episode_0064

After receiving the call, I went up to the chairman’s office.

Before entering, I closed my eyes in front of the door and took a deep breath.

From now on, you have to play the role of a negotiator who appears to be a mess but is actually cunning.

After a while I opened my eyes and opened the door.

“Sit down.”

“Yes.”

The air around them was pungent because of how much they smoked.

“Congratulations on winning an award at the film festival. I told you to say hello to the principal, but he called you separately, right?”

“Yes, the principal and vice principal congratulated me.”

“Yeah. What did you want to talk about when you asked to see me?”

“I’m thinking of dropping out.”

In that moment, the chairman’s hand, which was taking out a cigarette, froze.

I guess he was quite surprised.

Dropping out… of course, is a lie.

“Why all of a sudden?”

He slowly lit a cigarette to calm down.

“I want to focus on acting. While filming this movie, I realized how much I wanted to act.”

“There are a lot of kids who act while going to school. I don’t understand why they would want to quit.”

“I’m the type of person who can’t do two things at once. I don’t have the confidence to go to school while acting.”

The chairman waved his spear, telling me not to resign, and I held my shield tightly, telling myself to quit.

The battle continued with no one being pushed back.

“… We secretly ignore the social skills that we learn while living in school… .”

He is trying to persuade them with educator-like words, but the real question is why they are leaving without exposing the truth.

It would be absurd for him to say he would drop out when he was just securing the footage and watching the timing.

Since you kept talking in circles, I decided to answer your questions.

“Wasn’t it a relief when I said I was going out?”

“Huh? Why me?”

“Hmm… So, are you really disappointed? Well, if you search for videos that people don’t know about… .”

“What the hell are you talking about? ”

He cut off the conversation with a look of displeasure.

To be exact, it must have been a stinging pain.

“You must have seen videos of only dirty places at school, and you must have also seen videos of people who have already graduated gossiping about the school… .”

The face that had been indifferent until just now began to distort.

You probably thought you didn’t need to wear a mask anymore.

“Heh, are you threatening me now?”

“What am I threatening the chairman about? Even if I do, he won’t blink an eye.”

“I let you go because you were cute, to see how far you would go. Do you think there are more than a few like you? Then why has nothing happened for over 10 years? Since you made something like that, you should have known enough to know.”

It must be a position that he protected by disguising himself as a kind educator and committing all sorts of hooligan acts.

Since it is a lifelong education facility with academic credit recognition, the foundation has greater authority than specialized high schools.

The local education office only conducts audits and reports illegal activities when a problem arises.

There is no guarantee that the prosecution will faithfully investigate even if you report it.

In this situation, the chairman built his own kingdom for over 10 years.

“You put so much effort into it, so why are you dropping out without doing anything? No, more than that, how did you know? I have the video.”

“Why do you pretend not to know when you’ve attached people to it?”

The chairman’s eyes narrowed.

“That’s because I’m not the type of guy who’d stick to you. What did you do to make me act like a bat?”

The only contact we have with the CEO is Senior Young-cheol.

That’s why you’re harassing me now, knowing that.

“It’s not like only the CEO can give something. I weighed what I gave him and it seems like this is better.”

“So what is that!”

“Why should I tell you that? I won’t be a student here any time soon.”

“… … .”

I can hear the sound of heads rolling from here.

The difficulty of how to respond is different than when I don’t know.

“I don’t know how much he heard, but that kid just ran a few errands. He’s not the kind of guy who can do anything for you.”

“That’s a matter for us to decide, and please don’t touch me from now on. I won’t stay still.”

I defended my senior as much as possible.

This way you will know what is there.

“Ha, what on earth did you do? Do you think you can do anything just because you dropped out of school?”

“Well, I guess I can do more than when I was in school… Well, see for yourself.”

Various threats continued for a while.

My mind kept getting weaker, but I somehow held on.

He keeps lighting a cigarette as if he is burning inside.

The suspicion is growing, but nothing has been revealed, so there is nothing the chairman can do now.

“If you want to continue acting, go out and watch your mouth. There were a few people who were nosy, and you can find out for yourself what happened.”

“I will. Thank you for your kind words.”

He stood up from his seat, sarcastically.

As I go outside and close the door, I hear a crashing sound from inside.

I guess he’s quite angry.

You won’t believe that Senior Youngcheol is attached to me.

Because considering our relationship so far, there is no reason for him to stick to me.

‘I have to make them believe.’

I called Minji as I went down the stairs.

“Are we done talking?”

“Yeah. Upload the video.”

“Okay.”

A while later, an exposing video was uploaded to our channel.

A title you can’t help but click on.

[Team Seorimping is disbanding.]

*****

“Hello? This is John Jalping Byeon Ha-jin. Didn’t we greet you through a movie a while ago?”

“Hello? This is John Yeping Oh Yu-jin.”

Eugene and I, wearing our school uniforms, greeted each other politely.

“I apologize for posting a video with bad news. As the title says, Team Seorimping will be disbanded as of today. The reason for disbanding is… Well, I will tell you from now on.”

He started to reveal the corruption of the chairman that he had been collecting, saying that he would tell them the reason for the dissolution.

It’s a story that can be told in a few dozen minutes, but if it’s too long, I don’t watch it.

Minji introduced the shocking things with footage she filmed.

“Can you see the leak here? There is no soundproofing, so the residents’ complaints are no joke. But the district office subsidy was used to expand the lounge in the chairman’s office. How should I understand this?”

A luxurious rooftop garden and a guest house exclusively for the chairman and his wife,

They embezzle the donations and pass on all the performance costs to the students.

The shamelessness of inviting students to the chairman’s personal gathering and making them dance sexy dances.

“I also received testimony that he demanded physical contact with a pretty female student. Do you know how much your performance score would be reduced if you refused to perform? The chairman personally ordered this.”

Shocking content, intuitive images, and my emotional voice and gestures were added.

My melodramatic acting was already proven when I hired actress Ko Eun-hye when she was 7 years old.

Minji took some amazing close-ups of her crying and being overcome with emotion.

Again, Koreans are ‘very’ weak to melodrama.

Eugene’s desperate efforts to hold back her tears were also captured on screen.

“I’ve been preparing the exposure video since summer vacation. I made two videos with even my seniors who graduated, and they ended up in the hands of the chairman.”

A senior who had graduated actively helped, but couldn’t resist the chairman’s threats and handed over the video.

He said that because of that, we who produced the video were put in an ‘extremely’ difficult situation.

“Because of the situation, I don’t think I can continue to work with the character that Seorim joined. That’s why I decided to disband the team.”

He tearfully appealed to those in power to remember his efforts to expose corruption.

He kept emphasizing that one of his seniors who had graduated had decided to help.

Suddenly, Senior Young-cheol became a public interest activist who exposed corruption in private schools.

“If possible, I’ll see you again in the next video.”

The video ended with a greeting emphasizing, “If possible.”

*****

“Am I right?”

Sora is sparkling on the screen.

Sora also helped a lot with this revelation video.

“Okay. How did you come up with the idea of putting subtitles on it?”

Sora received the script in advance and added English subtitles.

In addition, we commissioned a translation company to add 20 additional subtitles.

“That school is a holy place for overseas K-POP fans. It’s called Idol School and is a must-see when traveling to Korea. I’ve seen a lot of school photos on Ista.”

It was Sora who suggested that we borrow the firepower of these fans.

As expected, there were a ton of comments in English, Japanese, Chinese, and French.

The number of views also increased dramatically, and Sora’s power played a big role in this as well.

“Jennifer, who appeared with me, is a huge K-POP fan. So I told her about it and she linked to her Instagram. She has over 100 million followers.”

The media quickly responded to the incredible firepower flowing in from overseas.

This news became a bigger topic of conversation because it was covered first by foreign media.

Since this came out before the afterglow of the film festival award had even died down, there was no way the reporters could stay still.

Not only the entertainment industry but also the social sector was flooded with news of corruption in the Seorim Preview scandal.

It has also been announced that major current affairs programs and debate shows will cover this.

*

“Hey… This crazy kid is holding me like this? Eww, this shit… Eww!!”

The area around the chairman’s desk was a mess.

Because the excited chairman threw everything he could get his hands on.

Even the administrative director, who usually treats people roughly, is sitting in the corner with a rare look of fear.

“Honey, what should I do? The media has never stirred up a story like this before.”

“We should do something too. It looks like everything is going to be ruined.”

The art teacher who came running in a hurry said while cleaning up the broken furniture.

“Mobilize all administrative staff to prepare for the meeting. As soon as possible.”

“A meeting?”

“Students and parents are more upset than the outside. We need to start by taking control of the places where our side still remains. Here, we can refute the exposure video and spread it to the media.”

The teacher, who was about to leave, hesitated for a moment in front of the door.

“What are you doing? You’re not leaving quickly.”

“Excuse me, Kim Young-cheol, why aren’t you answering the phone? I’m getting calls and it’s causing a fuss.”

“Is that kid supposed to be answering the phone right now? Don’t answer the phone either, I’ll make you the biggest jerk in the world at the press conference. You’re a kid who’s going to get killed, so leave him alone.”

The chairman’s eyes, with their burst blood vessels, looked like those of a devil from hell.