God of Cooking Chapter 603 - A Chef Doing His Country Good (2)

Chapter 603: A Chef Doing His Country Good (2)

“You have to be bold,” Min-joon said.

“I know,” Kaya replied.

“Look at . The most sophisticated response we can take for now is to just ignore them. As long as you don’t interfere with what they are talking about, we don’t have to care no matter what they say.”

“I know that, too.”

But knowing the answer was not always the answer. He also knew that, too.

So he had no choice but to respond, “Alright. Then, let’s try to make them realize who we are.”

In an instant, her life beca sothing like the subject of ridicule to the countless netizens. All she needed to do was to restore it as it was.

“By the way, I’m not going to make fun of you anymore,” he said.

Of course, he could have dealt with the netizens in the an way he wanted. But the problem was that the mont he started to pick a fight with them, he would be seen as one of them involved in the ridiculous fray. No matter how provocative the netizens’ gossip about Kaya was, it would not affect her or Min-joon as long as they stayed aloof from it. But if Min-joon and Kaya got directly involved in arguing with them, they could be fully exposed to the netizens’ taunts and insults.

Even though he told her to be patient so strongly, Min-joon could not stand it any longer at this mont. How could any man in the world stand his pregnant wife’s baby lump being made the subject of ridicule?

Whenever he was faced with this kind of situation, however, there was a way he usually turned to. He didn’t like to spit out abusive language toward them recklessly. Even though he ca to stay away from it as he grew older, he was quite good at making a mockery of others when he was young. So he wanted to use the sa tactic for those who made an ass out of Kaya.

“You need my help?”

He was now sitting in front of Angela Eve, the reporter who often wrote articles about him and Kaya. He quietly nodded at her question.

“All I want is for you to report about their irresponsible mockery. What I am asking you is not to fabricate the fact. Just write a piece that reflects what I want.”

“So, what do you want to write about?” she asked with a very curious expression.

He tapped the desk with his finger for a mont. When he felt like knocking sobody’s block off, he usually turned to June for her advice, for she was excellent in dealing with all kinds of people.

“You can’t beat them.”

June pointed out first that he could not win the netizens. This was a fight where he didn’t know who was his target in the first place. If he decided to sue them, he might be able to target so specific figures, but even in that case, the existing law was not that strong enough to punish them hard. Even if so of them were punished by the law, Kaya and Min-joon would have no choice but to be mired in the legal fight with possible damage to their reputation.

So June ca up with sothing he didn’t expect.

“I have got an idea. Why don’t you make them give up on their own?”

According to June, the best policy for him was to make them feel so ashad of what they had done to Kaya. June showed Min-joon two ways to tackle them.

One of them was too simple.

“Just try to be the top in the field, so they can’t even look up to you.”

They usually post bad comnts because they are basically jealous. The more bad comnts they post, the more pleasure they might feel montarily, but they begin to feel depressed after that. But the problem was he could not use this kind of tactic over the long run. As a matter of fact, Min-joon or Kaya was already ranked top in the field in Arica. There were not many chefs in Arica who made more success than them.

If so, was there any other tactic? June gave him the answer.

Min-joon said to Angela, “Well, I want to be Martin Luther King.”

Martin Luther King?

Angela got puzzled at the unexpected na for a mont. He was a famous Arican that even kindergarteners knew. He was ntioned in many stories about great Aricans, and his speeches were used in every English class, and it was hard for anybody to omit his na when they dealt with racism or modern Arican history.

He was the man who had the greatest influence on Aricans’ consciousness of human rights consciousness, along with Cesar Chavez. He showed Aricans how vulgar the overt discrimination against the people of color and contempt for them, including blacks, were.

Why did Min-joon want to be soone like Dr. King?

Angela asked, “Well, I don’t know. Could you explain in more detail?”

Min-joon didn’t give her any clue, so he just smiled and opened his mouth.

“Martin Luther King. What’s the first thing that cos to your mind when they talk about him?”

“Well, sothing like piety? If you look at his life and his last mont, it just makes feel somber.

He sacrificed everything for equality and even lost his life in the end. Although there were so people who sotis criticized Martin Luther King for his personal life or other trivial matters, they were often isolated and shunned by everyone around them.

“No one can touch him because they regard it as sothing like a sin to try to defa him. It was strange. People make childish jokes even about their presidents, but they don’t do it to him because the mont they try to crack a joke about him, they will realize it’s going to be the worst mistake of their lives.”

“I agree. He is kind of a saint. Nobody should ridicule or defa him.”

“In Korea, such a man is called kabangwon.”

“Pardon? Kaban... Queen?”

“Well, it ans one’s right to be protected from others’ blackmail,” he said with a smile.

Angela made an even more incomprehensible expression. She figured out what he was trying to say. His point was that he wanted to earn an image like that of Martin Luther King that people could not dare to defa.

But how? It seed that he noticed her curiosity.

He said slowly, “Fortunately, we’re on good ground. Kaya and I haven’t done anything that people might hate. Rather we have done sothing they might like. For example, Kaya has co this far by overcoming all the difficulties since she was young, and I’m a bit embarrassed to talk about myself...”

“You don’t have to, because we all know your story already.”

In fact, Min-joon’s image was so good that even many reporters admired it. So much so that they were once engaged in a heated debate for several hours about whether he deliberately tried to improve his image or not.

‘Did he do it intentionally or not?’

Angela thought he was just an innocent person who was not such a calculating chef.

But his recent image was different from before. She was not sure whether he really changed or he had such inclinations from the beginning. She could find so tendency in him that he wanted to ss around with the public rather than being at their rcy.

Of course, it was wise for him to change the way he dealt with the public because he needed to survive. Celebrities could be easily led around by sothing about their stories like Kaya.

Even though the public often criticized celebrities recklessly simply because they were in a different league, they were just ordinary people, after all.

“There are usually two types of people that they don’t attack, naly, the weak or the good. It seems that you don’t want to be a weak person. Of course, that’s why you might not want to be famous from the beginning. If you are not strong enough, they might think of you as an easy prey. So you have to make people believe you are good. Don’t you think they already think so? As for you, they still rember the episode about Cho Reggiano, so I guess you have a pretty good na among people.”

She paused for a mont then asked, “Are you mature enough to ignore the childish jokes they are cracking?’

Asking him such a question, she discovered that this guy nad Cho Min-joon was pretty upset right now. She didn’t notice it because he was so polite and calm from the mont she t him. The reason why he was so concerned about his image, as well as Kaya’s, was because he was so upset about the irresponsible netizens’ groundless rumors.

“I don’t think we can change them overnight,” he said.

Even though he brought up the na of Martin Luther King, it didn’t an that he would try to win as much recognition as Dr. King. He just wished nobody would make a mockery of him and Kaya without any good reason. He wanted sothing like a curtain that would hide them from the watchful eyes of the public.

“Alright, let try to solve this issue gradually then,” he said. “Please help with this first.”