i finally understand more of the situation keundal experienced as a civil servant during the swap body arc!
so keundal is 7th rank. there is another coworker, also 7th rank, but older. let's called him chief. he is not keundal's superior tho, they have same rank! but chief saw that keundal doesn't have good family backing, young, inexperienced, and seemingly never have bad experience, thus he "bullied" keundal, or, in his own words "let him experience the hard life." how did he do this? he deliberately gave complicated and cumbersome tasks to keundal, deliberately reject keundal's works thus forced him to redo them often, while himself "socializing" with 9th rank employees with ties to higher ups. making it seems like he is being generous towards this person but actually he tried to "hugging thighs" of someone who benefits him.
so of course when moondae took over, he determined to "get rid the pest" as usual. chief caught him talked with the 9th rank several times, and in his panic tried to subtly demean keundal in front of the 9th rank who surprisingly (or not) taking keundal's side. until in the end he rejected chief's usual "hanging out" offer.
this is what moondae has done: he steered the convo with the 9th rank aka team leader to make him understand what the chief has been done. if you think again, having someone else always asked you to tail him for "dinner" that's actualy meetings etc bounds to be annoying, right? tho the chief probably didn't think about that.
