Chemistry

PM 08: 25 - Seoul National University

A bustling alley filled with street performers.

“Ta-da. Follow me. ”

Jungwoo held Yoon Lee Seul's hand to bravely rush into it.

“Wait, what are you trying to do? ”

“What do I do? I'm the only one who believes in me today. ”

Her black eyes glitter as she looks over the mask.

“But this place.... ”

Everywhere I went, my national sister was asking me to go on a date on a busy street, especially for young people.

Spy if you don't know her in Korea. No, even the spies have heard her songs in the North.

Of course, Jung was in a state of panic.

“If you keep hesitating, you can take this off. ”

When Yoon Yi Seol gave me a firm look, I don't know, Jung Woo pulled out his hand.

“Okay."

“That's my girlfriend. Good girl."

Yoon Iseol, who grabbed Jungwoo's arm and stretched it out, marched straight towards the street.

I was drawn to her and apologized in advance to Jung Woo. If this goes wrong, he'll have to clean it all up.

‘If Mr. Lee is happy, it doesn't matter about the waistdisc. ’

After relieving my worries, I was now concerned about the posture of Yoon Iseol who was stuck together.

As long as we were together, I still felt a tingling sensation in everything that was still palpitating and touching, even without any pressure.

“I have a performer who only performs at this hour. The mime performance is amazing. ”

What about that whispering voice? Even in such a noisy place, I can hear the singer.

“I'll have a bun later. They only sell luxury bread in the winter. ”

“You know the neighborhood well. ”

“Hey, you're the singer who debuted at the university. ”

The voice of Yoon Iseol, who had a lot of happiness, continued through the crowd that had to shrug to get through.

A wide clearance as soon as you leave the alley. An actor dressed as a clown was miming.

Favorite audiences clapping their hands at the wall-like movements holding a real heavy ball.

Jungwoo and Yun Yi Seol also liked it and smiled widely.

In Maronier Park, where the dance performances of one dance team are in full swing.

Jungwoo sat side-by-side on a bench with Yoon Lee Seol and took out the bread he just bought from the bag and asked him.

“Huh?"

“Right?"

“It's really good. ”

“I was happy to buy one after the show and go home. ”

Listening to experience stories together, I could see Yoon Iseol who was standing somewhere playing guitar and singing.

Bang.

Jungwoo's gaze turned to the sound of the camera. Yoon Lee Seol lowered his mask and took a selfie to show himself.

She took pictures of the two of them like that whenever she had a chance during the one hour walk to the university.

“Isn't it time to stop filming? ”

“Oh my. You have to take a picture like this to pick out a beautiful picture. ”

“You're beautiful in any way. ”

Chuckle, Yoon Lee Seol, who took the picture again, turned his head.

“Where is she pretty? All the makeup on this mask is spreading. You don't take compliments seriously. ”

Yoon Iseol grumbles. Jungwoo kisses her lips as she gets closer to her head.

“She's pretty enough to want this. You'll get spotted.I like wearing hats. ”

“Chi.”

I suddenly thought of Yoon Lee, who hid his cheeks with his head against Jungwoo's shoulders.

“What was my mother's impression? ”

“You seem to think a lot about Mr. Lee Seol. Your face is very flat. No, are you prettier? ”

Yoon Il-sul, who spilled Jungwoo, raised her head again.

“The first daughter resembles the father a lot, the second son resembles the mother a lot, and our house is the opposite. That's why my grandfather loved it the most. ”

“By the way, I look a lot like my brother, Lee Seol's father, who I saw earlier at the conference. ”

As soon as Jungwoo took a shower and came out naked, he remembered Yoon Iseol's younger brother, who was dumbfounded by his sister's boyfriend.

It was a huge specification for Seoul University Law and sophomore year. Hearing this, I heard that I wanted to go to a good university because my brother Chan who graduated a few days later was also awesome.

“How can I see my dad in the morning and my mom in the afternoon? What luck. ”

“Chemistry is not uncommon with these odds. The race accident was a lottery level probability. ”

“That was really scary. ”

“Don't worry too much, it's over. ”

After the date, I had to go back to the company and write a closing report, but I felt nothing compared to this feeling of happiness.

While watching the dance team dance for a while, Yoon Iseol touched her hand like a microphone and opened her mouth.

“Ah, Mr. Lim Woo. How does Ms. Yoon Lee Seol feel about her date course? ”

I smiled as if I were a journalist.

“Can I be honest? ”

“Yes. Oh, no. It's okay to exaggerate. ”

“Then I'll do a little hyperbole. It was easier and better than any date I ever had. ”

“Really?"

I couldn't bear to open my eyes to Yoon Iseol, forgetting the role of the journalist.

Her blooming eyes bloom with the sweetness of the scented molecule that caused Myar's reaction.

“Huh? That's an odd answer. ”

Her eyes raise a light of suspicion.

“Isn't this the first time we've been on a date without incident? Kiki is sick, isn't she? She has a strange reserve for a week. It's raining in Seoul. ”

“That's right. That's why it was so convenient. ”

“What? This is really going to blow my mind. ”

Jungwoo held Yoon Iseol's hand and patted him while joking.

“But I mean it. I had a really good date today. ”

“Do you want me to take the next course? ”

“No.”

Jung reflexively refused the dagger, smiling bitterly and repairing it.

“Equal Era for Men and Women. Once, Mr. Lee, once. We have to be fair.”

The sleepy date was Jung Woo who only wanted to do it once every day.

“Chi. You scared me, I did. ”

“Thank you."

Yoon Il-sul smiled at Jungwoo.

“Wait, I went to see Jungwoo today. It wasn't an accident, was it? Why are we doing this? Are you cursed by heaven? ”

“Never mind. If you go on a date every day, you'll get one day where there's really no accident. ”

“Every day?”

“Every day.”

Yoon Iseol, who was moved, tried to kiss me again, but Jungwoo quickly lifted up his mask. And I grabbed her hands.

“What's the matter? ”

“People passing by. ”

“It's dark. It's fine. Why won't you let me do it? ”

Yoon Iseol opened his eyes in a circle and asked him to take off his mask.

“Lee Seol's face is white, so I just noticed it. Hold on. Is it just today? ”

“It's almost time for a good-night kiss. ”

The date that crossed the line between crisis and excitement continued for another two hours.

* * *

AM 04: 45 Yeouido KG Chemistry Personal Laboratory

Ta-da.

It was a big part of the hazard report for Substance X, which is cleaned in the office of the laptop keypad.

On one side of the desk was a pile of related books that had been rented from the company library for reports against the government.

Jungwoo, who was yawning, looked at the title of one of them.

"John Caster's X Event. ’

Among the theories that explain the race situation, is there another explanation that really fits well?

[Dr. John says: It's very unlikely to catch the odds, but there's been an extreme event in the world with potential impact. The same was true of the race.]

While checking the phrase that was being written, Jung continued to work busy.

[If X had spread in more than 300,000 people and 10 million metropolitans, the damage would have increased exponentially. If this material was attached to the surface of a flying airplane, but not to a fixed building surface, it could have crashed.]

Jung watched numerous samples of X sent directly by the head of the Department of Environment overnight and chemically dug into this danger and wrote it down thoroughly.

It would have been far beyond common sense, at least.

A very low chance of stabilizing bonds progressing toxin. If this thing breaks, it could be the world's worst bio-weapon.

In humid environments, it's equivalent to the spread of the End of War that terrorists are after.

Jungwoo reached the conclusion of the report only as the sun rose.

[…… to prepare these born superorganisms, we need to understand how one chemical determines and interacts within a given environment. Extended field of view that you can judge by looking at the whole, not the parts. The purpose of this report is so that the public can understand it…….]

At about 5: 00 in the morning, I was so tired that I thought I would have to analyze all of the elaborate interactions of Substance X and write them down, but I survived with the feeling that the report to the president should be objective and thorough.

Whenever I get sleepy, I open a selfie taken during my date with Yoon Yi-sun. Every time I saw her face pretending to be pretty in all sorts of different ways, I felt like my smile was coming out and my fatigue was gone.

Ta-da!

Jungwoo, who lightly pressed down on Enter, was lying limp on the chair.

“It's over.”

8: 00 on the clock. It's not too late.

Jungwoo, who sent 30 A4 long reports to the Department of Environment's dedicated email address, texted the Chamberlain to not wake him if nothing else happened, and then lay on the couch.

- Does this make any sense?

Where's Chief Jungwoo?

I opened my eyes to the noise outside the office.

While I was shaking my head to awaken my dreamy mind, the office door opened wide. The car jumped in suddenly and said urgently.

“Watch TV! ”

The screen on one side of the wall turned on and a broadcast of the air waves appeared. Cha Seong stood next to Jungwoo with his arms crossed with a serious face that had just tuned into the news we just started reporting.

- Park Jae-cheol, president of Trijin Environment, who was arrested for leaking contaminant X, made a shocking remark in front of the police department while a report cited by the Korean Consultant General Council this morning was published on the Ministry of Environment's website. Reporter Oh Su-kyung reported.

A police car stopped in front of reporters who were swarming like clouds as the screen switched.

Park Jae-cheol who was handcuffed, reporters cling to her.

-KG Chemistry researcher Lim Woo reports that the destruction of Substance X has caused significant damage to over 10 cultural treasures since Shila. Are you responsible for this?

-A dramatically awakened population of over 30 inhabitants of Ipsilli still have the toxic Substance X. Just one word about what they're going through!

Park Jae-cheol brazenly raised his head instead of avoiding his gaze during the question that poured out like a rapid fire.

If I'm the last sinner, every company in South Korea that handed us waste is a sinner!

- Are you denying the expert's opinion?

- Good job with the reporter. Expert? KG Chemistry Report? The biggest dealer in our Trinity environment is the KG Chemical Ulsan Factory. This is the spit in his foot. Who knows if he's trying to hide this fact and pin it all on me?

After finishing the answer, the camera showed Park Jae-cheol moving to the police jail.

Jung Woo woke up dazed by the unexpected response of the herald.

“Is this news now? ”

“Yes, we started breaking news about five minutes ago. ”

Time says 1: 20 p.m. I tried to sleep for a few hours, but I closed my eyes for longer than I expected.

The anomaly was asked after pressing the mute button on the remote control.

“The press is all over the news that KG chemistry had something to do with the company that circulated it. Did our waste really affect Substance X? ”

Jungwoo reviewed the contents of the analysis last night.

“It's a mixture of pollutants, so we can't rule out causality, but it's not without possibility. Triethanolamine in shampoo or cosmetics or triclosan, sodium laureth sulfate for toothpaste. If you put it there, every chemical company in South Korea will be involved. ”

“We're getting a lot of press attention, and now all the arrows are coming at us. ”

Differential numbers estimate the image loss that KG chemistry will receive from an economic point of view and the amount of damage that KG will suffer from stock crashes. The eyes that set in the minimum trillion units were enlarged.

“These are the people who were trying to get rid of the waste without treating it as a principle. Don't the public know about this? ”

“This will only be revealed at the end of the prosecution investigation. Plus comment responses. People's perspectives were not anybody's fault. ”

“Or what?"

“I prefer to see it in person……. ”

Jungwoo opened the mobile phone's Internet window and clicked on the relevant article at the top. Scrolled all the way to the comment area.

- The waste contained here was in my house. It's not just one or two, it's dozens.

Did you see that, too? I understand half of it myself. Oh, my God, the fire protection in the mattress reduces sperm. Where do you sleep?

It's bromine, isn't it? There is no furniture company that doesn't use this.

-Pizza, make a plan to immediately stop the hyperfluoride used in the wrapping paper of the hamburger coating! These packing companies are paying the ultimate fine!

- My Atopy was made of plastic bag handles? Bad Phthalates XX!

- How many hormones are in Ypsilanti?

⁄ Minimum of 50. Only five KG chemicals.

Jung stopped reading the comments.

It made sense to some extent that people hated artificially manufactured chemicals.

Compounds can become toxic or beneficial to the body depending on their use.

However, there was no understanding that eating salt as a fist was much more harmful to the body than the nerve disrupting substance of the wrinkling botox.

‘No, I would have done the same thing if I didn't know chemistry. ’

As long as we did not understand the molecular world correctly, it was natural for us to see these thoughts and hate chemically-defined substances.

Tales about interactions with Substance X were unexpectedly thrown to the public.

And this topic was so complicated that even friendship couldn't help either side.

Cha Seo also waited for Jung Woo's next words in a heavy atmosphere because of the serious chief's look.

“Car secretary. ”

“Yes.”

“Please contact Ms. Grant's secretarial office. Can I see you now? ”

“Yes?”

“You said the market cap would fall by over five trillion. I can't just sit here and do nothing about it. At the very least, we have to match it to the company's position. You may have to interview them separately. ”

Knock, knock.

“Chief Executive Officer Lim Wu. ”

“Come in.”

Jungwoo opened the door and walked in. Cha Bon-jun, who was inside, was also watching the news on TV.

Jung approaches the couch and bows his head.

“I'm sorry, boss. ”

“Chief Lim Wu, what did you do wrong? ”

Jungwoo pointed to Park Jae-cheol from TV.

“KG is taking the blame that he deserves. ”

“To be precise, all domestic companies producing chemicals are abusing it. But this is not something that one chief of staff should apologize for. ”

“If I hadn't posted the report in the first place……. ”

“People would have produced the same and all sorts of rumors with more uncertain information. There would have been a much more colorful accusation than there is now. Have you seen the article comments? There's one dichlorobenzene in our insect repellent, or four. The average person is fighting. because of a senior report. So what's in it? ”

“Both. ”

“Aha.”

Cha Bon-jun, who has led KG chemistry for the last seven years, was an unshakeable attitude.

“Senior. Rather, I think this is an opportunity. The company will be shaken at the moment, but if we overcome it, we can build customer trust by putting down stronger roots. Stock price? There were 26 trillion guns at the beginning of the year, and now there are 50 trillion. A senior has doubled the stock price of KG chemistry. If we fall back to the beginning of the year, the growth of KG chemistry in Africa is not going to end. So to me, don't apologize to the company. Mr. Jungwoo just did the right thing. ”

Cha Bon-jun later told all the media that the report was true and that if there was a problem with waste disposal, he planned to release a press release that would hold him accountable at the company level.

Jungwoo became accustomed to the story of the boss.

I felt that I did not want to lose myself as a victim of the media or as a cause of the fall.

At the end of the conversation, Cha Bon-jun asked.

“I've read a senior's report, but I have one question. ”

“Questions? ”

“In order for a new substance like this to spontaneously be created, it needs to be mixed with at least 5,000 liters of wastewater, and it's only 1,050L sprinkled on Ibsilli in the race. ”

“I did.”

“The police announced that there was no Substance X in the Three Environmental Factories. ”

“Yes?”

That can't be right. because it was information from numerous molecular worlds, looking at samples overnight.

Jungwoo realized that Samjin Environmental President, who was being investigated primarily because he had not found a solution of 4,000 liters that had not yet been released.

Jiaying.

The phone in my pocket rang. On the screen, it was a direct line to the Administrative Security Department. Jungwoo sought understanding from Cha Bon-jun and pressed the call button.

- Mr. Lim Wu, you need to come to the disaster headquarters.

“Now?”

- Yes, right now.

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