## Chapter 189 – International Negotiations
I couldn’t understand it.
Even if I had bought the lowest-performing translator, how could they have already caught up and overcome our technology less than two months after its release?
“How is that even possible?”
“Well, I didn’t understand it either, so I’ve had people looking into it.”
But after two days of not knowing the reason, I said,
“Get one of those products and bring it to me.”
And the moment I held the competitor’s product in my hand, [Encyclopedia] read my thoughts and gave me the answer.
[It’s a fake, cleverly disguised with only the outer appearance changed after disassembling your company’s product.]
Huh?
“What’s the selling price of this?”
Jang Seon-yeong reported in response to my question.
“It’s 1,221,000 won.”
“Where is it mainly being sold?”
“The United States and Europe.”
I roughly grasped what was going on.
“This is a counterfeit made by disassembling our company’s product and taking out only the contents.”
“Oh, my.”
“Master, shouldn’t we address this issue immediately?”
An enraged Jang Seon-yeong shouted to start a lawsuit, and Im Ji-eun nodded in agreement beside her.
I pondered for a moment before saying,
“There’s no need for that.”
“Excuse me? Are you just going to let that act slide? It will become a problem soon enough, one way or another.”
“Leave it alone for now. I have a plan.”
Anyway, this is truly absurd.
Taking out the contents and selling them after a plausible reassembly.
I never thought such unethical behavior would be done in the United States and Europe, not China.
Thanks to this, I knew one thing for sure.
Even if it seems like the governments in the United States and Europe are firmly standing their ground, the reality is that they can’t simply ignore the voices of protest from their citizens.
I instructed Jang Seon-yeong.
“Anyway, don’t file a lawsuit, but instead, cut off trade with the problematic company.”
“The problematic company?”
“There’s definitely a broker who buys our products and connects them to that company. I’ll find out which company it is and give you a list, then you block all transactions with them.”
Soon after, people came to Im Ji-eun’s company and started begging.
They pleaded to sell them the products, not through Taebaek Distribution, but through direct transactions.
They even offered to buy them at a 30% premium.
Of course, there was no mercy. Im Ji-eun kicked them out as they were.
After receiving that report, I issued the next instruction.
“From now on, we won’t accept large quantity transactions. Only individual orders of 2 or fewer.”
“Huh? Then the impact on sales will be significant.”
“I don’t care.”
I’m not running a company to make money.
“Understood! We’ll only accept individual orders!”
After that, I released a product that was one step better.
『Translator v1.5』
Then, competing products no longer appeared.
The competitors who had sneakily taken out only the contents and worked on them couldn’t make any more products, and as a result, consumers started complaining about why the products weren’t coming out.
‘They couldn’t even repair them properly in the first place.’
We were secretly operating robots, so AS was no problem.
But even if the competitors were entrusted with repairs, they couldn’t fix them.
In the end, the competitors held out and held out, then made ridiculous excuses and stopped selling one by one.
-The company’s situation is not good….
-Due to internal problems within the company, we have no choice but to suspend production….
And seeing that, I said,
“Ji-eun.”
“Yes, Master.”
“You know all the data you’ve been collecting? Sue them now.”
“!!”
If they had sold a moderate amount and it had become public knowledge, they might have been able to gloss over it, but they had already sold an enormous amount.
And they gained great recognition.
In the market, they were being called one of the top 3 or top 4 translator companies.
In some ways, they were more well-known than our company’s products.
This was because people valued American and European products more than Korean ones.
But what if we made public the dirty deeds they had done at this time?
“Then I’ll get started.”
With Yu Hwa Group backing her, Im Ji-eun filed lawsuits against companies in the United States and Europe.
She presented the collected data and related parties as witnesses, and after passing on information to the media and YouTubers, she made a big international fuss about the issue.
Then, Europe and the United States went wild.
『Everyone, look at this! This is what the people who have been promoting themselves as translator specialists until recently have been doing!』
『The company should apologize to consumers! Compensate them for selling products that can’t even be repaired!』
What’s the best way to bring down the opposing camp?
It’s not about pressuring and attacking the opponent.
It’s about causing internal divisions and making them rise up.
The crowd, who had already tasted the new technology once, was very thirsty, and they had been enduring it by quenching their thirst with small quantities.
But with this incident, they exploded.
The arrows of criticism were aimed at the government.
『We condemn the company for engaging in unethical behavior! What has the government been doing until now!』
『A puppet government! Pigs that only waste taxes!』
『The current regime must be held accountable!』
“…They’re a bit extreme over there.”
People holding pickets, setting fires, and causing a ruckus. Jang Seon-yeong, who was watching alongside me, nodded.
“It’s a country that also uses guns. I heard that the government’s authority has weakened a lot these days, so gun accidents are frequent and regulations are not easy.”
“Is that so?”
But that’s strange. Why couldn’t we enter those places at all when the government’s power has weakened?
Anyway, just two days after that chaos broke out, the West finally made an official announcement that they would open the door to Taebaek Distribution.
They had no choice because they were receiving fierce criticism from the public.
Even if that wasn’t the case, it was new technology. If they didn’t open up and went with a closed-door policy, they would fall behind that much.
The phone rang in the office, and Jang Seon-yeong said to me,
“Master, there’s a call from the U.S. State Department.”
“Convey this.”
I wrote down what Jang Seon-yeong should say on the tablet and handed it to her. Jang Seon-yeong glanced at it a few times, cleared her throat, and said,
“Well, that’s not a very appealing position. If you’re reluctantly calling to see what kind of proposal we have….”
“Since the nuance doesn’t seem to indicate that you have much intention of interacting with us, we will just give up on entering the U.S. market.”
“Threats won’t work. If you want to publicly announce that we have given up on entering the U.S. market, go ahead. We still have evidence of our repeated efforts to enter that were thwarted.”
Then Jang Seon-yeong hung up the phone. Several calls came, but Jang Seon-yeong politely refused them and now didn’t answer.
“Tell Im Ji-eun to release the next product.”
“Yes, Master.”
And I released two more types of products that I had purchased from the [Store].
Hologram Display
Hologram Keyboard.
Laser keyboards have already been distributed on Earth.
But the limitations were clear. There had to be a flat surface, and there was no input feedback when pressing.
Errors were also frequent.
However, the [Hologram Keyboard] that we are selling this time floats in the air according to the user, so it can be used while walking.
There was also a subtle and pleasant stimulation at the fingertips when typing, so the key feel was certain.
“Wow. This will really sell well.”
Jang Seon-yeong walked around the office and moved her fingers.
Accordingly, letters began to rapidly increase on the [Hologram Display] that unfolded in front of her.
“I really can’t believe it. We don’t have to carry tablets and keyboards around in our hands anymore?”
Jang Seon-yeong, who enjoyed it for a long time in various poses like a child playing with a new toy, asked me.
“This is also excluding the West, right, Master?”
“Of course.”
And from the day the product was released, the media and YouTubers began to run wild.
『Oh my god. Has everyone used this? It’s no joke! It’s a whole new world!』
『Everyone should use Taebaek’s new product right away. It can’t be compared to the translator. Especially the hologram display! The image quality isn’t perfect yet, but being able to use it anytime, anywhere is very innovative….』
『Holograms as tourist products that you must buy when going abroad this time….』
Immediately, calls began to pour in.
I had definitely blocked calls from the U.S., but the phone rang non-stop.
“Minister. I told you. Those countries didn’t have much intention of trading with us. Our group’s president has already given up on those countries.”
Listening carefully, it seemed that they had indirectly conveyed their intentions through the Minister of Foreign Affairs of our country.
It wasn’t just our country.
Contacts came through the foreign ministries of other countries, or through large corporations.
There were even cases where they came directly to me.
“Yes, Chairman. I received the call.”
It was Jang Seon-yeong’s maternal uncle and the honorary chairman of Korea’s No. 1 company, KJ.
「Hey, how much are you going to make to cause such a big commotion? Stop opening your mouth so wide and eat a little. My phone is very noisy because of you.」
“Haha, I’m sorry. I’ll bring you a gift and visit you later.”
「Drag it out for two or three more days and then stop eating. Don’t let it go over a week.」
And on the second day, many foreigners had come to the company.
When we didn’t budge even after pleading on the phone, they finally came to Korea to negotiate.
“That’s him over there! That’s Lee Tae-baek, the founder of Taebaek Distribution!”
“Chairman! Can we talk for a moment! We have something important to tell you!”
Ignoring them and passing by, the foreigners followed and begged to talk for a moment.
“Just 20 minutes! Just 10 minutes!”
“Even just 5 minutes…!”
I took them around with me for about 3 days, then sat down at the negotiating table.
And after hypnotizing them, I took off the white women in the conference room and fucked them while proceeding with the negotiations.
“Ah, uh. F-First of all, thank you again for accepting our proposal… Umm? …Kiss. Smack.”
I put the blonde white woman on the table, climbed on top of her, massaged her breasts wildly, and kissed her lips.
I shoved my dick into that elite pussy and shook it mercilessly.
Squish. Squish. Squish.
Each time I thrust, the flood of fluids burst out onto the table.
“Hey, in the back. Lick properly.”
“Yes, slur. Slurp.”
I was getting a blowjob from the brunette white woman while fucking the blonde white woman’s white pussy, and as soon as I felt the urge to cum, I half-inserted my glans into the entrance of her uterus.
And I shot it all in there.
“Oh, it’s coming out a lot.”
As expected, white women. From their height to their skin, it’s all a scam.
“Hey, don’t lie there, get up and clean up. You over there, get ready to be fucked.”
“Smack. Smack smack.”
“The negotiations are up to you, Ji-eun, Seon-yeong?”
“…….”
“…….”
I said to the two women who were pouting with sullen expressions.
“I’ll fuck you too when it’s all over.”
“Let’s finish quickly, Seon-yeong.”
“Yes, Ji-eun.”
That’s how we managed to enter the U.S. and European markets as well.
‘Well, I enjoyed myself this time too.’
But the problems were still there.
Taxes, legal restrictions, and many other challenges were piled up like mountains.
Especially taxes.
They were taxing us so much that it was almost like they were telling us not to do business.
They were imposing a whopping 45% tariff, so Im Ji-eun and Jang Seon-yeong were about to overturn the negotiating table, but without even using hypnosis, it could be lowered to 0%.
Because the relationship between the parties was clear from the start.
‘But this is just the beginning.’
The governments of Western countries still had a tendency to prioritize their own companies, and unlike Korea, there were many competitors there.
There were also radical people who would commit arson, shootings, and other things if they didn’t like something.
We also had to think about technology leaks.
‘But why is there so much restraint? It took so long just to take the first step.’
It was still a part that I didn’t understand, but what does it matter?
As long as the result is good.
I had roughly finished my work and had some free time for the first time in a while, so I sat down on one side of International University and took a break.
Occasionally greeting the employees who passed by and yawning.
“Woo-jin!”
As I was doing that, I heard some footsteps.
“Hmm?”
Isabelle, Maya, Camilla, Inoue, Anastasia.
The Isabelle group, as they were commonly called, ran towards me and smiled brightly.
“What brings you guys to Korea?”
“We’ve been in that world for a long time. So we enrolled in International University to learn various things.”
“Oh, now that I think about it, is it already the spring semester?”
I had definitely been running around diligently in the fall, but in a short time, it was already spring and the cherry blossoms were in full bloom.
‘No wonder I was yawning and feeling drowsy… Was it because of the season?’
“I heard from the kids. You’ve been doing a lot of things while I was gone.”
“Haha, well, yeah.”
Isabelle smiled brightly while holding up our company’s products, so I smiled back and asked.
“But what are you doing running around that it’s so hard to see your face?”
The last time I saw Isabelle was in late summer.
It had been quite a while since I had seen her in person.
Well, I had been receiving news through video messages and sometimes through the kids, so I wasn’t worried, but I was still curious.
“That’s….”
Isabelle, who had glanced around for a moment at my question, lowered her voice and whispered.
“Actually, I came because I have a favor to ask.”
“?”
“Could you possibly come with me to the Rougegard family?”
