My Calling Is Profiler [EN]: Chapter 363

“And these three must be the employees recently assigned to him.”

No matter how powerful Hong Woo-jong is, and even if he’s a second-generation chaebol [a wealthy family scion] who can handle things with force, all employees’ resumes must be uploaded to the system.

“Ah, I see. You can tell what kind of person they are from their resumes. Right.”

Park Do-joon looked at the screen, examining the resumes.

“Doesn’t seem like anything special? It’s a defense company, but they’re not in that division?”

“Daeguk Group’s defense sector is large, but it would be difficult to just put anyone in that area from the start.”

In reality, the people sent were affiliated with completely different subsidiaries, not the defense sector.

“Why is that?”

“Honestly, there are too many barriers for Hong Woo-jong to exert his influence in defense.”

First of all, you have to go through government screening just to get hired. Because there are plenty of people who want to steal defense information and sell it to other countries. Would they even be able to avoid the most basic criminal record check?

“Ah, I guess that’s true.”

No one can kill someone and dispose of a body perfectly from the start. The culprit is likely to have a criminal record.

Of course, if they were a clean professional killer, they might not have such a record, but conversely, those people have no reason to cooperate with Hong Woo-jong.

If you can get paid 300 million won [approximately $225,000 USD] for killing one person as a freelancer, who would want to get a job?

“The culprit in this case is probably in a state where it’s hard to get a job due to their past criminal record. But they must have been promised a job in exchange for helping Hong Woo-jong.”

“Certainly, someone like that wouldn’t stand a chance in the defense sector.”

“Right, so they have no choice but to go in another direction.”

The resumes Hong Geun-jong sent were for the construction sector.

“The construction sector is larger than you think. And people are generally rough.”

So even if you have a history of violence, you can be relatively freer. In fact, if you go to a construction site, there are a lot of unruly guys running wild, and if you investigate them, they usually have one or two counts of violence on their record.

“So it doesn’t stand out.”

“Right, exactly.”

“But three people… I don’t know which of these three is the culprit.”

According to the resumes, a total of three people were recently hired. But the resumes don’t say where they work.

“Hmm…”

“The most likely one is this person. Gwang Do-bae.”

“Gwang Do-bae? He looks gentle?”

“Looking like a gangster is because they pursue that image. They wouldn’t take a photo with a gangster image for their resume.”

“Ah, that’s true. But why do you suspect that person is the culprit, Detective Park?”

“It’s simple. The other two have hardly any special history.”

In fact, the other two don’t have any particularly outstanding history on their resumes.

“Is that strange?”

“You’ve written a resume before, right? You do everything you can to get picked.”

From school grades to various certifications, awards, and even TOEIC or TOEFL scores, you try to show your worth.

“So isn’t that even more suspicious?”

“Of course, that would be the case in a normal situation. But these guys are in a special situation. They were suddenly hired. They’re likely parachutes, so to speak.”

“Parachutes?”

“Right.”

Suddenly getting a comfortable job at a company without any experience?

Then it’s almost 100% a parachute [someone who gets a job through connections rather than merit].

“Isn’t the culprit we suspect also a parachute?”

“That’s right. But as I said before, the construction sector is so rough. They’re quite lenient about criminal records.”

“Still, people usually don’t want to go to construction sites, right? It’s not easy work.”

Even if they are parachutes, Vice Chairman Hong is sending them down, so Lee Ji-soo judged that he wouldn’t just stick them anywhere.

Of course, she said that because she didn’t know much about construction sites.

“I think the opposite.”

“You mean they’ll work hard after getting a job?”

“Not that, but construction sites, if you have a decent position, it becomes really comfortable.”

“A decent position?”

“People like site managers.”

Site managers don’t have to do physical labor. Management is taken care of by the people below anyway. As a result, the workload of a site manager is quite low. In fact, site managers are one of the jobs where you can work comfortably while being wined and dined here and there.

Of course, it’s a very tough job if you try to do it properly, but if you just want to slack off, you can really just kill time comfortably as a site manager.

“As you can see, these two are college graduates. And they’ll probably get hired as office workers as parachutes.”

“I see what you mean. They can get them jobs, but they can’t just let them loaf around.”

“Right.”

Of course, we don’t know their abilities, but at least getting a job as a parachute is a big deal these days.

“But if you become a site manager, you’re practically a king on that site.”

Subcontractors lobby him, give him huge bribes, and employees can’t treat him carelessly.

Just one word, ‘You’re fired from tomorrow,’ and they’re kicked out that day.

“Of course, even such a site manager is just an employee when someone from above comes.”

“That’s true. In this case, even if someone from above comes, it’ll be covered up.”

It’s not just anyone, but Vice Chairman Hong’s backing, so who would even think of messing with him?

“A parachute…”

At those words, Lee Ji-soo felt like she realized something.

“Usually, when people think of parachutes, they think they’ll only go to comfortable positions.”

Of course, that’s not wrong. But you don’t really know how comfortable that position is unless you’ve experienced it yourself.

“Plus, if you’re a site manager, you’re practically guaranteed full retirement.”

“Full retirement?”

“Right.”

Even if you don’t do anything and just kill time, as long as there’s no particular problem, a site manager is a position where you’re unlikely to get fired.

“Plus, the salary is incredibly high.”

It’s a loose position where you don’t have to work if you don’t want to, but either way, you’re the person in charge of the construction site. Of course, the money a site manager in charge of a construction site receives is never small.

“Especially if you consider bribes, making a thousand a month is a joke.”

A prime example is the ‘Hambajip’ [a cafeteria-style restaurant] that provides meals at construction sites. People think Hambajip is easy, but Hambajip is a place where huge profits are made.

If it’s a Hambajip at a construction site with 2,000 employees, how much profit would it make? Generally, construction sites start early in the morning. So they usually eat two meals together at the Hambajip.

8,000 won [approximately $6 USD] per meal. Two meals are 16,000 won [approximately $12 USD]. Then the daily profit is 3.2 million won [approximately $2,400 USD]. If they eat there every day for a month, it’s 96 million won [approximately $72,000 USD].

But how much money goes into that? 30 million? 40 million? No. Even if you take it big, it’s less than 20 million [approximately $15,000 USD].

So 76 million won [approximately $57,000 USD] is left over every month.

“In fact, Hambajips located at large construction sites are said to make hundreds of millions every month.”

Since it’s not a restaurant, you can give up variety and just sell a lot of set meals, so it’s easy to operate.

“Then the person who gets in there is someone you know, right?”

“That’s right. The person who gets in there is almost 100% related to the site manager.”

The site manager’s wife or the site manager’s relatives get in and rake in huge amounts of money. Of course, to get in there, it’s natural to give a portion of the profits to the site manager.

“I didn’t know that.”

“It’s a world that women don’t know well. But you’re a police officer, so you need to know. It’s a position where tens of millions of won come in every month. It’s great as a parachute.”

Even if you can get that position by killing someone once? If that’s the case, then maybe really bad guys would actually kill someone.

“There are quite a few bad guys in the construction industry.”

They don’t really check for disqualifications when hiring. Of course, if they’re hiring office workers, they’ll check that, but it’s quite lax for field workers.

“And Hong Woo-jong has been working hard to grow his faction.”

“You think the construction industry is like that?”

“It’s not Daeguk Group’s main focus.”

So it would have been easy to fill it with his own people, avoiding Hong Geun-jong.

“It’s easy to find people.”

“Right. Structurally, it’s a place where a lot of rough people gather.”

In particular, one of the places where so-called 막장 (makjang) [people at the bottom of society] people gather is the construction site. Of course, there are many good people there too.

But these days, almost all companies investigate criminal records. Of course, they don’t openly say they’re investigating criminal records.

But the phrase that’s always attached to the resume. ‘Those who have no disqualifications for overseas travel.’ That condition means criminal record.

If you have a criminal record, you can’t get a passport itself. However, if you say ‘No support for criminals,’ there will be talk of human rights violations, so they say it indirectly.

‘But if you’re just going to be a site manager in Korea, it doesn’t matter.’

“It’s not a parachute, but a promotion is the condition.”

“Those two are completely different.”

Few people would kill for a few hundred dollars a month, but if you guarantee hundreds of millions of dollars a year, it’s a different story.

“Let’s investigate this guy first.”

Of course, there’s a resident registration number on the resume, so it wasn’t difficult to track him down. And as Park Do-joon expected, two people were clean, but one person had a criminal record. A lot of them.

“Three counts of assault, two counts of organized crime… Isn’t this level of crime beyond rehabilitation?”

“It’s beyond rehabilitation.”

Even the last time he was released was a year ago. No one would want to use someone like this.

“And looking at his past criminal record, it wouldn’t be strange if he killed someone.”

“But assault and murder are completely different, right?”

You can commit manslaughter while assaulting someone. But for an assailant to become a murderer, they have to cross a huge wall.

“The power to cross that wall is money. Just once. The thought that you can live comfortably for the rest of your life if you just cross that line once.”

“Hmm…”

“And looking at his criminal record, he’s probably been working in this industry for a long time.”

A person with such a colorful criminal record can’t get a job anywhere. He’s the type of person who punches first when things go wrong.

If that’s the case, he’ll naturally know how much the site manager makes and how much power he has.

“Then should we track this guy? But there’s nothing.”

That’s the problem. It’s suspicious, but there’s no evidence to continue tracking him. What you need to track is evidence that can prove the crime. But there’s no evidence at all.

“It wouldn’t make sense to track the vehicle.”

The license plate of the vehicle was obviously changed. How can you track anything in that situation?

“Of course, it’s impossible to track him, for now.”

“Then?”

“Instead, it’s possible to pretend to track him.”

“Yes?”

“It’s possible to pretend to track him.”

“Right.”

Park Do-joon’s eyes sparkled.

“What?”

Hong Woo-jong doubted his ears at the sudden contact.

“What did you just say?”

-An investigation has been launched into Gwang Do-bae.

“By the police?”

-Yes, no warrant has been requested, but.

It was the sound that the police came and asked questions about Gwang Do-bae. But that was something that could not be ignored. Because Gwang Do-bae is the guy who committed the murder on Hong Woo-jong’s orders.

천직이 프로파일러 [My calling is a profiler]