The Famous Millionaire

Hyunwoo also shared the joy, clapping his hands.

But he could not be satisfied with the achievements that he made so far.

The products of KOVE DREAM or KOVE DREAM Blue were currently sold only in Korea, America, Japan, and China.

They had a good name in other countries, generating lots of interest from their people with a rush of orders.

Especially in Southeast Asian countries and Europe, lots of people complained on the KOVE DREAM homepage about KOVE not being available in their countries.

But that was impossible because the KOVE members in Vietnam could not meet the incoming orders even if they ran the factories in full operation. In other words, they had no products available even if they wanted to sell.

That’s why all the members of KOVE were expanding their facilities, which would take at least several months to handle a flood of orders.

But Hyunwoo was thinking far ahead. He felt it necessary to establish a cooperative body system in other countries for the effective sale of KOVE products.

The first goal was to set up KOVE local subsidiaries in Europe, followed by China, India, Russia, and Southeast Asia.

The most important thing was to discover talented people who would run the local subsidiaries well.

Hyunwoo wanted to select a local hire to assume the CEO title of the local subsidiary, if possible. So, he turned it over in his mind whenever possible.

How can I discover a good local talent?

But he could not figure out a solution easily.

On the other hand, it was not so urgent to set up local subsidiaries anytime soon. He needed lots of time to expand the sales network to other countries beyond Korea, America, and Japan.

Instead, he concentrated on KOVE DREAM Blue.

As expected the impact of Korean Broadcasting’s special feature on KOVE DREAM Blue was powerful. As soon as the program was broadcasted, Hyunwoo got flooded with orders as many consumers became confident in the quality of KOVE DREAM Blue as well as KOVE DREAM products.

If he had not hired lots of people in advance to handle such a rush of orders, he would have suffered a great confusion just like he had after starting KOVE DREAM.

He would give Juhwan and Sonjong a sharp reminder whenever possible, “If you don’t want to run into trouble, hire more in advance.”

“Got it.”

Fortunately, lots of orphanages across the country recommended their graduates, who were all sincere and diligent.

Of course, there were some slacked off, who would often try to curry favor with managers including Juhwan rather than doing their best.

But that didn’t pose any headache because they were usually weeded out during the three-month contract on-the-job training program.

Hyunwoo was about to leave the KOVE office when there was an unexpected call from the cultural affairs team of Seoul Broadcasting.

“This is Producer Ilgun Kwon with Seoul Broadcasting. I would like to speak with the President of KOVE BLUE. Can I talk to him?”

“Hyunwoo, it’s a call from Seoul Broadcasting. He wants to talk to you,” said Sonjong, urgently stopping Hyunwoo who was about to leave.

Answering the phone, he felt something strange because there was no reason for Seoul Broadcasting to call him.

He had bad memories of Seoul Broadcasting because it recently broadcast a special program that falsely contracted from Korean Broadcasting’s special program on KOVE DREAM.

Producer Kwon was an outspoken guy. He told Hyunwoo his point instead of beating around the bush.

“To be honest, I’m disappointed in you. Why is KOVE DREAM trying to stay close to Korea Broadcasting only? I feel sorry about our program last time, but you don’t have to act hostile against us, do you?”

“How can I? I just asked a favor of my acquaintance with Korea Broadcasting about the KOVE program. If I had known someone at your company, I would have done the same.”

“Oh, I now see. I was worried that you had bad feelings about our company,” said Kwon with a hearty laugh.

And then he said bluntly, “If you have any good program idea next time, just let me know. I can make a much better program than Korean Broadcasting. You don’t want to give it to Korean Broadcasting again, do you?”

Hyunwoo felt Kwon’s suggestion was a golden chance not to miss. Actually, he felt regretful that Korea Broadcasting rejected his offer to make a program on KOVE technicians. That’s why he had to combine KOVE Blue and its technicians as one at the time.

He felt the rejection reflected Korean Broadcasting’s lack of crisis awareness. It was a kind of conceit that only Korea Broadcasting would make such programs for Hyunwoo.

However, it would increase crisis awareness if Seoul Broadcasting had a chance to make Hyunwoo’s program.

“Hahaha. I appreciate it very much if you can do so,” said Hyunwoo, accepting Kwon’s offer immediately.

After the call, however, he felt a bit worried because promised to Jaeyol Song with Korean Broadcasting any topic worth reporting.

Hyunwoo called Jaeyol and confided to him.

Understandably, Jaeyol was upset.

“How come you could do that? You promised me not to do so, man.”

“Please understand me, brother. I can’t make another broadcasting company like Seoul Broadcasting upset towards me, right?”

“Still, you have to keep the promise. I feel disappointed. You should not act like that because you are riding high.”

Hearing Jaeyol venting his anger, Hyunwoo felt disappointed. He thought Jaeyol could understand him if he really cared about him like his brother.

But Jaeyol was far from it.

Hyunwoo talked to him in a calm tone.

“Right, brother. I’ll keep the promise with you. But I won’t care about anything that goes beyond that.”

“Anything going beyond that?”

“As far as I have anything personal that is worth reporting, let me give it to you first. But I won’t as long as it’s about KOVE as a cooperative body. Let me deal with it on a fair basis.”

“No, no. As that is related to you, it’s also your personal matter.”

“I have to disagree. It involves the future of my employees. I can’t block their future because of my personal promise to you. Even if you feel disappointed about my decision, I can’t do anything about it. So, understand me please.”

There was nothing Jaeyol could do.

“Got it. If you insist, there is nothing I can do on my end. Nonetheless, I’m disappointed.”

“Sorry about that, brother. Let me treat you to a drink one of these days.”

After the call, Hyunwoo let out a sigh. He thought he could quickly settle the issue with Jaeyol, but found it so hard to persuade him.

By the way, how best can I make use of Seoul Broadcasting? Is there anything I can do more to promote KOVE DREAM?

Lost in happy agony, he headed for the office of Ani & Funny.

When he arrived, Kyungsu instantly briefed him about the latest operation status.

“I’m seeing a tremendous response to our latest animations in Story Mecca. Looks like all four pieces will hit the jackpots.”

Opening his eyes wider, Hyunwoo said, “Really? How tremendous is it?”

“As for Iron Worm, it looks like its popularity is going to surpass that of Garbage World. Would you want to check it?”

Kyungsu logged in to Story Mecca to check out the bulletin of Iron Worm. Although there were only four pieces posted, the number of hits already was already over four million.

“Just push the students to speed up their work. If you hire more, I think you can pick up the speed more.”

“In fact, they’re working so hard now.”

Hyunwoo smiled in satisfaction to hear that. The students changed their working attitude after they were severely rebuked for playing computer games recently. He could see their tremendous zeal in their glaring eyes.

And their income was going up. Some of the students who stood out made more than three million per month, and even those who didn’t perform well made at least 500,000 won.

The full-time employees of Ani & Funny made five million per month. Their basic pay per month was 2.5 and 3 million won, but Hyunwoo gave them additional 100% in incentives every month.

But the core staff like Myunghun Koh, Yu Zuung and Sanggyu received more than 10 million won per month.

Kyungsu received seven million per month in basic pay, which was far less than what Myunghun and Jihoon received, who were less experienced than him, but Kyungsu didn’t complain. There were lots of people available who could sub for Kyungsu, but it was hard to find replacements of people like Myunghun and Yu Zuung.

In other words, they received more pay than Kyungsu, who had the highest rank and the most experiences of anybody in Ani & Funny.

Looking at the different pay based on performance, the students took it their goal to get hired as the full-time employees of Ani & Funny.

Kyungsu’s happy briefing continued.

“Our fans on Story Mecca are sending us too many stories related to Tuti & Angelica. These days we’re receiving more than 200 per day. So, it’s such a big task to review them one by one.”

“It looks like we have to increase the members of our internet cafe drastically to cope with that.”

“Sure. We also have received a new animation item. Can you take a look?”

Kyungsu then opened a message containing several files. There was one summarizing the story and image file that contained character samples.

It was a totally different animation work. The fan seemed to have made a creative animation from a new angle and sent it.

When Hyunwoo checked out its author, the name was familiar to him.

“Chtulbuz? Is this the same Indian that we talked about recently?”