Chapter 1341. Establishing (1)
After climbing into the hotel's elevator, Kang Jin-Ho asked Lee Hyeon-Su without turning around.
“Was it always part of your plan to get additional compensation?”
Lee Hyeon-Su shook his head. “No, sir. I wasn’t thinking of making the government cough up more money. It’s just that I knew they needed to give us something. But I couldn’t think of anything we particularly need from them. So the next best thing was money.”
“Do we have to, though?”
“Definitely, sir. We must.”
Lee Hyeon-Su noticed a hint of discomfort in Kang Jin-Ho’s tone. Demanding money while doing something noble for the country didn’t feel right or pleasing to Kang Jin-Ho.
“Sir, making the government compensate us is not the important thing here. No, the point of this exercise is to make them pay.”
“...I’ll be honest, I don’t really get it.”
“I wasn’t trying to fatten our wallet, sir. My aim was to make them remember that we don’t work for free.”
“...”
Lee Hyeon-Su explained while sounding a little more cynical than usual. “Yes, we’re doing something noble for the country, so doing it for free should have been fine. However! If we let that happen over and over again, the government will start taking us for granted, sir.
“It doesn’t matter who you are, sir. Every person is the same. At first, they’ll be grateful. However, if we demand appropriate compensation and privileges next time, they will completely forget about their gratitude and start mouthing off about why we’re acting differently and how saddened they are by our lack of patriotism.”