024. Really? why not…

Shabby officetel. The two-room officetel for housing had already been transformed into a studio for a long time, and in it, only three people were constantly drawing pictures while blowing their noses at the liquid crystal tablet.

“Huh… I can’t do it anymore.”

Yeon Jin-woo closed his eyes tightly at the words of the employee who strongly put the fan of the liquid crystal tablet down on the desk.

I’ll quit again. is it the second one

It was never easy to produce an independent animation like that.

Fortunately, things were better here. Because I received investment support through the art support project. To be honest, except for the tools for painting, most of them were getting away with labor costs.

Still, the amount must have been small compared to the intensity of the labor they were doing now.

Of course, it wasn’t like they made me stay up all night unreasonably. At least I was definitely paying for my working hours, though.

If you say the same salary and the same working hours, comparing a place where you work a little spaciously and a place where you work tight, of course it was the same reason as choosing a place where you work more spaciously.

“I only worked for a month. Please deposit one month’s salary.”

“Can I think again? Now, the production stage has progressed a lot, and the exhibition is just around the corner.”

“That is a day or two. The treatment is not better than anywhere else. It’s not that the intensity of the work is low. I’m quitting anyway Please pay your salary or deposit on time.”

“okay. I get it. Thank you for all this time. It was a lot of trouble.”

“···Good-bye. PD-nim, don’t be too stubborn and think of another way. With that level of skill, there must be many places where you can find it.”

Yeon Jin-wu sighed and stared blankly at the former employee who kicked out the door.

“Okay again. In addition.”

another person in the office. Kim Hyunjin sighed and wiped his face.

“Shouldn’t this be enough? Now it’s tight to meet the exhibition time. The two of us honestly can’t do it. ha···”

“There must be a way. I have to find it.”

“Where do you get people?”

“I posted a notice anyway. One said he was coming for an interview.”

“He knows when he’ll be out again.”

another way. And you say you’re looking for it everywhere. There was no doubt that he had received a scouting offer from somewhere.

It is also an overseas animation subcontractor. Of course, it wasn’t that I didn’t understand.

In addition, the industry itself was suffering from a labor shortage, which only made it more frustrating.

‘It’s far off to talk about the development of Korean animation in this situation.’

If we rely on subcontractors and subcontractors every day, it is difficult to nurture talent in directing and continuity, and this literally makes it impossible to dream of qualitative development in the animation industry.

Animation production, which started with the dream of making a mark in the Korean animation industry, has become a harsh reality.

smart-

“Oops. Did I get the timing wrong?”

“you···! Was it Lee Junsu?”

“What am I?”

Junsu Lee. It was a guy who had a bad relationship since college. At the same time, he was also the one who stole the people who came here looking for their dreams.

“How did you get here?! Didn’t you just steal that employee again?”

Who wouldn’t be shaken if it was more money for an easier job than getting it here right now.

“You stole it! Isn’t that the logic of capital? It’s only natural to follow more money.”

“You shook it and took it out!”

Kim Hyun-jin shouted in anger, but Lee Jun-su shrugged his shoulders with a fishy smile. Yes. Although he himself was scouted by an overseas animation subcontractor, what was wrong with that?

In the end, it was the person’s choice to change jobs.

It was far more constructive than being in a shabby corner of a room with an art-diseased group that wasn’t sure if they’d make it.

“therefore? The choice is ultimately made by them. better chance. a better environment. After all, isn’t it your fault? You guys who have some kind of art disease and can’t even see the reality of making feature-length animations.”

“This bastard!”

“So, do you have the money to hire a lawyer? Do you have any money to return from the creative support project?”

“Hyunjin, stop it. When you’re done with your words, just leave quietly.”

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Lee Junsu smiled mischievously.

“I don’t know if this is why I can exhibit.”

When Yeon Jin-woo showed a rather liberated expression and a twisted tail, Lee Jun-su tried to provoke more.

Just a little more, a little more provocation, and we’ll be able to completely end it.

“Well. Did I come at the wrong timing?”

“who···?”

And the moment when the tension was extremely different.

Song Jae-ik opened the door and entered with a kind smile.

“I was supposed to have an interview today.”

“ah. That’s right, today…”

Despite seeing this situation, Song Jae-ik did not mind at all and entered the officetel.

It’s fun.

In fact, I roughly grasped the situation through the slightly open door. Even so, he didn’t come to a place he couldn’t come to.

I just thought it would be more fun.

“Hey, if you’re here to get a job, you might as well change your mind. If you don’t want to waste your youth in a small room like this.”

“you···!”

“Yeah. It’s amazing to see someone say that to their face for an interview. Even while spitting flat words at someone you’ve never seen before?”

Instead of being frightened or cringing at such words, Song Jae-ik sarcastically mocked himself, and Lee Jun-su laughed, thinking that he was another idiot with art disease with no social experience.

Anyway, it was only a matter of time before the art disease was eventually cured in front of money.

“Well, do it well.”

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Lee Junsu thought that this was enough for today, so he raised both hands and quietly went out the door.

—

“You showed me what you shouldn’t have to see. uh…”

“My name is Song Jae-ik.”

“yes. To Jaik.”

“Well, it doesn’t really matter. But you’re not losing your salary, are you?”

“yes! No wonder! I received a creative support project and also received a subsidy from the Cultural Contents Agency. Of course, there may be a sense of lack compared to the amount of work… but it is never pushed back.”

At Kim Hyun-jin’s words, Song Jae-ik nodded in the sense that it wasn’t bad. Aren’t you doing it for the digestion of your career and talent rather than money right now anyway?

The pay is a bit small, and you can cover it to some extent with your tube income. The important thing was whether or not this work was presented to the world and succeeded.

Wouldn’t that make the digestion of talent more active?

“As you can see from the circumstances, the work is a bit difficult. Time is running out until it is submitted to the Busan International Film Festival. When I said that the remaining amount was about half.”

“ah. Do you submit animations to the Busan International Film Festival?”

“It is possible in the wide angle part.”

“If you don’t mind, can I see your work? I think I should at least know what kind of work it is.”

“yes? yes.”

Kim Hyun-jin needed someone right away anyway, and he was an applicant who went to the interview as if he didn’t care while Lee Jun-su was in trouble, so he showed the amount of work he had done so far with a feeling of grabbing at least a straw.

Now, in the vulgar language, I had to borrow at least a cat’s hand.

‘Is the content good? I think it would be fun too. The feeling is also pure.’

Since he had already arrived in a situation that had already been completed to some extent, it felt like the time was not tight.

‘I don’t think it’s that fast. The content isn’t bad either.’

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Looking at Song Jae-ik, Yeon Jin-woo felt a sense of deja vu as if he had seen him somewhere.

I must have seen it somewhere. Where the hell did you see it I haven’t even left the officetel for the past few months because I’ve been working on this.

“Shouldn’t I still check my portfolio?”

They’re showing such bold behavior, but if their skills don’t meet their standards, it’ll be embarrassing in its own way.

“ah. Come to think of it. May I check your portfolio?”

At the belated words of Kim Hyun-jin, Song Jae-ik held out the file he had prepared. Only then did Yeon Jin-woo shout as if he remembered.

“ah! Music Love Letter! Singer Song Jae-ik!”

“Eh? The Song Jae-ik who duetted with Evie? That crazy animation?”

“No, I said I was crazy while watching that video. Jinwoo, you.”

“No, was it just me? You were the same.”

Song Jae-ik laughed at the two people’s conversation and gave a natural answer.

“Uh… you want to make an animation?”

“Really? why not···”

The two of them nodded their heads in agreement to that very calm answer. What else is there to come here for an interview other than to make an animation?

“pass?”

“I guess what I’m going to do is work on a fairy tale? Looking at it, it seems that the original painting has already been completed.”

“you’re right.”

“ah. Is it possible to film on You Tube? Regarding my work?”

“Youtube filming?”

Yeon Jin-woo tilted his head with a puzzled expression. It won’t matter, though.

“Still, since it has 100,000 You Tube, I wonder if it will be promoted.”

“call! Call unconditionally!”

Well. They are pretty cool people. Oh, it’s not cool, is it urgent?

—

Still, a new person came in, so Kim Hyun-jin had a small welcome party with chicken and beer.

“I once had a dream too! Introducing Korean animation to the world! yes?”

It was barely beer, but a few cans of beer were enough to make Yeon Jin-woo drunk.

“after. You cannot achieve quality improvement only by subcontracting overseas animations. Something like Conti is real. Finish everything overseas and hand it over. They don’t even teach you how to do it properly.”

“Yes, yes. I know your heart too.”

“That’s why there aren’t many famous animation directors in Korea! Relying only on a few directors! Look at America or something like this right now! Bubble! Dizzy! Detective Comics! Ghibli! Shinkai Ma… Ugh!”

“Yaya! Go to the bathroom and throw up! Ugh. Sorry. It must have accumulated a bit.”

Song Jae-ik didn’t care about Kim Hyun-jin’s apology, so he shrugged.

It was true that absurd situations unfolded even if you only saw it when you came for an interview right away.

“That one. Do you think you know him?”

“Ah, compliance. Yes, well, we are classmates from college.”

Kim Hyun-jin recalled the past as he gulped down his beer as if bitterness was coming.

Jin-woo, himself, and Lee Jun-su must have studied together as alumni at the same university and had the same dream.

If I had to compare them, Jinwoo pursued the ideal and Junsu pursued the reality. He was closer to the middle, but anyway, he’s with Jinwoo now.

“In the end, it’s a difference in thinking and a difference in personality.”

The moment when camaraderie turns to hatred. The relationship between the two literally started to fall apart out of control.

More than ten years have already passed with such a deep goal. It’s not just about going each other’s way.

Junsu started interfering with everything Jinwoo was doing, as if he had any feelings of resentment.

“What. That’s it.”

Thinking that there was no need to tell this to a new employee, Kim Hyun-jin just swallowed all the words with beer.

“Good luck tomorrow. No matter what happens, the deadline for submission is the most important. I have to work hard on drawing again from tomorrow.”

—

“Ah… it’s the head.”

Yeon Jin-woo and Kim Hyun-jin grabbed their brittle heads and stood up.

“Uh. What does ramen smell like? Hyun… isn’t it you?”

“What? uh I think I will die from a hangover.”

“Then who is it?”

At the same time, the two looked at each other and hurriedly opened the door and went out to the living room that was being used as a studio.

“Yeah. He said that the time until the exhibition was tight, but I didn’t know that he would sleep until 11:00 in the morning. It also smells like alcohol.”

Song Jae-ik placed a ramen pot full of ramen on top of a book that seemed to be used as a pot stand.

“It seems like you don’t eat rice, so I cooked ramen. You cheat and work on it.”

“Gosh. I’m sorry.”

Kim Hyun-jin put on a really embarrassing expression and lowered his head. It was because even after Song Jae-ik passed away last night, he drank more because of Lee Jun-su’s work.

“uh···? No, why has it been completed this far…”

Yeon Jin-woo, who was in a hurry to turn on the computer and LCD tablet, looked embarrassed when he saw the scene Song Jae-ik was drawing.

The job description has not been properly explained yet, and the takeover has not yet taken place. Usually, I can’t do anything and I have to blow the whole day just to figure it out.

You said you drew this much in only a couple of hours? The quality is also much better than the previous staff?

what is this guy?

Song Jae-ik replied by blowing the ramen across his chopsticks as if it was natural for Yeon Jin-woo’s behavior.

“Ah, my hands are a bit fast. Oh, and understanding.”