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"Being nominated for a medal alone should be an honor, yet you're saying you won't accept it? What exactly are you saying?"
As if I had only just noticed Minister Han Yung-Bok, I finally lowered my head. "Ah! Sir. I'm Jung Yoon-Ho from Hoop Entertainment."
Han Yung-Bok asked in a sharp voice, clearly displeased. "Chief Jung. Raise your head and explain yourself. What do you mean you don't need a medal?"
When I lifted my head, his expression as he looked at me had gone cold and rigid.
'As expected, he's angry.'
Han Yung-Bok had originally started as a film actor before achieving great success as a film director and producer. Then, around the time he turned thirty-five, he sold off all the land his father, a wealthy landowner in Gyeonggi Province, had owned and used the money to establish the distribution company Korean Film. From that point on, he devoted himself entirely to promoting Korean films and Korean actors overseas.
Thanks to that, during the early days of Korean cinema's expansion abroad, many films and actors achieved significant results with his help. For a man who had done as an individual what the nation should have done, the government awarded him the Silver Crown Order of Cultural Merit, a second-class cultural medal, the year he turned fifty.
In other words, to Han Yung-Bok, a medal was proof that he had dedicated his entire life to Korean cinema, so he took considerable pride in it as well. And yet I had openly refused something I should have considered an honor just to receive, so he had no choice but to be angry. He felt as if even the lifelong effort he had devoted had been denied.
However, that was exactly what I had been aiming for. High-ranking officials were completely indifferent to areas they had...
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