41. Production Announcement (1)
After the Korean language class, Won Hashin gave a brief tour of the house.
"You can use the bathroom next to this room, and if you get hungry at night, you can get food from the refrigerator. If you're thirsty, you can use the water purifier. Oh, I'll teach you how to use it."
After learning how to use the water purifier and drinking a liter of water at once, Neoul returned to his room.
Left alone, Neoul finished self-torture with shampoo and body wash, which he had become somewhat accustomed to, and threw his fragrant body on the bed.
"Ugh."
The bed made of woven seaweed in Neoul's quarters in the eastern annex of the Yonggung Palace gently swayed and hugged his body when he jumped in. The beds of humans kept trying to bounce his body back, so he still hadn't gotten used to it.
The bed at Won Hashin's house was much wider, softer, and more comfortable than the bed he had used at the Jeju Island lodging. The blanket was also soft and light, so it felt good to the touch.
Neoul fell asleep in an instant.
***
Ahead of the first episode,
Not only some viewers who are crazy about survival shows, but also the general public somewhat known 'Idol Survival on FLu'.
- I've always been going crazy because there's nothing to watch but this one seems pretty good. The trailer smells like it's going to be fun.
└It seems really boring. What kind of survival show has a healing concept..
└└Agree. Where's the healing in survival?
- Unet too, these guys have nothing else to do but survival. Why are they so obsessed with survival?
└Because it makes money.
└Unet and HBC are the ones who keep releasing new seasons, and FLu is doing it for the first time. And there are a lot of fun programs that you haven't seen.
- Why are there so few characters? They're all so bad
└Are your eyes glued to the back of your head? Of all the survival shows they've done so far, the appearance is the best and skills are the best ever.
└Why are you so angry? ㅋㅋㅋ What the hell is it that makes you angry? It's like you're criticizing without even watching the performance or the videos that were uploaded.
└└That's right. The kids that were in the preview are the ones who came to the art gallery to find a lost piece, but if you say there are no characters, then what kind of toads are all the people in the world?
└Well... I don't agree that the entire survival show is the best ever. To be honest, out of 81 participants, there seem to be only 10 or 12 that really stand out.
└└? It hasn't even aired episode 1, but isn't that already a lot??
└Gal Neoul is so handsome.
└└It looks like he got plastic surgery
└Judging from the fact that they're already getting a lot of attention, it must be really successful ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
- This time, I'm looking forward to the Survival's skills. How confident are they that they'd do a blind vote? Looking at the individual performances of Signal Song, Baek Yuri's vocals were crazy. Yeo Do-bin? He also has a husky tone and good vocal skills, so he's cute, but his impression is that of a school bully. I think there'll be controversy, so I'll pass in advance.
└There are many cases where gangsters are actually soft-hearted. It's a bit too early to judge..
└Physiognomy is science
└└Physiognomy is science, right? It's determined by genes, so ㅠㅠ But it doesn't affect personality! I'm also a cold-looking timid person, so I get misunderstood a lot, and it's upsetting to hear such thingsㅠㅠㅠ
└└└My favorite is also a gangster, but he meows so cutely. He's a baby.
└Ha... Yeo Do-bin is my type. I have another man to love....
- As someone who values vocals the most, Baek Yuri, Gal Neoul, and Yeo Do-bin are the real deal! But all three of them have different vibes that make my heart flutterㅠㅠㅠㅠ Solid and plain vs. dreamy vs. husky.. Baek Yuri and Gal Neoul are the epitome of a vocalist, so it would have been great to have a showdown. Okay, just let them all debutㅠㅠ
└Ah, seriouslyㅠㅜ I wish they would come out with a group that's all full without any vocal holesㅠㅠㅠ
└All three of them have crazy faces.. Soft and innocent first love senior vs classic handsome guy with lots of facial features vs sexy two-arched cold handsome guy
└Face is smaller than Lee Gal-chae. He's still young so he has some baby fat left, but this guy's face will really grow up later.
└Doesn't Baek Gi-yeom look like a cheerful guy, neat and cool? He seems like a person who doesn't discriminate between women and men?
└Kim Ji-rok's eyebrow scratch is really sharp.
- The woman who cried and complained after her favorite was eliminated... I have a feeling she'll shed tears this time too..
└I'm really sorry. When I pick them, they fall all the timeㅠㅠㅠ It's been 3 years since the end of the Survival, but the agency hasn't let him debut and is just collecting moneyㅠㅠㅜㅠㅜㅠㅠ
└└I also got tired of it and quit.. I'm curious about what happened with the 80 people in the pre-release, so I'll watch it, but I don't want to get into it.
└└└People who say things like this are always obsessed with it, and they dig up their accounts and become more diligent fans than anyone else..
└└└└Getting into it is like a traffic accidentㅠㅠ There's nothing I can doㅠㅠㅜㅠㅜㅠㅠ
The comments section was filled with negative and positive responses.
In fact, the ratio of negative responses was higher, but as the saying goes, "more malicious comments are better than no comments," the steadily increasing number of views and comments were definitely positive signals.
In the midst of the chaotic and excited atmosphere and light interest, attention was focused on the production presentation, an event where the cast could be seen in person.
***
Neoul, who had taken a liking to studying Korean and repeated previews and reviews all day long outside of class hours, has now developed to the point where he can confidently read out loud not only storybooks but also required reading for elementary school students.
Although he was still awkward with spelling in dictation, he soon caught up with Dongdong's progress.
Although it was an eagle-type typing method, he also learned how to write text messages on a smartphone and how to search the Internet.
[Hyung-nim, hyung-nim!! Emergency!!! Don't you have a Totok ID?!]
He also found and read the text message that Woo Cheong had sent him two days ago.
He asked Won Hashin what Totok was and replied to him personally.
[He's making it now.]
[Who?]
[CEO Won Hashin.]
[Who is CEO Won Hashin?]
[Wooww rly rly rly wow! CEO Won Hashin of H.A.D. Enter?]
[That's right.]
[? That's right? Why will he create Hyung-nim Toktok ID for you?]
[They said that if he makes it, I'll use it often?]
[No, no!! That's not what I'm curious about! What is the identity of Raccoon Hyung-nim?! How do you get along so well with him? A friend? A relative?]
[My aunt's acquaintance.]
[Wow, awesome.]
It was unfair that Neoul had to call the sea priestess, who was over two thousand years old, not his ancestor or grandmother, but his aunt, but anyway, he tried to roughly write down in a humane way that he knew the sea priestess.
Anyway, he installed a messaging app and made an ID, and he learned Arabic numerals, so now he could recognize an electronic clock.
At first, Neoul's smartphone only had the sea priestess' number, but soon the number of numbers saved gradually increased, and the numbers of Woo Cheong, Dongdong, Won Hashin, Baek Gi-yeom, and Baek Yuri were saved.
[Woo Cheong: Invitation completed!]
[Baek Gi-yeom: Oh, Gal Neoul-i~ Finally, you've joined the group chat!]
[Go Woon-goo: (Welcome emoji)]
[Kamae Daiki: (bowing emoji)]
[Woo Cheong: (slyly smiling and clapping, crazy emoji)]
"...?"
Neoul looked at the moving pictures on the screen carefully and ran to Won Hashin to show them.
"I want this too."
"Huh?"
"Please teach me how to do this too."
"Huh? Why do you need emoticons?"
Won Hashin paid for the emoticon subscription while looking nervous. After telling him how to download and use emoticons, Neoul returned to his room satisfied.
Neoul also sent a text message to Baek Yuri as writing practice.
[Sir Baek Yuri.]
After staring blankly at the screen for a while, a reply arrived.
[Neoul? Did you learn Korean?]
Oh? If you pretend, you pretend. You noticed right away.
Neoul was proud and answered as if bragging.
[Yes.]
[I see. Is Won Hashin ssi a trustworthy person? If you were taken to the lab or forcibly injected, please shake a carrot.]
Laboratory? Injection? Carrot?
There were a lot of words he didn't know, so he didn't understand them well, but he wrote the text roughly.
[I wasn't dragged anywhere and was lying on the bed in a comfortable room, shaking my feet.]
[Did someone draw your blood or stab you?]
[They dug up something in the yard and cut it up with a knife to make food.]
[That's fortunate.]
After finishing his text with Baek Yuri, Neoul played around with the search function this time. In particular, searching for words that he had heard before but didn't understand was a great learning experience.
And after a while.
[Woo Cheong: (Woo Cheong gave you 4 'Fat Watermelon Jelly' as a gift!)]
[Woo Cheong: Gift! Pung! Let's all eat it and debut together!]
Woo Cheong sent something strange to the group chat. Neoul ran back to Won Ha-shin's room and showed it to him and asked.
"Woo Cheong gave me something to eat as a gift. How do you eat it? My hand won't go in and I can't take it out."
"Shake the phone and it will come out."
"Like this?"
"Harder."
"Like this?"
"Will the jelly come out like that? You have to shake it harder and harder to get it out...…."
Wow!
Neoul shook his smartphone vigorously and accidentally dropped it. The flying machine broke the window and fell somewhere in the garden.
"Huh..?"
Won Hashin, who had been laughing while watching Neoul shake his smartphone vigorously after being fooled, quickly shut his mouth.
There was a display case next to the window, and it was filled with expensive Gundam robots that Won Hashin had bought overseas. They were all rare items.
Won Hashin felt a chill down his spine at the thought that the display case and his hard-earned collection almost got smashed.
There was silence for a moment.
"That... That window isn't made of glass that breaks easily... right?"
Won Hashin muttered, lost in thought.
Neoul opened his mouth in embarrassment and apologized.
"I'm sorry for breaking the window."
"No. Thank you for breaking the window."
"Huh?"
"It was cold because of the air conditioner, but thanks to it, it's warm and nice. Haha. Hahaha. Ha...."
Won Ha-shin looked at the safe display case and promised himself that he would never play pranks on Neoul again. Then, he took Neoul out and showed him how to buy jelly with a coupon at the convenience store.
Won Ha-shin sighed inwardly, feeling like he had a nephew who was annoying and difficult.
***
On the day of the production presentation.
Neoul, who was about to go out wearing random clothes after emptying the refrigerator early in the morning, was grabbed by the scruff of his neck by Won Hashin.
"Are you really going to wear this?"
"...? Yes!"
Neoul confidently answered that the clothes he wore during the entire filming in Jeju were the practice clothes he had worn.
"No! They will film you as you go, but this is not it!"
Won Hashin screamed at him to wear a white T-shirt and jeans instead. In the end, he wore whatever Won Hashin had chosen for him and got in the car of Secretary Song, who had come to work early in the morning to pick him up.
As soon as he arrived, he had to get his hair and makeup done and change clothes. It was the flight attendant uniform he had worn when filming the group performance video.
'If this was going to happen, why did you bother arguing about clothes all morning?'
As I was being dragged around blankly as I was told, several other participants who were being dragged around similarly passed by and said hello. Since there were 81 participants, it was so crowded that it was quite chaotic.
"Hey~ Good morning~"
"Hello...!"
Ha On-ha and Yeo Do-bin came together and said hello, then each got their makeup done and changed their clothes and came back.
Ha On Ha said.
"Did you hear that?"
"What does that mean?"
"We don't go to the set on the day of our first broadcast. Those who are going to watch together should apply for a self-cam and take it and film their reactions."
"I see."
"That's why I'm looking for an angel who will provide a house to watch the broadcast together. Won't you lend a helping hand to the homeless lambs?"
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