Pay?’
The name is also grandiose.
It seemed like a smart pay payment system or something.
‘Still, everything seems to be there.’
I turned on the app.
-Enter user registration information.
I entered information such as date of birth and name.
‘Lee Jin-woo is 24 years old, and his job is a student.’
– Register your fingerprint.
Yes, they usually typed something like this.
– Done. Thank you for using spam pay.
Is this the end?
Don’t you usually have to enter account or card information?
I wanted to be lax, but I was going to spend a week anyway, so I threw my phone away and went to sleep.
〈 Sperm Pay Manual 〉 (Korean translation)
Jeongja Pay is a biometric payment system.
It can be used anywhere card payment is accepted, and can be calculated with the user’s body instead of the payment amount.
The amount is calculated according to the country’s entertainment market price and the seller’s rating.
(Amounts that are too low will be settled in minimum increments.)
A staff member will be assigned soon, so please ask the staff for more information.
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