Chapter 121

I ate first because I thought it would take time.

Detectives returned to the central area, and only Jong-hyuk, director Kim Young-jin and the two main actors headed to a nearby cafe.

He was considerate of the Myeong-dong faction who cooperated.

Soon two people came into a cafe without a single customer except them.

One was executive director Park, who managed Full Moon Night, who was released on probation for prostitution, and the other was…….

What about him?

Surprisingly, he looked familiar.

“Jong Bae Soo?”

He specializes in hitting, no, Arirang, but he is a criminal who committed 15 crimes before being smashed by police and gangs after forming a large Arirang group in the early 1990s.

At that time, there were 55 members. All of Gangnam, including Apgujeong, was his area.

The police were on the lookout.

Did he belong to the Myeongdong faction? And the owner of the massage room?

It formed a fairly large organization, but it was just Arirang-chigi and misdemeanor.

I didn’t know the inside story because Jong-hyuk, then a metropolitan investigator at the main office, never got involved with him.

A short 40-year-old Jong Bae, who had his hair curled up, walked up and sat across from Jong-hyuk.

Then I crossed my legs.

“Hello…… Huh?!”

Executive Director Park, who was greeting, was shocked.

Curly hair took off the sunglasses and raised its nose.

“What? Why did you want to see me?”

“…hahaha.”

Jong-hyuk saw executive director Park.

“Park, didn’t you tell me?”

“Well, that’s….”

When Executive Director Park was embarrassed by the cold-sinking voice of Jong-hyuk, Jong Bae-soo gathered his eyebrows and opened his mouth.

“Huh. Hey, kid.”

“Little boy?”

“Where’s the little boy who believes in the back, huh? Mr. Lee…….”

Executive Director Park opened her mouth wide.

‘You crazy-!’

There was a smile on Jong-hyuk’s lips.

“Yeah, I know what’s going on.”

Jong-hyuk looked at executive director Park.



“You have a very tactless and loyal subordinate, Mr. Park?”

“Well, we don’t like Myeongdong.….”

It is one of the organizations leaning against the shadow of Myeong-dong faction.

Pyramid organization that runs small businesses such as massage rooms and billiards.

“You don’t have to know that.”

“…Now, please wait a moment!”

Executive Director Park grabbed Jong Bae-soo’

“Argh!”

“Follow me, you beautiful bastard!”

Executive Director Park looked sad.

“Argh! Brother! Hold on, brother!”

So the servant was taken to the bathroom.

“It’s okay, director. You don’t have to be surprised.”

“Uh, but…….”

Director Kim Young-jin and the two actors were terrified.

“It’s really okay. They’re all like that among themselves, but they can’t do it to ordinary people.”

“……?”

“Where’s the gangster, the criminal flounder. I’m going to search.”

The eyes of the three became round.

“You’re wild, even though you’re a cadet.”

‘Oops.’ Jong-hyuk just decided to push ahead.

“Well, I want to be in a violent world, and this is basic. You can’t work when a detective is scared of a criminal.”

“Basic……?”

The two main actors also shined their eyes.

Anyway, their role was detective.

Among them, Yang Dong-hyun played a young detective who was a former police officer. He stared at Jong-hyuk.

“Is this what you’re talking about?’

When we broke up, the class president said he was just a detective.….’

Jong-hyuk nodded as he saw them lost in thought.

‘Well, a detective shouldn’t be scared of those guys.’

Then a short time later, the rushing servant bent down.

“Hehehe. Hello, cadet! Warrior of the Arirang machine! GOU! Jong Bae is greeting you!”

GOU is the name of a group of Jun-hyung and his fellow members.

Are you just crazy?

The interview went smoothly.

“If I make a phone call on the floor of Seoul! Huh?”

“How do I pick the ace of massage rooms?”

“This. People who are good at this are the best. I’m going to be full of alcohol anyway, so is face important? Well, I heard there’s a place where Tom Foy uses it these days.….”

“Tom Boy? T, transgender?!”

“Pfft!”

– At the North Korea-Japan summit in Pyongyang…….

Quiet cafe except for noisy bell drainage.

News is coming out of the radio.

Jong-hyuk listened, biting a straw.

If I had a smartphone at times like this, I’d watch YouTube.’

Far from smartphones, it is far from starting service on YouTube, so Jong-hyuk soothed the disappointment.

– Hyun Mong-joon, an unaffiliated lawmaker, is running for president…….

Oh, is it time already?’

Hyun Mong-joon, the sixth son of late Chairman Hyun Joo-young, who entered the political arena in 1988 saying he would do politics out of the blue.

Yeah, he was very popular back then.’

Many people expected that there would be no corruption like bribery because they were from chaebol.

Hyun Mong-joon, who is also the president of the Korea Football Association.

Thanks to the 2002 World Cup, which recently ended successfully, it was now gaining more popularity than the other two leading presidential candidates.

“Well, that’s also because the World Cup has fallen out in the fall and has been overtaken.”

Jong-hyuk stood up with a cigarette.

“Even if you smoke here…….”

Jong-hyuk, who waved his hand to executive director Park, left the cafe.

Squeak!

“Whoo-hoo.

– Yes, it’s Kwon A-young.

“It’s me.”

Boss, what are you doing here?

“It’s no other than Hyun Mong-joon’s announcement on the news that he is running for president, did he leave the money?”

I was actually talking a lot about this presidential election issue…Dad, I mean, Chairman Kwon is not in the mood to be president, so he told me not to take care of him. I feel the same way.

“Really?”

You’re a businessman by birth, how can you believe that? On top of that, the umbrella that blocked the rain disappeared when Chairman Wang passed away.

‘That’s a relief.’

Kwon A-young and Kwon Hoi-soo paid for the meal.

But why are you asking this?

“I feel the same way.”

Huhu. He’s the boss.

I thought Jong-hyuk was on the same page.

But I didn’t think he would have called just for this reason. Jong-hyuk was always a person who hid other meanings in his outward words.

Kwon A-young, who was lost in thought for a while, bounced her finger.

Oh, did you call Aber and Next to stop hatching?

What do presidential candidates need the most?

It’s public opinion.

Right?

“Yes, that’s right.”

Jong-hyuk nodded with a pleased smile.

Next, which was the subject of stock price manipulation and so-called operation at the time of the dot-com bubble in Korea.

When Jong-hyuk and Kang Chul-sun arrested the group, their stock of Next exploded, a bomb that was being returned, and Park Tae-kyu, who was already chasing it, quickly became the largest shareholder.

Aber went through a similar process and became the largest shareholder.

Aber and Next have established themselves as Korea’s two largest portal sites since they started news services in the millennium, which is now neutral but will change in the future.

It controls news exposure according to political tendencies.

‘You can’t see that again.’

It was Jong-hyuk’s idea that the place where information is delivered should always be neutral.

“I shouldn’t have intervened in the presidential election for no reason.….”

Ring!

“No, I don’t know how to act as a singer.….”

Director Kim Young-jin, who was surprised to come out of the cafe door with a distorted face, falls far away.

Boss?

“I’ll call you back.”

“No, you’re going to attract all the singers, and you’re going to bring them in again after you make a movie like that? Are you an investor? What?! Then take it out!”

I can hear you even if you are far away from me.

Is it an investment problem?’

I can guess roughly.

Putting in an actor sponsored by an investor who has invested.

It was common on the floor over there.

“I’m not an art person, but I can’t watch my movie screw up like this! Hang up!”

Kim Young-jin, who had been huffing even after hanging up the phone, turned around and found Jong-hyuk and kicked his tongue.

As he approached, Jong-hyuk quickly put out his cigarette.

“I think I’ve shown you something ugly.”

“Is that a threat?”

“Oh, that’s….”

Kim Young-jin, who was in conflict for a while, shook his head.

“Please pretend you didn’t hear the call just now. I ask a favor of you. Of course.”

Jong-hyuk squinted at director Kim Young-jin as he entered the cafe.

Conflict and irritation.

The emotions that his face expressed were faintly terrifying.

Jong-hyuk scratched his nose. Suddenly, it smelled like a gutter.

He picked up his cell phone again.

– Yes, I’m Jung Young Tak, CEO of JC Entertainment.

GOU’s agency, JC.

JC is also JYK’s largest shareholder.

“It’s me, Choi Jong-hyuk.”

Mr. Choi, how long has it been?

“Yes, how have you been?”

As such, Jong-hyuk, who had been asking after him, brought up the point.

“I just wanted to have a meeting with the movie industry and the K-pop industry. Is that possible?”

-……what?

* * *

“Wow, you look so natural when you drink like that. I guess you’ve been to places like this often.”

A bar somewhere in Gangnam.

While tilting amber whiskey, Jong-hyuk blinked as Jung Young-tak approached.

I looked behind him, but there was no company.

“……?”

“Hhh. That’s me. K-pop, movie industry! I know all the dramas!”

Tong. Sources.

It’s the same word as Madangbal and Poppak.

“……Ah.”

‘That’s right.’ Jong-hyuk scratched his head.

JC Entertainment is an agency that raises singers and actors together. The news of those floors should have been heard by him.

You’re a dinosaur now, but you ignored me too much.’

Since becoming JYK’s largest shareholder, JC Entertainment has become a place where even the top three agencies cannot be ignored. Since then, he has increased his size by recruiting celebrities with good personality without considering down payment.

“If I had known you would come, I should have set up a more comfortable place for the meeting.”

Jeong Young-tak’s favorite was pajeon and makgeolli.

“I’m finally drinking with Choi, and I think anywhere would be good.”

You don’t know how surprised I was when I first found out that Jong-hyuk was a minor.

“You don’t know how long I’ve been waiting for this day.”

His eyes are full of sincerity.

Jong-hyuk smirked.

“Shall we make a toast?”

“Good!”

Chaeng!

The two glasses hit the air.

“K. Liquor is not my cup of tea. Drink up and get up. I know an amazing makgeolli restaurant.”

I meant to end the conversation before moving.

Nodding, Jong-hyuk explained the situation.

“Oh, that’s….”

“You know something.”

CEO Chung Young-tak, whose face turned slightly darker, nodded.

“Have you seen the movie Emergency Action No. 20 released two months ago?”

“Emergency action…… What?”

“What about A-TEEN, which was released in 1998?””

“……?”

“It’s all a movie starring singers. Emergency Action No. 20 appeared in a bunch. Singers who can’t even sing.”

The gap between Jong-hyuk’s eyebrows has narrowed.

I thought I was going to think of something itchy in my head.

“There’s something.”

“There are forces.”

“Power? Oh……!”

It was only then that Jong-hyuk could recall.

Before the regression, an incident broke out in the entertainment industry at the time.

At the time, when I was a police officer, I was struggling in the hospital revealing two-thirds of the above, so I don’t know much about it, but I remember it was a case related to corruption.

“As the digital music market such as MP3 has grown and the existing music market has entered a recession, they have revealed their ambition in earnest…….”

They are people who have always been sniffing around, so there is no one to ignore in the music industry.

Chung Young-tak would have been swayed by them if GOU had not been successful and had he not become JYK’s largest shareholder in the unlimited funding of Jong-hyuk.

“There are people like that?”

“They’re mean-looking bastards who don’t have anything good. We can’t even appear on music shows.”

Jong-hyuk’s expression hardened.

There’s nothing good about being a hateful boy. Because I realized what this word meant.

“Sponsorship, bribery, something like that.”

“…Anyway, these guys are aggressively investing in movies and dramas and expanding their horizons, so would you welcome them down there?”

Change the subject. That’s the answer.

Sponsor called devil in the entertainment world. There are good sponsors, but there are far more evil people.

Those bastards have come to power?’

If you didn’t know, you don’t know, but if you do, you can never let it go.

Jong-hyuk held up his cell phone, covering Jung Young-tak’s mouth, explaining.

They also control their appearance on music shows.

It is impossible to estimate how far the line will reach.

We need to set up the members first, Ye-ro.

It was the moment when I made up my mind like that’s how I felt.

Whoosh! Whoosh!

Father?

The name of the steel line will appear as a paid caller indication service.

“Yes, Father. I was going to call you…….”

Oh, well, then I’ll go first.

Normally, steel wires, who would have asked how he was doing, try to get to the point.

It seemed unusual, so Jong-hyuk hardened his face.

“Yes. What’s going on?”

Are you close to GOU kids?

“Of course we’re close. Why? Did something happen?”

So do you know the representative there?

Jong-hyuk’s eyebrows wriggled.

“Is it because of some power in the music industry?”

Where are you now?

The voice of the steel wire sank coldly.

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