NIS Agent Reincarnated as a Genius Actor - Chapter 161
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Episode 161. Going to America (1)
About a week had passed since going to the small theater with his friends, and Kim Ju-hyeong’s script was still in the final stages, so there wasn’t much to do.
Jin Yu-han was busy with his musical performances, and the rest of his friends seemed to be going to the small theater almost every day, using it like their hideout.
Yeon-woo had given Jun-su and Seong-sik a mission to watch plays to get familiar with the atmosphere of Daehangno theater companies.
“I wonder if they’re watching properly.”
And Yeon-woo thought of another person he had given a mission to.
‘Han Hae-woon must be having quite a hard time too.’
Most of the people on the list Yeon-woo had given her were special agents he had come to know through various channels while working.
Of course, they had worked together on operations following Yeon-woo’s instructions a few times, but they didn’t really know Yeon-woo’s identity.
Since he always met them in disguise and with a different appearance, they only knew Yeon-woo from his previous life as an operation commander with the codename ‘Alpha Beta (αβ)’.
On the other hand, Yeon-woo was a black agent who could access almost all classified information, so he knew all their operation records and achievements inside and out.
Among them, he had selected those who were unlikely to be within Baeksol’s reach while having outstanding abilities, and passed that list to Han Hae-woon.
Yeon-woo picked up his smartphone and sent a message to Han Hae-woon.
– How’s it going? Is it working out well? If it’s difficult, let me know. I’ll help you.
Meanwhile, Han Hae-woon, who Yeon-woo was thinking about, was currently conducting comprehensive investigations starting from background checks on the people listed, to their recent activities, compiling numerous pieces of information to create profiles.
Having been an agent specialized in information analysis and extraction at the National Intelligence Service in her previous life, even though the workload was vast, her speed was quite fast.
Ding─.
Han Hae-woon picked up her smartphone to check the incoming message and saw it was from Ryu Yeon-woo.
Tap tap─.
– Han Hae-woon: Yes. I’m working on it step by step. Team Leader, you know quite a lot of remarkable people.
Han Hae-woon put down her smartphone and looked at the monitor.
“What kind of person is this one again.”
The more she dug, the more amazing people there were.
The list she was working on mainly consisted of colleagues from when Han Hae-woon served in the Special Forces in her previous life, but the people on the list Ryu Yeon-woo had instructed her to investigate were on a different level, even though there were fewer of them.
“Not even an instructor, but has a Gold Laurel Wing Badge and most records are classified…”
The Gold Laurel Wing Badge, also known as Gold Wing, is an honor awarded for completing over 1,000 high altitude parachute jumps.
Even jumping once a week, it would take nearly 20 years.
‘People who do this many jumps would hardly exist outside of the 707 Special Mission Battalion.’
Of course, it would be possible for an instructor teaching high altitude parachuting at the Special Warfare School, but given that most records were classified, he was undoubtedly a special agent who had been on actual missions.
‘But what that person is doing now is…’
Han Hae-woon looked at the monitor.
On the YouTube window she had open, there was an ordinary middle-aged man climbing a mountain alone while chattering away.
“Channel name is Tarzan TV with 16 subscribers.”
What that remarkable agent was doing after retiring and coming into society was being a completely unknown YouTuber.
For investigation purposes, she had of course analyzed the videos this person had uploaded.
The only notable thing was that they were really boring?
Those 16 subscribers were definitely all acquaintances.
‘The people on the list Team Leader gave me are all remarkable people and at the same time peculiar people.’
Simply put, they were eccentric people.
It seemed like she would have to work even harder to complete the list.
***
While he was contemplating what variety shows he could appear on for his fans, he received a call from the company.
– Caller: Team Leader Yoon Mi-yeon
‘Hmm, it’s Team Leader Yoon instead of Team Leader Jeong Hyeok, so this must be about “White Blood”.’
Yeon-woo picked up his smartphone and answered the call.
“Yes. Team Leader.”
– Actor Ryu. Good morning. A very good offer has come in, and while the company is still reviewing it, I called you first.
“A good offer?”
Since it was CEO Kim Ju-seong who said it would be good to take a break for a while, it probably wasn’t about a new project.
“Is it a variety show?”
– Yes. But it’s not a Korean variety show. We’ve received an offer from none other than “Friday Night Show”.
Yeon-woo paused for a moment and asked again.
“…You mean that American talk show?”
– That’s right.
Except for a few countries, foreign nations have weak domestic broadcasting capabilities, so they often import American broadcasts directly for regular programming.
“Friday Night Show” was a show that Yeon-woo quite enjoyed watching even when he was stationed overseas.
“So the casting offer came in for ‘White Blood’? What about the other actors?”
– The entire expedition team was included together. However, the condition was that Actor Ryu must appear.
It would be nice if the other cast members were also cast, but it meant the casting came in under the premise that Yeon-woo, the protagonist, would appear.
“Hmm, then I guess we’ll have to send our actors on a trip to America.”
At Yeon-woo’s words, Team Leader Yoon Mi-yeon’s laughter could be heard softly from the other end of the phone receiver.
– Then I’ll take that as acceptance and proceed with it.
“Yes. Thank you.”
After hanging up the phone, he fell into thought for a moment.
While he had acted calm during the call, Yeon-woo was of course quite surprised as well.
It had already been over two weeks since they held the Netflix 1st place position.
He had heard through Manager Kim Min-su that casting offers for overseas broadcasts and productions were coming in to some extent, but among them, “Friday Night Show”?
It was truly one of the talk shows with the highest viewership ratings worldwide.
“‘White Blood’ really did succeed.”
Even when “Sketch” won the Golden Bear award, the highest honor at the Berlin awards ceremony, there were no casting offers from American talk shows.
But unlike the Europe-centered film festivals, this was also a time when the growth of the OTT market was frighteningly large, and there were many Netflix viewers within America as well.
Therefore, the cast of “White Blood,” which was holding the global ranking 1st place, would be a box office card that American talk shows were drooling over.
As he was organizing his thoughts to some extent, Yeon-woo’s smartphone began vibrating.
When he picked up his phone to check, it was the “White Blood” group chat.
“White Blood Group Chat (5 people)”
– Dong-ha: Am I the only one who’s received contact so far?
– Han Byeol: What kind of contact?!
– Jeong Cheol-min: I just got contacted by LN. Is this a dream or reality.
– Han Byeol: What kind of contact is it!
– Jung Su-yeon: Byeol, aren’t you in class right now? Who told you to use your phone
– Han Byeol: Hiiing what kind of contact is iiit
Looking at the messages, Yeon-woo chuckled and started typing.
– Ryu Yeon-woo: We’re going to America. Let’s go out there once. Friday Night Show.
– Dong-ha: Ah hyung wait a minute, suddenly I’m tearing up
– Han Byeol: Wow! America? I’m going too? But what’s Friday that thing?
***
Jung Yong-ho is an English teacher who has been standing at the teaching platform for 20 years.
As soon as he finished his meal during lunch break, he headed to the class he was in charge of while holding his throbbing head.
As he approached near the classroom, he saw noisy sounds along with crowds gathered even in the hallway.
With “White Blood” being a huge hit, Han Byeol’s popularity at school was no less than, if not greater than, when Ryu Yeon-woo debuted.
And due to the nature of middle school students not knowing limits, it could lead to accidents if not careful.
“These kids are gathering here in droves again! Hurry up and go back to your respective classes!”
At Yong-ho’s stern command, the children scattered while grumbling.
“So annoying. What does it matter where we are during lunch break.”
“He’s the most old-fashioned among the 2nd grade homeroom teachers. Why is he like that.”
They probably whispered thinking they were speaking quietly, but complaints about oneself are always heard best.
However, Yong-ho didn’t come up here during his precious lunch break because he wanted to either.
Since Monday’s faculty meeting, the vice principal had given instructions to pay special attention to safety accidents and control students so they wouldn’t gather in crowds, so he had no choice but to come up to the classroom during break times and lunch breaks.
‘It’s all because of that kid.’
He looked at the female student with twin-tails laughing and chatting brightly with friends in the center of the classroom.
Honestly, many things had become troublesome because of one student in his class, so she didn’t look favorable to him.
He wasn’t originally fond of students who went into arts and physical education fields anyway, which made it worse.
‘Netflix or whatever, why is the entire school in an uproar just because she appeared in something that doesn’t even air on TV. Eventually she’ll just sparkle briefly and that’ll be it. I’ve seen kids like that once or twice since I started teaching.’
Jung Yong-ho, who usually didn’t watch Netflix, let alone general programming or cable channels, couldn’t grasp why everyone was making such a fuss.
Of course, since the news was also talking about it, he abstractly accepted that “White Blood” had accomplished something great, but that was the story of the protagonist Ryu Yeon-woo.
‘At most she’d be a child actor, so why is everyone making such a big deal.’
To Jung Yong-ho, Han Byeol’s existence was simply the only variable interfering with his wish for this year to pass by safely without any incidents.
Jung Yong-ho had no choice but to pull out the teacher’s desk chair and sit down to read a book throughout lunch break for accident prevention.
And after lunch break passed and all regular classes ended, Jung Yong-ho was handling his backlogged work.
Then, as the sunset came through the window and dyed the faculty office red, Han Byeol entered through the door.
“Teacher!”
Jung Yong-ho looked at Han Byeol.
“Why did you come here instead of going home?”
“I have some work, so I don’t think I’ll be able to attend school for the next few days…”
“Again? Your teacher knows you do acting, but you need to study during important times. For students, coming to school is absolutely the first priority. While I’ve been on the teaching platform, I’ve seen many kids who skipped school to do child acting, had a brief moment of success, then couldn’t do anything later on.”
Smart Han Byeol knew this even better.
Opportunities for child actors to get distinctive, major roles like Ella in “White Blood” were rare, and since there was no need to rush into continuing acting activities right now, she had put numerous love calls on hold and hadn’t even decided on a talent agency yet.
Even if she went to an arts high school, she had already reached an agreement with her parents that she would focus on school life for the time being.
“But this time it’s something I absolutely have to go to… The company said they’ll send an official document to the school by today.”
Actually, it wasn’t something that required the homeroom teacher’s permission, but Han Byeol thought it was proper etiquette to inform him in advance, so she stopped by the faculty office before leaving school.
At Han Byeol’s words, Jung Yong-ho frowned and asked in a somewhat sharp voice.
“What kind of work is it?”
“I’m going to appear on an American broadcast.”
“…America? Suddenly America? You didn’t get conned somewhere, did you?”
Just then, a fax arrived at the faculty office, and simultaneously Jung Yong-ho’s email inbox flashed.
“Oh! Teacher. I think the official document from the company has arrived.”
Jung Yong-ho looked at Han Byeol with suspicious eyes, then clicked on his email inbox.
After reading the official document sent by LN Media, he tilted his head.
“…Is this ‘Friday Night Show’ written here the one I know?”
“Huh? You know it too, Teacher? I honestly heard about it for the first time.”
Of course he knew it.
As an English teacher, the only thing Jung Yong-ho watched besides domestic broadcast channels was NBS Channel, which he started watching for English pronunciation since his days preparing for the teaching certification exam, and that channel’s flagship TV show for 20 years was “Friday Night Show.”
“…You’re going on there? Are you famous?”
At those words, Han Byeol tilted her head and smiled brightly.
“Hmm, probably just a tiny bit…?”
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