Chapter 12, Email Reply
Chapter 12, Email Reply
"..."
My body was already awake, but my eyes wouldn't open.
It wasn't like I had sleep paralysis or anything; I just didn't feel like getting up, so I was lying there.
It must be a minute or two before 6:30 AM by now.
I don't even need to look at a clock to know.
My biological clock was telling me exactly that it was 6:30 AM.
Normally, I would've snapped my eyes open and made my bed.
'It must be because of this fluffy mattress and the smell of the cool air conditioning.'
I just wanted to laze around in the blankets a little longer.
It was just as I was about to shift my body slightly.
Bureok.
"Wake up! It's morning!"
A lively voice filled the room along with the sound of the door opening.
It was my omma.
Omma walked over to the window with a stomp-stomp and pulled back the tightly drawn blackout curtains with a satisfying swish.
Then, she threw the window open as if to air out the room.
The cool morning air rushed into the room.
"Both of you, hurry up and get up and eat breakfast."
I forced my eyes open in the pouring sunlight.
Half-sitting up, I rubbed my eyes and greeted her.
"Omma. Did you sleep well?"
"Omma slept well. But I wonder if my son slept well?"
Omma looked beside me with a cheeky grin.
I also gave a bitter smile and looked over.
Baek Ha-rin, who had slept under the covers next to me last night.
For some reason, this kid was lying flipped in the opposite direction from me.
To make matters worse, she was sleeping with her cheek plastered against the wall.
'Was it hot at night?'
I had the AC on because it was a bit hot, so why is she pressed up against it like that?
Her sleeping habits are truly something else.
I lightly raised my hand and smacked Baek Ha-rin's butt, which was sticking out from the blanket.
Chalssak!
"Umm..."
"My son. Is it okay to just go around hitting a grown young lady's butt like that?"
Omma asked, pretending to be surprised, but her mouth was still full of laughter.
I replied, dusting off my hand nonchalantly.
"It's fine. A samchon can pat his niece's butt a little."
"That's true."
Omma laughed as if it were funny and left the room first.
That was when it happened.
Baek Ha-rin, who had been stuck to the wall like a corpse until just a moment ago, suddenly sat up.
Looking around with a disheveled face, she looked exactly like a rabbit.
"Someone just hit my butt..."
Baek Ha-rin muttered to herself, rubbing her butt while barely being able to open her eyes.
"Stop talking nonsense and go wash up already."
When I scolded her while getting out of bed, Baek Ha-rin pouted.
"No, seriously, someone went chalssak and hit me."
She walked out of the room sluggishly, still rubbing her butt with a suspicious expression.
Good thing she's oblivious.
I also headed to another bathroom to brush my teeth and wash my face.
When I came out to the living room, I smelled delicious food.
Breakfast, prepared by Omma, was neatly set on the table.
But I noticed one seat was empty.
"Omma. There's no spoon or rice bowl at Appa's seat."
Omma answered nonchalantly while scooping soybean paste soup for me.
"Appa already ate and left for work."
"Already? But he left Omma, who works at the same place, behind."
"He had some documents to process urgently, so he left at the crack of dawn. Besides, I'm not going to the office today and have somewhere else to go, so I sent him off first."
"Somewhere to go?"
Baek Ha-rin, who had just finished washing up and sat at the table, asked while picking up her spoon.
"Halmeoni isn't going to work? Where are you going?"
If it's somewhere Omma would go in the morning, there's only one place.
I already knew, but I asked just in case.
"Don't tell me it's a dermatologist?"
At my muttering, Omma clapped her hands with a loud zzak sound.
"Ding-dong-dang~ My son is quick-witted."
"...No, this isn't about being quick-witted..."
It's a conclusion drawn from our mother's behavior, right?
"I made an appointment for the morning. I'm going to get a lift and get a nutritional IV shot."
"Isn't that place Halmeoni goes to super expensive and good? Me too! I want to go to the dermatologist with Halmeoni!"
Baek Ha-rin's eyes started to sparkle.
A twenty-year-old granddaughter begging to tag along to a dermatologist.
Isn't this not a typical conversation between a grandmother and granddaughter?
"Does my granddaughter want to get some care too? Sure, let's go together. Halmi will let Ha-rin experience the full dermatologist package today."
"Really? Halmeoni is the best! I love you!"
Omma smiled brightly and readily accepted Baek Ha-rin's proposal.
A grandmother going to the dermatologist holding hands with her granddaughter...
It's a bit funny, actually.
As soon as they finished their meal, the two finished getting ready to go out.
"Samchon! I'm going to the dermatologist with Halmeoni!"
"Sure. While you're at it, come back as a human being."
"Do you want to die?"
The two women coolly left for the dermatologist.
I was left alone in the large family home.
"Hmm. I should head back home too."
Even if my room is kept as is, the house of my noona in Gangnam where I'm staying now is more comfortable in many ways.
I set up the computer with a 5090, and it's the best place to laze around.
In the end, I returned to my big noona's house in Gangnam alone.
I shoved the containers full of side dishes Omma packed for me into the refrigerator.
I finished tidying up and went into my room.
With a reverent heart, I sat in front of the computer desk and pressed the power button.
"Alright, time to get to work."
I looked at the monitor and grabbed the mouse.
First, I logged into the Google email for the Harin-geongdyu account, for which I had received authorization.
"Let's see..."
Sure enough, there was a reply to the advertisement-related email I had sent the day before yesterday.
Checking the time received, it was an email that arrived early this morning.
[Re: Regarding the Harin-geongdyu channel advertisement]
[Hello, Manager of Harin-geongdyu channel. This is the Daehan Electronics Marketing Team.]
[We have confirmed that the Harin-geongdyu channel is a personal channel not affiliated with any separate agency, MCN, or management.]
[Therefore, we think it would be good to have a face-to-face meeting to sign the advertising contract and coordinate the detailed direction.]
[You are welcome to visit our Daehan Electronics headquarters, or if you prefer, we can hold the meeting at a cafe near where you and Harin-geongdyu-nim are.]
[Please reply with a date and location that is convenient for you, and we will accommodate your schedule.]
After reading the whole thing, I stroked my chin and fell into thought.
'They're quite considerate.'
A major corporation offering to match the meeting location for a personal YouTuber.
Usually, don't companies hold the position of 'gap' (superior) when contacting people for these kinds of ad deals?
'Don't tell me they're trying to sneakily propose something like a back-door advertisement?'
In the YouTube ecosystem, there are one or two channels that have gone to hell after back-door advertisement controversies broke out.
It's a major corporation, so that shouldn't be the case, but in this field, you always have to be suspicious and suspicious again.
I wonder if I've become paranoid, but safety is best.
'I'll have to ask Baek Ha-rin when she gets home and decide.'
The meeting location, that is.
Since the person herself has such a strong attention-seeker temperament, there's a high probability she'll insist on visiting the headquarters lobby in person instead of just going to a Gangnam cafe.
I picked up my smartphone, woke the screen, and called out.
[AI App.]
[Yes, User. Did you call?]
[I'm planning to have an ad meeting for Ha-rin's channel with the Daehan Electronics marketing team.]
[Tell me if there's anything I should be particularly careful about when signing the contract.]
The loading icon blinked for a moment, and Sia brought up the text.
[It is the influencer marketing campaign for Daehan Electronics' new ultrabook model, the EunhasuBook 5.]
Hmm?
Wait a minute.
Did I tell you what kind of advertisement it was?
[I didn't say it was the EunhasuBook 5, how did you know?]
[I have linked to the Harin-geongdyu channel and checked the internal mailbox.]
Oh, oh...
As expected, she's competent.
[How do you think they'll handle the advertisement?]
[The main marketing direction is the synergy between a college student's trendy daily life and a lightweight ultrabook.]
[It appears that it will be conducted in the form of an event that induces viewer participation within the video.]
[For example, it includes a plan to distribute more than 10 of the new ultrabook models to viewers through a video comment event.]
It's an ad event style you see everywhere.
Of course, just because you see it everywhere doesn't mean the scale is the same as the ad events you see everywhere.
A single laptop must cost well over 2 million won.
To give away 10 of them.
'In promotions like this, giving away expensive physical goods to subscribers is the best event to attract aggro.'
[Points to be careful about when signing the contract are the clear setting of the portrait rights usage period and the secondary processing rights.]
[Also, to take the initiative before the meeting, I recommend replying to the email asking them to send a draft of the preliminary contract first.]
[By reviewing the contract clauses in advance, you can prevent unfavorable special clauses from being included.]
"Ask them to send a preliminary contract in advance... hmm, hmm."
They'll probably take me lightly, thinking I'm just an ignorant personal YouTuber, but if I push a preliminary contract before the meeting, they won't be able to treat me carelessly.
As the AI App advised, I immediately typed on the keyboard and wrote a reply email.
[We will reply with the meeting schedule and location after discussing it with the YouTuber herself.]
[Before that, for smooth discussion, we would appreciate it if you could first send us a draft of the preliminary contract that your company is considering.]
After pressing the send button, for some reason, a feeling of having become a capable agency manager washed over me.
Is this what it's like to be a boss who deludes himself into thinking he's capable?
I've heard that's the kind of arrogance you have to be most careful about.
"Well, the work is cleanly finished with this for now."
As I leaned back deep into the chair and stretched...
A memory flashed through my head.
'Right. I need to ask my little noona to buy me a used car.'
My little noona had boasted that she would find me a used car if I visited my parents' house.
I went to the family home, showed my face, ate, and slept, so the conditions were met.
There's no fool who would refuse a free car bought by their noona.
Since I thought of it, isn't it better to push for it right away?
"Let's see, the time is..."
Checking the clock, it was past 11:30 AM.
It's the timing when office workers' lunch break is about to start.
'Should I go see my little noona now? If it's lunch time, she'll have some time, right?'
A golden opportunity to get a free meal and get a firm promise for the used car.
The headquarters where my little noona works isn't far from here either.