The Banker (더 뱅커)

"Vice President..."

"Han Su Ji".

President Kang.

How do you feel?

Good.

Many will oppose you.

Don't let that get to you.

You have me.

I won't, President Kang.

We couldn't finish our last meeting because of my business trip.

I asked to hold an executive meeting...

so we could make our final decision...

regarding our entry to India.

I'm sure you've all read through the agenda, right?

Just get right to the point.

You'll make all the decisions by yourself anyway.

If you want me to get to the point,

then I will.

I made a decision...

to enter India.

If you have any opinions,

please feel free to speak up.

President Kang,

this isn't the time to talk about India.

It isn't the time to talk about India?

It's unfortunate...

that you think that way. - Sir,

you say this matter is very important,

but you made the decision independently.

Are you saying that our opinions are only for reference?

I would never listen to your opinions...

just for reference.

This is only a process for me to be responsible...

about the final decision.

No way. No way!

What is it?

I sold my tent for 50 dollars,

but the buyer sent me 5,000 dollars.

Really?

They probably made a mistake.

The one selling the tent...

and the one trying to buy it both seem to be slow-witted.

Give it back right away.

If you just keep it, it's considered theft.

Why would I keep it? I'm not you.

See? He sent me a text.

I'll return it right away.

Who do you take me for?

President Kang,

making a decision about India isn't what's important right now.

Then, what's important?

Is there anything more important than strategizing the future...

of Daehan Bank?

Of course. There's something else that's important.

It's about you, Director Han!

They say, personnel matters are everything.

But Director Han,

you just became an executive.

How did you become the vice president all of a sudden?

You skipped over the senior director role!

What did you do to make that happen?

It's not that you have to do something to get where I am.

I got here because I'm trying to actually do something.

Do you get it?

Since you just sit in your comfortable chair...

and sign off documents your staff bring up,

is it hard for you to notice that the world is changing?

What did you say?

Han Su Ji, are you done? - Make sure...

you address me by the right title,

Senior Director Kang.

Just like this.

Is she kidding me?

The bank's discipline is breaking down now.

An organization should allow...

their employees to assume...

they'd get a promotion...

after working hard for a few years.

It should also allow...

an environment for employees to look forward...

in being promoted after a certain period of time.

That way, we would all have the drive to work harder.

He's right!

An organization that ignores the seniority system like this...

has no future!

Mr. Kang,

what did you just say?

Did you say there's no future?

You work for an organization...

where you believe there's no future.

What are you thinking while sitting in this room?

Me becoming a vice president...

is surely a shocking promotion.

Yes, I know it very well.

You sure don't act like you know it very well.

Vice President Lee.

You fired people as soon as you joined the bank.

Right. You got rid of some executives too.

However, what did you change from doing that?

When you were first appointed,

you talked big as if you'd change the bank soon,

but nothing has changed.

Daehan Bank is a mega bank.

The organizational culture can't change overnight.

No.

The bank will change right away if some of the higher-ups here...

are replaced.

Did you know that many female bank tellers...

suffer from bladder infections...

from being unable to go to the washroom?

It's an open secret...

that the call center's employees suffer from tinnitus...

from receiving too many calls.

The employees in the bottom rank worked hard yesterday,

and they'll continue to do so today.

Like all good citizens,

our employees worked hard too.

The problem is...

you all. All the people sitting here.

Are you politicians?

Are you members of the National Assembly?

You have zero interest in work.

All you care about are office politics...

and finding a place for yourselves after retirement.

What have you been doing?

Han Su Ji!

You can't talk like that just because you have a mouth!

I asked you to address me by the right title,

Senior Director Kang. - Just a second. Hold on.

I'm hoping to say a few words...

to help calm everyone down.

Would that be okay, President Kang?

Is it your opinion as an auditor?

No.

I just want to say something as an employee at Daehan Bank.

Go ahead. - Thank you.

This is what I want to talk about.

Due to the recent case...

on Mr. Kim Jung Sik from Nogyeong Branch,

I had the chance to look at the performance reviews...

from the head office.

I noticed something while looking at them.

Employees who failed to get a promotion...

even after 4 or 5 years...

received positive reviews...

regardless of their performance.

Why?

Because they had to be promoted.

That way, the junior employees will get their turns.

The employees who performed well started to conform...

to the organization's sluggish ways as years passed.

They were fast to realize...

that no matter how hard they worked,

they'd have to wait for their turn...

to get a promotion.

In this perspective,

receiving multidimensional performance reviews was useless.

Yes, Auditor Noh. Thank you for your comment. Please sit down.

That is exactly what I wanted to say.

While sitting at the same position for almost 10 years,

it was you, President Kang,

who cultivated this organizational culture.

But,

you made another baseless personnel change...

and you're acting like...

this has nothing to do with you.

No. President Kang...

appointed me as vice president in order to change this.

Don't try to use sophistry!

You were one of Vice President Yook's people.

You avoided all the blames, and now you became the vice president.

You're the one who had her feet in office politics.

Don't act like you're innocent.

As long as I'm the vice president in charge of HR,

starting from this point forward,

all previous policies regarding employment will be discarded.

Instead of the seniority system,

it'll be changed to a performance-based system.

Even assistant managers and managers with good performance reviews...

will be promoted to executives.

As long as the employee has ideas...

and is strongly driven, they can become team manager...

even if they got hired just a year ago.

That's ridiculous.

Are you planning to pass over the controversy...

around Ms. Han's promotion like this?

You'll see...

in time. - Even if this actually happens,

one's loyalty to you will become a major standard...

for a promotion.

In the end, you mean to say that you'll only have...

the ones to your liking by your side.

Did you say that the standard of promotion...

is one's loyalty to me?

Did you get to where you are...

because you were loyal to me?

Because you're to my liking?

Vice President Han here...

knows exactly every detail...

in operating the bank more than any of you sitting here.