The Suspicious Professor (3)
The meeting with Professor Sejong Lee was short.
Leaving only a few essential explanations and requests, Lee Se-jong exchanged business cards and left.
Kim Sang-hee was in the mood to bury her face in her laptop to see what inspiration came from seeing Lee Se-jong, and Jang Seung-won asked, suffering from hyperventilation like a person who had held his breath all the time.
“That professor, what the hell are you doing?”
“You are a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering. He is also my advisor.”
“No, that’s not what I meant. Because it’s a kind of nobleman, ’30 billion is possible with my own money, hehehehe.’ It made me laugh like that.”
“I don’t know too well, but I know that my personal assets exceed 100 billion won.”
“······Cheo, 100 billion.”
Jang Seung-won seemed to lose strength in his legs.
Should the university professor be shocked at the fact that he has more than 100 billion, or should he be embarrassed by Jeong Seo-hoon’s casual pronunciation of 100 billion?
“Do professors have that much money? Or do you have to have a lot of money to become a professor at Korea University?”
“Originally, my family was wealthy, but most of the money was saved by the professor himself.”
“No, so how?”
“Patent royalties.”
“…a patent?”
The more I hear the answer, the more I feel like I’m falling into a swamp.
what patent?
“You run a patent company in Silicon Valley, USA. There are several original patents issued by the professor himself, and he also buys technologies with high growth potential at low prices, improves them, and provides them as patents to manufacturers to earn royalties.”
“······Patents make so much money?”
“Most of them are important patents. Even now, they continue to issue new patents steadily.”
“What kind of companies are receiving patent fees by any chance…?”
“Intel, AMD, ARM, Nvidia, Apple, Microsoft, everything. Domestic conglomerates are also paying patent fees.”
“I heard that domestic conglomerates don’t pay royalties at all and are busy stealing patents…”
“It’s owned by the professor, but it’s an American company. You can’t play with patents.”
Jang Seung-won’s expression, which had been listening to the explanation with a lost expression, gradually returned to its original state.
“So Professor Sejong Lee didn’t bring out the funkka, did you mean?”
“Yes, I vouch for that. But I didn’t know you would talk about the convenience of my undergraduate life. I was thinking of postponing my return to school for filming the drama.”
“Don’t delay and go back to school, just.”
When Jang Seung-won spoke without hesitation, Jeong Seo-hoon pretended to be slightly surprised and asked back.
“Peddy? It must have interfered with filming.”
“I will match the shooting schedule to Mr. Seo Hoon as much as possible. There aren’t that many outdoor shoots in broad daylight anyway, so you can shoot in groups. There are a lot of indoor and night shots. Ah, would it be physically difficult for Seo Hoon to do undergraduate life and filming at the same time?”
“Hey, stamina doesn’t matter. As long as the time is right, it’s fine.”
It’s true.
Due to the remnants left by the comet, the body is getting stronger day by day.
During the Illegal filming accident, I strode up the rope with only my arm strength, and no matter how much I drink, I don’t get a hangover, and I don’t feel physically exhausted.
It’s been a long time since I’ve felt that I lacked stamina.
“Then it’s better. Isn’t Seo Hoon appearing in a drama while living as an undergraduate? This will be a hot topic. A fusion historical drama starring a genius college student actor from Korea University! Viewers who haven’t seen the drama won’t be able to stop watching it.”
“Did you see it, Mr. Seohun? The production crew is a race that is obsessed with viewer ratings like this.”
“Isn’t the author like that too? Why are you pretending not?”
“No matter how good the ratings are, how do you plan to sell an actor to a professor?”
“There is only one semester left. I’m going to go back to school whenever I want to graduate, but wouldn’t it be better if we used the current Korean University senior title premium in our drama? It’s a card with only one semester left.”
“Professor, you must be suspicious.”
When Kim Sang-hee spoke as if to conclude, Jang Seung-won’s expression became slightly serious.
“why? Is there anything that bothers you?”
“What motivates a professor to be nice to a 21-year-old senior military scribe at Korea University who is about to return to school with only one semester left?”
“That’s right, graduate school…”
After speaking, Jang Seung-won stopped breathing because his throat caught.
Kim Sang-hee looked at me with triumphant eyes, as if he finally understood.
“They say that he is a talented person who wants to bring him to graduate school even if he has to pay 30 billion won, our Mr. Seo Hoon.”
“No, why did someone who should be an actor go to graduate school… What did our Seo Hoon do wrong?”
“Here, Peddy. Graduate school is not a place where you are dragged out for doing something wrong.”
“If a boy does something wrong, he goes to juvenile detention center. If college students do something wrong, they go to graduate school.”
Kim Sang-hee murmured quickly, and Jang Seung-won urgently asked.
“Oh, I really need to stop this. Mr. Seo Hoon, did the professor say that you are investing as a condition of coming to graduate school?”
“You never said anything like that.”
“Ah, it’s not all about not saying anything. It is the skill that professors snatch undergraduates to make them feel uncomfortable by constantly planting a sense of debt. I didn’t even know I was being taken, but when I came to my senses, it was already a lab room.”
Jang Seung-won’s complexion became more serious at Kim Sang-hee’s soft tone.
“Wouldn’t it be a big deal if I received this? Shall I just say no?”
“Do not worry. I will be an actor for the rest of my life.”
***
Jung Seo-hoon decided to sign a CF advertisement contract.
It was the number of cases actively recommended by manager Ha Tae-soo.
“It’s a one-year contract, but the conditions are good. You only have to do 3 shots. By the time you enter the historical drama, the contract period will be over, so I think it would be better to film it.”
“I think you are right. I will.”
“Review of the contract…”
“I’ll do it. I still have some legal knowledge.”
“Ah, you said you got a patent attorney. Oh yeah.”
Jeong Seo-hoon took a look at the contract and, without hesitation, stamped and signed it.
And a few days later, Jeong Seo-hoon met the advertiser and the CF director.
To be precise, it was the marketing director of the company that gave the advertisement.
“Actually, I am a huge fan of actor Jeong Seo-hoon. I really enjoyed watching Illy Girl, and I watched it more than 10 times in the theater alone.”
“Thank you for a good look.”
“Can I ask for your autograph personally?”
The head of marketing was a woman in her late thirties, but throughout the meeting, she couldn’t look straight into Jeong Seo-hoon’s eyes and kept avoiding her gaze.
The CF director spoke dryly in a businesslike manner.
“I will send you a concept for the shoot today. There will be light emotional acting, but since you are not a singer and an actor, it won’t be difficult. It’s very easy. I deliberately set the atmosphere concept to match the acting image of actor Jeong Seo-hoon.”
“all right.”
“Oh, my partner is Chae Ji-hyun.”
On the way back from the meeting that lasted about an hour, Tae-soo Ha said playfully while driving.
“I got involved with Chae Ji-hyun again like this. Isn’t this going to cause another scandal like Yoo Jung-ah?”
“I don’t care.”
“Our Seo Hoon has become a great actor. Actually, Byeong-cheol said, but he thought you were an actor with 20 years of experience from the time you were in the studio. I have plenty of time.”
“It’s just that I don’t sing well. My personality is kind of like this.”
“Being mentally strong is very good. That’s a good thing for an actor.”
I rested my chin on my chin and looked out of the van for a moment, when my phone rang.
[Chae Ji-hyun] Did you hear? They say they’re going to a CF like us!
[Me] I’m on my way to a meeting right now. I just heard
[Chae Ji-hyun] Heehee, they are coming together like this again. What are you doing today?
[Me] I’m going to do my overdue homework at home.
[Chae Ji-hyun] Overdue homework…?
[Me] I didn’t watch the media too much before I started learning. I invest at least 4 hours a day watching movies or dramas.
[Chae Ji-hyun] Aha, what are we going to see today?
The moment I was about to type the title of the movie I had chosen to watch today, someone else called me.
[Jungah Yoo] What are you doing today?
[Chae Ji-hyun] We have a home theater set up well. I also watch movies all day at home on my days off!
[Jungah Yoo] Do you want to drink?
[Chae Ji-hyun] Are you driving?
[Yoo Jung-ah] Why are you silent? I’m busy? in a meeting? You said you were filming a CF with Jihyun?
[Chae Ji-hyun] You can’t tap while driving. be careful! Call me when you’re done driving.
[Hwang Ra-hee] Hello? hahahaha!
Jiing. Jiing. Jiing. Jiing. Jiing. Jiing.
Jeong Seo-hoon just took the phone away from his eyes.
***
late night.
After watching a domestic movie to the end, Jeong Seo-hoon came out to the shared living room on the second floor for a while.
While I was quenching my thirst with cold water, my father’s presence came behind me and stood quietly.
“Is the movie over?”
“Yes.”
“These days, when you come home, you only watch movies or dramas.”
“I watch movies in order of success, starting with domestic ones. After all, if you want to shoot a drama movie in Korea, it’s better to watch a lot of works.”
“Yes, don’t pile on overdue papers and read them diligently. Aren’t other works like thesis for an actor?”
“Come to think of it, I see. It’s like a thesis.”
Jeong Tae-hyeon slowly sat down on the sofa and continued the conversation.
“Professor Lee said he met PD? I heard it today.”
“Yes. I was going to tell you, but I forgot.”
“It seems that it has been decided to invest in the drama.”
“I hear that now.”
“Professor Lee also spoke with PD a while ago. He said he decided to get invested, and as soon as the PD and the phone call ended, he contacted me.”
Jeong Tae-hyeon asked a question cautiously.
“I heard that Professor Lee offered to return to school as an investment condition, aren’t you upset?”
“You didn’t walk with conditions. When I returned to school, the production team asked me to be considerate of my undergraduate life.”
“Yes, that is the condition. You don’t know this teaching method yet. So far, many doctors have been born that way.”
“…”
“What are you going to do?”
“If PD-nim is considerate of the filming time, of course I have to go back to school. Graduation cannot be postponed for no reason.”
“If going to graduate school is burdensome, tell me. I’ll explain it well to this professor.”
“Have you ever been burdened? Even if I go to graduate school someday, I don’t think about it right now. After completing my undergraduate studies, I plan to focus on my acting career for the time being.”
“You’re too much for grabbing this professor… not so much. Anyway, if this professor is a burden, tell me anytime.”
***
Jang Seung-won, after discussing with Kim Sang-hee, eventually decided to enter cable with Lee Se-jong’s investment.
“Professor 30 billion and net prime 30 billion. With 60 billion won, I can live without writer Kim’s script.”
“I will also match the 24th episode. The production cost per synagogue is only 2.5 billion won. Originally, I omitted the story of my childhood days, but I just need to bring it back.”
“If you do, I will be grateful.”
“Thank you. If you can’t recover the investment, it’s an atmosphere where you have to pay back Mr. Seo Hoon’s graduate school. I have to do my best.”
“Ah, are you really going to drag me into graduate school slavery just because I lost my investment money?”
“I did some research, but that professor is not normal. Until now, there is no one who did not get a doctorate after studying at the graduate school of that professor.”
“Isn’t that proof that you are a great professor?”
“Don’t you think that I couldn’t even escape until I got a doctor and kept rolling underneath?”
“Uh, does that happen?”
“Seo Hoon doesn’t seem to have any plans to go to graduate school, but in case you don’t know about it. So, we have to work on production with the mindset of recouping our investment unconditionally and making a big hit.”
“Of course it is.”
It is a situation in which the drama planning, which is handling the investment of 60 billion won, is in hand.
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Not only large production companies, but also small and medium-sized production companies knocked on doors here and there, looking for Jang Seung-won and Kim Sang-hee.
“Please make it in our company. We will give you the best support.”
“If you give this work to our company, we promise you the best treatment in the next drama production.”
You can’t make a production with a producer and a writer, so in the end you have to choose a production company.
Since the PD owns the production rights itself, the production companies have been in a position to lie down and wait for the two to make a choice.
As a freelance PD, Jang Seung-won signed a directing contract with the production company for a single production, and the production company operated and managed the investment money and was thanked by Jang Seung-won.
Fellow producers who learned of the situation poured out chats and phone calls saying that they would go crazy with envy to Jang Seung-won.
“I wish you well in the future.”
“Yes, PD Jang. Let’s do well together.”
The station Jang Seung-won finally chose was CV Cable, which aired Illy Girl.
Unlike KBC, the head of CV Cable’s drama department treated Jang Seung-won and Kim Sang-hee politely, showing off PT No. 8 gymnastics with socks.
“Oh, Writer. You finally came back. Welcome.”
Like a father welcoming his daughter back from her honeymoon, the director of CV Cable had a smile on her face.