You Have Been Defended [EN]: Chapter 472

You Have Been Defended – Episode 472

#472

As Kang Min-jae predicted, the news reported the explosion the next day.

According to the news, the on-site investigation revealed no signs of deliberate damage to the pipes.

The cause of the explosion was still under investigation. Besides the deceased doctor from Wooshin Hospital, other victims sustained only minor injuries.

Since the villa was close to Wooshin Hospital in Seoul, the deceased doctor and the slightly injured victims were immediately transferred there.

“Kang, what are you doing?”

We had all watched the news from our respective homes, but we gathered in the conference room to watch news clips, hoping to glean additional information from other broadcasting stations.

However, Kang Min-jae, who had suggested we gather, was fiddling with his phone, his eyes off the projector.

“Ah, I’m looking for the deceased victim’s Facebook page. I was hoping to find some clues.”

“I’ll help too.”

“Do you have a Facebook account? You’d have to sign up first.”

“I don’t.”

At my words, Kang Min-jae sighed, as if he expected it, and pulled the laptop towards him.

Then, he closed the news clip window and accessed Facebook.

The first thing he did was randomly search for the Facebook accounts of doctors working at Wooshin Hospital.

It would be ideal if we could directly ask Heo Min-woo for the victim’s name, but he would suspect Wooshin’s involvement simply from the fact that we wanted to know more about the incident.

So, this was the only way to find out.

“Oh, I see. There’s a memorial post.”

He said, scrolling down the account owner’s feed.

The account owner had shared a memorial post for the victim, seemingly created by Wooshin Hospital, and added their own thoughts.

[I was so shocked when I heard the news. We weren’t in the same department, but I knew him because he was a senior at school. If I had known he would leave so soon, I would have been braver and told him I wanted to be closer. I’m sad that I didn’t get the chance… Rest in peace]

Unfortunately, the memorial post written by Wooshin Hospital did not include the victim’s name.

However, as soon as Kang Min-jae learned that the victim was a senior at the account owner’s school, he immediately checked the profile again.

[Studied at: Jaesung University College of Medicine

Works at: Seoul Wooshin Hospital]

The victim was from Jaesung University’s medical school.

And the news called the deceased victim ‘Mr. Choi,’ so his last name is Choi.

Now the scope has narrowed a bit.

From then on, Kang Min-jae began to check the account owner’s friend list.

As he scrolled down the list, there were quite a few Chois, probably because Choi is not a rare surname.

Kang Min-jae started to click on each one and examine the university and workplace listed on their profiles.

After checking nearly ten people, he was able to find one account that stood out.

[Choi Jae-hoon

Works at: Seoul Wooshin Hospital

Studied at: Jaesung University College of Medicine

Graduated from: Gijeong High School

Lives in: Seoul

From: Seoul]

“Among the Chois in the friend list, there are two people who disclosed that they graduated from Jaesung University and work at Wooshin Hospital. But only this Choi Jae-hoon hasn’t posted the victim’s memorial. And there haven’t been any posts since the day of the accident.”

“There’s a high possibility that this person is the victim.”

“The funeral will probably be held at Wooshin Hospital, right? It was said that both victims were transferred to Wooshin Hospital immediately after the accident.”

“Probably.”

Kang Min-jae immediately moved to the Seoul Wooshin Hospital funeral hall website and found the name Choi Jae-hoon in the list of bereaved families.

“That’s right. Looking at the list of chief mourners, it seems like he’s unmarried.”

The names listed as chief mourners included a Choi male name and a Park female name that sounded old, and a Choi female name that sounded like a modern name.

They probably are the father, mother, and sister or younger sibling, in that order.

“If we think about it under the assumption that our novel is true, do you think this Choi Jae-hoon would have directly asked Lim Hyun-il, ‘Do you guys do organ trafficking?'”

“Well, I can’t say because I don’t know his personality, but if Wooshin is causing accidents like this to kill people, wouldn’t they have obtained information that Choi Jae-hoon definitely recognized the incident? Whether he asked directly or was accidentally discovered.”

“I guess so? If they were unsure whether he knew or not, they would have tested him, right?”

“I think so. Why?”

“Well, it’s a bit strange that the incident happened at a time when the villa was completely empty, especially if they killed him as soon as he found out. If Wooshin targeted the time when the villa was empty and Choi Jae-hoon was home, they would need time to obtain that information. I don’t think he died as soon as he found out.”

“That’s right. If they were planning to kill him as soon as he found out, they would have used a method like running him over with a dump truck on his way home, like that person who was the head of Wooshin’s affiliate. If they deliberately chose a time when the house was empty to disguise it as a gas explosion, there would be some time between when the victim recognized the organ trafficking and when Wooshin found out about it.”

“Then, wouldn’t he have told someone in the meantime?”

Of course, we can’t completely rule out that possibility.

However, from Wooshin’s perspective, where killing people to silence them is a hobby, they wouldn’t have failed to consider the possibility that he might have told someone else.

“The history of Wooshin’s organ trafficking isn’t short, and Lim Hyun-il is a member who joined in the middle. Wooshin has been doing organ trafficking longer than the time he’s been a specialist.”

“That’s right.”

“So, Lim Hyun-il is a member who passed Wooshin’s screening and joined. Then, what are the criteria for that screening? They can’t just take anyone. Ordinary doctors wouldn’t even know that such a business exists in the first place.”

“That’s right. Um… Wouldn’t they consider skills and tendencies? Among skills and tendencies, they would probably consider skills first. They have to perform surgery on VIPs, and if their skills aren’t up to par, mistakes can happen. Then it will lead to internal strife.”

“So, they would select people with skills and carefully observe their tendencies to see if they are suitable to be included in our business. I would have watched how they react to minor wrongdoings within the hospital without revealing the organ trafficking. I think they would judge that people who keep reacting to the wrongdoing, whether in a bad or good way, are not suitable, and people who silently pretend not to see it are suitable. Of course, there are other evaluation criteria, but.”

Kang Min-jae and Secretary Oh slowly nodded at my words.

In short, a doctor to be put into the organ trafficking business is someone who will expose Wooshin’s fatal weaknesses.

Whether that person has a strong sense of justice, or even if they don’t, they value ethics as a doctor, resist unfair orders, or act impulsively when things go wrong…

They would set various other tendencies that they deem unsuitable, test the target, and then gradually draw them into the business.

Even though Lim Hyun-il’s university background was relatively modest, he was selected as a Wooshin scholarship student and was likely included in the list of candidates.

When Kim Chan-young underwent a heart transplant at Okashima Hospital, Lim Hyun-il was only in charge of managing Kim Chan-young, not performing the surgery.

However, now that he has become a professor at the main hospital, Lim Hyun-il would now be the surgeon.

And at this point, Lim Hyun-il has to train his successors.

Perhaps Choi Jae-hoon was on the list of Lim Hyun-il’s potential successors.

“So, you’re saying that Lim Hyun-il was trying to bring Choi Jae-hoon in, but Choi Jae-hoon unexpectedly resisted? So, they ended up choosing to kill Choi Jae-hoon?”

“I’m also writing a novel. But isn’t it strange that Wooshin’s organ trafficking was discovered by a mere fellow [a doctor who has completed their medical degree but is undergoing further training]? Moreover, the organ trafficking is taking place in Japan, and when Lim Hyun-il performs the surgery, he secretly flies to Okashima Hospital under the guise of a business trip. How could Choi Jae-hoon know that fact? They wouldn’t even leave it as data within Wooshin Hospital.”

“That’s true. And when I think about it, that Lim Hyun-il hasn’t been at the Wooshin headquarters for very long. If he was the type to get caught as soon as he came, he wouldn’t have even risen to that position in the first place.”

“Wooshin probably didn’t think Choi Jae-hoon would resist either. He’s someone they carefully selected after thoroughly grasping his tendencies. In fact, before Lim Hyun-il made a direct proposal, Choi Jae-hoon may have noticed something strange and asked about it while he was in the stage of being watched closely.”

As soon as I finished speaking, Secretary Oh interjected.

“But, Lim Hyun-il hasn’t been at the Seoul headquarters for very long. Assuming that everything you said is correct, if Choi Jae-hoon is a final candidate who has been filtered through various conditions, he would have already been in the candidate pool before Lim Hyun-il came to the headquarters, right?”

“That’s probably right. They wouldn’t include him in that dangerous business after watching him for only a few months.”

“Then that means Choi Jae-hoon isn’t a candidate selected by Lim Hyun-il. The person who selected Choi Jae-hoon is someone else, but Lim Hyun-il is the one who will put Choi Jae-hoon into the business.”

As Secretary Oh said, this creates another possibility.

The possibility that Choi Jae-hoon had trouble with Lim Hyun-il.

Originally, he was a suitable person to work with in the organ trafficking business, but he had trouble with Lim Hyun-il and resisted…

“I’ve been looking through the posts on Choi Jae-hoon’s Facebook, and I don’t really get a clear sense. I need to read it in detail. There are quite a few posts.”

“Is this Choi Jae-hoon’s Facebook ID?”

I said, pointing to the English word written after the ‘/’ at the end of the URL.

“Yes.”

“Send that to me in a message.”

Kang Min-jae immediately sent me a message, and I copied the ID and pasted it into the portal web document search bar.

Then, all web documents containing that ID were searched.

“I need to look through these to see if there’s anything worth salvaging.”

It would be great if I could find a blog that he’s using as a personal diary.

I’m planning to look through everything once we split up, but I started skimming to see if there’s anything that catches my eye at first glance.

“Oh, there’s a blog?”

Secretary Oh, who was looking at my phone screen with me, said.

Indeed, as Secretary Oh said, there was a blog using the same ID.

“There are no posts.”

I came to the blog, but there’s nothing there.

It seemed to be a blog that is automatically created when you create an ID.

That’s a shame.

“But, Attorney.”

“Why?”

“What will you do if you get evidence that Choi Jae-hoon was murdered by Wooshin?”

“What do you mean, what will I do?”

“Well, there are various methods. Reporting it to the police and urging them to investigate, showing the evidence that the gas explosion was caused by Wooshin to the bereaved family and persuading them to sue Wooshin, etc.”

I’m investigating because the incident I heard from Heo Min-woo smells bad, but I don’t know exactly what to do yet.

I can only know when I see the size of the incident.

“Let’s check if our novel is correct first. The rest can be considered later.”

Even so, if I think about it at this stage…

There are methods that Kang Min-jae mentioned, but I don’t know how far the police will go.

Even if Heo Min-woo is the detective in charge, he can’t help it if his superiors pressure him to close the case.

Given Heo Min-woo’s personality, if he closes the case due to pressure from above without completely resolving his suspicions, he is likely to take unilateral action.

If that happens, Heo Min-woo will be in danger again.

Also, showing our investigation results to the bereaved family and having them sue is not a good idea.

If Wooshin somehow agrees with the bereaved family and says, ‘It was a misunderstanding. We’ll drop it,’ then we, as lawyers, have no way to intervene.

“It would be good to disband here and scatter to investigate the data. Oh, please share this incident with Reporter Choi as well.”

Still, I’m thinking quite positively.

If our novel is true, this is the first time since Wooshin started organ trafficking that their tail, no, I can’t even call it a tail yet.

It’s like a few strands of tail hair have been caught by the entire nation.