Fashion Genius Collects Stars - Chapter 109



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It is often said that the entertainment industry is a narrow-minded world.

But when you actually go in there, it doesn’t seem to be like that.

I don’t know because we are under different agencies.

Even though we’re under the same agency, I don’t really know because I don’t have much to see.

I don’t know because I’m an idol,

I don’t know because I’m an actor,

I don’t know because I’m a model,

I don’t know because I’m an entertainer,

You have to appear together in programs, events, and such to know each other, but it’s not like you know everything about each other.

If we were to make a metaphor, it could be seen as similar to school.

Even if you take the same classes and department, you don’t get to know all the students, right?

therefore.

As soon as actor Kim Ji-hoon heard the words ‘Winnie from Radiation’,

– Oh, him? I heard he really has a bad reputation.

What he meant by saying this was… … that Radiation Winnie was definitely a thug.

He’s a real punk that everyone in the school knows about.

I asked Kim Ji-hoon again, my blood running cold and my anger creeping up on me.

“What rumors? What bad rumors.”

– uh?

Kim Ji-hoon seemed flustered by my urging voice.

But I’m really sorry, I didn’t have time to care about his feelings right now.

“Quickly! Tell me!”

– Uh… … . Uh. That’s it. I heard he always goes to clubs with his gang, and it seems like he gets a bit dirty there.

“I told you to elaborate?”

– No. I only heard rumors… … I’m not sure, but there are rumors that he picks on aspiring celebrities, and rumors that he picks on idol juniors who just debuted. I don’t know the details. They just generally tell me not to hang out with him. His hyungs and sisters.

“……okay?”

– Yeah. But what the hell is going on, bro?

“Just. I think I need to fight him a bit. To find out what kind of guy he is.”

I didn’t answer in detail.

Because I couldn’t let Minseo and Winnie’s conflict spill over to my mouth.

– Fighting? Hmm… … . Hmm. It won’t be easy. Regardless of what the rumors say, Winnie’s position in the entertainment industry is no joke.

“okay?”

– Yeah. Radiation itself is a legendary group… … Winnie, that guy is said to entertain a lot of broadcasting station PDs, movie directors, music producers, reporters, and anyone who exerts some power. Their influence is no joke.

“I see. I understand. Thank you!”

– Bro. What are you going to do?

“I need to think about it from now on.”

I hung up the phone.

I bit my lips.

“Sure. He really is a dirty bastard.”

Touching the aspiring celebrity,

Are you messing with your idol juniors too?

And that too while hanging out at a club on a fictitious day?

A guy who spreads bad rumors at drinking parties, even at clubs, and especially among girls who are his juniors?

In my experience, these guys are the scum of the earth.

The more you dig, the more likely it is that something unimaginable will pop up.

“If you dig it up properly and stab it, there seems to be a distance that can send it to hell in one breath… … .”

Someone might say this:

No. Strictly speaking, isn’t it not worth fighting Radiation Winnie?

It’s not like we had an argument, we just had trouble with our celebrity friend Minseo, right?

Well, it wasn’t anything huge, just some swearing and a few punches on the shoulder, right?

Minseo handled it well, so he’ll be careful from now on, right? Isn’t he just making trouble for nothing?

Why are you rushing at me to kill me? As if you would feel better only if you cut off Winnie’s livelihood.

Honestly, it’s not that big of a deal.

You don’t even have the ability to do that in the first place.

okay.

I admit it too.

I don’t know how it happened, but I lose my self-control when it comes to Minseo.

I just can’t dismiss what happened to Minseo as someone else’s problem.

If possible, I want to get that Winnie guy out of Minseo’s vicinity, and out of the entertainment industry.

My thoughts are like this.

Minsu and Winnie have already broken up.

Reconciliation? You shouldn’t reconcile with someone like that. I have a feeling that it will only lead to a bigger problem.

Then ignore it?

That’s not it either.

It’s already broken. Are you just going to leave the broken partner alone? That means you’re going to have to live with the seeds of potential anxiety.

Since you were the one who showed your teeth first, shouldn’t you pull them out yourself?

By any means necessary.

I gathered my thoughts and picked up the phone again.

To my surprise, I pressed the call button without any hesitation.

The person on the other end picked up the phone before it even rang three times.

Thankfully, that means they think I’m that important.

I decided to take advantage of it.

Even if you have no shame.

“I’m sorry all of a sudden, Mr. Chairman. This is Lee Yong-won.”

– Nice to meet you! I was going to contact you anyway!

Kim Si-on, the chairman of the Gyeomyeong Group, welcomed me with a warm smile.

I made my voice serious.

“Chairman. I know it’s not right to ask you this. I also know that what I’m asking you to do is burdensome. However, I’m asking you this because it’s so urgent.”

– Huh? What the… … all of a sudden.

“But please help me just this once. I will never forget this favor.”

There was a moment of silence on the other end of the phone.

After a while, Chairman Kim Si-on sighed softly and answered.

– Go ahead.

* * *

Every day has been like a festival for the smartphone division of the Keimyung Group these days.

Even the person who came to deliver the water bottle was so surprised by the clearly changed atmosphere in the office that he opened his eyes wide and asked about it.

“What’s going on?”

To that extent, the smartphone division of the Keimyung Group was a place so full of energy that it was hard to believe it was a company.

The voice of the person answering the phone was about three notes higher than usual,

The voice of the supervisor giving instructions was full of positive energy and encouragement, without a single hint of irritation.

The new employee, who had received the instructions, sat down at his seat with flying steps, loosened his tie, and devoted himself to his work.

If you had to describe this incredibly exciting atmosphere in one word, what would you say?

as soon as,

success.

It felt like someone had distilled success into a liquid and sprinkled it throughout the building with sprinklers.

And the chairman’s office where Kim Si-on was was not much different.

“These are the sales figures for the Lucifone as of yesterday! Sales are more than three times higher than the previous model!”

“This is big data analysis data on product satisfaction! Positive comments are overwhelming at 97%!”

Kim Si-on thought as he listened to the secretary’s report.

‘97%? 97% positive comments? That’s not even the Communist Party approval rating, 97%?’

Frankly, it was an absurd number.

Even Apple phones, which have maintained an overwhelming number one position in the world, are flooded with negative comments when searching the Internet.

Not to mention the Galaxy phone, a phone from a constituent group that has maintained its pride only in Korea.

But 97% of the comments are positive, which means that in reality they are all just favorable reviews.

This is a ridiculous number unless people were brainwashed en masse.

But sometimes, the world does things that don’t make sense, and that’s exactly what happened right now.

Kim Si-on said, suppressing the urge to take off his shirt and jump out of the building screaming because his adrenaline and dopamine were so pumping.

Deliberately, coldly. As coolly as possible.

“Well. It’s not something to be happy about. It’s just a shame that we were at rock bottom to begin with. You shouldn’t be happy about something like this. You have to approach it with a more serious attitude.”

The secretary, who had been excited by Kim Si-on’s cold attitude, hesitated and lowered her tension.

“Yes, that’s true. When I analyzed the reactions carefully, most of them were along the lines of ‘Gyeomyeong Electronics is finally working’, ‘Yeah! It’s not a phone just because it’s packed with features!’, or ‘They finally released something I’m not ashamed to carry around.’ Rather than rave reviews, the reactions were that it was finally getting to the average… … .”

“Above average.”

“yes?”

“It’s above average. Isn’t it? It’s three times the amount from last year? Three times. That can’t just be a random number, right?”

“Ah… … . Ah. That, that’s right. There were also many positive reviews about this product itself.”

“That’s right. Show me that too.”

The secretary came closer and continued his report.

When Kim Si-on listened to the report and his secretary praised Gyeomyeong Electronics, he made a stern expression, and when the secretary coldly pointed out a flaw, he repeatedly scolded the secretary, saying that it was not to that extent.

“In particular, the signature color we added this time, ‘Deep Sea Blue,’ is receiving favorable reviews. It was originally created to target the middle-aged, our main customer base, but we are also receiving a lot of favorable responses from the younger generation.”

“Even if it was well-received, it’s probably just to the extent that people who used to laugh at it as an old man’s phone will stop laughing at it. It’s not something to get excited about.”

“Certainly… … . That’s true. Despite the fact that sales have tripled, the percentage of young people who checked that they are willing to buy a Lucifone in a survey only increased by 50%… … .”

“Just? Just? Is 50% just that? In your eyes? It’s good to be cool, but you don’t have to hit too hard!”

“?”

Because of Chairman Kim Si-on’s inconsistency, only his secretary suffered.

“Great! You did a great job. Go ahead. You worked hard.”

“Yes, yep.”

Kim Si-on held onto his secretary for a while and pestered him, and only after sending him away did he start twitching the corners of his mouth.

And then, without making a sound, he clenched both his fists and raised them.

He opened his mouth wide as if he was shouting and threw an uppercut into the air.

‘Okay! Now it begins!’

How much of a sore thumb has the smartphone business been?

The previous chairman, Kim Si-on’s father, ambitiously entered the smartphone business, but has only seen deficits so far.

As the company was pushed out of the smartphone business, the gap with its rival, the KOSPI Group, also widened significantly.

The losses kept increasing and I was at the point where I had to close down the business at any moment.

But! How much effort has gone into this! How important is this competitiveness! Are you saying you’re giving it up?

It was truly a ‘sore finger’.

Originally, the expression ‘sore finger’ meant a child who was particularly vulnerable among his own children, almost like a psychological weakness, but Kim Si-on thought of the sore finger in its literal sense, not in that sense.

My finger hurts so much I want to cut it off right now!

But how can I cut off my finger!

A finger that is so horrible I can’t bear to cut it off.

however,

This time, sales of Lucifone were increasing at a frightening rate.

The number of times it was on people’s lips was incomparable to before.

The response was so clear that we could once again have hopes for the smartphone business, which we had hoped would be wound down, even if it meant shedding tears of blood, in the next year or so.

Kim Si-on thought.

How was this possible?

After becoming chairman, he implemented numerous reforms with the intention of overhauling everything.

Of course, that will definitely have an effect.

But somehow, the first thing that came to his mind right now was Lee Yong-won.

While filming the YouTube video, I recalled the times I learned fashion from him.

‘Yeah… … I felt like I was being stabbed in the butt, Mr. Lee Yong-won. It was an opportunity for me to completely reflect on myself.’

YouTube itself helped too.

Through that, we could communicate with the public in real time and completely overhaul the design decision-making process of Lucifone from A to Z.

‘Sooner or later… I’ll have to express my gratitude.’

Booooooo-

Because he was thinking like that, when the phone call first came, Kim Si-on was slightly dazed.

‘Mr. Lee Yong-won?’

Did he even know that I was thinking of him?

At the perfect timing, Kim Si-on stared blankly at the screen for about two seconds before answering the phone with a big smile.

“Nice to meet you!”

But then, Lee Yong-won’s voice followed.

“Please speak.”

His face hardened.