TL: KSD
Baekhak Entertainnts building overflows with welfare facilities for its affiliated entertainers.
Thanks to CEO Baek Seung-wons complex of being teased for coming from a suit-and-tie guy background rather than an artist, he splurged money on the company to show off to other entertainnt company heads who are artists, with a You guys dont have this, do you?
However, close observation revealed that among entertainers, whether actors or idols, a strict hierarchical order existed.
Incidents could occur where soone comfortably lounging in a massage chair would have to awkwardly greet a senior passing by without being able to get up, trapped by the chair in a peculiar posture.
Thus, to use the anities without minding others, one had to be a senior entertainer, but those people would rather spend big money to go to better and more private facilities.
As a result, very few actually made full use of Baekhak Entertainnts building anities.
Its a harsh reality for CEO Baek Seung-won, but in the end, the budget was misallocated.
However, for veteran actor Kim Byul (1st year at Baekhak Arts High School), whose finances are tightly controlled by her mother, the Baekhak Entertainnt rest facilities were an oasis in the desert.
(Though not by choice) With a rather empty schedule, Kim Byul had already mastered all the rest facilities.
A too relaxed voice flowed from Kim Byul, who entrusted her body to the massage chair.
This is really nice
I, too, couldnt help but marvel, being the only writer in Baekhak Entertainnt without a senior to defer to. What would I do if a 10-year idol passed by? To , theyre just soone from the next neighborhood.
This is the result. Lately, Kim Byul has been taking around all the rest facilities in Baekhak Entertainnt
After a blissful 25 minutes, getting off the massage chair felt like becoming a new person, and the world seed different.
Kim Byul smirked proudly.
Told you it was good, right?
It is good
Who was it that said a massage chair is just a massage chair?
I take it back
This is a 15 million won massage chair.
Oh my
No wonder it felt so refreshing; thats how much money was poured into it. When I asked if I could lie on it once more, Kim Byul firmly refused.
No. The next course is ready.
Is this an entertainnt agency or a massage center?
I sotis get confused too, but just follow . Ill let you experience the skincare that idol groups get. Its really on another level.
Reluctantly, but secretly excited, I followed Kim Byul.
However, as we headed out into the hallway, we had to abandon our comfortable plans for skincare.
Dont do this! Why are you suddenly acting like this!
A commotion broke out in the quiet corridor.
Unknowingly, we hid ourselves around a corner, anxiously watching the scene unfold.
Several suited n slowly surrounded a cornered employee.
The employee, trembling with fear, tried to dissuade the suited n, but they gradually approached her
At that mont, I was reminded of the beginning of a zombie movie.
One day, the main characters encounter a scene of humans attacking each other without any warning
The sight of the suited n closing in on the employee, tightening their circle, carried a tension as if a bloody tragedy could erupt at any mont.
Finally, one of the suited n grabbed the employees wrist.
Thankfully, the suited man didnt bite the employees neck.
But that doesnt an nothing happened.
Perhaps it was sothing even more serious.
Youll have to co with us.
Oh, I cant
The unnad employee was quickly surrounded by the suited n and then whisked away to sowhere unknown.
Kim Byul and I looked at each other in shock.
Whats going on? Is it audit season?
I, I dont know either?!
When we went out to the company lobby, we saw that the suited n werent just one or two.
They were taking Baekhak Entertainnt employees sowhere like zombies.
My God
Even to soone who knew nothing, it was clear that the atmosphere at the company was unusual.
I didnt know what it was, but
Sothing was happening.
Side EP-Princess Maker
There are a few terrifying situations that would make the heart of an ordinary office worker tremble just by imagining them.
Like accidentally adding an extra zero on an order form, misspeaking in front of the departnt head, making eye contact with employees talking behind your back, encountering a zombie on the way to work
Or suddenly, people from the headquarters co down and start causing chaos.
-Hello, I am Kim Myung-woon from the Organizational Innovation Headquarters, Human Resources Innovation Departnt. Heres my business card.
-Organizational what? Did our company have such a team
-Were from the headquarters.
-Ahhhhh!
One day, people from the headquarters were roaming around the company.
People from oddly nad departnts were looking around the company with the eyes of a hawk targeting its prey.
They even took key staff mbers for interviews to listen to their work processes.
-Isnt this an interrogation?!
-Its research for preparing corporate innovation plans.
Rather than zombies, where you could break their heads with a fire extinguisher, you cant touch a single hair on people from the headquarters.
Thus, Baekhak Entertainnt faced a situation slightly more serious than a zombie apocalypse.
As proof, Baekhak Entertainnt CEO Baek Seung-won, along with the survivors, couldnt even barricade the entrance to the CEOs office and stage a sit-in.
The entrance to the CEOs office opened like an automatic door, trampled under the feet of the invading army from the headquarters.
Baekhak Entertainnts CEO Office.
Strangers flooded the space where Baek Seung-won and his close associates held etings every day, now coming to pay homage to the CEO.
The executives of Baekhak Entertainnt were pushed back by their montum, and only Baek Seung-won stood firm in his place.
CEO Baek Seung-won, maintaining his trademark white suit and sunglasses, was grateful for his sunglasses, which he used as part of his image.
Without them, he wouldnt have been able to hide his eyes shaking wildly.
Cornered, CEO Baek Seung-won anxiously looked at the leader of the invasion force.
Its been a while
The person he was looking at was a middle-aged man with a cold deanor, awkwardly fidgeting in an ill-fitting suit next to Baek Seol-
Hello, CEO~nim.
Why didnt you say you were coming, Managing Director Kim Myung-woon? Or should I say, are you a Departnt Head now?
I am still a Managing Director.
Since when does our company have managing directors serving as departnt heads? What kind of ssed-up system is this?
Its a newly created departnt. Similar to a TF (Task Force). Its called the Organizational Innovation Headquarters, and its a departnt that will be disbanded soon after the internal reorganization is completed.
CEO Baek Seung-won recalled the words written on the business card he had received.
Organizational Innovation Headquarters, Human Resources Innovation Departnt.
It ant they intended to overhaul the organization and replace people.
Im screwed.
After the chairman took control by ousting his brother, it seed he wanted to discipline the company by chopping off a head or two.
And unfortunately, the one to be chopped was CEO Baek Seung-won himself.
What should he do to survive this?
He racked his brains but couldnt find a good solution.
Needing more information, CEO Baek Seung-won offered Director Kim Myung-woon so green tea.
Sigh. Lets sit down and have so tea first. Lets at least hear why youve co.
If you insist.
Director Kim Myung-woon, like a grim reaper from headquarters, was diligent in his duty. Since a grim reaper is an official of the underworld, Kim Myung-woon also spoke dryly with an official-like deanor.
We plan to split Baekhak Entertainnt into several companies.
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Manager.
The typical Korean conception of a manager involves soone who takes care of entertainers by fetching them work, managing fan clubs, providing security, offering ntal counseling, and acting as a secretary cum servant handling schedules.
However, the concept of a manager, especially in the Western world, is a bit different.
There are business managers who are responsible for work-related managent, personal managers who take care of daily life, lawyers who handle contracts, doctors for ntal counseling, and so on, aning the responsibilities are divided.
The most important distinction here is the separation between agency and managent.
The sa person cannot manage both the business and daily life aspects of an entertainer.
This is because of the legal judgnt that one cannot protect the rights of a person with the comrcial value of a small to dium-sized enterprise if a single entity controls them.
Of course, this doesnt an that entertainers rights are perfectly protected over there, but thats the gist.
If Baekhak Entertainnt has been a Korean manager up until now,
From now on, Baekhak Entertainnt must beco an Arican manager.
Isnt that the global standard?
This is the Chairmans future managent policy. Globalization. Expansion into overseas markets. We expect your full cooperation for the restructuring needed to achieve this.
Of course, thats complete nonsense.
Neither CEO Baek Seung-won nor Director Kim Myung-woon actually cares about anything global.
CEO Baek Seung-won was not so foolish as to miss the implications contained in this innovation plan.
If these oddly nad peoples innovation passes, Baekhak Entertainnt will be dismbered.
The music business division will be split into various genre labels.
Subsidiary productions will be separated into independent productions.
The C&C headquarters will be split into Western-style agencies.
What remains would just be the managent division, which itself looks set to be shattered into separate companies for managing singers and actors.
Of course, even if its split like this, everyone will still be under the sa roof of Baekhak.
But whereas that roof used to be Baekhak Entertainnt, it will now beco the Baekhak Group headquarters.
Dismantling the Baekhak Entertainnt subsidiary to turn each departnt into subcontractors for the Baekhak Group
How about it? This would also better guarantee the autonomy of the artists, wouldnt it? They will be operating in a more flexible organization. Entertainers wont have to follow their managers like lords anymore.
Being an experienced entrepreneur, CEO Baek Seung-won, instead of saying, Then the company will go bankrupt, you fucking idiot who knows jack shit about entertainnt business, said this:
Give so ti to think about it, Director Kim.
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Theres an expression called a suffocating atmosphere.
I thought it was just a figure of speech, but it wasnt.
I literally couldnt breathe.
The Publishing Managent Departnt office was quiet. The dozen or so employees were naturally silent, and the three of us sitting around the eting room were not opening our mouths either.
There was a joke we had among ourselves last ti.
It was a joke about Baek Seol, who had been promoted to deputy head.
-Hey! Managing Director Baek is telling you to stop!
-Ah! Im sorry! Executive Director!
-My apologies, CEO. I will strictly educate this young one.
-Please forgive us! Your Excellency!
The joke was about the royal blood of Baekhak, Baek Seol, whose position was humorously escalating every second, but now we could no longer laugh at that joke.
A joke that becos reality is no longer a joke.
Um, excuse
I gathered my courage and looked at Baek Seol. Straightening my back, which instinctively wanted to bow from fear, I spoke to Baek Seol, whose face was flushed with embarrassnt.
D, Director~nim?
Are you, really a director?
Did you really beco an executive?
Baek Seol chuckled breathlessly and nodded her head. There was no spark in her eyes. She seed a bit off.
Yes. Ive beco a director.
Lim Yang-wook stood up abruptly from his seat.
And he gave a 90-degree bow.
Greetings, Director~nim!
Kyaaak! Dont do that!
I wont do it! Director~nim!
Kyaaaak!
I grabbed Lim Yang-wook by the arm and pulled him back down to his seat.
And I scolded him harshly.
Departnt Head Lim! Youre making the Director uncomfortable!
Ah! Sorry! Director~nim!
Ha, ha-ha, haha
Deputy head of the Organizational Innovation Headquarters, Human Resources Innovation Departnt of Baekhak Group Headquarters.
And the most famous translator in Korea.
The Booker International Longlist Nominee
Director Baek Seol laughed as if she was out of her mind.
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