Novelist Running Through Time - Chapter 121



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EP 5 – Love Story

“……”

“……”

The two masters of the literary world silently looked at each other. The glances exchanged between the two traveled back in time and abridged the content of the conversation that was to follow.

Since there was lightning, it would have been natural for there to be thunder, and a roar that shook the whole world shook the building once.

Qarring.

Immediately after the sound of thunder passed, Park Chang-woon, who had been quietly glaring at Seo Woon-pil, opened his mouth.

“Wow, you did that?”

Phew. The question flew like a dagger and struck Seo Woon-pil sharply in his chest. Seo Woon-pil let out a small sigh.

“Uhm…”

Reason!

It was all to protect honor.

Whether it was a major literary magazine or a minor literary magazine, there was no money, which did not mean there was no Gao.

To put it conversely, making money by selling gao was a ‘light fare business’.

Everyone knows that it is a shameful act. But what can you do? What you have to eat and live.

The status of major literary magazines and minor literary magazines is the difference between heaven and earth. But the distance between the two is not like that.

This is a case where an elite from a major literary magazine becomes editor-in-chief of a minor literary magazine.

When viewed from a national perspective, both major and minor literary magazines were people who lived within the same fence.

For Seo Woon-pil, the name of that fence is literary circles.

And as the head of one of the leading literary magazines among major literary magazines, Seo Woon-pil had a duty to protect the honor of all who lived within it.

At least he thought so himself.

That’s why I did it.

If someone who tarnished the reputation of a minor literary magazine wins a major literary award because he writes well, from the perspective of those who live within this fence, it would be like giving an award to someone who harmed a scholar’s senior or junior.

Not giving a literary award to someone who writes well.

I know it’s funny.

That goes against the principles of literature.

But it is cooperation.

That was Seo Woon-pil’s cooperation. What can his man say to protect his alliance?

So, Seo Woon-pil answered Park Chang-woon’s question as follows.

“What do you want me to say?”

Seo Woon-pil did not say anything, but because he did so, his meaning was fully conveyed to Park Chang-woon.

Park Chang-woon, who was about to take out the weed, hesitated and frowned. He held out his hand for negotiation one last time.

“Well, think about it with common sense. What did that idiot think he knew? It was all planned by that bastard behind his back. “Is there any reason not to give an award to a writer?”

Just as Seo Woon-pil has something to protect, Park Chang-woon also has something to protect.

That is the future of Korean literary circles.

Park Chang-woon watched helplessly as the literary world he had worked in for his entire life slowly declined. For decades.

To him, the literary man is literally a superman who appeared in the wilderness riding a white horse. Ahae, who has not learned anything, is writing like Gu Hakjun.

Would you use it only after harming such a child? We need to take good care of them and raise them so that they can lead the future.

However, Park Chang-un said, ‘Literatures are still young. Even though he said this, Seo Woon-pil just repeated the same answer as before.

“···What can I say?”

“······iced coffee. is it.”

The two old men looked at each other again. Now that we have realized that each person has different things to protect, there is no need to say anything more.

Park Chang-woon took out the Danso hidden behind his back.

“huh? Danso?”

“……”

“Seo, seonbae, ji, what do you want us to do now?”

Seo Woonpil hurriedly lifted a 30cm ruler from his desk.

Soon, the madness of the brown improved hanbok struck Seo Woon-pil.

* * *

In the paragraph about the self-respect of the strong, the destruction of the weak, and the power of the fittest, it is not the worldly authority that determines the order.

Only martial arts!

No, Moon Moon!

The only way to truly assuage the stubborn pride that lives and dies in art was possible only through pure literary power.

So, of course, Seo Woon-pil, who leads the most powerful faction in this river.

Even Park Chang-woon, who once broke the rule of inviolability of government affairs and worked as a government official, retired and lived in seclusion.

“What are these noble people who are old enough to be sleeping on?”

They were all watching with their eyes lowered like a puppy wagging its tail in front of Grand Master Gu Hak-jun.

Gu Hak-jun’s facial expression was beyond words. I hastily put on a windbreaker over my t-shirt with a stretched neck, but my shoes are just shorts and matching slippers.

Seo Woon-pil’s subordinate urgently called Gu Hak-jun to ask him to stop the fight, and as a result, he ran out wearing slippers and took a taxi on this rainy day.

In the meantime, I couldn’t avoid the rain, so of course I got wet.

However, despite his shabby appearance, Gu Hak-jun’s inner strength, which shook the world beyond the literary world, was radiating an invisible force and putting pressure on the two old men.

In the end, Park Chang-woon bowed first.

“Oh, I’m sorry···”

Gu Hak-jun’s glare was focused on Seo Woon-pil.

However, Seo Woon-pil did not give in.

“Mi, mi, how sorry I am! “That crazy old man came into someone else’s company with a short sword, so why should I apologize?”

Park Chang-woon naturally joins in.

“Yes, I am the one who brought the Danso, but you are the one who made me wield it.”

“Well said, Senpai! “Why on earth did you bring that damn danso with you!”

“Don’t you know that I also teach a Korean traditional music club at school to kill time?”

“Ah, so why did you bring that to my company!”

“I brought it to blow on you.”

“Fuck you!”

“Uh-huh! “What kind of manner of speaking to a senior is that!”

“The point I want to hear from someone who was fired as a minister after a week of talking nonsense in the National Assembly is no.”

“What…!”

Gu Hak-jun sighed as he watched the two old men begin to fight fiercely again.

“Ugh···”

I don’t even have any desire to reconcile now. In fact, there was no need. Then, if you’re bored, we’ll meet up, have a drink, play baduk, play chess, and play PUBG. We’ll make a PUBG squad through KakaoTalk, but since we’re short of one person, I’ll tell you to log in quickly. Then, in the world of the game, the old people will take a slow walk, peeling off their clothes, and Gu Hak-jun will be whining and shooting by himself. It’s obvious even without looking at it anymore.

So, instead of breaking up the fight, Gu Hak-jun said this to Seo Woon-pil.

“Do you know Sanghee? Senior Seo?”

“What Sanghee? Park Sanghee? Sanghee Kim? Choi Sang-hee?”

“I’m Choi Sang-hee, who works at a newspaper.”

“I’ve heard the name.”

“I stopped Sanghee from publicly criticizing Senior Seo Woonpil.”

“……”

Seo Woon-pil and Park Chang-woon stopped fighting. The two old men returned to their serious looks and listened to Gu Hak-jun’s words.

“Well… you know.”

There is a thing called Seoul dialect. It’s a phrase used by people in Seoul, and it’s the tone used in news from the 70s and 80s.

Koo Hak-jun usually uses a tone similar to that of young people, but since he was with the seniors he was with at the time, the Seoul dialect returned to his mouth without me even realizing it.

“Do you, seniors, remember that Choi Sang-hee’s friend got into a lot of trouble over this issue? “He hasn’t written any novels since then.”

“Uhm…”

“So, I tried to write an exclusive article saying that it was an absurdity in the literary world that a literary writer did not receive an award this time. “In particular, they specifically targeted senior Seo Woon-pil and shot him.”

“……”

“But he knew that I was close to senior Seo, so he asked for my understanding in advance, and I thought this would escalate, so we met for a drink.”

Park Chang-woon threw a light throw at Seo Woon-pil, whose expression suddenly darkened.

“What if I ask you to have a drink with a wife who also has a husband?”

“haha. I’m also close with Sanghee’s husband. She even helped her friend when he debuted. So, despite being rude, she went to the house with an expensive drink.”

“Yeah, that’s still true…”

Seo Woon-pil, who realized that Park Chang-woon was making meaningless remarks for him, ended the conversation before he became even more miserable.

“okay. I know what you mean. “I was wrong.”

“No, senior. “I didn’t say this to ask for an apology…”

“Literati and Choi Sang-hee and that friend, I will come and clean things up neatly. “I don’t think we should increase the amount of funds any further than this.”

“Good thought, sir.”

“Where does that friend Choi Sang-hee go? Shipbuilding? “The Hankyoreh?”

“It’s a white crane.”

“okay. Choi Sang-hee can go there and sort things out. “How should a writer tell that friend?”

Park Chang-woon stepped in and patted Seo Woon-pil on the shoulder.

It was to comfort Seo Woon-pil, who was suppressed by Gu Hak-jun’s terrible pressure.

“Oh, it’s done. Are you still going to bow down to your middle school teacher? He’s not that narrow-minded either. “Just don’t just do ijime starting next year.”

“But we still have to meet and say hello.”

“Then, why don’t you come and give a lecture at Baekhak Arts School?”

“yes. “I will go as soon as I have time.”

“Then I’ll bring Lim Yang-wook and his friend. If you did something, you have to make amends, right? “If Geumma had actually sent an apology letter, our Unpil wouldn’t have been angry either.”

“no. I should apologize. However, I would appreciate it if you could set up a meeting with Director Lim Yang-wook. “I’m going to be seeing this person in the industry from now on, so it’s good to get to know each other.”

The advantage and disadvantage of the literary world is that important matters depend on personal relationships, and fortunately, this time, that worked to its advantage.

Park Chang-woon and Koo Hak-jun warned President Seo Woon-pil that if he continued to sacrifice others to protect his family, a knife could come to his throat someday, and Seo Woon-pil killed his pride and accepted the advice.

Accordingly, Park Chang-woon promised to settle the circle by having Seo Woon-pil apologize to the writer and Im Yang-wook to apologize to Seo Woon-pil.

In this way, the bloodshed that could have occurred within the literary community was smoothly resolved through the secretaries and consultations of the elders.

If only the writer had not been nominated for the Booker Prize…

* * *

The founding ideology of the Republic of Korea was closer to nationalism than democracy.

An entire people suffered under the military boots of a foreign power (the Japanese Empire), but finally broke the chains and regained their freedom.

Of course, it became anti-communist and nationalistic as it suffered a civil war due to the Communist invasion immediately after independence.

In any case, this ideology has been the ideology that has dominated this country for the past several decades.

The traces still remain. It is the fierce obsession with K-content that is sweeping the world.

Almost all Koreans have an underlying condition that causes their blood pressure to rise, their faces to turn red, and their mood to improve when they see Koreans being revered around the world.

For that very reason, the headquarters of the literary magazine run by Seo Woon-pil was surrounded by reporters.

The novel love story was now a K-love story.

Even the opponent was Japan.