Become A Music Monster Overnight! [EN]: Chapter 70

Music Monster Overnight! Episode 61

The reason for adding China to the concert, which was originally planned only for Japan and Korea, is, of course, because the current Chinese market is so tempting.

Just look at the G1 band, which is active in China following Japan.

The G1 band, riding the Korean Wave called K-pop, continues to sell out concerts every day. In particular, album sales are skyrocketing unbelievably.

Even the few merchandise items available are quickly running out.

The G1 band is generating sales comparable to those of Blue Rose, which was a huge hit in Korea, so YC Entertainment couldn’t help but consider entering the Chinese market.

“……I never thought I would be the one to recommend entering China first.”

Even Tokashima, who had been watching Mania Entertainment go bankrupt in real-time after entering China, was recommending it.

What’s even more frightening is that the massive Chinese economy is still growing at an incredible rate.

From the outside, the future looks bright, which is why domestic entertainment companies are desperately trying to enter China.

Because of this, there were talks within YC Entertainment about making large-scale investments, at least as much as in Japan.

“So that’s why he went crazy and jumped into China.”

Of course, as someone who knows how things will turn out through imprinted memories, I couldn’t accept that.

“How can I explain that the Korean Wave Restriction Order (限韓令) [Hán Hàn Lìng – a series of restrictions on Korean cultural exports to China] will be suddenly issued in three years?”

The moment the Korean Wave Restriction Order is issued, any feet, legs, or heads extended into China will be cut off.

The atmosphere, which had been advocating and enjoying the Korean Wave, turned hostile in an instant, to the point where common sense no longer applied.

This was the scary thing about communist countries.

This kind of system, which doesn’t care about controlling information, could at least outwardly create the appearance that the Korean Wave trend had changed.

Knowing how badly he was burned in my memories because of this, I took a passive approach to China.

“There is no one, neither people nor government, that we can trust in that country. We will maintain our current distance.”

Of course, it was still possible to generate a considerable profit with just that, so Black Tiger’s entry into China became almost certain.

As the scale of the concert tour expanded to include Northeast Asia, we had to put more effort into preparing for the concert.

There was someone who enjoyed watching us prepare for our comeback as much as any hardcore fan.

It was Director Hong Eui-chan.

He mentioned the Blue Rose documentary-style entertainment show and requested that our practice scenes also be filmed like a documentary.

“??”

When I first heard the request, I thought it was absurd, wondering if it was really necessary since we weren’t idols, but I allowed it after hearing from within that fans would definitely like it.

And as a result, I experienced the stalking that he had often suffered in my memories in real-time.

“Hehehehe.”

In the middle of practice, a suspicious laugh passed by my ears.

Especially when practicing guitar solos, this laughter became even more sinister.

Since it was an indoor band practice room, it seemed the uncles couldn’t hear it, but as someone with perfect pitch and extremely sensitive hearing, I couldn’t help but hear it even if I didn’t want to.

Because of this, I couldn’t help but frown during practice, and then I would hear another grumbling sound.

“Tsk~ I wish those lumps would move aside. Why do they keep blocking my view!”

I don’t know what Director Hong Eui-chan saw, but it was clear that he had forgotten what he was doing.

‘Kwak Do-hoon uncle has been going to the dermatologist every day for the first time in a while because of the broadcast shoot. He should film him a bit.’

Of course, regardless of the grooming, it was still quite difficult to recommend him since his appearance was still quite burdensome to capture on camera.

At first, he said he would only film in the practice room, but as time went on, Director Hong Eui-chan became more blatant.

He was following me around like a stalker, openly stalking me.

“Ah~ It’s always new. It’s thrilling. YC is the best after all.”

“…….”

Then, when he caught something in the middle, he would mutter something chilling like that to himself.

If I hadn’t had the experience of being stalked in my memories, I might have had sleepless nights.

Fortunately, Director Hong Eui-chan’s documentary filming (as he claimed) ended in less than fifteen days.

Fifteen days wasn’t short, but it was surprising considering the crazy stalking he had done.

But there was a good reason for that.

Because we had to start filming the music video for Black Tiger’s first full-length album title track, “brilliant struggle.”

The preparation for this music video seemed to be ending sooner than expected.

The music video set was already being built, and if there were no variables, filming would begin next week.

“The music video storyboard was good too.”

Even though I cherished “brilliant struggle” so much, the reason I finally released it wasn’t just because I was greedy for a collaboration with a legendary band.

Rather, it was because the purpose of this collaboration was good.

We needed a song suitable for the Genesis Project for a cancer patient charity concert, and he, who had seen cancer patients going through a desperate yet brilliant struggle, eventually decided to dedicate “brilliant struggle.”

That thought was no different this time.

I decided to dedicate “brilliant struggle” to them again.

When I said I would dedicate the song that had been praised as the most magnificent and desperate in rock history, there were many opinions within the company.

But the majority of the public opinion leaned towards my side.

They thought it wouldn’t be a waste in terms of promotion.

In line with the opinion of the PR team, it was decided that this song would be released in both Korean and English versions to create a more proper stage.

There were still some who said that the funds that “brilliant struggle” would bring in were a waste, but this amount of loss was not a big loss for me now.

Because I was finally facing the third settlement period for Bitcoin, where I could make the most money.

As October began, Bitcoin began to go wild in earnest.

The coin price, which had been fluctuating slightly, finally recovered to $100.

Of course, it later fell back to below $100, but it was impossible to stop the already determined trend.

Eventually, Bitcoin surpassed the $200 mark again in mid-October.

From this point on, Bitcoin flowed similarly to the flow in my memories.

The reason I said it was similar was that from this third settlement, the price and flow in my memories began to differ.

“This can’t be helped.”

The reason why there had to be a difference was that the Bitcoin I currently held exceeded 10% of the market.

During the second settlement, the proportion was less than 3%, but by buying at the low point of $50, the proportion increased to this level.

As such, in this third settlement, I had to sell well enough to avoid affecting the flow as much as possible.

“In the original history, it exceeded $1,178.”

If possible, if I could sell the Bitcoin I bought in the $50 range at that price, I could make more than 20 times the profit.

However, since the coin market was not yet that large, I aimed to make more than 12 times the profit.

I wanted to aim for more than 15 times if I could, but going that far risked other operation teams cashing out early.

This coin market, which is incomparable to the stock market and impossible to predict, made it possible to earn 12 times the current proportion only because I knew the history.

“……The coin market isn’t over yet either.”

Knowing that a market that is incomparable to the current coin market will be formed in just four years, I had no intention of overdoing it in this settlement.

Above all, I knew well through him that money was only a means.

Unlike other entrepreneurs, the more I guided the K-pop market to become healthier and the more I succeeded in forming a market that could be easily exposed worldwide, the more YC Entertainment could hold enormous funds that were incomparable to the coin market.

“Well, money is good though. The more money you have, the easier it is to form such a market.”

Unlike him, who entered this market in his teens, money was the only way to advance the time I belatedly entered the entertainment industry.

Bitcoin, which had been quiet for a while, began to show signs of another surge from November.

Then, in an instant, it exceeded $300, and soon the momentum rose to exceed $500.

“Ah…… It’s fast. Faster than I thought.”

In the coin price in my memory, it exceeded $500 ahead of mid-November, so it was about four days faster.

“I shouldn’t be greedy after all.”

I shook off the greed that was slowly emerging as the price continued to run towards $600 without hesitation even after exceeding $500.

The next day, as soon as it exceeded $600, I sold off 5% of my stake five times.

Even though I sold off 25% of the total amount, fortunately, the upward trend did not stop.

The next day, when it exceeded $650, I sold off another 5% five more times.

I sold off another 25%, but this time too, the upward trend did not falter. Rather, it even showed a momentum as if to ask for more.

‘This is troubling.’

The greed that I thought I had shaken off began to rear its head again.

Thanks to this, I hesitated for a moment, and the hesitant price had already exceeded $800.

Madness. It was a flow that could only be explained by that word.

Rather, thanks to this madness, I was able to come to my senses again.

After that, I sold off another 40% over two days.

Perhaps because of me, Bitcoin, which had been rising madly during these two days, seemed to be pausing as if to catch its breath.

What’s left is now 25%.

From now on, I decided to watch the atmosphere and sell it off as high as possible.

I decided to wait until the end of November, when it peaked according to the flow of the original history.

There was a risk of facing a crash, but I had already made so much money that I could afford that risk.

If you convert the dollars that came in into Korean won at the current exchange rate, it would easily exceed 3 trillion won [approximately $2.5 billion USD].

It goes without saying that a significant portion of these incoming dollars will be converted into shares of American companies.

In addition to the stocks of ultra-giant dinosaurs such as Apple, which is great now but will be even greater in the future, I plan to buy shares in solid American entertainment companies that will become the base for entering the United States and make them branches.

The United States is more exclusive in this area than I thought, so it’s not easy to build infrastructure.

So, rather than building from the ground up, it was cheaper to buy these entertainment companies.

Of course, even if it’s cheap, at least tens of billions of won [tens of millions of USD] will be lost, but considering the money earned from this coin, investment was possible.

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Around the time the third Bitcoin settlement was nearing completion.

Black Tiger’s activities were now right around the corner.

Black Tiger, who faced a short break before the full-scale activities, watched the brilliant struggle music video that was completed yesterday and showed an absurd expression.

“……Shouldn’t we get a restraining order against Director Hong Eui-chan? He looks at you with those eyes, aren’t you scared?”

“He’s definitely not gay if you look at Kim Do-ah.”

“Could he be bi (bisexual who sexually treats both men and women according to his will)?”

“Ugh~ These guys are still ignorant. They don’t know anything about art.”

“Crazy bastard! Isn’t it weirder for someone to look for art in something like that?”

At these uncles’ words, Young-chan scratched his chin for no reason and shook his head.

He was living under Kim Do-ah’s thumb, but Director Hong Eui-chan was a director who liked women as much as he had many scandals to be bi.

To be precise, rather than enjoying sex itself, he liked capturing the beauty of women on screen as a possessor of a special aesthetic sense.

Perhaps that should have been the case originally, but the absurd variable of Young-chan changed him like that.

Young-chan also knew these facts, so rather than worrying about the uncles’ strange concerns, he enjoyed the music video that he had already watched more than 10 times.

That’s how much he thought it was a filming that made him think, ‘How did I film this?’, and that’s why it was the result.

Thanks to investing money without holding back, this brilliant struggle was several times higher in quality than the previous ‘Old Soldiers Never Die’.

It wasn’t just the quality that had improved.

As if watching a short film, the video time also became so long that it exceeded 10 minutes.

There were some who said that the music video time was too long, but those who had seen the music video once could not say that again.

Rather, they only sighed at the thought that 10 minutes was short.