Chapter 611: Termination of Exclusive Contract (2)
Inside TNT Entertainment's meeting room, Yoo Kang-Seok furiously accused me of instructing Sung Gyu-Hwan to sabotage his work so I could steal him away. He even claimed he would demand damages of up to 5 billion won.
Nevertheless, I didn't bat an eye. That was because, in addition to ordering his talent agent to dig through Sung Gyu-Hwan's black box, Yoo Kang-Seok had committed a major crime that was recorded in my planner.
[Everyday V12.2]
[Date: May 3, 2021]
-10:00 p.m. <Entertainment Everyday> T Company case. Texts, Kk Talk messages, and calls were monitored using a cloned phone of celebrity P.
Before the regression, TNT Entertainment's actress Park In-Jung had landed the female lead in the romantic comedy drama Island Village Fisherman. This drama had achieved a 19% viewership rating, propelling her into stardom.
The problem was that her popularity soared when there were only three months left on her contract with TNT. Worried she wouldn't renew, Yoo Kang-Seok secretly cloned her phone. However, Park In-Jung moved to Hana Entertainment the moment her contract ended.
Then strange things began happening to Park In-Jung. Every project and ad she tried to take was snatched up by TNT actors.
Suspicious, the president of Hana Entertainment had Park In-Jung's phone examined by a professional service. That was when they discovered her phone had been cloned. Soon after, TNT Entertainment was sued.
At the time, Yoo Kang-Seok deflected blame onto subordinates and got away. Yet, the incident marked the beginning of TNT's downfall. Once the phone-cloning scandal hit the news, the remaining celebrities had hesitated to renew their contracts.
Desperate, Yoo Kang-Seok had begun offering double the usual signing bonuses to appease stars, which quickly drained the company's finances. Eventually, TNT pushed for reckless mergers and acquisitions as a last resort, ran into financial trouble, and went bankrupt.
Now, I was planning to expose the cloned phone scandal—the very event that had set all of this into motion.