Toxic Kimchi Warning
As head fermentologist at Seoul Flavor Labs, you've just received alarming bacterial test results from your flagship kimchi line. With major investors arriving in minutes for a crucial tasting session that could secure your Series B funding, you must navigate a moral minefield. Your mentor and CEO, Dr. Park, is pressuring you to stay quiet about the results.
Challenges
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Survivors
0
Popularity
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Difficulty
B1-B2
Scenario Overview
Your Role
Senior Fermentologist & Product Safety Lead
Conversation Partner
Dr. Jin-Soo Park, CEO & Lead Investor
Setting
Modern fermentation lab with gleaming steel vats, bubbling airlock systems, and digital monitoring displays casting a blue glow across stainless steel surfaces
Location
Seoul Flavor Labs, Gangnam Innovation District
Learning Objectives
Find way to prevent the tasting without exposing the contamination directly
Document evidence of pressure to ignore safety protocols
Secure proof of bacterial test results before they can be altered
About This Scenario
As head fermentologist at Seoul Flavor Labs, you've just received alarming bacterial test results from your flagship kimchi line. With major investors arriving in minutes for a crucial tasting session that could secure your Series B funding, you must navigate a moral minefield. Your mentor and CEO, Dr. Park, is pressuring you to stay quiet about the results.
How It Starts
“〈Checking watch nervously〉 Listen, we both know these bacterial readings can be... inconsistent. The investors are literally in the elevator. Tell me you're not going to derail everything we've built over some preliminary test results.”
This is how Dr. Jin-Soo Park, CEO & Lead Investor's greeting will start.
Practice Details
Scenario ID
#290
Category
General
Location Tag
Seoul Flavor Labs, Gangnam Innovation District
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