Novelist Running Through Time - Chapter 169



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The Novelist Who Leapt Through Time Episode 169

Let’s say there is a certain stock ‘A’.

And let’s say there are two Horo kids, ‘Gapdol’ and ‘Eulsun.’

Gapdori and Eulsuni are major shareholders who own stock ‘A’.

-Hey, Eulsoon. I think I found a way to copy money.

– Oh my, are you serious? Let’s do it right now.

In consultation, they proceeded with the following operation.

One day, Gapdori sold 100 shares of stock A to Eulsoon for 10,000 won.

The next day, Eulsun sold 200 shares of stock A to Gapdol for 20,000 won.

The next day, Gapdori sold 300 shares of stock A to Eulsun for 30,000 won.

The next day, Eulsun sold 400 shares of stock A to Gapdol for 40,000 won.

The next day, and the next day, and the next day…

As these transactions continue, Gapdol and Eulsun’s fortunes do not change much, but the trading volume and stock price of Stock A soar endlessly.

The stock price graph has reached the moon.

Small investors, i.e. ants, whose eyes are turned upside down when they see this, start buying up stock A like crazy, shouting ‘Because Mars is going to go away’.

Now, even without the trading prices of Gapdol and Eulsoon, the trading volume and stock price of Stock A are trending upward.

By the time the stock was deliciously ripe…

Gap-dol and Eul-soon sell off all of their stock ‘A’ and make a profit.

The ants quickly dive into the Han River while looking at the messed-up graph, and Gapdol and Eulsun are freed from criminal charges by promising to install a high-ranking official from the Financial Supervisory Service as an outside director at a large bank.

This is called ‘full transaction’.

It is a vicious stock price manipulation that disturbs the order of the financial world, and is a serious crime that can never be forgiven if one does not have sufficient power.

What Yangwook Lim is doing now is roughly similar to this.

“Go ahead.”

“excuse me… Boss… Isn’t this too much hype? ”

“ah! Anyway, it’s the #1 bestseller in the US!”

EP 10 – Starry Sky

In Korea, Baekhak Bookstore’s home ground, it went all out and became the number one bestseller.

And it took advantage of the title of ‘Korea’s No. 1 bestseller’ to reach No. 1 in Japan.

Lastly, taking advantage of the title of No. 1 in Japan & Korea, it ranked No. 1 in the United States.

Back to the beginning, using the title of No. 1 in the US to renew in Korea…

Team leader Kim Ga-ryung couldn’t help but break into a cold sweat as he watched this series of trends.

‘Wow, this is crazy…’ !’

Although he tried not to stand out as his motto was to live a long and slender working life, in the end, Kar-ryung Kim could not hold back his righteous indignation and stood up resolutely.

Because it felt like everything was going to go to shit.

“Boss!”

Team leader Kim Ga-ryung walked up to Lim Yang-wook with great strides.

Even in this extraordinary situation, Lim Yang-wook was playing a mobile game, and when Kim Kar-ryung heard a Japanese voice coming from the cell phone, he even realized that Lim Yang-wook was playing All-Out Kaiten Insein on Aru.

Garryung Kim stopped Yangwook Lim’s mobile game with a loud voice.

“Boss – !!!”

“Oh, I’m surprised… !”

Lim Yang-wook tried to drop his cell phone in a hurry but barely caught it.

And he responded sullenly.

“why? What?”

“This new work marketing… “Are you okay with it like this?”

“what.”

“The board has become too big. There are already so many things being said… ”

Lim Yang-wook laughed and said something scary.

“Are you, you bastard, casting ‘You’ve been talking a lot lately’ to me? Baekhak Bookstore’s Gungi is truly delicious. I tasted it… “Is the team leader supposed to want the manager?”

“ah-! no! It’s true!”

Kar-ryung Kim didn’t say ‘You talk a lot these days’ to get Yang-wook Lim.

A lot of words really came out.

Kar-ryung Kim presented specific examples to prove his innocence.

Several critics posted public criticism on social media, a couple of literary elders lamented to the company’s editor, ‘Is this okay?’, and even the opinions of die-hard readers…

They are not stupid.

I’ve already read all of Lim Yang-wook’s obvious strategies.

‘Famous celebrities because they are famous’, ‘Famous brands because they are famous’, ‘Famous restaurants because they are famous’…

From Paris Hilton to BTS, marketing technology in the information society has developed, succeeded, and become widely known.

Therefore, it was not particularly strange that some educated people frowned upon Lim Yang-wook’s behavior.

– Is there a place for literature in Baekhak Bookstore’s marketing?

– Do you want to sell books by changing the text on the book belt every day?

– They told me not to tie a belt around my books…

From critics who are wary of the phenomenon of marketing power suppressing literary quality, to elders who cry out for the Lion’s Roar, saying, ‘The duty of the literary world has fallen to the ground!’…

The voices that were wary of Lim Yang-wook were never small.

That was exactly the point that Garyung Kim warned about.

How on earth are you going to go out like this?

Lim Yang-wook’s answer to this was simple.

“So what can they do?”

“yes?”

“no… “Other than posting on social media that marketing is aggressive, what else can you do?”

“Yeah… ”

what… You can do it, right?

Team leader Kim Ga-ryung was silent. Eyes become unfocused.

Kar-ryung Kim is staring blankly into space.

Looking at Kim Kar-ryung, Lim Yang-wook smiled kindly.

“You foolish sentient being.”

“yes… … ”

“Do you understand your foolishness?”

“All right… ”

“Go back to your seat.”

“Nam… … ”

* * *

Naturally, the first thing that Lim Yang-wook referred to when entering the American publishing industry was BTS, the most successful Korean content in the United States.

BTS created a boom in South America, where traditional K-pop fandom exists, spread its fame to New York, causing a boom in New York, and swept LA based on its fame in New York.

It is a ‘famous because it is famous’ strategy.

The part that Yangwook Lim focused on in this process was not the stage of creating an issue, but the ‘expansion-reproduction’ stage.

That part is the core of the strategy, and at the same time the most difficult part.

It was a tabloid that was thirsty for views that ‘enlarged and reproduced’ the issue produced by Paris Hilton.

What ‘enlarged and reproduced’ the issues produced by BTS were the countless fandoms spread all over the world.

In other words, if Paris Hilton had not been able to make a skillful media play against the tabloid yellow press, and if BTS had not secured a global fan base online in advance before entering the United States, their ‘famous because they are famous’ strategy would have failed.

– was Lim Yang-wook’s analysis.

The wrinkled brain hidden in Lim Yang-wook’s smooth scalp did not stop spinning there.

The idea extends to the publishing industry.

Who is the entity that can function as an ‘expansion-reproduction’ model in the publishing industry?

Reader? In an era where zombies whose brains are infected with all kinds of fancy cultural industries roam the world, the influence of literary fandom is equivalent to the very few survivors of the zombie apocalypse.

Literary magazine? The only place where literary magazines have authority is in the East, where the beautiful culture of ‘deungdan’ exists. In a world of nosy people who recognize people as authors just because they published a novel without review by elders, literary magazines are not much different from other media.

Literature award? I want to ride. If only I could ride it.

“hmm… … ”

By excluding all these cases one by one, Lim Yang-wook’s brain came up with a brilliant conclusion…

That’s it…

In the publishing industry, it is the publisher that produces issues, and it is the publisher that ‘enlarges and reproduces’ them!

why? Because the industry is small!

It’s so narrow, so impoverished, so dry and twisted that a few companies have burst and become so narrow that they’ve completely eaten up the board!

It is not the author who even disseminates information about the book to the readers. A writer is a person who writes, not someone who publishes the writing.

Therefore, the publishing industry is an information-monopoly market with a single entity that provides information to all critics and readers.

Therefore, even if a publisher disturbs and reproduces information on its own, a voice opposing it cannot arise!

After all, critics also make a living thanks to publishers!

So Lim Yang-wook’s judgment was clear and concise.

‘Baekhak Mungo’ is a gangster that rules Korea.

The Yakuza ‘Kyosensha’ rules Japan.

And America… Not really, but the gangster ‘Collins Press’ who rules LA.

If these three join forces, they can eat America, and if they eat America, they can eat the world!

So Lim Yang-wook started the train’s engine.

The train ran powerfully with the power of the Triad, and finally at some point…

* * *

[Conflict dominates the novel. It is a clash between the old and the new. ‘The Starry Sky’, like many SFs after ‘Blade Runner’, condemns the alienation of humanity caused by technological advancement. However, it is noteworthy that such condemnation is revealed through the clash between traditional romanticism and rational egoism… ]

[It was a very cool story! Android general strike! The setting is good and the story is good… It was fun because it wasn’t as heavy as old-fashioned SF, and even SF beginners would probably be able to read it easily. ah! It’s not that it lacks weight. If you read closely, it is a terrifying dystopia. But everyone knows, right? Wouldn’t it be sexy to just leave it in the background without going into detail about the setting? ]

[…] The theme of Western rationalism being connected to alienation, riot, and egoism, and of Eastern romanticism being connected to cooperation, compromise, and communitarianism is a stronger criticism than anything else toward the radical trend prevalent in current American society, and is not only a work of fiction. A timeless lesson that doesn’t stop at fiction… ]

Operation, success.

“nice – !”

Richelle Surface, editor of Collins Press, burst into cheers in her office. Her seven team members clapped and cheered with happy smiles.

“Congratulations, Chief!”

“Wow, this is really happening… ”

When the hit-and-run between Korea, Japan, and the United States had completed about five rounds, ‘The Starry Sky’ had just arrived at the edge of the major league of American culture.

Famous authors, critics, and even reading YouTubers are commenting on the hit work ‘The Starry Sky’.

It does not fall out of the bestseller rankings and remains steadily within the top 10. If this level of growth is achieved, there is a possibility that it could become a ‘real’ number one…

Yes!

Now, ‘The Starry Sky’ has joined the mainstream cultural trend without any push from the publisher, and has begun to roll on its own.

Like a small snowball on a snowy mountain!

When that snowball rolls down, it will be a huge achievement and a special bonus.

I heard that Japan and Korea were already in an uproar, but it was only slightly unfair to Richelle Surface that she was achieving results one step later than her ‘comrades’.

Still, I feel good thinking that I made a good mark by helping the Oxford junior that my boss likes…

“Ugh… ”

Richelle Surface smiled darkly for a moment. Her teammates, who had been cheering for her continuously, retreated and averted their gaze, but fortunately she did not notice.

good. Now is the second phase of the operation.

Richelle Surface called the slick-haired Mr. Lim Whatsig to check on the progress of the operation.

“Mr. Lim-Yen-Uk? “Are you ready to leave the country?”

– Oh, of course.

“You’re really coming to America this time, right?”

– yes yes.

“Really?”

– It’s true.

“well. I’ve been fooled so many times so far… ”

The only communication sent to Lim Yang-wook over the past few months was to ask, ‘When on earth are you coming to the US?’ It may have sounded sharp, but both Richelle Surface and Lim Yang-wook said ‘Haha!’ I laughed and took it as humor.

When business is going smoothly, what is there to be negative about? The bundle of money growing in real time makes the world appear rainbow-colored.

However, there was one variable: contrary to Richelle Surface’s expectations, the author of this work was not a ‘literary person.’

The name of the author of ‘The Starry Sky’ was written as ‘Literature, Gu Yu-na’.

It is a joint writing.

Therefore, Richelle Surface made additional demands from Yangwook Lim. All of them were requested by literary magazines related to ‘Collins Press’.

“Oh, is a little writer named Gu Yuna coming too?”

– Ah, ah, that, that, that friend…

“If possible, I would like you to bring me with you. When I heard that my friends here were co-writers, I was very nervous. And from our publisher’s perspective, it is actually slightly more advantageous to promote that a boy and a girl wrote together rather than a boy writing alone… “You know, right?”

– That, that, that’s right! All right…

“Are you in trouble?”

– no! no. it’s okay!

“Then, writer Moonin and writer Gu Yuna. I’ll see you both in LA. I look forward to it! “Okay then!”

* * *

Tu- Tu- Du-

Only a beep was heard on the other end of the phone.

After a long silence, a short word escaped from the mouth of Lim Yang-wook, who had accepted the cruel reality.

“ah.”

Lim Yang-wook’s eyes went dark!