Recommendation
Author's Note

#Manager Jeong #Large company #Foreign car #Company employee Instagram
Mr. Kwon goes to work today too
Even if I die soon, I will be in Seoul
There's something more important than eating with rice or dipping sauce.
So today is a festival
Even if you run to the moon, you can't reach it
This is my first time having my card suspended.
catastrophe
As you live, there are times when you want to cry.
What changes and what doesn't change

★★★★★
“It’s so so fun!
I read this book in one sitting.
“This author’s writing skills are the best!”
-Brownstone (Woo Seok)-

10 million community views in 30 days
Chosun Ilbo front page top story
Drama and webtoon production confirmed
Brownstone (Woo-seok), Shin Saimdang, and actor Ryu Soo-young are recommended.

A hyper-realistic story written by an ordinary office worker, one by one, every morning.
Beyond the online craze, it has also produced books, dramas, and webtoons.

An ordinary office worker wakes up at 4:30 every morning, writes, and posts it on his personal blog and real estate cafe.
In just 30 days, personal blog views reached 2 million and community views reached 10 million.
It attracted public attention and interest, and this buzz eventually led to a top story on the front page of the Chosun Ilbo.
First of all, movie and drama production companies rush to contact me.
Over twenty publishers have offered to publish the book.
The webtoon offers continued endlessly.
'The story of Manager Kim, who lives in Seoul and works for a large company.'
This story, which has a rather peculiar title, received fervent love calls from the video, publishing, and webtoon business divisions of South Korea, which were desperate to secure content, and led to a contract, and the first fruit of this was the publication of a single volume.


A glimpse into Manager Kim's daily life and office scenery
Soaring real estate prices, wage slavery, broken ladders... South Korea's reality is a black comedy.

“The apartment I bought has now doubled in value.
If you have any questions, just ask me and I'll tell you everything."
"How much did it go up from the original price? It's ridiculous that Director Choi, who is so ignorant, lives in a place 500 million won more expensive than me."
“Second Life is currently being run under good conditions at the company.
“For someone like Manager Kim, the severance pay is 200 million won, and next year, the severance pay will drop to 100 million won…”

Manager Kim's story must be viewed through two lenses.
Depending on whether you look through a microscope or a telescope, what you see and the taste in your mouth are different.
When you look at it through a microscope, it makes you laugh and cry.
I burst out laughing at the thought that it was my boss's story, and our company's story, but then I realized that it was my father's story and my own story, and my eyes welled up with tears.
Many of those who first encountered this article through an online serial probably unanimously asked, “Why am I crying?” and “I’m in my forties, so I’m starting to cry.” This is probably why.


If you look at it from afar through a telescope, your mouth will feel bitter.
It is a personal story, but it is also a story of the whole.
The reality of office life, where people can be replaced by other parts at any time, and the story of real estate in South Korea, which divides the entire nation into the "haves" and the "have-nots," are depicted in a very frank factional format through characters such as Manager Kim, Manager Song, Assistant Manager Jeong, and Employee Kwon.


It's so realistic that it's fun, but the bitter taste that lingers in your mouth after you close the book and turn around is because it doesn't end with simple personal empathy.
Perhaps it is because it is another name for reality, because it is everyone's story, and because it is a feeling of emptiness that seems to show the invisible class world of South Korea.
In fact, the author of this book stated that it was largely based on real people and true stories, saying, “Manager Kim is a character that combines the appearances of three superiors.”

“Why is this happening? I’m a manager at a large company!” From the old-fashioned boss
"Is this what a company is like?" Even the youngest employee was confused.
A three-part series on the surveillance of South Korean office workers

Manager Kim, a 50-something old fart who loves pork belly company dinners, Manager Song, who manages both investment and work, Assistant Manager Jeong, a lively mood maker, and even employee Kwon, who is diligent and full of worries. These people, or rather, "us," who could be found in any company or office, are vividly brought to life in this series.
You can read the entire trilogy, including volumes 1 and 2, which are being published simultaneously this time, and volume 3, which will be published in the fall of 2021.


#Volume 1, 'Manager Kim', is a story about Manager Kim, a 50-year-old employee of a large corporation.
They flaunt their corporate business cards as if they were some kind of great badge, treat their rank as a class, and become old-fashioned and end up facing a major crisis.
The story unfolds in an exciting way, including the content serialized on the author's personal blog and real estate cafe, as well as the subsequent story of hardship and reversal.


#Volume 2, 'Manager Jeong and Employee Kwon', contains the joys and sorrows of work life experienced by the two members of Manager Kim's team, as well as their concerns related to marriage.
The 2021 Misaeng story is drawn about Manager Jeong, who is from Gangnam's 8th school district, but realized the 'broken ladder' early in his teenage years and lives behind the name of the YOLO tribe, and Employee Kwon, who joined the company with bold ambitions but later enters a period of storm and stress due to the conflict between his ideals and reality.


#Volume 3 is scheduled to be about ‘Manager Song’.
Manager Song appears as an 'investment expert' and is the character that fans of Manager Kim's story are most curious about.
The behind-the-scenes story of Manager Song, a real estate mentor to everyone from employees to executive directors, unfolds.
The most anticipated and fascinating secret of Manager Song, who jumped into investing in his youth and achieved financial independence at an early age, is scheduled to be revealed to readers in the fall of 2021.

"Volume 2: Manager Jeong? Employee Kwon," the second installment in the Manager Kim series.
Three keywords most relatable to 2030 workers: #wageslave, #homeownership, #brokenladder

The second chapter of 'Manager Kim's Story' opens with the story of YOLO-type Manager Jeong and the youngest employee Kwon.


If Volume 1 showed the reality of a father in his fifties, surrounded by issues such as real estate and layoffs in South Korea, through Manager Kim, Volume 2 vividly reveals the painful side of the MZ generation through Manager Jeong and Employee Kwon.
The concerns of those in their 20s and 30s, who say, “We never had a compass in life from the beginning,” about which direction to go and which path to take, come across as both reality and fiction with such clarity.
Manager Jeong and employee Kwon are relatively successful employees at a large corporation among their friends.
You might think they have nothing to worry about, but their lives are not always smooth sailing.


Manager Jeong is a self-proclaimed YOLO fanatic who goes around spreading the word that there is a YOLO god in the company.
There is an unexpected twist to the background of how he became like that.
When Manager Jeong moved from Ulsan to Gangnam District 8, he began to experience the reality of a class society that was not found in textbooks, starting in his teenage years.
Friends but not friends.
People who take classes in the same classroom and play on the same playground, but are not from the same world.
Manager Jeong, who realized early on that just as you can never reach the moon no matter how much you run, you can never put a broken ladder back together, decides to give himself the fancy name of YOLO and hide behind it to live a life of self-expression.

“My BMW is the best after all! I bet the photo will be uploaded to Instagram.”
“Just do it roughly.
It's no use working hard.
That's it."
"Isn't Bitcoin a joke today? I'll buy Gongcha today!"
Manager Jeong's days seem so pleasant, as if he has no worries, but there is no way to know what is going on inside.


Mr. Kwon is our precious youngest member who can do his job as a team member while also taking on important projects on his own.
Such a Kwon employee faces a stormy period in his third year of employment.

“Is this the right way to do things?”
“Isn’t a company originally a place where you are evaluated based on your work?”
"Why can't I get the recognition I deserve? Why should I be the one giving someone else a C grade?"
Kwon joined a large company with high hopes, but he is lost in the gap between his ideals and reality.
Where is flexibility and where is unfairness?
How much of this should we accept and acknowledge as reality?


Moreover, the two people, Manager Jeong and Employee Kwon, are facing the extreme mission of 'finding a house in Seoul, South Korea' ahead of their respective weddings.
It seems vivid to me that many people in their 20s and 30s are responding, sighing, and then, before they know it, applauding and cheering as they hear the twists and turns of borrowing hundreds of millions of won for the first time in their lives, signing real estate contracts in their own names, and choosing a life partner.


■ Main characters

Manager Kim: "Foreign cars? Foreign cars? How dare these young guys bring foreign cars to work? Are they crazy?"
25 years of experience as an office worker.
Manager of a large company.
He is known as the 'master of reports' and is very proud of having risen to the position of manager without missing a single promotion.
He loves the new black Grandeur sedan, Tag Heuer watch, and Montblanc bag.
Even as I watch my colleagues being pushed out to unimportant positions, I feel a sense of relief.
“Because I have a managing director and an executive director!” He takes pride in organizing the executives’ golf meetings.
I have a smart and loving wife and son.


Manager Song: “I will take my annual leave tomorrow.
“Because I have a real estate contract.”
The ace of Team Manager Kim's team.
He is good at his job and gets along well with his colleagues.
But one day, Manager Kim catches a strange sight.
Every morning when he arrives at work, he seems to be reading some book, but everyone from the managing director to the manager of the next team, Choi, keeps calling Manager Song out and whispering something.
There is a rumor that everything from Vice President Choi's redeveloped apartment to the Sangmu's reconstructed apartment is influenced by Manager Song.


Manager Jeong: “When I’m feeling angry, I need to relieve my stress with my BMW.”
A lively young man who loves his new BMW, wine, and Instagram.
I'm pretty good at my job.
A gentle young man who flexibly accepts Manager Kim's nagging.
He is known to be from Gangnam District 8, and sometimes speaks in a Gyeongsang dialect.


Employee Kwon: "Is this how companies are supposed to work? Is this the right way to do things?"
The youngest member of the team.
This is the third year.
He confidently carries out his assigned tasks well.
I got a job at a large company that everyone envies, but I suddenly start to have doubts about my work life.
I'm worried about finding a new home before I get married.


Director Choi: “I don’t know much about politics.
No, I'm not good at it.
So, I had no choice but to just keep working hard at what I had been doing.”
The team leader next to Manager Kim.
Manager Choi also rose to the position of manager without missing a promotion.
I'm pulling an old car that requires me to slam the trunk shut with my arms.
According to Manager Kim, he always looks 'shabby'.
I recently moved into a new apartment with a golf course within the apartment community, which angered Manager Kim.