Life, Once Again!

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A great woman who soothes herself with soju and takes in beer. I don't think I was joking when I said I needed vodka to get drunk right before I broke my first drink.

“Have another drink. ”

“If I go after you, I'm going to collapse. ”

“Aigoo, a man is so weak. ”

I'm not weak. You're strong. Something sour comes up from around my neck. Dongwook asked me to relieve myself with cold water. I'm cheating when I eat this while tearing off the wings of the chicken, and Miyeon smiled at me and lifted her hand. The circular mouth seems to be calling for soju. Dongwook quickly spoke.

“Tell me now. I have to eat, too.”

“What?”

“Come on? I'm leaving. ”

“Ah-ha-ha, okay. You can tell me. ”

Mi-yeon, who has elbows on the table and chins in the back of her hands.

“The company's special planning feature is that we decided to find out where the actresses who stopped working are doing what they're doing. When you run out of sauce, it's an idea that comes out to hit you on the ground. It's easy to have a conversation with actresses who are in contact... ”

Miyeon stops talking and smiles bitterly.

“It got a little boring in the middle of the conversation. I was just asking him what he was doing these days, and at some point the story popped out. ”

“What are you talking about? ”

“Sunbae, have you seen the news about the cashier in the RBS recently? Taking her debut to the hotel as bait. ”

“You see, it was pretty controversial back then. ”

“Only then was it loud. Now shut up.”

Dongwook folded his arms. Definitely less rebellious than the severity of the event. The reporter who seemed to dig to the roots to discover the identity of the merchandise was silent after the news. It seemed to be bothered by the media, but not for long. Occasionally, articles related to sexual remittance are appearing in the media, but they are only briefly included in cut news and are not addressed in depth.

“So?”

“We had a quick lunch with the actress and she said something about sexual gratuities. It was a very difficult face. ”

“You're saying he was recommended, too? ”

“It was more of a compulsion than a recommendation. It happened a long time ago, and it still reminds me sometimes. He told me a few things that he could say because he left the world, and that's a bit upsetting. ”

“What happened? ”

Miyeon raised her hand to soju. Dongwook did not stop me.

“I thought sexual favors were a very special case. But it wasn't. It's pretty frequent. But it just didn't show up on the surface. He said that tender recommendations are really more than I could ever imagine. He said he's had a few drinks and he's had enough of them up there. ”

“Are you a representative or are you one of these people? ”

“Something like that. People who can hold onto the gods and shake them. Director, Author, PD, Representative, etc. ”

“The reason it's not public is because you're afraid of retaliation, right? ”

Miyeon nods. The shopkeeper brings out soju and popcorn. Dongwook shook the bottle and poured the whirling soju into Miyeon's cup.

“That's unfortunate, but not interesting. ”

Dongwook said while drinking a drink. Miyeon glances at me, smiling and leaning against the chair.

“That's right. It's not funny, it's not a headline. But it's too much, isn't it? If you have journalism, you have to be angry about it and you have to be public about it. ”

“I traded that for my rent room. If you want to talk more. Or we end this here. If you don't listen to sensitive stories, you'll ignore them. ”

Take your hands off the broadcaster. There's no way the station doesn't know that a magazine reporter made a brief interview. News stories that will bring issues to one's attention when you blow up. But no one is touching it. It is clear what this means. It is the bottom people's adage that it is best not to touch the poisoned Holy Grail.

Reporters holding pens for morality and justice died on the face of a faded newspaper.

“I'd like to talk more. ”

Miyeon reached out her cup and said. Dongwook tapped down the table with his fingers and received the cup.

“Just listen, just listen. ”

“Yes, I feel like I'm talking about a donkey's ear in bamboo forest, so you don't have to listen to me. ”

It was a smile, but the smile was empty. As a journalist, you experience countless conflicts between what you might think of as a cause and a cause of society and that of the company. There's only one thing that comes to mind in the process.

To be honest, the pen is not as scary as the knife.

I can understand why Miyeon offered me a drink and confided in me that I wasn't close to her. Because it is not close, there is also a secret that can be revealed.

“So what's the story behind that? I don't think it's embarrassing enough that there are so many women who pay for sex. ”

“When I heard about it, I was just a little angry. There's nothing I can do for him. I'm not the kind of editor who likes to write articles like that. Yeah, I know. If hitting solves the problem, what's there to worry about? It's a compromise. So I was just going to listen and pass it on. But... ”

“But?”

“You know that. There are times when you can't hear a problem you have to pass on. Knowing it's stupid and obsessing over it. ”

I poured soju into a beer, and I kept it in my mouth. Dongwook reaches out and grabs her wrist.

“Drink enough. ”

“Let me have a drink. ”

“Do you want to eat and reap, or do you want to reap? ”

Miyeon clenched her lower lip and lowered her glass. She turns to her side and pulls something out of her bag. It was a well-folded newspaper article. Dongwook took the newspaper article and opened it. A knight reporting a suicide. The content was simple: a 40-year-old woman who was unable to win a life sentence committed suicide with her 10-year-old daughter. We start with Mr. A, who was an actor.

“Is she the actress? ”

And I said, "Yeah, I interviewed him, like, a month later, and I got the article. It's not a well-known story, and suicide by habit has not been very popular in this country, where a few people die a day. But the moment I saw it, my heart just... ”

A clenched fist. Miyeon lowers her head and looks down at her fist.

“I was just trying to ignore it, but I can't. It was so frustrating. I wish I had listened more actively that day at the interview. If I had counseled him afterwards, something would have changed. ”

It was a smile that made me self-conscious.

“I understand feeling responsible, but don't get confused. As it says in the article, it's a pessimistic suicide due to old age. It wasn't something you could solve. ”

“I know, I know, but the human mind doesn't work that easily. I wanted to do something for you. So, I got a little old habit going around. ”

“That's not recommended. ”

“Yes, it is. ”

“So you figured out that the king's ear is a donkey's ear? ”

Actually, I shouldn't have asked you this question. It's okay. Forget it. I did what I had to do to earn your respect. I had to end the conversation like this. The story after that will surely be a heavy burden, and the latter will try to ease the suffering by carrying the burden to himself. It's cruel, but I can't afford to be passionate about stories that are cheap and tiring. You have to write a story that needs time, a story that pays for itself.

I should have, but eventually I urged him to tell me. It's just as my nephew said. The creature who is called a journalist is a fool, but he is born with a habit of obsessing over it. Only journalists with that habit can be journalists. If the foolish behavior is dissected, it means going up, or if it is not, winning a Korean journalist award, or quitting the journalist, or both.

He thought he was an ascending creature. It was a mistake to leave the station, and I promised myself that I would never do the same again. As a worker who has to live intensely in society, he vowed to focus only on articles that suit his taste, keeping his sense of beginner's life buried in memory.

But not as a dog. I can feel the journalist holding his head in the trash. Even though Dongwook is making excuses for himself by pushing the issue with the watermelon, he has to look back and have fun. They'll dig it up as soon as they hear it.

“Whew, it was so long ago, it was hard to figure out. I didn't know what to find out. And then I saw the pay stubs, and I thought, let's start there. ”

“Have you ever been to see him and heard of him? ”

“Yes, she was tired. He said he didn't need an interview. I was bored with the media. I would have done the same. They rushed in like they were going to fix it, and they just let it go. ”

“Face is known, celebrity life is over. I'm sure it was a dead end.”

“I've heard hard things. But I couldn't hear the whole story. He said he couldn't talk about this anymore. ”

“That's settled. ”

“Something like that. But I could hear a lot more than it was in the press. ”

Miyeon made a meaningful face.

“Sir, do you know which company the woman who revealed the payment of the castle was for? ”

“I don't know about that. ”

“MH. You've heard a lot about this place lately, right? ”

“He's an ex-Five. ”

“Yes, this is a place where people are suffering from unfair contracts. ”

“So? What does that have to do with anything? ”

“Hey, did you know that The Five was floating around the Internet as soon as the cashier's check went off? ”

“So you're saying you blew up The Five to cover up the cashier's cashier? I don't think that's right. It's a vague size to cover. ”

“But what about the real thing? You got a lot of attention. ”

“Yes, but no matter how much I think about it, it's a conjecture. And if you hadn't blown up The Five, it would have been a quick freeze. The news didn't work out. Shouldn't we just consider the timing a coincidence? ”

“That's what I thought. But I heard a few more things while I was researching. ”

Miyeon lowered her voice.

“What I'm going to say is I'm just going to get drunk and talk nonsense. Okay?”

“This is drunken nonsense. ”

“Yes, so listen and forget. ”

“If only I could forget. ”

She turned her head around and looked inside, then looked around and carefully opened her mouth.

“There's nothing you can do about it. because I'm willing to cover it up, but words that have already leaked will be remembered by people. In the end, you have to deal with it before it leaks out. ”

“Take care of it?”

“You said there were a lot of cashiers, right? ”

“Huh."

Miyeon said, holding an empty glass.

“But the funny thing is that if you say sex pay, people think only of what women give to men. ”

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The way to the apartment that Kwak Jun told me about. He looks out of the bus window and sighs without knowing what happened yesterday. When they heard about the qualification, they all went to Suyeon's instructor's house. Originally, I was going to break up with Karaoke, but I told Su-yeon that I was going to break up with her and let's continue the celebration, and everyone said they were happy to follow her.

As soon as I arrived, a drink spilled from the refrigerator. Soju and beer. With the potatoes delivered there in the middle, there was a drink like before. It was still a bitter drink, but I was forced to drink a few glasses because of the joy of passing the preliminary round, and after that it tasted a little sweet. That's when the game started. I laughed and chatted happily and drank a sudden drink.

That was good. I was just hanging up. The problem started when Ji Yun next to me got stuck in the game. I couldn't bear to look at Ji-yoon running like a carrot, so I asked for a Black Knight and drank a few glasses of Bomb Wine.

Suyeon said she could stop drinking, but I felt an unfounded confidence because she thought she was watching me. After about 40 minutes, the colonel gives way to what he ate on the ground. On the carpet, too.

Fortunately, everyone fainted drunk. If you think Ji Yun saw it, it's frustrating. I woke up dazed until lunch today. Practice was Wednesday, so it was no problem that the condition was in a mess.

I woke up prancing to fill the void, and my phone was crying and I noticed a pile of missed calls. It was a call from Kwak Jun and Maru.

‘I don't want to drink it next time. ’

He got off the bus and called him. Guk Jun, who received the call, told me to wait there for a while. It was when I was waiting all around. I saw Kwak Joon gesturing on the other side of India.

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It's good.

It feels good to write at night.

But... it's going to get cold.

T

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