87 – Kang Jin-hyeok debuts at a broadcasting station! (2)
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“Jinhyeok oppa, you said that you are visiting a broadcasting station for the first time today, so I, as an experienced person, will give you some advice.”
“Okay. I like getting advice. Especially the advice we give.”
“······It’s the first time you’ve received advice from me, so how do you know if it’s good or bad? It makes me feel good to hear that, but please don’t use it indiscriminately.”
“·······Sorry.”
“Anyway, what kind of advice am I going to give you… Oh, it’s already time! No time for advice! For now, just follow me, just follow me! Then you’ll be fine!”
“Yes, yes!”
That’s how I entered the broadcasting station along with us in a hurry.
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“Yes, writer, no. I will go now, please wait a moment.”
“What?! Can’t you come!? What kind of bullsh*t is that, you bastard! Ah, ah, hey… Once i got it I’m going to the meeting room, see you there.”
“PD! You left this behind! Here you go!”
Even though it was around 6 o’clock, the typical workplace, the inside of the broadcasting station was noisy enough to resemble a market.
But even so, it was less noisy and less bloody than the knives and hammer battlegrounds of gangsters.
But even if I’m okay, we might not be okay.
I got worried for a moment and turned my head, and I saw our backs leading me as if we were used to it.
“Jinhyuk oppa! Come quickly, we might be late!”
Ah, we were experienced broadcasters.
I was with Ji-Woo, who is confident and bright, but is timid and clings to my side or tries to hide in my arms when I do anything.
Here, we are seniors than me, and we who appeared on a popular program called Idol Survival were leaders to be trusted and followed.
That means that a country boy like me who is new to a broadcasting station today is not someone to worry about. Yes, as I heard earlier, we are experienced people at this broadcasting station, so let’s just do what we tell us to do. If you act on your own and get caught by people at the broadcasting station, you’re avoiding our kids as well.
I quickly caught up behind us, determined to be our follower today, doing just what we do.
“I’ll go now!”
The place we arrived at was the information desk in front of the gate where you can’t pass without a pass.
Without anything I could do, we first arrived at the information desk and explained to the receptionist why we had come here and what we were doing.
“I decided to meet with the production staff regarding our idol survival show, Resurrection of the Losers. May I ask you to contact PD?”
“Ah… Idol Survival. That, yes, wait a minute. Let me check.”
“Yes, thank you.”
We bowed our heads and said thank you when we said we would confirm, and we were polite enough to bring a smile to our faces no matter who saw us.
I smiled at that courteous gesture, but pondered the subtle change in the guide’s expression that we seemed to have missed just now.
What is it? The word “Idol survival” Came out, but why did your expression harden for a second?
Of course, it was a very minor change, and I didn’t think too much about it because I immediately returned to the natural smile on my face.
Anyway, it must have been that his expression hardened for a moment because he remembered that a trainee he liked like Ji-woo had failed. This isn’t a den of thugs with snakes boiling inside, so there’s no reason to dwell on every single change in expression.
What I have to dwell on right now is not the change in the guide’s facial expression, but the duck eggs in the Nakdonggang River.
In a program where trainees are piled up and eliminated like idol survival, the value of one trainee will not be that great.
I don’t know if it’s high-ranking trainees with a significant fandom. Especially for trainees like us who have already been eliminated.
Perhaps, if the ordeal to be endured in today’s revival match was more severe than in the main story, it would be harsher, but not less.
First of all, we signed a contract urgently today, but because the boss, who is in charge of the company, left for work, we are still in a temporary contract.
So right now, like the other trainees, we don’t have an agency we can trust and depend on.
The only person we can trust and rely on right now is me, the manager, so I had to do well.
Today, I have to be quiet so that we don’t pay too much attention to me, but at the same time, I have to show a trustworthy side so that if something goes wrong, you can lean on me.
But since I am inexperienced in broadcasting, the situation was a bit like that to show the composure and reassurance of older people.
So in this situation, in order for me to feel trustworthy, all my words and actions had to be as heavy and sincere as a mountain.
“Yes, confirmed. You can go in and go to the 4th conference room.”
As soon as I made up my mind to act seriously and prudently, the receptionist who called somewhere said that it was okay to go in.
As the receptionist guided us, we passed the gate and headed to the elevator to go to the 3rd floor where the 4th conference room was located.
“Jinhyuk oppa stop! Where are you going? Come here!”
As we waited, our hands were caught by the sleeves of our coats.
“Why? The elevator is over there.”
“The broadcasting station is busy right now, so don’t use the elevator! At a time like this, if a trainee like me rides an elevator and gets caught, he’ll be filmed right away! We have to go up the stairs.”
“What?”
The elevator must have been made for people to ride, but we were talking as if we should never ride that elevator.
It seemed that this time was definitely a busy time for the station staff.
But that doesn’t mean that I should use the stairs instead of the elevator out of consideration for the staff at the station, and I couldn’t easily accept the words that I couldn’t use the elevator because I was just a trainee.
······No, no. Don’t think about it Right now I’ve only heard from one of us, and maybe we’re over-cautious and we’ll actually be fine. Let’s not jump to conclusions.
However, I was able to endure it under rational judgment, and I followed her to the stairs, indicating that I did not accept that it was our natural course, but respected it.
Tak. Widely. Widely. Widely. Widely.
“It’s 5:40 now, so it’s not too late. I came just on time.”
“Wasn’t it the six o’clock appointment? It was 20 minutes ago, but you came just on time?”
I wondered at our words while climbing the stairs, so I asked them back, and they answered me as if I was asking something obvious like that.
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“If you have an appointment with the production staff, arriving at least 15 minutes before the scheduled time and waiting is the basic of a trainee… No, a celebrity. It appeals to sincerity and leaves an image that says, ‘He won’t be late.'”
“I see.”
“This is a tip I learned when I was at my uncle’s agency. After all, since it’s a small agency, the seniors at the company told me that I didn’t have a backbone or connections, so I had to do something like this to get noticed somehow.”
Certainly, if you arrive 15 minutes before the scheduled time and wait, at least you will be recognized as a sincere kid.
Listening to us and seeing our backs as we climbed the stairs, my heart started to throb.
It hasn’t been long since I joined the station, but I can tell.
Everything we do after entering this broadcasting station was for survival.
Since she is Nauri, a mediocre trainee with no money or background, she has no choice but to be cautious in all her actions, and she has no choice but to do her best to show off her best image no matter what.
I bow 90 degrees to say thank you to the receptionist at the information desk, climb the stairs instead of taking the elevator because it’s a busy time, and feel relieved that I barely made it on time even though it was 20 minutes before the scheduled time.
The reason why we are so polite, considerate, and alert is because we have to do this at least.
Because we’re just trainees at an agency we’ve never heard of.
“Whoa… 3Rd floor. Surprisingly high Is it because the building’s floor height is high? Still, it’s a shame because it’s on the 3rd floor. It would have been really difficult if I had gone over the 10th floor, but I’m lucky!”
The image of our members overlapped with us saying that we were lucky because the meeting place was on the 3rd floor.
If our members came to the broadcasting station to digest their first broadcast schedule without anything, would they be like us now?
Ha An-yi is polite with a low profile that makes her feel excessive, and Lira says she shouldn’t take the elevator and heads for the stairs. Breathe a sigh of relief
f*ck. I can’t see that even if I’m dead.
But just because we can’t see that doesn’t mean that we and the environment surrounding our members will change luxuriously overnight.
“Even if the meeting place was on the 10th floor, I can carry it. Because I am your manager.”
So the best I can do right now is to share even a little more of the heavy burden we are carrying.
“Yes, yes?”
“Or should I just pick it up now? Yes, that would be nice If we lose all our energy going up the stairs and then fail to appeal to the production team, there will be nothing more unfair than that.”
“Hey, wait a minute Jinhyuk-oppa, I’m fine… Euhh?!”
I say it’s okay, but I don’t resist.
It’s very light.
Feeling the vaguely light weight behind your back.