Chapter 83: Star Manager (7)
TL: emptycube / ED: Isleidir
“This is W&U’s PR Team.”
The female employee received the call with a face, which still contained traces of the aftermath of the long weekend.
-I wanted to ask for the contact information of the person in charge of Neptune to cast them on an IBC broadcast.
“Yes, please wait.”
-I would like Manager Jung Sunwoo’s number, who appeared on the Lunar New Year’s Special. It’s an entertainment show on parenting.
After telling him Jung Sunwoo’s phone number, the female employee hung up and said,
“There really are a lot of people looking for Mr. Sunwoo.”
“He’s a new face in the industry for a change. The reactions of the public are good too. Since cases like this heat up quickly before cooling down, they want to milk what they can out of it.”
The male employee shrugged. The female employee said,
“Either way, Neptune’s popularity rose because of this. The company should give Mr. Sunwoo a bonus.”
“It looks like he might even get promoted. Since they lack personnel once Neptune members have their own schedules, Chief Kim Hyunjo said that he should recruit another manager under him.”
The female employee, who had been tapping her chin with her pen, turned her head. Beyond the partition, Team Leader Park was looking at her monitor while drinking hot coffee. She asked Team Leader Park,
“Team leader, does Mr. Sunwoo have any thoughts on going on any more entertainment shows?”
“I don’t know. It doesn’t seem like it? He probably wouldn’t have done it this time as well if it wasn’t for Neptune.”
“That’s a bit of a shame.”
Just as the female employee licked her lips, a middle-aged man entered the PR Team’s office. He wore a scarf and a coat, and his body was round like a Russian nesting doll. His balding head looked especially cold in the winter. He was the director.
Receiving the greetings of the employees, the director immediately asked Team Leader Park,
“Team Leader Park, did you hear? IBC’s Wednesday-Thursday drama, Time Slip. Apparently, the director had an affair with the writer, and his wife came to the film set and caused a fuss?”
“Of course, I did. That’s why they hastily got another writer to work with their B Team director.”
“Lucky Charm was the one who brought information about how there was something going on over there, right? Just where did he hear it from?”
The female employee, who had been listening to their conversation, poked the male employee’s side with her elbow.
“Cat Guardian Ghost, Mermaid out of Water, Time Slip. What Mr. Sunwoo told us in the beginning came true. This is a great story, but if Mr. Sunwoo went out on entertainment shows and talked about it… no one would believe him, right?”
The director glanced at the female employee and said,
“Of course. Right, I heard the reactions from Lucky Charm appearing on the entertainment show were good?”
“Did you not see the broadcast? Culture critics and reporters picked him as one of the biggest beneficiaries of the Lunar New Year’s Specials.”
“Oh, wow. He was that good? He wasn’t the funny type though, was he?”
“No. From an outside perspective, he looks like someone who is a bit distant from entertainment shows, but once his character was established in that way, this gap was rather entertaining.”
The female employee slowly raised her hand.
“Should I show you? I saved a few clips that were floating around.”
The director, male employee, and Team Leader Park immediately gathered behind the female employee’s monitor. When she showed them clips regarding the lie detector and Neptune and Jung Sunwoo imitating each other, the director chuckled.
While clicking on the last video, the female employee said,
“I found this to be the funniest. While watching the broadcast, I choked on my water when this part came up.”
It was the scene where they exposed their managers’ dark past. Im Seoyoung shouted about how they might lose like this. This was followed by Jung Sunwoo, whose makeup made him seem more unfriendly-looking, trying to stop her by saying he would buy her the beef set.
When the MCs egged her on, Im Seoyoung opened her mouth.
{It was in the past. It was early in the morning so everyone was taking a nap in the van. I was the only one awake when I heard Sunwoo oppa say, ‘What should I do if aliens invade?’}
{Aliens?}
The puzzled faces of the MCs and cast were reflected on the screen. Even Jung Sunwoo didn’t look like he knew what she was talking about.
{So when I asked him, ‘Why aliens all of a sudden?’, then oppa, in a completely serious way, said, ‘Then do I have to save the Earth? Do I?’ Later on, I figured out he was talking in his sleep.}
The studio erupted into laughter. The screen once again captured Jung Sunwoo in a closeup. Although he didn’t look like he was very flustered, when the camera closed in, they could see his eyes were trembling.
{When I asked, ‘Oppa, how are you going to save the world?’ he said, ‘It’s a secret,’ before saying, ‘Hmm. I’ll never wear a Spandex suit.’}
The director burst into laughter.