blueteamnovel Chapter 44: Our meeting was a coincidence (2)
Chapter 44: Our meeting was a coincidence (2)
Chapter 44: Our meeting was a coincidence (2)
A FaceNote post popped up on the cell phone screen.
It was a post from just a few days ago.
Poster: Jung Soo Ji
Latte World trip to celebrate school break lol
#BoMyung #Yumi #JungMinCross
The uploaded picture was a group picture in front of the merry-go-round at the amusement park Latte World. Do Wook furrowed his brows as he looked at the picture. He couldn’t understand it at all. In the picture, four female students were smiling brightly while holding up a V sign with their hands.
‘Which one...is Kim Bo Myung?’
Kang Seo Hyun sent two links. Confused, Do Wook clicked on the next link.
It was another FaceNote post from Jung Soo Ji again.
Poster: Jung Soo Ji
Kim Bo Myung fell asleep with her mouth open after eating cup ramen in the study room lol
#KimBoMyung #Ifyoufeelwrongedyoucantakeapicturetoo
-Hey, Bo Myung must have been very tired loll. Top students are something else~~~
-Kim Bo Myung is working too hard...haha
-Does Bo Myung know this was posted? lolol She don’t even do FaceNote.
-Best picture ever lol
This time it was a picture of a female student with short hair sleeping with her head on the table in the study room lounge, as the caption described. It was the student who was on the far left in the previous picture.
Do Wook was frozen in place, mind blank. An employee passing by in the hall saw Do Wook in that state and looked at him suspiciously. Do Wook gave a stiff bow and greeted her. Even as he was greeting her, his mind was only filled with thoughts about the picture.
Do Wook called Kang Seo Hyun again and asked for a detailed explanation on how she found Kim Bo Myung.
First off, she found the middle school Seo Kang Jun attended. Along with Seo Kang Jun’s fame, more and more people were popping up all over the internet saying they used to go to school with him, and one fan even released a graduation picture of him, so it was easy to find out his middle school.
Then, through communities, she found the graduation album for the year Seo Jang Jun graduated from middle school.
Although only few in number, there were people who wanted to buy the graduation album so they could keep Seo Kang Jun’s graduation picture. Thanks to that, nobody thought it strange that someone was looking for it.
However, acquiring it took a lot of effort. She had competition so she had to pay quite a bit of money. Of course she resold it to an actual Seo Kang Jun fan after getting the information she wanted from the graduation album.
She was able to find Kim Bo Myung within the list of students in the graduation album.
Senior year, Class 7 Kim Bo Myung. There was but one student with the name Kim Bo Myung.
Then, she found the FaceNote page of the Class 7 students, and went from one link to another trying to find Bo Myung’s FaceNote page by any means necessary. However, she was certain that Bo Myung unfortunately didn’t use FaceNote.
Whenever she had time, she searched and searched all over FaceNote, scrambling for any traces of Kim Bo Myung as if she were playing a mobile game. She started looking for Kim Bo Myung through the email address written on the graduation album at the same time. That was how she found the person.
“Still...it’s possible that this student isn’t...”
-It’s not the person you’re looking for? I’m pretty sure it is...Kim Bo Myung isn’t a common name.
“...That’s true.”
Do Wook muttered absent-mindedly.
Either way, it was still hard to believe. Do Wook stared at the female student in the picture again. He was living in a world where his soul and life were switched. It finally crossed his mind that everything might not be as he thought.
‘Where is the original Kang Do Wook’s soul, and why did I end up entering this body of all things.’
He was stunned as the thoughts he had been repressing started to surface one by one.
‘I’ll have to go verify this myself.’
Do Wook recalled his past self’s face, in other words Bo Myung’s face. It might be because some time had passed, but for some reason it was hard for him to recall his face.
He worried that his original body and related memories might be erased at this rate. Once he started thinking about it, he really missed his parents.
One side of his heart started to throb. It felt as if the longing and fear he had been hiding came flooding in.
However, Director Kwon had his own aspirations.
In a large agency, there was a clear limit to what aspects he could be involved in. Director Kwon wanted to cross that line and wanted to taste the joy of seeing a person you ‘personally produced’ from the ground up become a star.
In reality, the thrill he felt when Milky Way, whom Director Kwon had been with from the planning stage, became incredibly successful was an indescribable feeling.
Milky Way and Monster after that. How much he was involved was different, but regardless, stars were born from Director Kwon's hands.
Colleagues he worked with at the large agency fell behind due to bad networking as well as internal politics, eventually moving to a different company. Even those who made it to a high position considered rapid retirement after clawing their way up.
Meanwhile, HIT Entertainment grew from a small agency to a mid-sized company.
The problem was growing from a mid-sized agency to a large one. Director Kwon intended to put HIT Entertainment on a bigger market through KK.
He had a lot of concerns as he made plans, and those around him told him not to overdo it too much.
It was because it was difficult to squeeze into the market that the three major powerhouse agencies had already established to a certain extent. Skills, luck, capital. You couldn’t be missing even one of those.
Despite that, Director Kwon was thinking ‘It's worth trying’.
Not long ago, they were contacted by an investment company who wanted to invest capital in HIT Entertainment. It was currently the thing they were lacking and needed the most.
Director Kwon wasn’t directly involved since it was a vice president level decision, but he had heard that the meeting with the investment company would happen soon.
"KK is growing faster than the company anticipated."
Director Kwon looked at each member one by one. He made eye contact with Do Wook.
‘Maybe it became worth the try after recruiting Do Wook as a new member through auditions?’
Suddenly, an idea engulfed Director Kwon.
Director Kwon knew that Do Wook had drawn in a lot of attention for various reasons from before his debut up to after his debut, because he had heard people talk about it. Do Wook was also a co-composer of the song ‘Very Sorry'.
As if reading Director Kwon's thoughts, Do Wook looked at Director Kwon with sincerity.
"That's why we plan on making small adjustments to the previous album plans and our overseas expansion schedule that we made."
"Is the overseas expansion happening earlier?”
After returning from their Japan performance, they had received invitations to several future overseas performances. Manager Oh Baek Ho, who was expecting it a little, asked.
"We’ll have to talk about it again in a meeting later, but most likely. We will also sign a contract with Japan within this year to release an album."
"Is the Japanese expansion in association with the Nakamoto group?"
It was Do Wook who spoke. Entering Japan was difficult without a contract with a local record company.
The record company you choose and how you lock down favorable terms is incredibly important. Once the topic of Japan was brought up, Do Wook mentioned ‘Nakamoto Group’ as if he had prepared in advance.
The biggest companies for expanding into Japan were Nakamoto and Aio.
Currently, Aio was a bigger company, but Aio would end up falling under poor management later. Consequently, it would affect the promotion and album sales of contracted Korean groups. Q Entertainment, where Do Wook used to attend, had also suffered from this problem.
"Nakamoto and Aio, we’re in talks with two companies but... Do Wook, are you familiar with the Japanese market too?”
Director Kwon, who was in fact talking to two companies, asked back in surprise.
"Oh, I remember reading an informative article about it on the Internet. The article said Nakamoto has stability.”
"You seriously surprise me every time we meet Do Wook."
Do Wook hoped that his words would have an impact when Director Kwon chose a company to sign with.
"You were interested in that aspect too? That's impressive."
Oh Baek Ho was in awe, as was Director Kwon. Having no way to answer, Do Wook gave a vague smile. Fortunately the meat they ordered came out at that moment.
***
A few days later, Do Wook, who was in the recording studio preparing for the repackage album, headed toward the conference room after being called by Oh Baek Ho.
In the conference room, Lucas was sitting with Oh Baek Ho.
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