episode_0063

Last time, I took the KTX to go up with Minjae, but this time we decided to take our own car.

If you have a car, you can move around Seoul freely, so you can see many places here and there.

How difficult is driving in Seoul?

It’s only been 6 months since I got my license, but I guess I’ve grown enough to drive all the way to Seoul on the highway, right?

“Isn’t the road in Busan rather rough? Seoul is okay.”

“Well? There are a lot of uphill roads in Busan.”

Although it is not as big as Ulleungdo, Busan itself has many mountains and the terrain is not good.

So the buildings and sidewalks were made strangely, and the driving difficulty was automatically evaluated as high.

I don’t know.

Because I’ve only driven in Busan.

“Although the roads in Seoul are very congested, it is not difficult. Why should I drive?”

“It’s okay. I’m sitting down and resting well.”

“I’m sorry~ My brother is driving hard next to me.”

It is at times like this that we need to make it clear what the association is.

Otherwise, Dahye, who is younger than her, will always treat her like a younger woman.

It’s scary.

Older people stop being older.

“Phew…”

“There is no need to be so nervous~”

“No, it’s not like that…”

That’s not it.

If I do, I will be laughed at, so don’t say it.

As we were chatting and laughing haha, we had already arrived at Seoul IC.

Because we were using the Hi-Pass, we were able to pass quickly, and what caught our eye was a green sign welcoming us to Seoul.

“But how much is the toll fee…”

“Wouldn’t it be around 2,200 won?”

“Not much.”

You definitely have a license and you pass the toll gate, but it’s no fun if you don’t keep the toll fee in mind.

You may use it later when writing a novel, so keep it in mind.

“As expected, the author is different. Did you say this was an occupational disease?”

“Doesn’t Dahye have anything like that?”

“Hmm… Sometimes, when I see something like a typo, I feel like I want to fix it. Anywhere.”

“That’s definitely a headache-inducing occupational disease.”

Typos are inevitable for writers.

Typos occur naturally while writing.

For example, when you type on a keyboard, doesn’t your brain send out commands and then send them to your hands?

However, if you write quickly, your hand may run out first.

In that case, it happens that the word ‘Ottogi Chicken’ is typed as a strange word like ‘Oguti Kinchi’.

This is one of those typos that I also make from time to time.

“You especially have a lot of typos like that. ‘Kitchen’ suddenly appeared in the part where chicken was supposed to appear, so I searched all the way to the front again.”

“Ah. What did you say before?”

There’s a scene where the female lead and the male lead eat chicken at a chicken restaurant, but they ended up making a typo there.

I guess I was even more confused because the word ‘boss’ was mentioned in the kitchen.

“Well, that’s what I do, so you don’t have to feel sorry!”

“I’m not particularly sorry…”

“Ugh… Oppa doesn’t tend to make many typos… but it’s still too much.”

Then Da-hye gets upset.

I wanted to pat his head, but he was driving so I just smiled.

Let’s see… I’m going to go to the hotel today and spend it leisurely.

There are many good hotels in Seoul, so it’s great for a staycation.

“Is that so? I think the Paradise Hotel in Busan looks better.”

“Because my home is Busan.”

It’s not bad to go on a vacation to the beach over there.

But the reason we came here isn’t just to have fun, right?

The main goal is to go to a management company and sign an animation contract.

And they said they would even invite me to Japan.

They say you can also check the list of voice actors here.

I wonder if my otaku temperament is showing up and causing trouble for no reason.

“Did you like anime or something like that?”

“I can see it to some extent. Because animation is one of the good media for input.”

Unlike text that requires reading and viewing, in the case of animation, input is possible just by listening.

You need to be able to converse in Japanese to some degree, but there are many people who have watched some anime who can converse without subtitles.

Well… that doesn’t mean I’m good at Japanese.

There will be very few people who know how to just listen.

“…..It’s not much different for men…”

“We are the same person, but what is the difference?”

“No… I’m talking about people who mistakenly think they can speak Japanese well just by watching anime.”

“Ah… This is not limited to animation.

There is no difference in American dramas or English dramas.

In the anime, it’s a high school girl… but it’s a high school boy here?

If you say that a high school boy’s accent appears, then in American dramas, it is said that a gangster’s accent appears.

If you think about it, the latter is rather hip and good, right?

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Forest of buildings.

Busan is no different in terms of downtown, but Seoul is a forest like the Amazon, which is impressive.

Even though Busan is a forest, is it a small forest on the mountain behind?

The scale is completely different.

As expected, the size of the forest is different, so the size of the trees is also different.

This is just one building for a publishing company… How much money is there?

“It’s been a long time… this building.”

“When was the last time you came here?”

“Was it 3 years ago?”

In the case of the previous webtoon, the manager and Da-hye came down in person, so there was no need to come to Seoul.

This time, I came to Seoul because my previous webtoon, which had gone overseas, did well, and I was hired by a Japanese visor to make an animation, so I had to come to manage it.

It is said that a webtoon author is also visiting.

He doesn’t have any rights to the animation, but I told him so I could participate just in case.

“Good, kind. Please pay attention to the webtoon author too.”

“Keuhm… of course.”

Aren’t you the one who gives me a lot of money?

Considering that the money I received from webtoon royalties was pouring into my bank account, it was one of the things I had to do.

anyway!

It’s time to stop chatting and get into it.

The automatic door opened with a chirping sound.

As I went inside, something different from before caught my eye right at the entrance.

“It’s a circuit breaker. You know that incident, right? Animation production company arson incident.”

“You know…”

A company that animated the unfinished business of the ‘Key’ company, which can be considered my life’s work.

And if my work were to be turned into an animation, how could I forget the incident with the company that I really wanted to entrust it to?

Well… I can’t decide on the animation production company because there is a separate company investing in this work.

Still, it is a company famous for producing very high-quality animation.

Beep.

When I swiped Da-hye’s card, the circuit breaker opened.

I knew this was something that could only be found in places like the Prosecutor’s Office… but it looks like it has a lot of money.

I guess I have a part to play in this too, right?

You can’t say there isn’t one, right?

“Oppa. Are you imagining something fun by yourself again?”

“This is getting caught.”

Isn’t this a fun imagination that people who spend a lot of money on stocks or games often have?

I built this pillar… I built this brick… I built this piece of paper…

It seems like something is decreasing.

It’s as fleeting as stocks or coins.

Afterwards, I followed Da-hye and arrived at the third floor where the manager was.

The third floor also had a circuit breaker installed to prevent entry into the building without a card.

“Chief~ We are here~”

“Huh? You arrived quickly? I thought you would come on a date or something.”

The manager is sitting down and turning his chair to look this way.

I get the feeling that having the top button of a dress shirt undone is a standard trait for a salesman.

Let’s unpack the dress shirt Da-hye is wearing later.

It will be fun.

“I’ll do it later. Are you there already?”

“There is still a long way to go. You’ll have to wait about an hour more.”

So, the manager told us to sit down for a while and invited us to sit down.

Dahye sat first and I also sat as if being led.

By the way, this is what management feels like during work hours.

In the first place, management is done by the publishing company…

That’s amazing…

It’s a little scary to see people working with frowns on their faces.

“The translation review is very busy. The new works this time are just…”

“Manager. Does your computer make a notification sound?”

“Wait a minute….. Ah! What if we do this here!”

It looks like something happened.

The manager, who had been typing on the keyboard for a while, scratched his head in hysterics, stood up and shouted loudly.

“Dohyun!”

“Yes! Manager!”

So, an employee suddenly stood up from a little distance away.

It was a person I remember saying hello to when I visited before.

“Go to the printing room and quickly tell them that OHP film should not be attached to the cover! If we start printing, we’ll all be in trouble!”

“Ah…I understand!”

“Ah… we’re in big trouble…”

It looks like it’s really twisted.

I’ve heard before that you have to be careful with books because if you make a mistake in printing them, the whole thing will be ruined.

Books are only produced in small quantities, so even if they are slightly different from other books, it doesn’t make a big difference, but if books sold on the market have different formats, it is of course newsworthy.

At the earliest, within two days of release… or within one day, our management publisher will become a 9 o’clock news star.

“…It looks like the OHP film problem is still happening.”

“Ha…”

It looks like Da-hye also experienced this.

Isn’t it just one film?