Chapter 189: Followers
“Bro, the comments on the company’s official feed are no joke.”
“Uh… really?”
I expected it, but judging from Seong-hwan’s expression, the reaction was even hotter(?) than I thought.
Seong-hwan turned on the tablet and showed me the comments.
└Is the Smart Tower really this poorly built? It looks like it’s going to collapse any second.
└lol, apparently, all the companies that were supposed to move in are delaying their schedules because of the article.
└How did a building like that even pass inspection?
└There’s even talk that they skipped the inspection with money.
There were also plenty of negative comments about the Quantum 4.
└The Quantum 4 and the A-Phone 5 are practically identical in design.
└At this point, it’s a complete copy.
└And what about security? There are so many reports of people getting hacked while using Lunar.
└I hope… using this won’t get my account drained.
The comments about the AGE-01 were no better.
└Why are we selling technology developed with taxpayer money to other countries?
└Is it even okay to sell this? I heard we’re selling half of the production overseas.
└WTF, why are we selling a weapon that only we should use?
└I get it with the US since they’re our ally, but who knows where the rest end up.
└Al-Qaeda, Hezbollah… what if they end up in North Korea?
└What do you think? They’ll bring it here to South Korea for assassinations… or something like that.
└…….
“There are also a ton of comments about the material supplier’s abuse.”
I forced Seong-hwan to turn it off before he could show me more.
I could already guess what they’d say without looking.
“Enough of that. How’s the video coming along?”
“Oh, right. I completely forgot. I came here to talk about that, but I got sidetracked.”
Strictly speaking, it wasn’t entirely sidetracked.
The negative comments were clearly a serious issue.
“So, how’s the video?”
“Not all of it, but the one about the Smart Tower is ready.”
I plugged the USB Seong-hwan handed me into the computer and opened the file.
“Eve Media definitely does good work.”
The video on the screen was exactly what I wanted.
“What do you think?”
“What do you mean? We have to upload it right away.”
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A few hours later.
A 30-second video appeared on Kang Tae-joon’s KTalk feed.
The backdrop was the exterior of the Smart Tower, towering in the middle of the city.
The video began with drone footage.
Fixed cameras were installed on key structural parts of the building.
The scene shifted, and a massive hydraulic hammer precisely struck a section of the building’s exterior.
Contrary to the articles from various media outlets,
not a single piece of finishing material or glass shard flew off.
The narration continued.
International standard ASTM E-1886, E-1996 wind and impact durability test.
Our Smart Tower withstood a metal projectile 8 cm in diameter and 2 kg in weight traveling at 120 km/h without any structural damage.
The screen then displayed real-time readings from a vibration meter and stress gauge on the tower’s upper section.
A slight vibration was detected for 0.7 seconds immediately after the impact, but it quickly returned to a stable range.
Wind, external impact, structural fatigue. The Smart Tower is perfect under all conditions.
The video ended with a slow-motion scene.
Two buildings were shown side by side, undergoing the same impact test.
On the left was Dojin’s Smart Tower.
It didn’t even flinch.
The building on the right was different.
The windows rattled for 0.3 seconds, and the exterior visibly warped.
Then, with a ‘crack,’ the outer wall split.
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Exactly 30 seconds.
That short video went viral online.
Thousands of comments poured in instantly.
└The left one is definitely the Smart Tower… but what’s the building on the right?
└The experiment looks so real it seems like CGI.
└It’s not CGI, I saw them doing the experiment in my neighborhood.
└Uh… is the building on the right the one Ahsung completed? I heard Dojin bought it recently…….
└From a professional standpoint, the structure and floor frames are identical, but the Smart Tower’s strength is unreasonably high.
└So, are you saying the results were manipulated?
└Absolutely not… no manipulation. The person in the experiment is Professor Choi Jong-han from KAIST, known for his integrity.
└…….
Within two hours of the video being posted on KTalk feed,
the views surpassed 1.3 million.
Real-time search terms like ‘Smart Tower impact test,’ ‘Ahsung Construction wall warping,’ and ‘building collision test’ started trending.
And on KTalk Shorts, self-proclaimed experts fueled the issue with their analyses.
└No matter how you look at it, unlike the articles, the allegations of shoddy construction on the Smart Tower seem false.
└lol, the articles were written by National Broadcasting, Central Media, and Hanbit Daily. There’s no way garbage like that could be true.
└Oh… National Broadcasting wrote the article?
└Does anyone even believe National Broadcasting these days?
└These journalists are endless.
└Uh… the cracked building, isn’t that the Centrelis Tower in Seocho that Ahsung completed recently?
└Huh? You’re right.
└So, isn’t the real issue the buildings completed by Ahsung Construction, not Dojin’s Smart Tower? They fell apart way too easily.
At some point, the tone of the comments rapidly shifted.
One by one, those who initially doubted the Smart Tower changed their minds.
└Seriously, shocking. Seeing the video, the articles were completely fabricated.
└In the video, the Smart Tower didn’t even shake under impact.
└I walked past the building on the right today, and it was seriously cracked. Was that really built by Ahsung?
└lol, I didn’t expect Dojin to counterattack like this.
As the video spread through reposts, the name ‘Ahsung Construction’ appeared more frequently in the comments.
Ahsung quickly released a statement, but a simple text response couldn’t overshadow the video on Kang Tae-joon’s feed.
And shortly after,
two more posts appeared consecutively on Kang Tae-joon’s feed.
[KTalk Feed] -@Kang Tae-joon | 32,873,917 followers
@Posted 13 minutes ago
A $13 million dark web financial fraud case in California.
The accomplice’s smartphone was a Quantum 3.
The FBI spent a week using nine decryption algorithms, but Lunar’s AES 2048-bit dynamic shell encryption didn’t allow any intrusion.
If the FBI couldn’t crack Lunar, there’s no way a hacker could.
Article excerpt: The New York Times, ‘The Korean-made LUNAR OS by DojinSoft has withstood over 1 week of federal decryption attempts.’
If you can crack it #ComeToDojinSoft #SalaryIs #BlankCheck #FBISupportRequest #WillTheyAccept #JournalistsGoAway #WoofWoof
[KTalk Feed] -@Kang Tae-joon | 33,119,569 followers
@Posted 2 minutes ago
Is the Quantum 4 plagiarized?
Take a longer look and read deeper.
Dojin Tech’s patent list registered on June 19, 2006
· UI transition method and touch interaction algorithm
· Icon arrangement and 3D touch response framework
Exactly one year after I registered the patent, a global company launched the world’s first smartphone.
Before discussing plagiarism, please check the timeline.
Attachment [International patent application scan (WIPO/Dojin Tech)]
Article excerpt: The New York Times, ‘Before the aPhone: Korea’s Hidden Interface Pioneer’
Exactly one hour after the two posts went up,
the views surpassed 1 million.
The comments were going wild.
└The FBI couldn’t crack Lunar’s security?
└So, all the claims about Lunar being hacked were complete nonsense?
└lol, once again, I realize there’s no point in reading those journalists’ articles.
└The articles claiming Lunar was insecure were also written by National Broadcasting, Central Media, and Hanbit Daily, right?
└Journalists should be named. Let’s see the faces of those writing this trash.
The plagiarism controversy over the Quantum 4 also sparked strong reactions.
└The patent was filed in 2006, which is before the A-Phone 1 was even released, right?
└And this year’s Quantum 4 copied the A-Phone 5?
└But is the patent Kang Tae-joon attached real?
└Yeah, the patent document has the date and is internationally registered, so it’s real.
└Wow, how far ahead is CEO Kang Tae-joon thinking?
└Exactly. He patented the design for this year’s smartphone ten years ago.
└This is why I can’t help but like Kang Tae-joon.
└At this point, shouldn’t we be asking A-ple why they copied the Quantum?
└lol, A-ple just released an official statement. They’re modifying parts of the A-Phone 5’s design.
└No way.
└…….
After the posts went up, the tone of the comments quickly shifted.
Influencers who had criticized the Quantum’s security and design plagiarism abruptly changed their stance.
[KTalk Feed] -@TeumBom | 139,872 followers
Honestly, I thought the Quantum 4’s design was plagiarized too.
And I thought it had major security issues, but it turns out I was fooled by those journalists.
I swear on my life, I’ll never read articles from those three media outlets again.
National Broadcasting #CentralMedia #HanbitDaily
National Unity Party #Kwon Seok-tae #Dogs
NoMoreShilling #Woo~~
└Could it be… that the National Unity Party and Ahsung Group teamed up to attack Dojin?
└lol, they’ve always been like that.
└National Unity Party = Ahsung Group’s spokesperson!
└Ahsung Group has been losing to Dojin lately, so they resorted to this petty move.
└lol, the articles about the semiconductor material suppliers were complete nonsense too.
└I’m an employee at Donghyun Chemical, and to us, CEO Kang is no less than a savior.
└If it weren’t for CEO Kang, our company would’ve had our technology stolen by Ahsung and gone out of business.
└…….
That night.
The real-time trends from 1st to 5th were all dominated by Dojin-related keywords.
Smart Tower impact test
Lunar, uncrackable even by the FBI
2006 patent registration
Dojin cleared of allegations
Journalists out
Below that, tags mocking Ahsung Group and the National Unity Party lined up.
NationalUnityPartyAhsungBranch
CentrelisCrackedTower
National Broadcasting Woo~
Central Media Woo~
Hanbit Daily Woo~
Exactly one week later.
With an additional video posted on Kang Tae-joon’s KTalk feed,
Kang Tae-joon’s followers literally exploded.