Novelist Running Through Time - Chapter 123



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EP 5 – Love Story

Since ancient times, people have been content.

This is a law that is much older than the vague, hastily created, and short-lived concept of ‘human rights’ that is protected by political necessity.

People enjoyed watching other people sing, dance, hang, die, give birth, die, be crowned, etc.

To give a specific example, the hottest content enjoyed by medieval people was the neck cutting show.

And the modern French royal family revealed the queen’s birth scene, and the morgues of the time displayed the bodies of dead people for a fee, like a zoo or museum.

In such a situation, the consumption of people as content in the media information society can be said to be harsh, but it cannot be said to be unusual.

Because this was a very historic act.

“The Korean literary world is really rotten.”

└ Why?

└ It is said that they did not give him a single award this year for exposing the practice of paying entrance fees when he debuted as a literary writer.

└ ?

└ ???????

└ (Article link)

“Tsk… You should have known what would happen to a whistleblower. From the looks of it, I don’t think it was the magazine that exploded, but the publisher turned their backs on it, so I should have accepted the risk of not receiving the award.”

└ ?

└ Is this the Nookalhyup that is popular these days?

└ I can’t stand it when these guys get in trouble.

└ Are you Eom Chang?

└ Are you seriously saying something like that to an elementary school student?

└ Our literary writer is now a middle school student.

└ (Photo 1 of a writer attending school wearing a school uniform)

└ (Photo 2)

└ (Photo 3)

└ ;;

“There are too many people who believe that literature would exist without the public. “Do you think readers will buy the book if the paragraph continues to show such disappointment?”

└ But I don’t understand it a little… Honestly, wouldn’t it have been a bit difficult to give a literary award to someone who was hostile to the literary award system itself…? That doesn’t mean there is nothing wrong…

└ Hello, part time job

└ How much do you get for 1 comment?

└ It’s not a part-time job!!!!!

└ I think the comment writer should not receive a literary award if he exposed the literary award fee business. So what do you think about the Choi Sang-hee incident?

└ I’m sorry, I was wrong.

└ Answer.

└ 5.

└ 4.

└ 3.

└ 2.

└ Wrong Wrong Wrong Wrong Wrong Wrong Wrong Wrong Wrong Wrong

└ I will forgive you

“The practice of selling literary awards for money is shocking, but it is nothing compared to the shock of an entire industry ostracizing an author. Would this have become a public issue if the literary author had not been nominated for an overseas literary award? ? This is a truly shameful self-portrait,,,”

└ I didn’t do anything wrong, so why is this a self-portrait?

└ Poetic permission,,^^

└ The literary prize for which literary writers are nominated is the Booker International Prize in the UK. It is a very prestigious literary award, and is also famous for its transparent selection process and strong reflection of readers’ opinions in the final evaluation. I believe that this system reduces the distance between experts and readers and allows more qualified writers to be selected as winners. Our country should also learn this culture…

└ Then don’t all writers write with the sole aim of gaining popularity? ,,^^

「Breaking News) President Seo Woon-pil… The literature award judging was fair. For the sake of the honor of the awardees, please refrain from making excessive speculations.”

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I turned off the news screen and put down my phone. ha. A sigh came out naturally.

When I look at the storm of issues surrounding me recently, I feel scared.

I am a person who feels suffocated and frustrated just by being in the middle of a shopping mall full of people, but there were so many people paying attention to me that it was incomparable. Even in places that cannot be seen.

They were happy on my behalf, angry on my behalf, and sad on my behalf.

Actually, I had no regrets about not receiving the literary prize.

because···

Because this kind of pain is familiar…

What on earth do you think of aspiring novelists? Without exaggerating, I am a person who has lost literary awards more than 100 times.

“really?”

“sure.”

“But how can a middle school student win literature awards 100 times?”

“······Let’s just exaggerate a bit.”

“Hmm~”

Kim Byeol glanced at me with the same gaze she would give to a child caught bragging. Can not help it. Since I am also human, I sometimes make mistakes like this.

This is an in-house cafe on the 8th floor of Baekhak Entertainment. Unlike the cafe on the first floor, it is a little more cafe-like.

For example, if the 1st floor is an Americano supply base for office workers, the 8th floor is a space where you can relax with a drink while playing soft music.

Of course, it was famous for being a place where you would be noticed if you came during work hours, so it would be a bit inconvenient for office workers or celebrities to use it if they had limited free time.

Of course, this does not apply to Kim Byeol, who has worked at Baekhak Entertainment for almost 10 years.

“After working for 10 years…”

“Ahem!”

“You don’t get noticed in cafes because you’re a veteran actor, right?”

“Do you want to get hit?!”

In the end, I got hit on the forearm. You can feel the heavy muscles trained in Manchuria.

So, when I brought up the story of Manju, the life in Kim Byeol’s eyes disappeared.

Kim Byeol looked at me with frighteningly black eyes.

“Why, why are you like that?”

“This is all because of you…”

“What did I do?”

“I… returned to the screen as a scene stealer after 10 years… but no one is praising me…”

“ah.”

“Then what was the purpose of me rolling around in the snow in Manchuria, smelling like horse manure? Was it to sell the author’s books?”

In the end, Kim Byeol’s anger was appeased by offering a strawberry yogurt smoothie as an offering.

Kim Byul, who felt better after eating sweets, gave me advice in exchange for a drink.

In fact, this was also the reason I visited Kim Byeol today.

“You don’t know how to act?”

“yes.”

“Hmm…”

Getting the attention of the whole country. Being the center of attention.

Kim Byul already had such an experience 10 years ago. With his cute appearance and cute acting skills, he used to burst out with popular words in dramas.

She gave me advice.

“People say… Oh, don’t mention this anywhere!”

“Sure.”

“Hmm…”

Kim Byul took a moment to catch her breath, then leaned towards me and whispered as if she was telling me some great secret.

“In fact, people… you can think of them all as having Kwak Cheol-yong in their hearts.”

It’s Kwak Cheol-yong…

Kwak Cheol-yong…

“Who is Kwak Cheol-yong?”

“damn! “Those who reject the good guys, send away the bad guys, and betray them like glasses… they are the ones who kill them all.”

“He’s a scary person.”

“yes. He’s a scary person. So, don’t look good, don’t look bad, and don’t be treacherous.”

“···Hoo.”

The current Kim Byeol seemed like a person who had mastered something.

Just as a person who has made pottery for decades has a gun in his eyes when he talks about pottery, a person who has been a celebrity since the age when his ego was formed shows wisdom in his words when he talks about the entertainment industry.

“What people like is you in that exact state. Everyone already knows that you’re smart, so you shouldn’t show off any further. If you behave badly, you will be ripped off, so don’t be mean. And it goes without saying that you shouldn’t commit crimes in a treacherous manner.”

“···Don’t change your image?”

“yes. “Show people what they want to see.”

At this moment, I felt like I got a glimpse of what the job of being a celebrity on TV is like.

Refining and showing only what people want to see. It was very hard work.

“···Surely we don’t have to behave like this forever?”

“don’t worry. “I just need to last a week.”

“A week?”

“okay. “Even if everyone is crazy right now, it’ll all cool down in a week, right?”

Not a month, but a week?

I couldn’t believe that people’s interest and attention could fade so easily.

However, even though he gave her a suspicious look, Kim Byeol had a triumphant expression on his face as if telling him to leave, and was sipping on a strawberry yogurt smoothie, but was caught by the road manager and dragged away, asking what would happen if he ate fattening food like that.

Soon, Kim Byeol’s prediction came true.

* * *

It became quiet.

In one week.

A literary writer was nominated for the Booker Prize, one of the world’s three major literary prizes, and some people said that Eisaku Shidehara, a great Japanese writer who was also nominated, was trembling with fear.

There are also people who have been shouting that all the domestic literary magazines that do not give literary awards to literary writers should be destroyed and the presidents of literary companies should be exiled to the middle of the desert one after another.

Koreans, who produced teenage genius boy writers, are the most superior race in the world, and those who argued that Japanese people are inferior, seeing that Eisaku Shidehara became a writer at the age of 68.

Everything became quiet.

The reporters who had surrounded the studio were now only seen sparsely, and when I stopped by Baekhak Entertainment, I no longer had to be surrounded by dozens of people.

Normal daily life has returned. Rather, the past week feels like a dream. I was caught up in the torrent of people to the point where everyday life was impossible.

However, there was evidence that it was not a dream.

“Inseop, can you see it? see?”

“oh my god···”

“This is all your money.”

The book sold 150,000 copies.

In one week.

The sales of ‘Love Story’ and ‘Communist Hunt’ took the graph above the clouds like a two-headed carriage, and the sales of works published so far also surged.

Lim Yang-wook smiled kindly, unlike usual, and said that this was just the beginning. From my experience, the book will sell well for the next six months or so.

This is how much money I received, but how much money did the company receive? Even that was all attributed to Lim Yang-wook’s performance.

Yangwook Lim was looking at me with a smile like warm sunlight. It felt a bit strange because he didn’t have much hair.

“Don’t smile kindly. “Because he seems like a religious person.”

“I am already ready to let go of all my worries and five passions.”

“Don’t go to nirvana.”

“Goodbye. “I throw away all the shackles and restraints of this Saba world and set out to find my happiness…”

However, Lim Yang-wook did not become a Buddha through his fortune.

This is because an urgent message arrived from Japan.

“hello?”

In a way, it was karma according to the balance of this world.

When you receive praise in Korea,

You should be criticized in Japan.

“No, if you say so… no, teacher. “If you suddenly act like this, we’ll be in trouble, too!”

Japanese publication was blocked.

* * *

Grumble. widely.

Grumble. widely.

Every time water flowed into Shishiodoshi, the bamboo tilted and made an elegant sound. However, that elegance is a gloss over mass media.

The essence of that sound is just the sound of hollow bamboo hitting a rock. It is human perception that feels it is classical.

“Isn’t this a scarecrow originally made to chase deer?”

Shishiodoshi, which was a practical tool, became a Japanese garden tool and was transformed into an ornamental object. And the media that admires Japan makes Shishiodoshi appear every time it expresses ‘Japanese things’ and turns it into a symbol of Japan.

Perception has overwritten the essence.

“It’s the same with literature.”

An old man who was looking at the garden from his house calmly sipped his tea.

The tailor sitting in front of him listened to the old man with a serious expression.

“What we are doing is not that great. “There is no need for a smart businessman like you to be so polite to me.”

“What do you mean, sir? “You are the pride of our country.”

“Books and literature are just stories. People who want to talk write on paper, and people who want to listen buy and read books. It’s a tool that connects people. But since when did we reverence that tool so much, calling it a shining work of art?”

“ah…”

“Of course, it is true that our country’s literary figures delved deeply into oriental things in order to protect the oriental soul during difficult times, and as a result, they gained social respect… but it is not surprising that they are applauded for being nominated for a literary award in the UK. “I’m just humbled.”

“……”

“It got ridiculous.”

Novelist Eisaku Shidehara said this and sipped his tea.

The bottom of the teacup was exposed.

“It was a fun time. “Let’s go now.”

“yes. Please have a good time. teacher.”

The tailor stood up with careful courtesy.

While he was leaving the walls of the mansion, a unique Japanese conversation interpreter was running in his head.

The current literary awards have too much pretense.

-> The Booker Prize went as far as it could go.

-> How can I get involved with a Korean middle school student?

-> Disgusting!

Analysis complete.

The tailor picked up the phone.

“Literature authors, book imports cancelled.”