Novelist Running Through Time - Chapter 172
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The Novelist Who Leapt Through Time Episode 172
In recent years, the Korean publishing industry has experienced great changes.
The scale of the industry, which was endlessly pushed underground without realizing the fear of Hades, has succeeded in a miraculous rebound. The graph also drew a V, and people in the industry also made the V pose with their fingers.
It was clear who brought about this wind of change.
Novelist, writer…
This is Lim Yang-wook, who dug up -.
At least that was the view of those in the industry.
Art is the domain of the writer, but business is the domain of the editor. Although he was a writer who wrote masterpieces, it was Lim Yang-wook who saved the industry. This is a fact acknowledged by both fans and antis.
Therefore, Lim Yang-wook, who was buried in an underground parking lot and then splendidly resurrected and showed a miracle that saved the industry, should have been in a position similar to the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.
But reality is a gutter. Both in the literary world and in the publishing industry, Lim Yang-wook is still treated as an idiot or a shady idiot.
The reason is not only because the legendary aggro of purchasing 16 literary awards at the same time flooded all literary magazines across the country. (Partially true)
The crucial reason why Lim Yang-wook is treated as a shaman who uses evil magic and practices evil sects is…
This is because Lim Yang-wook uses a clever magic trick.
– It’s a hex! That guy uses hexes!
Witchcraft is a path that deviates from the right path. It is not right, it is not upright, and it is pretentious. There was no such aspect to Lim Yang-wook’s business model.
What is ‘publishing management’?
To sum it up in one word, it is the artist becoming a celebrity.
Since the industry is going bankrupt because people don’t read books, the business strategy is to make authors into celebrities to secure fandom and sell books.
The importance of this ‘active business expansion’ can be seen just by looking at a certain girl group that became school idols to save their school from closure.
But there is actually one problem with this.
If a ‘writer’ becomes a ‘celebrity’…
‘Novel’ becomes ‘goods’.
I don’t buy books to read any literature, but I buy books because they are written by authors I like.
Although it is not a crime, it is problematic for a publisher to encourage it. This is because literature has died out and only goods remain.
In order to survive, ‘art’ is being downgraded to ‘souvenir’, so it is not for nothing that people are calling out for witchcraft.
Therefore, those who condemn Yang-Wook Lim the loudest are not those who are jealous of him or those who keep him in check, but are simply concerned about the survival of Korean literature.
– Baekhak Bookstore’s recent actions go one step further than the American agency industry. They are now trying to produce writers like entertainment agencies that produce idols…
– When a conglomerate with a dominant position in the market promotes writers from its subsidiaries to appear on the subsidiary’s broadcasts and publishes books through the subsidiary, it is closer to ‘domination’ with capital rather than creative management. Therefore, the Korean literary world is now being ‘invaded’…
Criticisms that can be roughly summarized as ‘The principles of the powerful have fallen to the ground’ were stories that did not resonate well with the public.
However, there are people who believe that the purity of Korean literature must be preserved, who believe that the ‘literary world’ made up of artists is more important than the ‘publishing industry’ made up of businessmen, and who have enough experience to know what large conglomerates will do if they decide to do so. for…
It was a very compelling story.
And the Korean literary world is a closed web made up of such elders’ dense networks.
Therefore, as long as Lim Yang-wook continues his black magic of attracting ‘commercial value’ by sacrificing ‘artisticity’, and as long as Baekhak Bookstore, a large corporation, continues the business of ‘publishing management’ that allows it to project stronger influence on individual writers, …
Lim Yang-wook could never be recognized by those who wanted to preserve the independence of the Korean literary world.
But to put it backwards,
This meant that it had no relevance in the United States, where the literary world lacks independence and freedom.
EP 10 – Starry Sky
In a country where you can self-publish a book by signing up for an online shopping mall, the criticism that ‘the overall artistry of the industry may deteriorate if an author engages in fandom business’ is nonsense.
You can say it is the sound of a dog eating grass.
Capitalism is more is better.
The more money you have, the better, the bigger the industry, the better, and the more popular you are, the better.
In the first place, voices concerned about excessive de-authority of novelists were common only in countries like Korea, where novelists had considerable political authority.
Therefore, Lim Yang-wook’s business strategy, which took the flower of the 21st century cultural market called ‘fandom business’ and used it, worked very well in the United States. In the first place, politicians also said everything because they were in the fandom business.
Rather, after witnessing the unexpected results occurring in the United States, Korean elders even changed their minds, which is what Gongja said, “Show and Prove.”
– Haedong’s literature is rising to great power… Am I dreaming now? Even if I close my eyes now, I have no time left!
– Lim Yang-wook… ! How could Madhu of Sapa accomplish such a feat? !
– is it… Does the back wave of the Yangtze River, or rather the Han River, push away the front wave?
Basically, Koreans have a tendency to feel good when Korean content succeeds in the United States. You shouldn’t ask why. To explain, we must start from the Japanese colonial period.
Therefore, it can be said that the most effective thing in Yangwook Lim, Yohei Iwamoto, and Richelle Surface’s ‘card turning’ operation is to boast about their achievements in the United States in Korea.
So Lim Yang-wook spurred even more aggressive promotions, and Collins Press, who was surprised that the effect of fandom business was greater than expected, poured money into it like a paddler.
but…
If there are problems that arise because of Korea, there are also problems that arise because of the United States.
The cause of the trouble was as follows.
Aggressive business…
It was ‘aggressive’.
* * *
The alliance between Yangwook Lim, Yohei Iwamoto, and Richelle Surface was similar to the alliance between Baekhak Bungo, Kyosensha, and Collins Press. The three companies joined forces to form Triad.
The biggest gangster in this fearsome triad was ‘Collins Press’, but that did not mean that Collins Press was stronger than the other two companies.
The reason comes from ‘Nawabari’.
First of all, Baekhak Bookstore is a nationwide gangster that dominates the Korean publishing industry. Strictly speaking, Kyosensha is not a nationwide yakuza that has taken over all of Japan, but its two main competitors belong to one conglomerate family called the ‘Hitokawa Group’. Therefore, even though it appears to be a three-way match on the outside, it is actually one fight.
Unlike gangsters across the country who had the entire country to themselves, Collins Press was, unfortunately, a gangster who only controlled California.
Of course, since the United States is a land flowing with milk and honey, that alone overwhelmed the market capitalization of Baekhak Bookstore and Kyosensha, but from a political perspective, there is a very big disadvantage.
That is the existence of ‘competitors’.
Unlike Baekhak Bunko-Kyosensha, which monopolizes all the resources and relics and can ‘live only for myself’, Collins Press cannot do that.
These political interests can be seen just by looking at web novels. A novel with one regressor and a novel with two or more regressors have different genres.
The fact that if one person installs it, another person can place the knife is a big problem in itself.
And Collins Press was so weird.
Harper Simon, the CEO of the publishing company ‘Simon Publishers’, was not the only one who thought that way.
“What the fuck (You idiots with no morals)… ”
Aggressive promotion is aggressive. Because there are people who are attacked.
In this case, Collins Press was attacking not only Simon Publishers but all of its competitors.
Because they’re pulling all the issues from one quarter and eating them up in a way you’ve never heard of before!
“Holy Shit (What on earth are these bastards? Are you saying it’s nonsense for a middle school student to write a novel? Even if it’s just a curse, you bastards are the testimony)… ”
To drown out his rotting feelings, Harper Simon took out a cigarette and lit it.
His black secretary opened her mouth worriedly.
“Sir (Chairman. The situation is very serious)… ”
“… … ”
Watching the cigarette smoke slowly spreading across the office ceiling, Harper Simon finally made a decision and opened his mouth with determined eyes.
“Ok (Okay. I can’t let these bastards do this).”
* * *
War broke out.
In order to throw ashes on the business of Collins Press, which is targeting the younger generation through social media, they had a fairly famous (puppet) novelist appear on the air.
And then he immediately threw away his hands with a Chinese sword, saying he was going to kill his business.
– As you all know, the starry sky is… This book is popular not so much for its content as for the fact that the two authors are children. I enjoyed it too. However, after reading it, I wondered if those two kids were really the writers. The evidence is as follows…
As is usually the case with these types of slander, if you roughly piece together the evidence, something reasonably useful emerges.
And whether the evidence is true or not is actually not important.
This is because the public is always looking to see if there’s anyone who can curse when they’re bored.
– I knew it would be like this. Is it a scam again?
– Those Ugly Koreans scammed with coins, scammed with superconductors, and are now scamming with novels. What is the difference from Chink?
– I said it didn’t make sense for a child to write a novel.
– Oh my god, we need to save those poor children from those bastards born out of that shithole. Why on earth are Koreans so anxious that they can’t bully children? It’s the same with K-pop. Children who should be playing at school are locked in their rooms and made to practice…
-Why did you allow the spy sent by Kim Jong-un into the country in the first place?
– ?
Once you start stampeding and throwing stones, there is no longer a need for a reason.
This is because people who do not want to admit that they are wrong continue to create criticism until the end.
Therefore, no matter how much explanation Collins Press provides, it cannot completely eliminate criticism.
This is because disgust is a more interesting emotion than tolerance.
– Verification has already been completed during the Booker Prize screening process. In the first place, the writer is not a suspicious newcomer, but a novelist who has already been active in Korea for a long time. Not only is this suspicion too late, but it also raises suspicions of malicious intent…
– Woo! lie!
As the controversy over “Are those kids really real writers?” spread, the triads met in secret.
We didn’t actually get together, but we gathered via video conference because we couldn’t afford plane tickets on an office worker’s salary.
Yangwook Lim resolutely declared to Yohei Iwamoto and Richelle Surface who were looking at him from beyond the monitor screen.
“Let’s start with backup plan C.”
Yangwook Lim is not an idiot. Likewise, Yohei Iwamoto and Richelle Surface are not stupid. This scenario was within their expectations.
In particular, Richelle Surface accurately predicted that if ‘Collins Press’ did well, ‘Simon Publisher’ would be the first to go crazy.
Because they were strong rivals, ranked among the top five publishers in the English-speaking world.
– Simon Publishers is based in New York. In an age where books are sold online, you might wonder what region has anything to do with it… Money and books may not exist, but people are tied to the land. And the center of America is the East, and the center of the East is New York. So, I would like to say that Simon Publishers has the upper hand in terms of human resources that can be mobilized.
“But we can’t stop here. “For now, let’s proceed according to plan.”
– after… I’m nervous.
Common sense tells us, ‘A child wrote a novel! If you say, ‘Isn’t it surprising?’, it is natural that the response will be, ‘Is it true?’
Up to this point, it is a predictable scenario.
It’s just that I couldn’t know in advance whether the nuance of the question ‘Is it true?’ would be ‘Is it true?’ or ‘Is that true?’
And a significant portion of Vito’s forces are venting their anger, saying, ‘Stop messing around, you bastards!’
Among the response plans he had planned in advance, Lim Yang-wook chose the most hard-line and active method.
It is a ‘counterattack’.
* * *
Richelle Surface of Collins Press led the front line as a practical person, and Yangwook Lim worked with the writers on their schedules and responded to the situation immediately.
And on the other side of the Pacific, Yohei Iwamoto cheered with all his heart.
Through this active cooperation, Lim Yang-wook further increased the size of the issue and highlighted Mun-in and Gu Yu-na as unfair victims of malicious criticism.
It wasn’t difficult because it was real.
Meanwhile, Richelle Surface spread her people everywhere in search of key evidence that Simon Publishers led the media play, and in the meantime, attempted to launch a decisive counterattack.
Naturally, the counterattack is to prove that the authors of ‘The Starry Sky’ are Munin and Gu Yuna.
And the most effective way to dispel doubt is with the assurance of someone trustworthy.
To this end, Collins Press brought in quite a significant figure.
“Nice to meet you, everyone. This is Jamie Schneider. Please call me Jamie. Oh, have you ever heard my name? Young people?”
Jamie Schneider. He is an MC, entertainer, movie actor, voice actor, and journalist who hosts a fairly famous TV show.
In short, he was a celebrity whose name most Americans could recognize by looking at his face.
But to the two boys and girls from across the Pacific, he was just an uncle.
Looking at the two children shaking their heads, Jamie Schneider shrugged and suggested that he should become more famous.
“Okay then, shall we start the interview?”
Collins Press did not allow Moonin and Yuna Gu to appear on Jamie Schneider’s TV show.
Richelle Surface knows that writers have the mouth of hell. She is also not a person so shallow that she leaves the fate of her business to chance and ad-libs.
Therefore, the interviews between Moonin, Gu Yuna, and Jamie Schneider were conducted in the form of recorded broadcasts that could be edited afterward.
Richell Surface, arms crossed in the corner of the filming set, could not hide her smile while biting her fingernails.
‘Okay, the preparation is perfect…’ ‘
Jamie Schneider was not actually recruited by Collins Press.
I was recruited through Richelle Surface’s personal connections.
Therefore, Richelle Surface took on a considerable amount of intangible debt to make today’s interview happen, and if the interview fails, that debt becomes a ‘loss’.
Therefore, preparation for the interview was as thorough as the pressure Richelle Surface felt.
I gave warnings to Lim Yang-wook, Mun-in, and Gu Yu-na not to make any unexpected actions, and carefully discussed questions with Jamie Schneider in advance.
The most difficult thing was to give Jamie Schneider confidence that these kids were really the writers and that you were not being used for a hoax.
That was a success, so now we can leave the rest up to him.
“Phew… … ”
Just in case, the interpreter was not Baek Seol, but someone who had been bribed by her. Richel Surface breathed a sigh of relief.
but.
There were two things she failed to consider here.
First, Gu Yuna’s madness as she watched this long war in the publishing industry reached its limit.
Second, Yuna Gu could speak English.
– Why aren’t you talking about novels?
Fluent English came out of Gu Yuna’s mouth.
It was the moment when the situation was out of Richelle Surface’s control.
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