You Have Been Defended [EN]: Chapter 104

You Have Been Defended – 104

[Last March, a sex tape of Mr. Jung Young-joon was circulated online. Everyone will remember it. The victim, Mr. Jung Young-joon, claimed that he did not remember the act in the video and that it was not of his own will. Due to the video, Mr. Jung Young-joon is facing a crisis in his marriage.

But surprisingly, today, the prosecution indicted Ko Jin-ah, Mr. Jung Young-joon’s wife and former executive director of Yangjin F&B, and Cho Hyun-seok, who is known to have provided sexual favors to Senior Secretary for Civil Affairs Ji Myung-ho and high-ranking public officials, on charges of special rape instigation and illegal sex tape filming against Mr. Jung Young-joon.

The court issued a search and seizure warrant for Ms. Ko Jin-ah’s home, car, workplace, and the residence owned by Ms. Ko Jin-ah’s maternal grandmother, which was identified as the filming location.

The prosecution also stated that they had confirmed the scene of moving the unconscious Mr. Jung Young-joon to the filming location from the black box [event data recorder] of Ms. Ko Jin-ah’s secretary, Ms. Joo’s car.]

As soon as the announcer’s comment ended, the screen returned to the briefing site of the Prosecutor’s Office this morning.

The head of Special Investigation Department 1 was standing in front of the microphone, surrounded by reporters.

Lee Ye-jin was also seen behind him, with her hands clasped together.

The chief prosecutor’s short briefing continued.

He seemed to be careful with his words because the suspect had not yet appeared.

If he explained in detail how he had identified the perpetrator, he would naturally have to mention legally uncertain links.

For example, the affair between Ko Jin-ah and Cho Hyun-seok.

Even if rings and custom-made luxury bags are evidence, it is a fact that can be denied to some extent if they consistently deny it.

Unlike me, who is not a public official, the prosecution briefing should only mention what is certain.

[The prosecution announced that Ms. Ko Jin-ah is scheduled to appear at the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office at 3 p.m. tomorrow to be investigated.]

“It’s not like chasing the reporters out of the office solves everything. I’m getting too many calls, really.”

From the morning, the office was swarming with reporters.

Fortunately, both Kang Min-jae and I were at work when the report was released, so they didn’t get a picture of us. If we had been even a little late, we wouldn’t have been able to get into the office.

Lee Ye-jin said she would leak the fact that she got the source from me, but I didn’t expect it to blow up this badly.

I was worried about how to clean up this mess, but it was resolved more easily than I thought.

Fortunately, other office workers on the same floor complained to the building owner, Lee Young-ho, so he came up to the office and started kicking out the reporters.

He was holding a broom in his hand, as if he had rushed up after sweeping around the cafe.

But the process was not smooth.

The reporters poured out all sorts of resentment to Lee Young-ho, questioning his right to block their coverage.

And that’s where the famous saying came from.

He,

“I’m the building owner!”

He shouted very confidently, and the reporters closed their mouths as if they had planned it.

Lee Young-ho immediately called me from the spot, confirmed that I had no intention of responding to the interview, and neatly cleaned up the situation.

Of course, it took more than three hours to clean up.

[It’s such a shocking thing. It is said that Ms. Ko Jin-ah demanded a divorce as soon as Mr. Jung Young-joon’s sex tape was released. I can’t believe that Ms. Ko Jin-ah was the one who filmed it.]

I had already heard about it on the morning news, but for some reason, we kept watching the news with the same content, changing channels.

Kang Min-jae even mastered all the programs that dealt with gossip about celebrities and famous people.

But unfortunately, we couldn’t just focus on that.

Chasing the reporters away from the office didn’t stop the phone from ringing like crazy.

My and Kang Min-jae’s cell phones, and the office phone, kept ringing.

My cell phone even ran out of battery, so I had to keep it plugged into the charger.

The reason why I couldn’t disconnect the phone line was because Taekwang might call.

So Kang Min-jae had to check the caller ID every time the phone rang.

I couldn’t turn off my cell phone because I had to answer the call from Jung Young-joon, the client of the case.

“I think it would be better to create a separate number that only the client knows.”

“It’ll be okay once this is over.”

The mailbox was also about to explode.

All kinds of media companies and broadcasting stations kept requesting interviews.

Mails poured in from not only the main news outlets, but also the radio stations that covered the news.

More than 100 new emails arrived.

Some may be curious about Jung Young-joon’s position, but most of them asked how they found out that Ko Jin-ah was the photographer.

Since the prosecution didn’t mention it, people will be very curious about the process.

[Iljung Daily] Please answer the phone ^^.

[Iljung Daily] Have you forgotten me?

[SBC] Lawyer Cha Joo-han, this is News 9. I would like to interview you about the investigation process.

[Hanjoo Daily] This is Kim Jae-jin, reporter. (Resend)

[TBN] Requesting an interview on Evening News.

[Hanjoo Daily] This is Kim Jae-jin, reporter.

[Daily News] Please interview me.

[Iljung Daily] Weren’t we close, lawyer?

[Iljung Daily] Please interview me…T^T

[Iljung Daily] Shall we do an interview?

[Iljung Daily] Please interview me.]

The one who decorated the mailbox most diligently was, of course, reporter Yoon Se-yeon.

“We have to release a press release anyway, so wouldn’t it be better to give it to reporter Yoon Se-yeon? She’s helped us a lot so far.”

“To be exact, it’s not that we’ve been helped. It’s a win-win situation for each other.”

I needed someone to disclose it to the media, and Yoon Se-yeon needed a scoop.

I have never asked her to write an article about something that was not a scoop.

But that doesn’t mean I wasn’t grateful to her.

“I want to give it to Yoon, but I’m going to give it to someone else this time.”

“Where?”

“News 9.”

Kang Min-jae, hearing my words, quickly found and opened the email from News 9.

“Lawyer, this is asking you to come to the newsroom and do a one-on-one interview with the anchor? Didn’t you misread it? It’s not just asking you to do an interview over the phone.”

Kang Min-jae shook his hand, laughing as if I couldn’t possibly do that.

“I know.”

“……Yes?”

“News 9 has the highest viewership among news programs. Send a reply saying you’ll agree to an interview with News 9.”

Kang Min-jae looked at me with a puzzled face.

“Are you really going to be on TV? You, lawyer?”

When I revealed the superintendent of education’s corruption at the beginning of Eulhae [law firm name], I was somewhat cautious about what was revealed.

It was difficult to smoothly explain how I came to film the principal taking out the exam paper.

But this case was different.

Although I used the National Intelligence Service, it is not illegal to restore the quality of the video.

From the beginning, my plan was to slowly and naturally make my name known to the public and solidify my position as a lawyer.

Of course, I was famous as a prosecutor in my previous life, but I failed because of the limitations of being a public official.

I have never told Kang about my plan, so it is no wonder that he is surprised.

“I’m going.”

“What’s wrong with you, lawyer? I’m really surprised.”

“Kang said he had to do some office sales [business development].”

“Ah, of course I did.”

“If your name is known, can’t you do business?”

“That’s right.”

Kang Min-jae was convinced by my words, but he still looked at me as if he couldn’t understand.

“Anyway, reply and tell them to call you when you can talk. You might miss the call from them.”

“I understand.”

* * *

News 9 sent a reply very quickly.

They said they wanted me to appear on the live broadcast in a few hours, but I refused.

I had a lot to do today.

The fact that Ko Jin-ah and Cho Hyun-seok filmed Jung Young-joon’s video has just been revealed, so I had to prepare for any situation.

My ambition is important, but it is more important to handle the case perfectly.

Only after receiving a promise to exclusively reveal Jung Young-joon’s position and investigation process on tomorrow’s News 9 live broadcast, I could hang up the phone.

“I need to take out my prosecutor days and other personal questions.”

I got the questions in advance and it was amazing.

They allocated more airtime to me than I thought, and they were very curious about my personal life.

“I think it’s okay to answer a little about the Kim Hyung-joon case or the distance between you and me.”

“Mention that briefly, and take out all my personal parts. It smells too much like promotion.”

When I drew a line through a few questions with a pen, Kang grabbed my hand and said.

“Not all of them. You can put in the Jo Jin-tae case. It was the last case of your prosecutor days, and it’s so famous.”

When I said I was going to go on News 9 to do business, Kang Min-jae read the questions very aggressively.

He even looked back at the things I had crossed out and persuaded me to save this question.

After a long argument, it was somewhat organized.

Although one-third of the questions sent by News 9 were blown away in the first place, there was much more than I thought when I decided to appear.

After a few emails and phone calls, the exact schedule was set in a flash.