Golden Print [EN]: Chapter 27

“Kyungwan! Hey, Park Kyungwan!” Juhyung called out, grinning as he approached.

Park Kyungwan looked up, a wide smile spreading across his face. “Juhyung! Is that really you? Long time no see!”

“You look great, Kyungwan! Been taking care of yourself?” Juhyung clapped him on the shoulder.

“Ha! You’re the one who looks different! All that time abroad has brightened you up, huh?” Park teased.

Juhyung laughed. “Brightened up? Don’t be silly! I’m worn out! But good to see you, man.”

It had been months since they’d last properly talked, work always getting in the way. Seeing each other here, even in a stuffy conference room, felt like a real treat.

However, unable to hold back his curiosity, Juhyung glanced towards the front of the conference room and asked Kyungwan, “By the way, Kyungwan.”

“Yeah?”

“What are those guys gathered around doing?”

Even though the meeting was about to start in five minutes, the employees were still gathered, buzzing with excitement.

Kyungwan, amused by Juhyung’s reaction, chuckled and asked, “Ah, that?”

Unlike the other employees, Kyungwan was sitting alone, guarding his seat for a simple reason: he had brought ‘that thing’ into the conference room and was already tired of looking at it.

So, Kyungwan found this situation amusing. He hadn’t made the ‘thing’ himself, but watching everyone’s surprised expressions because of the work he had brought was quite entertaining.

Kyungwan paused for a moment before continuing, “You could say it’s the big surprise for today’s meeting…”

“What are you talking about?”

“It’s hard to explain. You’ll know when you see it,” Kyungwan said.

Juhyung wanted to squeeze through the crowd to see what they were looking at, but he decided to sit down and have a drink first.

He was too thirsty to push his way through the junior staff just to satisfy his curiosity. ‘Well, I’ll find out when the meeting starts.’

However, he couldn’t help but wonder what Park Kyungwan, who was sitting next to him and grinning, was thinking. ‘What’s going on?’

Fortunately, Juhyung’s curiosity was soon satisfied.

“The meeting will now begin. Please take your seats,” the host announced, and the employees returned to their seats.

The ‘thing’ in question, which had been placed on the platform, was finally revealed to Juhyung.

However, upon seeing it, Juhyung couldn’t help but tilt his head in confusion. ‘What is it, a model?’

Expecting something special or grand, a model seemed too ordinary. But his disappointment was only momentary.

Soon, Juhyung’s eyes sparkled with interest. Even from a distance, it was clear that the quality of the model was much higher than usual.

Moreover, two employees pushed a model stand with wheels to the center of the conference room.

The closer it got, the more surprised Juhyung became. ‘What is this? What on earth did they do to the apartment model?’

As the model approached within a meter or two, the unbelievably elaborate details began to come to life.

However, Juhyung’s surprise was only the beginning.

Click-

About half of the conference room’s lights were turned off. At the same time, a soft light began to spread from inside the model.

As warm lights glowed from the tiny windows of the apartment complex, which consisted of seventeen buildings, it created a beautiful sight that felt like a photograph of a city’s nightscape.

“Wow…” someone exclaimed, and no one stopped them.

Everyone in the room was thinking the same thing, even if they were keeping their mouths shut.

After a while, a faint flickering sound echoed, and new lights lit up on the sides of the two tallest apartment buildings.

Juhyung’s gaze turned to that place.

In a small voice, he read the stylish letters engraved on the side of the model in pure white light: “Mapo, Clio Prestige…”

Even before the executives entered, the conference room was silent. Everyone was lost in thought in front of the model, which you could call a ‘work of art’.

In fact, some employees had come to the conference room with doubts about launching a new premium brand.

But at this moment, no one felt that way. If they could build the same quality and design as this model in Ahyeon New Town, it was impossible to fail.

‘Alright, that’s it,’ Kyungwan thought, looking around at the crowd, clenching his fist and cheering inwardly.

He knew that his move to bring the model to this conference room today, after badgering Woojin, had worked perfectly.

‘I have one more thing to say to the executive director.’

Kyungwan’s gaze shifted slightly downward to the neat stand made of white acrylic that supported the model. The phrase WJ studio engraved in the corner was imprinted on Kyungwan’s eyes.

Woojin couldn’t have known that Chunwoong Construction’s premium brand ‘Clio,’ which had been launched in his previous life, actually had a lot of twists and turns.

Due to Chunwoong Construction’s conservative corporate culture, launching a new brand was a huge risk, so there was strong internal opposition.

This opposition was somewhat natural. The recognition that CW, Chunwoong Construction’s existing brand, had built up was significant. Keeping the brand as it was would have been a safer option, apart from the innovation in exterior design.

So, in Woojin’s previous life, the brand of the complex wasn’t finalized until after the construction of Ahyeon 3-2 district had begun due to the internal debate.

If the members of the district hadn’t strongly wanted a premium brand, ‘Clio’ might not have been launched.

Within this behind-the-scenes story, there was one interesting fact: the opening of the Clio brand’s promotional hall was not only absent from Woojin’s memory but had never actually happened.

Woojin thought it was something he didn’t remember, but it was actually something that had never happened.

So, the brand promotional hall opening plan that Kyungwan is currently pushing is a ‘changed’ future.

If Woojin hadn’t made the model, Kyungwan’s mind wouldn’t have been moved. If Kyungwan hadn’t pushed it, the finance team and marketing team, who were hesitant about opening the promotional hall, would have eventually scrapped the plan.

This one future, small if small, big if big, has been changed by Woojin. And today’s meeting, too, may be one of the small futures that has been changed by Woojin.

If things had gone as they were, Woojin’s model would not have been at this meeting, and the premium brand launch would have been ignored again.

But thanks to Woojin and Kyungwan’s drive, the situation has completely changed.

“That… the design is better than I thought?”

“The complex naming is catchy too.”

“It feels completely different from when I saw it in the report.”

“This… it could work?”

Thanks to Woojin’s model, everyone was already interested in the premium brand Clio even before the meeting started.

In the conference room, where that atmosphere continued, all agenda items related to the brand launch plan were passed smoothly.

The discussion of whether or not to launch the brand was no longer of interest to the executives. The name of the apartment complex that was naturally decided in everyone’s mind by the end of the meeting was ‘Mapo Clio Prestige.’

There is such a big gap between imagining something and seeing it.

“Alright. Let’s end today’s meeting here,” Ryu Junwook, director of Chunwoong Construction and head of the branding division, said.

With his words, the meeting ended. Just seeing him, who was usually so picky, end the meeting with a smile on his face, one could guess how pleased he was with the results of the meeting.

“Thank you for your hard work.”

“Let’s all give it our best shot.”

And when the atmosphere reached this point, there was one thing that people couldn’t help but be interested in: the company ‘WJ studio’ that had created this lifelike model.

Some employees asked about it, but Kyungwan kept his words to a minimum. After all, it was something that no one would believe even if he explained it.

‘I don’t want to waste my energy trying to make them understand…’

However, Kyungwan couldn’t hide the smile when he heard the marketing team leader’s words of gratitude. He ended up hearing something he hadn’t expected.

“Department Head, it looks like we’ll be able to go all out this time.”

“Is that so?”

“Director Ryu has significantly increased the budget for this.”

“Haha, that’s great.”

“Why are you talking like it’s someone else’s business?”

“Yes?”

“The director told me to form a Task Force team under Department Head Park’s orders.”

Forming a separate Task Force team for the project meant that they were going to push the project in earnest. But giving all the authority to Park Kyungwan meant that he was being given a real opportunity.

And in Kyungwan’s eyes, that opportunity looked like an opportunity for promotion.

‘Is this… is this going too well?’

Kyungwan’s face was filled with smiles. Of course, he had thought he might get a small benefit, but he didn’t expect such full support.

Thanks to the authority he had gained, Kyungwan was thinking that he might be able to give that lucky kid a nice gift.

“Let’s do our best, Team Leader.”

“Haha, I’m the one who should be asking for your help.”

“Ah, right. This promotional hall, it’s the Cheongdam main building, right?”

“Of course. It’s a premium brand, after all.”

“We need to draw up a list of VIPs in advance…” Kyungwan paused before subtly bringing up the topic.

“The interior work for the promotional hall, there’s no company that’s been decided on yet, right?”

“No. Probably.”

“Then how about entrusting it to WJ studio?”

The interior design of the promotional hall is, of course, done by Chunwoong Construction’s design team. However, interior construction, which is not construction work, is often outsourced.

“WJ studio, you mean the one that did the model this time?”

“That’s right.”

The marketing team leader’s face lit up at Kyungwan’s suggestion. He thought that a company that could produce this level of model quality couldn’t possibly be bad at their job.

“If it’s them, we’d definitely welcome it.”

“Haha. I actually wanted to work with them again… Then I’ll give them a call.”

“Great! Thank you.”

After having a pleasant conversation with the marketing team leader, Park Kyungwan took the elevator back to his office.

The seeds that Woojin had sown were germinating faster than he had thought.