Chapter 328 – #71_Manager (7)
#329
One.
[Uh, there! Stop here on the shoulder in front of Starbox]
“Ah, I see you.”
Yoo-chan gently stops at Team Leader Park’s voice, which seems urgent.
As soon as the car stopped, team leader Park jumped into the passenger seat.
“Why can’t I catch a fucking taxi like this? Yu-chan welcomes you! Let’s hurry.”
Team leader Park, who was sweating profusely in this weather, continued to fiddle with his cell phone and curse.
Yu-chan asked in a calm tone.
“What happened?”
“The producer of the room suddenly changed his words, so I keep calling him and trying to see his face at least once. What if I can’t meet you today? Then I will leave.”
Park’s legs trembled so much that even the driver’s seat vibrated.
I thought he was a strong person mentally, even though he had a bit of a nervous side, but it seems to be a fairly important matter.
“Were you originally scheduled to appear?”
“That’s right, he secretly said that he would let them appear for at least two weeks, and then again, where did he bribe with his butthole? Harin is setting up a new girl group in his place.”
“Can’t we aim for other pros?”
“These bottom producers are all in one place. If the producer in the room left something out because he was hungry, he won’t accept it even if he goes to someone else.”
Team leader Park was in agony as he tore his hair.
“If you release a new music source, the 4-week period is a battle, but for a month you have to step on the public eye even if you have to poop to death.”
A month is a very long period of time in the entertainment world, where things change rapidly.
Usually, if a new album is not mentioned after 4 weeks, it can be said that all the efforts made so far are in vain.
“I burned 300 million won from concept planning to song work, music video shooting, jacket shooting, and showcase. This is also Harin, who composed the music himself, choreographed it, and put the company employees in production of the props while tightening his belt… The other side knows that too. The more desperate you are, the easier it is to hold the leash.”
“It’s coming out really mean.”
“The last time I appeared on the comeback stage, I even broke my retirement savings by stabbing two big things in my pocket and paying for entertainment. The dog comes with Inje and changes her words her. “
Team leader Park, who had been complaining hard by himself, sighed, wiping the sweat from his forehead with a handkerchief, perhaps feeling skeptical.
“How does it feel to see Yuchan while working?”
“I thought it was rumored, but it’s not normal.”
“I’m giving you advice because it’s nice to see Yuchan diligently working. I’d rather quit early. When I roll with the poopy bastards, I get a stinky smell from my body at some point?”
It was advice with a lot of sincerity for such an old man.
There were wrinkles around Team Leader Park’s eyes, which are usually not visible because he is always full of passion.
-Tiririling!
The bell rang and team leader Park answered the phone in a bright color.
He had become a very different person than when he was muttering swear words in a pessimistic voice.
“Ah yes! Room manager. Yes, yes, I’m on my way right now. Ah yes! Thank you.”
Call ended unilaterally.
Park’s expression darkened even more.
“Mr. Yuchan, to the Gangnam Red Hall room… No. Let’s change seats, I’ll drive.”
Team leader Park sighed as if he had lost all his energy, took the steering wheel instead of Yuchan, and headed off as if he was used to it.
2.
An extravagant room in Gangnam Red Hall.
This place, which is strictly operated by a membership system, was a space for only 1% of Korea, and it was their own entertainment place that the general public could not even enter.
Even though it is a room salon for wealthy people who want to receive entertainment in the middle of work instead of late at night and leave work on time, the laughter of young ladies continues from 1:00 p.M.
The room PD, who picked the best room among them, burst into laughter as he was drunk from daylight.
A table full of side dishes and high-quality liquor alone cost well over 5 million won.
The tip needed to have a deeper relationship with the lady sitting next to you alone costs 2 to 3 million won.
Even so, there is no worry on Bang PD’s face.
Maybe it was because of Joe PD who was farting hard in front of him.
“Director Bang, I, Jo Woo-seok, will serve you a cup with all my heart.”
“No man! Don’t just take care of your superiors, take care of your successors as well! Now that I’ve become a PD, I need to develop my talents and abilities.”
“Oh, excuse me. Come on, don’t be too frozen. Grab a glass. Come on.”
Next to Bang PD, there are girls who look like they can see their flesh if they lift it even a little bit.
Also, next to the new PDs and director Jo, one by one, they are smiling and clinging to each other.
Joe PD, who was shaking like a rattle, poured drinks for the three new PDs who still looked bewildered.
Director Bang is a nobleman who is famous for his bad back even on this floor where all sorts of corruption and entertainment are rampant.
What he enjoyed the most was bringing these newly hired PDs to the room salon.
Taming newcomers or something.
“For the dear director of the room!”
“For!”
As Director Bang gulped down the Royal Salute from his glass his, the ladies were busy cheering him up.
He is a regular who visits the room once a week despite his busy coaching schedule.
In addition, he was also a VIP who gave tips on revelry.
Since he is a nobleman who will give out checks even if he flirts once, the ladies sitting elsewhere gave envious eyes to the two who occupied the seats next to the PD in the room.
“Why are your faces so hard?”
Jo Woo-seok shrugged his shoulders and looked at the rookie producers sitting in a row.
Seeing everyone’s dark expression, I can guess that feeling.
When he first stepped into the room following the producer, he was worried.
The basic liquors on the table are Ballantine’s 30 Year Old, Johnnie Walker Blue, and Royal Salute.
Even if you’re not familiar with alcohol, you’d know that in such a luxurious room, you can’t get enough of a bag of money to open a wine label with a lady on your side.
You must be tapping the calculator in your head by now.
“Don’t worry too much. Who is our room manager? Director! Would it be all right to make an important announcement on behalf of the director you respect?”
“Heh heh, this person… “
Director Bang said that even though he pretends to dislike it on the outside, he likes to be praised like this.
He wants to lose face to show off, and he pretends to win when a funny clown scratches his itch.
Wooseok already knew that the eyes of the new producers staring at Wooseok were slightly contemptuous.
“Juniors, didn’t you think that the director would cover the cost of the welcome party out of the wallets of the new producers?”
“Eh… Eh? No!”
“Eat and drink here today until I die! Director Bang is all about it, so let’s have fun without worrying about it, huh?”
“Yes!”
In a word, it’s all free, so light up the atmosphere.
At the word, one of them blinks and quickly scans the lady next to me.
Another looked around with a hesitant expression,
The last one was holding back a frown with a clear expression of embarrassment.
The last one won’t last two weeks before leaving.
Even if you break through the 100-1, 1000-1 competition and become a producer, it is not possible to plan your own program right away.
The next two to three years will be an assistant director’s life, doing the work of the director.
And in order to stand out while wiping the back of the room producer, I had to throw away all of my moral integrity and trembling wit.
“Then, please tell us about your future aspirations and one song at a time!”
Wooseok, who raised the atmosphere with forced tension that he did not show at all, sat down and lit a cigarette.
A lady lights a fire with a Zippo lighter as if she’s been waiting.
“You are still the mood maker.”
“Why, are you pathetic about me too?”
“It’s pitiful, how many old men come here and can’t even play properly.”
When we had a small conversation so as not to be heard, the black-haired producer who showed the most interest finished his self-introduction and took the microphone.
“When you~ get away~ from my side~ and get buried in the wind~”
Braised hair sang energetically and all members cheered up the atmosphere by clapping their hands from the side.
As if he had become an emperor, PD Bang sat with his legs apart and massaged the girls’ breasts.
“Thank you!”
“Yeseul, show off your singing skills too.”
“Ah, I’m embarrassed when there are a lot of people…”
The two newcomers who were waiting for their turn were dumbfounded at the sight of the lady holding the microphone while twisting her body pretending to be shy.
Bang PD, who saw this, made a solemn expression and sighed.
“Do you think it was in vain that I brought you guys here? When the opportunity comes, grab it! If you keep an eye on other people and stick around, you’ll lose everything to a strong friend like that. You, I will watch carefully.”
“Thank you!”
“Okay, put up a drink.”
When the new PD, who had raised his discipline and bowed at a 90-degree angle, was about to pour a drink for Director Bang, the door to the room burst open.
Cho Woo-seok, who was smoking a cigarette and watching the promiscuous social life, also turned to the door of the room.
A middle-aged man wearing a blue suit and sweating with a sturdy build entered.
“I’m sorry while you were having so much fun. Is it okay to sit together?”
“Oh, yes, Team Leader Park. Come and sit down.”
It’s a familiar face.
It was team leader Park who was constantly in and out of the planning room to get a Star Gayo sheet last week.
Bang PD liked to show his authority his by coming to the dinner party in this way and showing people who were snowing.
The team leader bent over director Bang, who did n’t even get up from his seat his, and passed his business card to the new producers.
“Uh?”
It is not unusual for a manager or a representative of an agency to attend Director Bang’s entertainment.
The poor old man will pay for both the liquor and the rice cake, and he will hand out paper bags with stiff bills to the new producers as well as the room producers.
Wooseok opened his eyes involuntarily.
Because I met someone I never thought I would meet.
“Yu-chan?”
3.
Originally, the more you get drunk in a room salon like this, the more sloppy things happen than you can imagine.
When the plate was ripe, Woo-seok quietly called Yu-chan to come out.
It’s director Bang. He’s already buried his face between two women’s breasts, so he won’t care who comes out anyway.
“Marlboro Gold and ESSE Change 3mm. Two packs each.”
“Yes.”
Woo-seok, who brought Yu-chan under the pretext of running errands for cigarettes, called a waiter and put a new Saimdang in his front pocket.
Even if you arrive 30 minutes late, it won’t matter.
“Hey Yuchan, what is this?”
“It’s been a while, Wooseok hyung, I didn’t know we’d meet like this.”
Woo-seok climbed onto the roof, lit a cigarette and hugged Yu-chan roughly.
Living in a life that seemed to be inflamed day by day, I couldn’t be so happy to see my comrades in my pure days.
It feels like I’m back to being myself before being completely defiled.
“Baby, your body is still very good.”
“That older brother has a lot of stomach.”
“I ate only Western liquor every day, and my body begs me to stop.”
Wooseok giggled and placed his arm on the railing.
Yu-chan was Woo-seok’s military successor.
Wooseok, who entered the military at a late age to build his career at a broadcasting station, had a subtle sense of distance from his seniors and subordinates around him.
To Woo-seok, Yoo-chan was a person he was grateful for until the day he was discharged.
“I haven’t contacted you once after I was discharged, but the guy who went to study abroad is messing around with celebrities because he has nothing to do? You have a lot of money in your house.”
“I’m just trying to gain experience.”
“It’s a grumbling that makes my stomach explode.”
“Are you going to supervise the broadcast again?”
“Yes, I am holding on to worry about the loss of a generation by getting on one line well. I sucked the director’s ass well, so I succeeded in escaping as an assistant director after a year. Sooner or later, I will be in charge of a separate program.”
“Your mouth has become very cheap.”
Wooseok, who exhaled cigarette smoke with bitter self-help, secretly looked at Yoochan.
In the food chain of the entertainment industry, the relationship between a celebrity manager and a director can be thoroughly described as a relationship between Eul and A.
Just the fact that an older brother I know is in charge is enough to make me drool over the falling bean powder…
“Don’t do that. What do you feel?”
“What?”
“No, that’s it.”
Wooseok smiled.
He was like this from the beginning.
Should I say it’s the tendency of gold diggers?
At the moment, he is neither happy nor greedy.
Even when he was serving in the military, he was a friend who diligently handled the tasks given to him, but did not show any displeasure even when compensation was not returned.
So he was a friend that everyone in the squad liked and depended on.
After he was discharged, all contact was cut off and he suddenly disappeared.
How long have you been working
Who do you work under?
As I lit a cigarette while asking and listening to the current situation accumulated over the years, three cigarette butts were scattered on the floor in an instant.
“So, did you come here to make an appearance on your singer, Stargayo?”
“Uh, how does your brother look? Do you think it will work?”
“Well… That man makes me go around the three music rooms on the ground two times for about 300 million won?”
“Two wheels?”
“For two weeks in a row, company K, company M, and company S appear in music rooms. It’s full of people who want to jump at it even if they have connections and give money. I may be able to tip you off, but in the end it will depend on how sincere your company is…”
Yuchan lowered his head for a moment and pondered.
He speaks in a firm voice as if he had made up his mind soon.
“Can I ask you one favor?”
“Know that I have my limits, too, and speak comfortably.”
“Does he like women?”
“Why don’t you go in dressed as a woman and wind up some seaweed wine?”
Wooseok burst into laughter at my joke and answered meekly.
If you have just started working, you may be curious about the dark side of the entertainment industry.
Because of the long-standing ties between the entertainment world and the political and business worlds, we are witnessing the rumors that gossip cannot circulate in front of our eyes.
“If you look at it, you get an estimate. A quarter of the sex service at S Broadcasting Station would be eaten by that person? Idols for entertainment, trainees, bar girls, they all eat it up. I heard that they spawn several at the same time.”
“It really does happen.”
“Okay, let’s go down first. Ah, yes, but what is a request? I don’t think you asked what he likes.”
Yoo-chan replied to Woo-seok’s words.
It was an answer that Woo-seok, who knew how diligent and sincere Yu-chan was in the past, could not readily guess the implications.
“Could you arrange a time for the two of you to meet for a while?”
It was a bit of a questionable request, but Wooseok nodded slowly.
“I’ll try my luck.”
