You Have Been Defended [EN]: Chapter 514

─Are you sure it’s Koh Sang-jun? Do you have any evidence?

“I don’t know if it can be called evidence, but there is a way to prove it.”

Kim Chan-young has the recording file, and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) is about to release it soon, so I don’t have to worry about this part.

─That’s a relief.

“RND also has similar facilities in Japan. The Okashima Hospital site is owned by RND.”

─Oh, I see. Then that facility near Songju Mountain must be a hospital.

“Probably. Besides, if you look at Choi Jae-hoon’s blog diary, there is no specific mention of this place. If Lim Hyun-il took him to a place other than the hospital and ordered the removal of organs from a patient who was not brain dead, he would have definitely thought that Lim Hyun-il was engaged in organ trafficking.”

Choi Jae-hoon’s diary said, ‘Isn’t he an accomplice of an organ trafficking ring?’

If such a thing happened in a place other than a hospital facility, he would have mentioned it in a way like, ‘It’s obvious that they are trafficking organs.’

Choi Jae-hoon also went into the operating room without much suspicion because Lim Hyun-il took him to the hospital, right?

If it didn’t look like a hospital, I think he would have said something like, ‘I knew it,’ or tried to talk in various ways.

I guess he thought it was a Wooshin-affiliated hospital that he didn’t know about.

─I see. Then, could it be that Wooshin is trying to start organ trafficking in Korea as well?

“Well, I don’t know how much they give Koh Sang-jun while illegally receiving organs, but they have been managing only the demand from Japan so far, and I think they are trying to expand their reach since it’s going well. Looking at the land registry, the land purchase was also made at the end of last year.”

─Yes, that’s right. Then, maybe they were thinking of meeting domestic demand from then on.

“I don’t know what the immediate plan is, but it seems right that they thought Okashima Hospital alone was not enough.”

Okashima Hospital had the form of a general hospital where anyone could go for treatment.

However, this unidentified place located at the foot of Songju Mountain has not disclosed any information.

If they had built something that looked like a hospital, there would have been an article saying that a large hospital was being built in this area, but I couldn’t find anything like that.

If I think about it right now, I can guess, but I haven’t seen the inside directly, so it’s just speculation.

“Anyway, thank you for checking. You’ve worked hard.”

─It’s nothing. But shouldn’t we figure out what that place is for in advance? Even if we go in with a warrant later, we need to establish a plan beforehand.

“I’ll see if there’s a way to get the blueprints. I don’t think it’ll be easy, though.”

I don’t know when Kim Chan-young will receive the paper company in the Virgin Islands that owns RND’s shares, but from the moment he is promised, it means that he has gained Koh Sang-jun’s great trust.

Then, the more information Kim Chan-young can find out, the more Koh Sang-jun might tell him about his business.

─That would be the best if it could happen. But is there a way? It doesn’t seem like they submitted the blueprints to the district office. We can think of a way to push in by clinging to it as an illegal structure.

“Wouldn’t they have prepared for that? I think they just reported that they built a country house. I need to get a copy of the building register.”

─Ah, I already got a copy of the building register. It’s file number 17.

There are many people around me who are good at their jobs, but Heo Min-woo is among the top.

You can tell just by the fact that he organizes and sends all the documents that I might need.

“It’s a house after all. The building owner is also RND. Then you can’t put up a hospital sign. Unless you reported that you were going to build a medical facility from the beginning.”

─Yes. So, anyway, there must be something that makes it look like a hospital on the outside. At least there will be a hospital sign. So, I was saying that we should push in with that.

“Anyway, I think we can go in with a warrant later because of Choi Jae-hoon’s case, so let’s think about that part later.”

Anyway, it’s a big gain just to know that they built something similar to a hospital at the foot of Songju Mountain.

However, we cannot confirm that they built it to look like a hospital just because Choi Jae-hoon did not record it in his diary.

We need to check if it’s real.

If there really is something that looks like a hospital, it is very suitable for drawing out public opinion that ‘it’s suspicious’ by pointing out that the use is different from what is written in the building register.

─I understand. Then, is this a big win?

“You’ve made a huge win.”

─Ah, I see why Attorney Kang wants to be praised by you so much.

“…….”

─Haha. Please let me know if you need anything else. And you said there’s something that hasn’t been shared with me yet. It’s about RND. Please send that together as soon as it’s organized.”

Heo Min-woo hung up the phone, and I put down my phone, which had become warm in the meantime.

“Attorney. We’re here.”

I was talking busily with Heo Min-woo, and it seems that I arrived home before I knew it.

Before I knew it, Tae-shik turned off the engine and was getting ready to get out of the car.

“Ugh, I’m hungry. Let’s get some food. I was thinking while you were on the phone, and I think it would be good to order chicken…….”

“Tae-shik.”

“Yes? Why? Don’t you like chicken?”

“Do you have another car key with you now?”

“Oh, do you mean this car I’m driving?”

“Yeah.”

“I have my car.”

Tae-shik pointed to the car parked across the street.

It was his new foreign car that he had been singing about wanting to have such a good car, and he boasted that he had bought it on an installment plan after switching to a salary system.

“That’s great. I don’t have to go up to the house. Let’s have a test drive.”

“A test drive? No, it’s been over half a year since I bought the car, why suddenly a test drive? And where are we going?”

“Let’s go to the National Intelligence Service [South Korean intelligence agency]. Hurry up. Test drive.”

“……It wasn’t a test drive, you just wanted to switch cars.”

“What can I do? Attorney Kang totaled my car, and he hasn’t bought me a new car yet. I need something to switch to now.”

Tae-shik’s face darkened in an instant, as if he had been quite excited about the thought of eating chicken.

He grumbled and got into the driver’s seat of his car.

“You have to tell the National Intelligence Service that we’re going. They’ll be lazing around, for sure.”

“Then tell them to wake up and clean up a bit.”

Come to think of it, I told the National Intelligence Service to do some special cleaning, but I don’t know if they did it.

It hasn’t been a month since I said that, so I haven’t received the bill yet.

* * *

“Oh. There was always a musty smell here, but it doesn’t smell today.”

Tae-shik sniffed as if he was amazed as he parked the car in front of the National Intelligence Service’s karaoke bar and went down to the basement.

I also had a hard time because of the garbage bags piled up on the landing on the way down to the National Intelligence Service’s karaoke bar, but the garbage bags disappeared without a trace, and I was surprised that it even looked sparkling.

“Did this bastard really clean up?”

Tae-shik jumped down and knocked on the tightly closed door of the karaoke bar.

“Hey! Your 형님 [older brother/respected male figure] is here! ……Oh, the door is not sticky.”

Tae-shik looked at the hand that had been banging on the door and widened his eyes in surprise.

“Ha, if you’re coming, tell me a few hours in advance. Don’t you know?”

The National Intelligence Service opened the door, rubbing his eyes.

Originally, when you opened the door like this, a musty smell would vibrate from between them, but this time it smelled like air freshener.

“Ah, Attorney. I cleaned up.”

“That’s why I’m surprised.”

I went into the karaoke bar and looked around inside.

I was amazed that this place could be so clean.

Of course, there was still trash left on the table due to the National Intelligence Service’s unique dirty habits, but at least the feeling that I would get sick just by breathing here was gone.

“Anyway, why today.”

The National Intelligence Service pulled out a chair and sat down at the table.

I was a little moved that I didn’t have to look at the chair to sit here anymore.

“Well, it’s nothing special. I have something to ask you.”

“What do you want to ask?”

“Can you get a drone? It has to be able to shoot, it can’t crash in the middle, and it has to fly very high. Oh, the most important thing. It can’t be too big.”

“……A drone?”

“Why? The National Intelligence Service also flies drones.”

“That’s true, but, no……. Have you forgotten that I was in the 댓글 부대 [online comment manipulation unit]? You’ve been asking me to get bugging devices and cameras since last time, but I just retired after writing comments.”

“But you got them.”

“No, well. That’s right. Ha, it’s a world where you lose out if you show off how capable you are, and that’s exactly right.”

The National Intelligence Service sighed.

Actually, it doesn’t have to be a drone.

What I can think of is a mini car with a camera, but the probability of getting caught is too high, so I don’t want to use it much.

I don’t know how high and stable a small drone made with 2012 technology can fly.

However, there seems to be no better way than a drone to look at that hospital or whatever it is located at the foot of Songju Mountain.

There is also a way to sneak in through that side door that Heo Min-woo found, but the risk is too great.

Besides, we are not aiming to search the place thoroughly.

We just want to check if it looks like a hospital, or if there is a sign put up for the purpose of looking like a hospital.

It would be nice if we could get something more in the process.

“Where are you going to shoot?”

“It’s just for looking around a place where you can’t go.”

“Then you can’t get caught, right?”

“That’s right. So it has to fly very high.”

According to what I saw in the building register, it was a three-story building above ground.

So it has to be able to fly at least 5 stories above the ground.

“Hmm, would about 20m above the ground be okay?”

“That’s the minimum.”

“It seems like a helicopter cam used by broadcasting stations would work…….”

“Isn’t that a bit big? Ah, the noise shouldn’t be loud either.”

“Heeeuuum. How many minutes should you be able to shoot for?”

“The longer the better, but it’s at least a thousand pyeong [unit of area, approx. 3,306 square meters] land. Even if you look at it in half, you have to watch it for more than 10 minutes on one charge.”

“You don’t care about the price? It’s going to be very expensive.”

“How much is very expensive?”

“Well, wouldn’t it cost up to 10 million won [approx. $7,500 USD]?”

Ah, spending 10 million won to see this one thing is a bit 부담스럽다 [burdensome/ 부담스럽다], even for me, who doesn’t limit expenses.

But it’s a necessary task, so I have to put up with it…….

“I’ll see if I can borrow it instead of buying it. I’ll have to pay the rental fee, though.”

“Then wouldn’t the person who lends it try to find out who I am?”

“So I’m doing it with my credit. You’re lucky to have met a 팔방미인 [person skilled in many areas] like me.”

The National Intelligence Service grumbled, but I know he’ll do it in the end.

“Why are you a 팔방미인 [person skilled in many areas]? If you’re going to do it, you’re a 팔방미남 [handsome and skilled person]. But you’re not even a 미남 [handsome man]. You’re a 멸치 새끼 [skinny runt].”

“Eyy, 무식아 [ignorant person].”

When Tae-shik, who had been quiet, intervened, the National Intelligence Service clicked his tongue and shook his head.

“Then you’ll need someone who knows how to fly a drone, right?”

The National Intelligence Service asked, summarizing the conditions I had said and taking notes.

“You don’t know how to do it?”

“……Damn it! I know how to do it. Ha, why do I know how to do this? I’m really pissed off.”

It seems that the National Intelligence Service will get a drone and film it.

I was lucky to have many people around me who are good at their jobs.