Assistant Manager Kim Hates Idols - Chapter 60
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| Episode 60. How to resolve friction with your boss (1)
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[SYSTEM] ‘New task’ has been assigned.
▷ Separating sparks and finite numbers
▷ Reward: Experience (???)
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My fist clenched on its own.
Because it confirms that a smooth debut is possible by keeping a distance without the system chasing away a finite number of people.
It’s not easy to force a person out.
Since he was already affiliated with UA, the possibility of Yoo Han-soo being fired for mere trouble was significantly low. Legally, companies cannot fire workers at will.
Besides, Yoo Han-soo hadn’t had a fatal accident yet.
He’s just strong, talks too much nonsense, and doesn’t seem like he’ll be very good at anything in the future.
But that wasn’t enough of a justification to send out a finite number.
The fact that no department, except for the planning team, had a particularly negative impression of Han Soo-young also played a role.
‘If someone uses that kind of speech, there must be a problem somewhere.’
Even the manager seemed to fully understand which side was at fault when conveying the issue of conflict between Yoo Han-soo and the planning team.
And yet there’s still no word within the company?
In a place with the special nature of having a quit interview in the morning and rumors spreading before lunch?
Then there was only one thing to be suspicious of.
‘Yoo Han-soo has connections within UA.’
There were many such cases at Hanpyeong Industry as well.
My nephew and the director’s younger brother that Manager Nam brought, etc.
Isn’t it difficult to talk badly about someone who has connections or is connected to those in power?
There was no point in causing a big problem with a person who couldn’t be sent away, so I guess I had to adjust to the atmosphere to some extent even if it was dirty.
‘I don’t know if the power of connections came into play before or after I joined the company.’
It was a headache either way.
Kim Yi-wol is a career legend. As I work, I also get to identify and cut parachutes.
Up until now, I had no choice but to listen to my boss, so all I could do was do annoying things.
The fact that I am a commoner who cannot rebel against God also played a part.
But now things are different.
It was clear that someone was causing an accident, but there was a group within the company that was defending it, so there was a justification to get rid of Yoo Han-soo.
Should I let Yoo Han-soo go on his own? But I can’t do politics… … It was a moment when all the worries of the past, filled with such things, became meaningless.
This way, the solution becomes simpler.
“PD, Team Leader. I’m really sorry for interrupting our business conversation.”
“Kim Yi-wol, didn’t I tell you not to interfere when the adults are talking?”
“PD Yoo, why have you been so aggressive since earlier? Why, Lee Wol? Tell me.”
All you have to do is show results and get adopted?
Then isn’t there only one answer?
“It’s not enough, but I have some items in mind for the album.”
“huh?”
“If the company is still discussing it… … I would like to organize it and make a suggestion.”
Let’s take off our ranks and compete based on our skills, this is it.
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Idol albums are as diverse in type as the group’s characteristics.
In our country, there are dozens of idol groups that debut every year.
However, if we were to categorize the albums into two types based on their characteristics, they would probably be divided into anthology and concept types.
First, the photo album type. The photo album type includes a pictorial containing several photos of the artist.
Next is the concept type. This is a method of including pictorials but reducing their proportion and instead including a small amount of goods or event elements.
While each fan may have a different favorite style, Spark fans particularly hated the former. The reason was simple.
≫ Since otakus say that a million identical pictures are all pretty, I put up a million identical pictures.
≫ What good is it if there are 100 unreleased photos, but the background is all the same?
└ I haven’t received the album yet, but is it really the same?
└ Yes, we filmed it all in the same studio.
└ Ugh… … I guess I can’t get a refund even now ㅠㅠㅠ
This is because UA, which has no money, ended up doing cost-effective filming, which resulted in poor quality.
In a time when a new generation of agencies are emerging that share photos on USB kits, UA did something that made people say, “I’m sorry, Earth.”
Who would want to buy several copies of an album that is expensive but not worth buying? And especially an album by a rookie with no fan sign cuts?
So, in any case, it has to be a battle of quality.
Quality content comes from capital.
But it is highly unlikely that UA, which had already saved on costume and studio rental costs, would have that kind of capital.
I sighed involuntarily. It seemed like I would have to start the hellish research again.
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‘Manager Kim, gather some welcome kit references.’
X Small Business… … No, innovation periods come regularly to small and medium-sized business representatives.
When this period of innovation comes, leaders suddenly want to do something great as if they are possessed by something.
Renewing the website or reorganizing the organization.
Or maybe they want to do something new to make their company feel like it’s keeping up with the times.
Around this time last year, the president of Hanpyeong Industries also went through a similar period.
Perhaps he didn’t like the stereotypical impression the company name gave, or perhaps he didn’t like the fact that young employees were leaving one after another, rapidly raising the average age, but the CEO wanted to create a young and sensible corporate culture.
The president’s short, thoughtful remarks were relayed to executives who had no idea what was going on.
And then it went from the empty-headed Nam Bujang to me, whose brain had rusted away.
The task given to me was to create a welcome kit as part of the ‘Great Operation to Recruit Young Employees.’
My client had about twenty mouths, including the male’s snout, so his requirements were also very high.
‘It shouldn’t cost too much, but it shouldn’t be cheap either.’
‘Put in something that young people like. Don’t kids like that kind of stuff? Characters?’
‘Manager Kim, the director said that VR is something that can be done by just renting the device?’
It was just a bunch of crap. Even now, when I think back on that time, I get dizzy.
I worked hard to find something that was reasonably priced, but not overly cost-effective, and had a stylish, retro feel.
What was that? Clearly… … .
“Huh!”
I woke up from my dream, breathing heavily.
In front of me was a laptop with its screen turned off and a crumpled notebook.
I remember searching for the album components, but my back was sore because I fell asleep lying down.
It’s a good thing the other members didn’t come out to the living room in the middle of the night.
If the guys had seen the unidentified male shadow slumped over the table, there would have been shouting in the middle of the night.
When I touched the mouse, the laptop lights up again. The file I was working on before I fell asleep was still on.
‘Welcome Kitra.’
I don’t remember what item I chose at the time.
By the time I organized my ideas and reported them, the CEO had already become obsessed with management.
I don’t know how much this had to do with actual management, but I clearly remember getting scolded for not printing the welcome kit report on the back of the paper.
But this time it’s different.
In order to completely send away a limited number of users, UA must adopt an item and commercialize it.
Since you’ve gotten involved in a topic where you didn’t have any prepared opinions, shouldn’t you have something to say about it?
I blinked my heavy eyes a few times and checked the time on my laptop.
There was still about an hour left before the student council got up.
I did a few stretches, pressing my elbows, and then turned my gaze back to my laptop.
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Soon, the PT day that no one was looking forward to arrived.
There is no law that says you can just let it happen, so the planning work was completed successfully after a simple task.
At the same time, the area under my eyes that had cleared up for a while during the music video shoot also became dark again.
Kang Ki-yeon even spoke to me last night because I looked so ugly.
‘Are you staying up all night again today?’
‘You’re up all night. You sleep for two hours straight.’
‘You said you had something in mind. But why is it taking so long?’
They say it takes a long time because all the talk about having something in mind is a lie.
In a situation where Yoo Han-soo and the planning team were on the verge of grabbing each other by the hair, it was obvious that saying “I’ll start preparing from now on!” would have been useless, so he lied. This is why people shouldn’t lie.
Still, thanks to the hard work, we came up with a pretty good plan.
If the junior who taught me the three major mayo had seen it, he would have been able to receive an objective evaluation. It’s a shame.
The atmosphere of the conference room I entered with my USB was so different from when I first entered UA.
How can you have a good expression when one villain just keeps talking nonsense?
The wrinkles between the eyebrows of the planning team leader, which had been carved with a chisel for months, were sad. It was a photo that could be included as an example of ‘Why companies should hire good people.’
I looked at the CEO, who was feeling a bit uneasy because there was no progress despite hiring more staff, the planning team who wanted to finish something more in the near future, and Han Soo, who was glaring at me with his arms crossed.
If this were normal, I would have started by saying thank you for giving me a chance despite my shortcomings, but now I don’t have time for that.
I’ll cut it short and get to the point.
Along with the PPT of the musty box drawing, hidden in a corner of the warehouse on campus, to be discovered by Sparkler.
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How can we approach this in a way that captures both the ‘desire to buy’ and the ‘fandom’?
The answer for the former is fairly clear.
Either popular or extremely rare. You can choose one of the two.
This means that you can either sell the delicious bungeoppang that everyone loves, or make the giant carp candy that no one seeks out but everyone would want to try at least once.
On the other hand, the realm of fandom is different.
To me, fandom was something that was clear in some ways, but the more I looked into it, the more I became unable to understand it.
Just looking at Chief Nam’s daughter made me feel that way.
He said that Choi Je-ho could do whatever he wanted, but when he attached a photo of Choi Je-ho wearing a fluorescent orange vest as his civilian clothes, he didn’t forget to say, “Please take that damn vest off!”
It wasn’t just her. At least all the Spark fans I’ve seen have been contradictory.
There were many fans who said they wanted to see the guys cry after winning first place, but when they actually saw the guys with tears in their eyes, they said, “Guys, don’t cry!” and cried harder than the guys, which was contradictory in a positive sense.
There were quite a few fans who asked for a comeback since they had saved up money, but when the comeback actually happened, they said, ‘Ah… To be honest, it wasn’t that great this time.’
This is what the fans think, as I have translated it in my own way while doing proxy fandom.
‘I’ll take care of everything if you just hit me with a normal attack, so please think about it before you come out!’
So I prepared.
A mix of concepts that everyone has never seen before, mixed together during their school days that everyone has experienced at least once… … .
The album is called ‘The Small and Precious Secret Box of a Club That Sparkler Found in a Corner of a Warehouse One Day’.