Director Seo Joong Won’s arrest warrant was issued and they decided on an on-site arrest, because the evidence was too clear and it was determined that he was a flight risk.
Investigators grabbed the shocked Director Seo Joong Won’s arms. Director Seo Joong Won, who screamed and struggled to escape the first few times, stopped resisting when people, including his secretary and other office workers, started to crowd and whisper.
The investigators started dragging Director Seo Joong Won out.
The Ara Entertainment office building was already turned on its head. The news of Director Seo Joong Won’s arrest spread widely internally.
Of course, not one of the employees was worried about Director Seo Joong Won’s safety. They were whispering amongst themselves about what would happen to the company moving forward and what would happen to them.
The gaze of the employees gathered in front of Director Seo Joong Won’s office weren’t looking at a Director at the peak of his power anymore..
‘These punks were intimidated by me even just a moment ago!’
Director Seo Joong Won clenched his fist tight.
Investigators saw his expression and applied force to his arms.
The President and the Board of Directors had already turned their backs on him. The thought that even if he got arrested he could somehow get out of this if he played his cards right no longer crossed his mind.
The high-ranking officials who had taken bribes were busy cutting off their tails.
If it weren’t for the divorce papers that his wife sent, he would have been thinking about avoiding getting investigated by the prosecution one way or another.
Even if the evidence were all solid, if her family pulled some strings they would be able to at least reduce the sentence.
However, even his wife had turned her back.
She must have decided on a mutual consent divorce so that it wouldn’t go to a lawsuit to avoid disgracing her family.
He didn’t even need to ask to know the reason his wife had turned her back. There was a high possibility that Ju Min Ah had reached out to his wife too when she turned over the evidence to Director Jung and the prosecution.
Of course it was hard to believe that his wife would leave him over his affair with Ju Min Ah alone.
Seo Kang Jun, the son his wife cherished.
His wife’s faith in Director Seo Joong Won had already taken a big hit when Seo Kang Jun fled the country due to the public criticism.
Even afterwards, she was greatly dissatisfied that Director Seo Joong was not actively getting involved with Seo Kang Jun’s situation because he was aiming for the President position.
However, she had put up with it because he had said that he would bring Seo Kang Jun back. She must have completely changed her mind when the article got published early and Seo Kang Jun’s future became even more uncertain.
‘Should I have coaxed my wife as soon as the article was released…?’
Director Seo Joong Won, who was briefly thinking that, shook his head soon after. The cause of all this was Ju Min Ah.
‘Ju Min Ah couldn’t have orchestrated all this by herself. There’s definitely someone behind this. That *beep*!’
However, he didn’t have the faintest idea who it might be.
Director Jung seemed the most likely, but Director Jung was also an employee of Ara Entertainment. If the prosecution arrests an Ara Entertainment executive, the company would definitely be affected too. He wouldn’t have gotten the prosecution involved to bring him down.
‘Just who…”
One thought led to another.
He had no regrets about his past where he did nothing but evil deeds. He was only upset about his ambition that was taken away right in front of his eyes.
‘What …What did I do wrong? Where did it start to go wrong?!’
Behind him, the office that he had been using was being taken apart by the detectives. Documents flying all over the place and plaques flipped over. It was just like how he himself currently felt.
‘How could everything turn out like this…’
Everything fell apart so quickly, in an instant
He had been building it up for almost 20 years. But there was nothing he could do now.
‘It’s over.’
He finally thought. His life was already over. There was no need for investigation or to take it to trial.
The office employees’ gazes, which had been too scared to meet his eyes until a moment ago, felt like daggers. However, he didn’t lower his head until the end. That was the last bit of pride he had left.
But anyone could see that was just ridiculous pride.
He was walking down a road towards a pathetic end, fingers pointed at him by people whom he used to rule over when he was at the height of his power.
And on that road stood the brother of the victim of Seo Kang Jun, the seed of evil that he had sown.
“Get out of the way!”
“Ok ok, please move.”
Reporters were camping out at the entrance of the Ara Entertainment office building.
The detectives, who were dragging Seo Joong Won out, dispersed the reporters.
The sound of the flashes rang out particularly cheerfully throughout the center of Gangnam. Those who were passing by noticed that reporters were gathered, became interested, and peeked.
The Ara Entertainment employees who were following them out went back into the building as if running, in case their face got on the newspaper.
It wasn’t an immense number, but if you took into consideration that prosecutors had not even properly started investigating the case and Director Seo Joong Won wasn’t an executive at one of the 10 conglomerates in the nation, it was a surprising amount of interest.
The people from the prosecution also seemed a little flustered by the reporters’ presence.
Even Seo Joong Won, who was firmly holding his head up until the end, eventually lowered his head to avoid the cameras.
However, the camera Reporter Choi Sung Joon was holding had already captured a close-up picture of his face.
***
[Ara Entertainment top level staff, arrested by prosecutors…]
[Father of former M2M member Seo Jun, arrested on charges of embezzlement within Ara Entertainment]
[Director Seo Joong Won, who was arrested, even had a mistress…he’s in process of getting a divorce]
[Period of suffering for Seo father and son, from school violence to arrested by prosecutors]
[Even got sponsors for trainees? Director Seo Joong Won’s despicable actions…]
[Ara Entertainment President, expresses regret over recent events…It’s just Director Seo’s personal greed]
[Seo Jun’s father, a lot of vicious crimes…will be given a prison sentence]
-Wow…I’ve never seen such a chaotic mess
-He looks nasty as hell *spit*
-You reap what you sow lolol Seo Jun isn’t human garbage for no reason lol
-It’s completely over for Seo Jun
-They were probably his son’s friends…he took those kids and sold them off…T.T He’s truly a devil wearing a human mask T.T T.T
-Shouldn’t those *beeps* who acted as sponsors get investigated too???
-I saw an article that said they are getting investigated
-I’m sure it’ll lead to another tail getting cut lol. Anyways, it’s good that at least that *beep* got arrested lol
-How is this ‘hardship’? He needs to suffer more
-Let’s investigate him properly and dish out justice~~!!
-Ju Min Ah’s retirement is related to this isn’t it?
-Let’s not unnecessarily make Ara Entertainment celebrities into victims over this
-My friend was friends with Ju Min Ah’s coordinator and said that she was having a hard time because she became so popular after filming Sweetheart from the Universe. She debuted at a young age so she seemed burnt out.
-What a human garbage.
-Ara Entertainment’s performance was just so so lately, was all that because of this *beep*?
-He was the person who made Sa Bang Shin Hwa, but he’s also the one who caused them to disband.
-He’s famous for retaliating if they don’t renew their contract
-I knew that the entertainment world is dirty but it’s seriously so disgusting!
-WIll this affect M2M’s next album? T.T
-I’m worried about that too…
-Ara Entertainment isn’t some mom and pop shop. He’s not the only person who works there. They’ll move along just fine even if they lose one person.
The waiting room at the studio where the prerecording for SVS’s ‘Life Song’ would take place.
Do Wook’s face was expressionless as he scrolled down, looking at the articles and comments.
Just as he predicted, it seemed Ara Entertainment had decided to cut off Director Seo Joong Won.
Director Seo Joong Won accepting bribery on the side and embezzling the company’s public fund were all going to get uncovered and applied to his sentence.
The problem was the issue of sponsors.
The people who acted as sponsors to celebrities were high-level broadcasting station officials, media Presidents, university professors, or Presidents from various companies.
However, according to the information from the prosecution that he heard through President Lee Yoo Min, only some of them were under investigation.
It seemed that it was difficult even for the prosecution to go after people in too high of a position.
Social justice wasn’t what Do Wook wanted, so this was enough for him.
However, he couldn’t help but feel bitter.
‘If Seo Joong Won had been closer to the core of power…’
Then Do Wook’s revenge probably would have been a longer battle, and his chances of succeeding would have been lowered. Even if that were the case, he still definitely would have gotten revenge.
Do Wook shook his head.
‘Thankfully, I was able to perfectly ruin both Seo Kang Jun and Seo Joong Won.’
It wasn’t like Do Wook had set a trap and framed him. Do Wook simply timed it to prevent him from using money and power to avoid legal and moral judgement.
The two of them ended up paying for the crimes they had committed. That alone made them a criminal and son of a criminal, their property confiscated and their family destroyed. Life was irreparably thrown into the gutter.
‘They may not realize that it’s a result of their own wrongdoing…’
However, Do Wook didn’t even want to think that far.
Anyways, Do Wook’s revenge was completely over.
This was the end.
It was the ‘end’ that he had unceasingly wanted since he started life as not Kim Bo Myung but Kang Do Wook.
He was happy, and he felt extremely delighted.
After writing the article, you could feel the joy in Reporter Choi Sung Joon’s voice when he thanked Do Wook for everything he did.
It was the same for Do Wook.
If things had been the same as before, he might have felt empty at the same time. If it were back when his sole goal was to get revenge. However, Do Wook had new goals. He also had so many precious people that he would go through life with.
He did feel bitter for a bit, but it could also become a new goal.
‘When more time goes by, I’ll become older than the actual age I lived to. There’s also so much that has changed, so I won’t know everything about the future, but…after that, I won’t know anything at all about the future. That may be when the real Kang Do Wook’s life begins…’
Do Wook thought as he got up from his seat.
“Oh, Do Wook. You got up at the right time. Let’s hurry!”
Suk Ji Hoon, who had been sitting next to him, also got up from his seat.
“I think this seriously is the first time recording without fans. Ever since the debut performance?”
“True. But even at our debut, there were about 10 fans, weren’t there?”
“Right. The people who had been fans since the trainee days…”
The two of them went out the waiting room door as they talked about various things.
In front of the waiting room door that the two of them had gone out of, there were the waiting rooms of other singers who also had their names written in large letters.
[Bunker21
-Restricted access except for officials]
***
At that moment, Manager Oh Baek Ho, who had been at the office having a meeting with Rookie Development Team Leader Im Sung Ahn over KK’s successor group, received a call.
It was a call from Team Leader Lee Dae Hyung.
Next chapter: We see the fall of one Director and a rise of another Director.