Chapter 156
Chapter 156
Episode 156 Kimberlite (2)
“Master Pi Hyeon-deuk. Success.”
The moment I finished speaking.
Pi Hyeon-deuk looked at me with a blank expression.
“Yes?”
I smiled and opened my mouth again.
“It’s a pass.”
But he still looks at the judges with a look that he doesn’t understand.
After all, it’s been five minutes since he entered the interview room. During that time, all he did was answer my questions, so it was not unreasonable for him to be so embarrassed.
just as expected.
“uh… I… Did I do nothing?”
Pi Hyeon-deuk, who has managed to recover his expression, looks at me and says:
He has a face that no matter how hard he looks, he can’t find a reason to be accepted.
OK.
“… Teacher… Still, shouldn’t we see Sigang? No matter how much he liked him, there was a procedure… .”
Eunsol, who was sitting next to me as a judge, also spoke to me in a cautious tone.
When I glanced around, the other judges were also making similar expressions to Eunsol.
They all look like they need to check their basic skills so that they won’t come out behind the scenes.
‘Hmm… .’
I nodded. Well, unless you’ve watched the poetry show yet, if you include Hyeon-deuk Pi in the instructors as it is, you’ll be told behind-the-scenes.
However.
‘Isn’t it enough to be an instructor?’
I had no intention of using Hyeondeuk Pi as a lecturer.
As long as I know his true identity, treating him as ‘Korean Language Instructor 1’ was a huge loss to me and Korea.
‘It’s like boiling a spicy soup with 7-stranded sea bream.’
So if you don’t have a seat… had to make
Because Pi Hyeon-deuk was like a lottery ticket with a confirmed winner.
I glanced at the judges who were looking at me with concern.
“Do not worry. Because I didn’t pass Professor Hyeon-deuk Pi into a general lecturer position.”
Then Pi Hyeon-deuk looks at me with a puzzled expression.
his eyes are like
‘Are you kidding me right now? If it’s not for the director, just sure!’
It was like saying
He actually told him I passed, so he might sound like he’s teasing him to his point of view.
But I had no intention of making fun of him.
because.
“Mr. Hyeondeuk Pi will be active as an important factor in my new project this time.”
Because there was a project planned just for him.
Let me say it with a serious expression.
“Jeon… I applied as an instructor… .”
Pi Hyeon-deuk responds with a confused expression.
It seemed that it was difficult to make a judgment as it was a sudden situation.
It was a positive reaction.
Originally, fishing was my taste to catch the fish I was trying to catch when I was losing my mind.
I looked at him with the most friendly expression possible.
“I know. But I promise you you won’t regret it.”
Then he scratches his head with an expression that he doesn’t know why.‘It is natural that fish do not know the heart of a fisherman.’
a few days ago.
‘Why is this person here?’
When Pi Hyeon-deuk’s name is found in the list of interviewees. I looked through the USB again just in case.
then in it.
[…] Hyeon-deuk P, who won the Man Booker Prize for his novel at the young age of 45 in 2035, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2045, 10 years later… ]I was able to find a test fingerprint with Pi Hyeon-deuk’s name clearly written on it.
‘also. I wasn’t wrong.’
Of course, it could have been the same person.
[Writer Pi Hyeon-deuk, who was born in OO-gu, OO Metropolitan City in June 1989, graduated from the Department of Korean Language and Literature at OO University… ]The result of cross-verifying the content in the fingerprint and the personal information in the application form.
‘Are you a jerk?’
He could be judged to be the same person with a 99.99999% chance.
‘Because it is not so common to be born in June 1989 with the name Hyeon-deuk in the PC surname.’
Then a sudden thought occurred to me.
‘No, why do people who need to write novels put their resumes in the academy?’
Pi Hyeon-deuk is 30 years old. Considering that most famous domestic writers start to stand out in their early to mid 20s. There were not as many cases in which writers, like Pi Hyeon-deuk, who failed to make a single quality work, made great strides later.
So, if he was a person who had talent and aspirations for novels, he needed to pursue a career in fiction and put all his energy into it.
But as he pondered it, his situation made sense.
‘Actually, it’s definitely something you can do with the local university’s Korean department.’
Korean language and literature.
In other words, starving.
It is a department where you can learn subjects that are not related to employment throughout the four years.
Medical employment rate 88%
Dentistry employment rate 86%
3. Oriental Medicine 78%
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[The wall of the fourth dimension that cannot be crossed].
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104. Mathematics 37%
105. Korean Language and Literature 36%
Out of all 120 departments, the department boasts 105th employment rate.
And most of those 36% quit their jobs after one year because they couldn’t stand the uncertain future after going back and forth between small publishers, young writers at broadcasting companies, school instructors, and study room teachers.
‘Iron rice bowl Gazua!’
The Korean Language Department was a beautiful place to fall into the maze of civil service exams.
‘It’s not just a saying that 5th graders go to Noryangjin for Korean language studies.’
So, it was actually surprising that Pi Hyeon-deuk continued to write novels while working as a lecturer.
It was like holding a lion when a lecturer from a starving department who had no connection to push and pull, and who didn’t even make a penny, died.
In an instant, I felt my hands and feet tingle.
Come to think of it, the French Competition Prize, the British Man Booker Prize, and finally the Swedish Nobel Prize for Literature.
A person who has received two awards among the so-called three major literary awards in the world.
And among them, the highlight is by far.
“Nobel Prize for Literature”
In fact, it’s like a competition prize or a Man Booker prize.
‘A contest? Man Booker? Well… Isn’t Man Booker the award that the OO writer received? what? Do you know where it is held? Hey, how do I know that?’
Most people didn’t even know that these awards existed until a Korean author won the International Man Booker Prize in 2016.
‘Nobel Saang? Of course you know! Who doesn’t know that!’
The recognition itself of the Nobel Prize for Literature was different.
After recommending writers several times at the request of the Swedish Academy of Sciences in the 1980s, some Korean writers are being mentioned in the media as nominees for the Nobel Prize every year. It was because even people who were not interested in literature would hear about the Nobel Prize for Literature at least once a year.
whatever anyway
‘Nobel Prize? What do you do with that?’
Although there are more and more people who do not appreciate the value of the Nobel Prize in Literature as much as before…
1968, Kawabata Yasunari, Japan.
1995, Kenzaburo Oe, Japan.
2012, Mo Yan, China.
The rivals of fate, boasting history and tradition, have already produced several Nobel Prize winners in literature.
‘In Japan, you can’t lose even rock-paper-scissors!’
‘China and Japan all ride, why can’t we?’
‘Literature, translation, and education must all be awakened!’
The weight of that name was still quite heavy.
‘Because pride is important.’
Therefore, receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature for Pi Hyeon-deuk was an individual honor and at the same time could be a symbol of protecting the cultural pride of the Korean society.
‘Of course, 25 years later.’
However… What if I played a role in speeding up the process a little bit?
And if you can establish yourself as the person who raised Korea’s first Nobel laureate through him?
So what about it?
It was clear that the effect would have a greater effect than building dozens of academy buildings or sending out hundreds of TV commercials.
But in order to do that, one problem had to be solved.
That’s right.
‘The question is how to take care of Pi Hyeon-deuk… .’
That he had to find a way to take care of Pi Hyeon-deuk.
He knew for sure that he would win the Man Booker Prize and the Nobel Prize for Literature, but that didn’t mean he didn’t understand the entire world of his work.
So, with my clumsy skills, I pretended to be Pi Hyeon-deuk’s guide.
‘uh… Wasn’t it this mountain?’
If an accident occurred when climbing the mountain, all efforts up to that point would be in vain.
No, it’s a mountain. If you get on the wrong road, you go down the road and go up again.
‘Life goes down and can’t go up again… .’
So if you don’t have the confidence to find a way, it might be better not to touch it.
If that happens, even though it will take a little longer, the future where Pi Hyeon-deuk wins the Man Booker Prize and the Nobel Prize for Literature will not change.
‘under… Is there no way?’
However?
‘uh?’
The solution was unexpectedly close.
The moment I searched for the name of Hyeondeuk Pi and the title of the novel he wrote on the USB just in case.
[…] It was raining outside the window, and the inside of the room was as cold as an aquarium. The thick sweater I had just taken out of the box had the smell of insect repellent… ]language, of course.
[…] A chubby fly was sitting on top of the window. Because of the lack of wind, Wet flag is an ancient Roman senator… ]English.
[…] He opened his notebook and read over and over the sentences of , which he had transferred there. Sweat dripping down my eyebrows and hair… ]The contents of his life and the world of his work, even in Korean history prints, appeared on the monitor.
‘Good! If you use it well, you can take care of it enough.’
Although it was segmented information, after collecting overlapping and non-overlapping parts for each part, a pretty good guideline was created.
‘Now all that’s left is… It’s just a matter of catching real money.’But it didn’t seem like it would take too long.
because.
“… What kind of project is it?”
Because Pi Hyeon-deok was looking at me with a face mixed with a bit of embarrassment and curiosity.
‘I got caught.’
I opened my mouth towards him with the feeling of holding a biting fish.
“It’s a project that gives full support to talented writers like Mr. Pi Hyeon-deuk to debut as writers.
OK.
“… … .”
A light of conflict appears on Pi Hyeon-deuk’s face.
He certainly seemed to want to follow in his heart, but… … .
‘It’s not uncommon to get an offer like this all of a sudden after coming to an interview with an instructor.’
But there are still many other applicants left. I couldn’t help but wait for Hyeondeuk Pi’s answer.
‘Hey, I didn’t want to do this again, but… .’
Reluctantly, I decided to tolerate the shriveling of my fingers.
I opened my mouth slowly toward Pi Hyeon-deuk, who was bowing my head.
“You have to try the impossible to get your hands on the impossible.”
It is the dialogue of the main character in his novel.
It was the words that the protagonist came up with in the face of a huge threat.
It was definitely a good thing. To be honest, the level of cringing was different between reading typeface and reading aloud.
Of course, even that was taken and spit out… … .
“Teacher?”
Eunsol, of course.
“… haha.”
Let’s make sure that even the other instructors are looking at me with puzzled expressions.
‘Did you do this for nothing? .’
It was true that I was a little embarrassed. Probably because they said something out of the ordinary at an unexpected time.
However.
“uh… how?”
Fortunately, it seems to have worked quite well for Pi Hyeon-deuk.
If it had been a face close to the NO side in [YES vs NO] until a while ago.
Because now he was looking at me with a face close to the YES side.
He hesitated for a moment as if to open his mouth, then opened his mouth with a hard expression.
“I will accept that offer.”
I smiled and nodded my head.
Now, once you’ve passed one hurdle… Just one more check and you’re done.
I asked him with high expectations.
“Can I know the title of the novel you are writing?”
OK.
“It’s called .”
Hyeondeuk Pi answered in a calm tone.
bingo.
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The fingerprint above
by Haruki Murakami
“If I Go Another Month and Cross the Snow Mountain” by Kim Yeon-soo
Note that it was quoted from