After the Divorce, I Found a Thousand Bitcoins - Chapter 102

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I Got Divorced and Found a Thousand Bitcoins Episode 102

Reviews about The Founding of the Great Korean Empire popup store began to appear.

[Went to The Founding of the Great Korean Empire popup store today.]

[In short, it was an epic popup store.

The 1st floor was decorated with the motif of the inn where the protagonist fell when he time-slipped to the Joseon era.

There were congratulatory messages from webtoon artists and unreleased stories were included too.

The 2nd floor was made with the motif of the nobleman’s house that the protagonist first purchased.

You could buy products here, but instead of some weird system with old coins, you could pre-purchase through an app and pick up items, avoiding congestion.

The climax was the 3rd floor.

It was designed like a palace. The dragon robe and weapons that the protagonist supposedly wore were displayed.

Plus, the congratulatory letter left by the original author was displayed in the form of a royal edict, which was nice.

You must go, it’s really a soft opening, but you could feel it was prepared for the original fans.]

All the reviews were positive.

The response from original fans was tremendous.

-Is it really this level of quality?

-Other people’s reviews were similar.

-But is it true that YouTubers can’t enter?

YouTubers who got tickets in advance can enter, but those who don’t have any are out of luck.

Actually, YouTubers who came to film on location weren’t allowed in and caused a ruckus.

-Not just YouTubers, reporters can’t enter either.

Really?

For real. It was truly an event for the real fans.

-It was comfortable to look around without reporters coming in.

-It felt like a service for fans rather than for promotion.

No wait, they totally butchered the original source material but now they’re actually doing this one properly.

Well, you’d have to see the original to know.

-Honestly, we’ll have to see the results of the original drift. They said at the production announcement that they modified it for global success.

But I still can’t accept it.

I’ll probably check out the pop-up store.

The original fans’ posts went viral and spread instantly across community sites.

The posts that spread under the name “good popup store” were made into videos on YouTube and Instagram, naturally creating promotion.

Meanwhile, negative articles appeared in succession in internet news.

[A Popup Store Closed to Media?]

[The A popup store that opened in Seongsu-dong is causing controversy by blocking media entry.]

You could tell these were articles written by reporters who were denied entry.

They tried hard to write negative articles, but the response was very poor.

-Looks like they wrote this article because they got pissed off after being blocked from entering the pop-up store lol

-Hey guys, is the article your personal blog? You couldn’t enter because you didn’t have tickets.

-These reporter bastards’ privileged class logic is amazing.

-Do we have to let you in just because you’re reporters?

The articles that were beaten up by netizens were taken down or disappeared below the surface.

Meanwhile, the soft opening period ended and the popup store’s official opening approached.

* * *

Kang Hyeon checked the current situation based on the report from KH Entertainment.

[The popup store operation will be run as fan service rather than for profit, and visitor satisfaction during the soft opening period was 98.8% very satisfied.]

The Founding of the Great Korean Empire popup store wasn’t an event opened to make money from the start.

From beginning to end, they spared no active investment for events and promotion for fans.

Since the group chairman said to produce the highest quality even at a loss, the popup store’s quality was literally made at another level.

Such efforts reached the fans too.

“I’m glad everyone is satisfied. Now I hope it officially opens and appeals to foreigners too.”

The biggest purpose of this popup store was to appeal The Founding of the Great Korean Empire to foreigners.

Since it’s a work released worldwide through Amazon Prime, they had to promote it to foreigners as well as Koreans.

“If this store does well, we should consider opening popup stores abroad too.”

For that, they had to succeed domestically as much as possible.

Even if they didn’t record profits, if visitor numbers increased and their satisfaction was high, he thought they should plan to run stores in other countries too.

‘Now it’s the real beginning.’

The popup store’s official opening was approaching.

* * *

When something goes viral on the internet, tremendous numbers of users gather.

Lee Jin-su knew this exactly.

“Double the staff compared to the soft opening.”

“Understood.”

“And we’re blocking reporters’ entry this time too. If they want to cover it, tell them to line up normally and enter. Same goes for YouTubers.”

“Yes.”

“As you know, this popup store isn’t for profit. Think of it as promotion and service for fans and approach it that way.”

“Yes, understood.”

After completing all preparations, the popup store’s official opening day arrived.

As expected, tremendous crowds gathered at the site, with lines stretching long before business hours.

“What’s this place that has so many people?”

“Is a new popup store opening?”

“What popup store? Is some luxury brand opening it for promotion?”

“Looks like some webtoon-related popup store?”

“Oh? That’s The Founding of the Great Korean Empire drama store.”

“What’s that?”

“You know, the work that became a hot topic recently with Bong Jun-seok as director.”

“Ah-! That! Should we check it out while we’re here?”

“But there are too many people in line?”

Passersby also stopped walking, curious about what popup store it was after seeing the line.

But they couldn’t easily join the waiting line.

Because waiting here would make it difficult to see other things.

Then people who appeared to be event staff talked to those in line, took pictures with smartphones, and soon they dispersed.

Passersby watching this asked one of the event staff.

“Why are the people in line leaving now?”

“Ah, to reduce your waiting time even a little, we send separate notifications when you can enter.”

“Wow…! That’s nice. How long would we wait if we line up now?”

“The current expected waiting time is 3 hours. You can view for 1 hour after entering.”

“Ah-! So you can’t stay indefinitely?”

“No. We have to limit viewing time to give more people a chance to look around.”

It seemed like a pretty good system.

One hour would definitely be enough to look around completely unless it was a particularly large store.

‘Plus, since you don’t have to waste waiting time here, you can look around other places and come back.’

Not having to wait directly was the biggest merit.

“We’ll register too!”

“Ah, then sorry, but if you stand in line back there, we’ll go and register you.”

“Ah, okay!”

Passersby naturally joined the line this way too.

Foreigners also became interested and started lining up, and the number of people registered in the app increased instantly.

Visitors who lined up early and entered were amazed by the store’s scenery.

“Wow! It’s well decorated.”

“It’s decorated well like some theme cafe?”

“It really feels like we’ve come to the Joseon Dynasty.”

“Let’s take pictures and post them on social media.”

Visitors took out their smartphones to photograph the interior and shared it on social media, creating natural promotion.

This was why KH Entertainment didn’t bother focusing on promoting through articles and YouTube.

Lee Jin-su came to the site personally to listen to these fans’ voices and smiled with satisfaction.

‘Sometimes promotion is necessary, but sometimes purely listening to fans’ voices becomes the greatest promotional tool.’

This pop-up store was intended for fans to voice their opinions and promote it themselves.

And that strategy was successful.

You could visibly see the fans’ expectations rising.

These thoughts soon manifested in numbers.

“The satisfaction ratings from first-day visitors are in.”

The next day.

Lee Jin-su received a report from his subordinate.

Visitors could rate their satisfaction through a dedicated app, and those results had come in.

“Among the visitors, 3,422 people responded to the survey, and of those, 3,122 people gave 5 stars, showing overwhelmingly positive results.”

Over 90 percent of visitors gave positive signals.

But Lee Jin-su wasn’t satisfied with that.

“What opinions did the remaining 10 percent give?”

“The most common complaint was that too many people entered the interior making it too crowded. Next was complaints about not being able to purchase items because desired products ran out of stock early…”

With so many people visiting, it was impossible to satisfy all visitors.

But they could listen to these complaints and make corrections.

“We’ll use the temporary building on the rooftop as a warehouse and secure maximum inventory.”

“Understood.”

“And let’s reduce the number of people entering the interior from current levels.”

“That would reduce daily visitors by about 30 percent.”

“That’s fine. Let’s focus more on increasing individual satisfaction.”

“Yes, understood.”

Lee Jin-su gave immediate feedback while focusing on the pop-up store’s success.

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The evaluation of the pop-up store improved as time went on.

Hearing such reports, Kang Hyeon could smile.

‘I don’t need to worry about this side anymore.’

While he had started the business, maintaining it was the job of Lee Jin-su and KH Entertainment staff.

And they were leading the store well by demonstrating their abilities to the fullest.

Seeing this, he could feel at ease.

‘Everything is going smoothly.’

Through reports, he heard that mining operations in India were proceeding stably.

Highway construction was the same.

Everything was perfect.

Then the internal line phone rang.

“Yes, go ahead.”

-Chairman, the Security Team Manager has requested a meeting.

“From the Security Team?”

-Yes, they said it’s an urgent matter and they’d like to meet as soon as possible.

“I understand. Let’s meet right now.”

-Understood.

He wore a somewhat puzzled expression at the meeting request from the Security Team.

‘Is there some kind of problem?’

The Security Team was newly established during the internal organizational restructuring.

The Security Team recruited Jeong Ye-dam, a security expert said to be the nation’s top level.

She was an unparalleled talent in security who completely sealed KH Group’s security upon joining.

The fact that she, who left no gaps, urgently contacted for a meeting created some anxiety.

Shortly after.

With a knock, the chairman’s office door opened and a woman with sharp features wearing glasses entered.

“Good day, Chairman.”

“Please come in. Sit over here.”

“Thank you.”

She greeted with military-like precision as if she had served in the army, then took her seat.

Kang Hyeon also sat in the head seat and asked her.

“You said you urgently needed to meet? Is there some problem?”

“Yes. There’s been a security issue.”

“Security? Don’t tell me there was an external attack?”

During internal restructuring, there had been attempts by Chinese personnel to infiltrate in large numbers, so his thoughts naturally went there.

But she shook her head.

“More precisely, a hole has appeared internally.”

“Internally? Wasn’t internal security perfectly sealed?”

“I apologize.”

“No. I didn’t say that to hear an apology. Please explain what happened.”

“Chairman, do you know a company called Dashi?”

Dashi.

Of course he knew it.

It was a major corporation, an e-commerce company used by the entire nation and listed on NASDAQ.

It was a company evaluated as having changed the paradigm of domestic distribution with their same-day delivery service called Dashi Delivery.

“I know it. But why bring that up suddenly?”

“There were movements attempting to infiltrate internally through Dashi.”

“What?”

What kind of talk was this?

There were movements attempting to infiltrate internally through Dashi?

“It seems Dashi’s app has been hacked.”

Kang Hyeon’s face hardened.

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