Yoo Won-Dong looked at me with a pale-stricken expression. Since I’ve been dropping bombs at every meeting, he now seemed genuinely terrified of me. However, his expression changed quickly as he didn’t seem intent to immediately discard his favorable impression of me.1

“7 million won…hmmm. Well, we’ll think about it first. Since we spend more than 7 million won every activity period, I’ll just consider your request as spending about 7 million won on the next comeback.” 2

Yoo Won-Dong changed my request to a more plausible request in his own way; as the next comeback budget became 7 million won, not 7 million won for follow-up activities with B-side tracks. Like this, my request became completely standard as idol groups like us usually used between 5-10 million won in comeback activities. About 2-3 million won was used for music video production, 1-2 million won for promotion, 1-2 million won for stage production, and 1-2 million won for music broadcasting, makeup, and hair setting. 0

From this standard, 7 million won was a very reasonable ‘comeback’ budget. Yoo Won-Dong was interpreting my proposal as the next ‘comeback’ proposal, not a proposal for ‘follow-up activities with B-side tracks.’ However, I wasn’t making a reasonable request right now. I was saying I wanted to spend 7 million won for follow-up activities with B-side tracks from the same album, not a comeback. 0

“No, Director Yoo, I wasn’t talking about spending...0