Im Yong Soo walked through the busy streets of Seoul.
Although in the day time it didn't look as extravagant as the picture he had saw. In it the city was filled with lights and excitement around every corner!
Most people would be pretty disappointed to find that this small, crowed street with men yelling at you to either move out of the way or to come into there store ,was in the same city that was the capital. But not Im Yong Soo, Oh no! He was, in fact, quite the excited to be there.
He continued to walk down the street looking up and down aimlessly for a street name. He came to a stop at the intersection and finally found a street sign.
So he's at Sho-Gil, so it should be the next block…
He waited till the light indicated that he could cross. Once the walkin guy showed, he started walking across at a normal pace, but was pushed to move faster by the many people behind him.
Im Yong Soo smiled at this, loving the feel of the city. It was a new and welcome change from his country life in Kaesong, where there were about 47 people and dirt roads. He contuiue on his way down to the next block and stopped to read the street sign.
Gongwon-gil.
He looked at the palm of his hand which had the words 778 Gongwon-gil in purple sharpie. He walked down the street and notice that is was smaller then the street he had been walking on.
There was a beam of sunlight that came in over the left rooftop and highlighted the buildings on the right side of the street while casting a shadow over the left. On the left side of the street there was a small corner store, and a flower shop that had one large window that was filled with different flowers. Im Yong Soo thought it was ashamed that the sunlight wasn't shining on the flowers. It would have been a nice sight to see.
He stopped in front of the building with 778 on it. He looked at the building then looked back to his hand to make sure this was the right place. "Yup its 778" he said to himself as he looked back at the building.
It was a royal red building with a huge, blue, 2 door entrances that was decorated with gold bamboo on the door, with gold dragons as handles. The windows had heavy blue curtains with a gold lining at the bottom. There were about 5 gold lanterns hung outside, and in front of the door was a red and gold mat that said NIHAO all in caps.
Im Yong Soo could pretty much guess that this was a chiness restaurant. Although…Im Yong Soo didn't know that there were chiness restaurants in Korea. Then again in Kaesong there was only one resturant in town and it only had Korean food, but it was some of the best food ever sents most people in Kaesong were farmers, thus the food was fresh.
Im Yong Soo walked onto the NIHAO mat and nocked on the heavy blue doors. The doors were so thick that Im Yong Soo was pretty sure nobody could hear him.
He stepped back and looked at the windows for any sign that someone was even there. He then notices the neon open sign in the left window. At that he smiles and graphs the handle to go inside and pulls, but the door was so heavy that it took him a good 10 seconds to open the damn thing.
Once he got it to about a 45◦ degree angle, He quickly ran in side before it closed. He sighed in relief of getting through the door almost falling in exhaustion.
He looked around at the room to see tables all with chairs in them and a bar, (all with the same color scheme as the outside of the building) and blue and gold dragons as the wallpaper. "…Hello? Is anyone here?" Im Yong Soo said as he walked more towards the bar. He took off his bag, leveing it on one of the tables.
There was the sound of a door opening and closing. Im Yong Soo turned to the door and saw a short man holding about 6 plates. The man had a burgundy duangua with long sleeves that went pass his hands and dark brown pants. A very traditional chinaess style.
"Um hi, are you Li?" Im Yong Soo asked.
The man walked around the tables and place the plates in a repatative order on each table.
"…Yes I'm Li" he said in monotone.
He looked at Im Yong Soo and moved a strand of his acorn brown hair from his face.
"…Who are you?"
"I'm, Im Yong Soo! I called you a week ago for the part time job." Im Yong Soo said rubbing the back of his head and grinning.
Li finished putting the last plate down and turned to face Im Yong Soo. "…that's right, follow me" Li said nodding his head to indicate Im Yong Soo to follow him.
Im Yong Soo walked behind Li as he pulled some curtain to revile a narrow red staircase.
Im Yong Soo continued to follow Li to what seemed like the end of the stairs, which went all the way to the roof and just cut off. Im Yong Soo wondered where they were going because this was a dead end.
Li hit the roof 2 times to reveal an opening in the shape of a huge square. This opening showed that the stares actually ended in a room above.
They walked up the rest of the steps into a dimly lighted, empty room with royal red wallpaper.
Im Yong Soo took in his surroundings while Li walked over to a covered window and open the blue curtains.
Li turned to Im Yong Soo
"…So this is your room, you can keep the curtains." Li said looking at said curtains "…You wont be able to fit a bed through here so you'll have too sleep on a mat"he continued in monotoneously. "… the rent is free as long as you work part time in the restaurant…" Li said while he walked to the hole on the ground to exit "…you can start tomorrow…" Li said then closed the roof door and walked down the steps.
Im Yong Soo waited till he couldn't hear the sounds of foot steps then droped all his stuff and fell onto the mat on the floor.
Hm this wasn't half bad! He rolled over.
He gets a free place to live with a bed (or rather a mat) included! And all he had to do was work part-time in the landlords restaurant! And that means free Food!
Im Yong Soo grind. He was very fortunate that his Grama new this guy, thanks to her his first step to becoming a Drama star was easy.
At that thought Im Yong Soo jumped up from his spot and picked up one of his bags and open the front zipper. He then pilled out a purple notepad and ripped out the first page. He then looked arounded the room to find a good place to put up the paper. He then took a thumb TAC from the side pocket of the bag and placed the paper on the wall next to the bathroom. He steped back and admired his choice in placement.
"That way I can see it every morning!" he said with a huge grin. He then looked at paper.
Steps to Becoming a Drama Star
Step 1. Move to Seoul
Step 2. Get an Agent
Step 3. Get a Small part in a Drama
Step 4. Get a bigger part in a Drama
Step 5. Date a famous girl and get well known
Step 6. Get a leading role in a drama
"…I'll make you proud Grama!"
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