Chapter 1903 No more petty troubles
The next day, Kim Jong-sung went to the filming set of "The Furnace" at 7 o'clock in the morning and was busy until 7 o'clock in the evening. He finished work and the filming was still ongoing. The only thing that was directed by the assistant director Huang Dong-hyuk was not the highlight.
It is indeed very beneficial for Kim Jingcheng to specially find Hwang Dong-hyuk to be the deputy director of "The Furnace". Not only can Huang Dong-hyuk take out some of his directorial experience for money as a reference, but also as the director of "The Furnace" in his previous life, Kim Jingcheng can directly hand over some scenes that are not the highlight to him. This not only saves Kim Jingcheng time and energy, but also speeds up the shooting progress of "The Furnace".
At seven o'clock in the evening, Jin Jingcheng finished work, then returned to the mansion, took a shower and entered the study. There was no way, he had other work to complete. After two hours, Jin Jingcheng finished processing other work, he picked up a magazine "j-young Literature" on his desk and read it.
It is the night of April 17, and on April 15 the day before yesterday, the latest issue of "j-young Literature and Art" magazine was released. The biggest highlight is undoubtedly the serialization of "The Days of Confucian Scholars in Sung Kyo-kwan". Yao Yihan, as Kim Jong-sung's instructions, directly printed 300,000 copies of this issue of "j-young Literature and Art".
You should know that "j-young Literature" was already a top young literary magazine in Korea, with sales of only about 100,000 copies per issue. The most sold issue was the finale of Gu Hye-sun's novel "tango", which was only 130,000 copies. With the serialization of "The Days of Confucian Scholars in Sungkyung", "j-young Literature" on April 1 sold out 150,000 copies in ten days. It is estimated that the final sales of this issue of the magazine will reach 250,000 copies.
This refers to the sales volume in Korea. Since last year 2006, under the instruction of Kim Jingcheng, "j-young Fashion" and "j-young Literature" will be released simultaneously on overseas versions. Both have four overseas versions, namely the simplified Chinese version, the traditional Chinese version, the English version, and the Japanese version. Among them, the simplified Chinese version is mainly sold to mainland China and other places where there are Chinese people, and the traditional Chinese version is mainly sold to Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan.
The overseas version of "j-young Fashion" has been selling well, while the overseas version of "j-young Literature" has sold very poorly. Last year, the overseas version of "j-young Literature" has the simplified Chinese version, traditional Chinese version, English version, and Japanese version of each issue, only a little more than 20,000 copies were sold. At least half of them were bought for Jin Jingcheng's fame. Yao Yihan now has a certain reputation overseas, but in the fashion circle, she is not very popular overseas.
Even though the "Tango" that started to carry Huisun at the beginning of this year only added thousands of sales to the overseas version of "j-young Literature".
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Gu Hye-sun's novel "tango" is also a good novel, but its literary taste is too strong and it seems literary. It is not comparable to "The Days of Confucian Scholars in Sung Kyoung Kwan" in terms of commercial nature. Although the previous serialization of "tango" also led to the sales of "j-young Literature", it is not comparable to the sales driven by "The Days of Confucian Scholars in Sung Kyoung Kwan".
Although literature and entertainment have many similarities, they still belong to two circles. Even though Gu Hye-sun is a well-known female artist, she came to the territory of "J-young Literature and Art", which is far inferior to Zheng Eun-que, who wrote "The Days of Confucian Scholars in Sung Kyo-kwan". However, it was because "J-young Literature and Art" that she tasted the sweetness of serialized novels gaining popularity and sales, and Yao Yihan then chose "The Days of Confucian Scholars in Sung Kyo-kwan" to serialize.
Kim Jingsung has also published works in "j-young Literature", including poetry, lyrics, prose poems, and creative notes, but these are all small fuss. Although they have brought popularity to "j-young Literature", they are much worse than "The Days of Confucian Scholars in Sungkyungguan".
In addition, under the instruction of Kim Jingsung, "j-young Literature and Art" has published works by other Korean celebrity artists, such as Ren Changding's poems, Lee Young Ai, and Bae Yong-jun's prose essays, and they have also brought overheating to "j-young Literature and Art", which is still incomparable to "The Days of Confucian Scholars in Sungkyung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-k
On the territory of "j-young Literature", novels like "The Days of Confucian Scholars in Sungkyung Hall" are real stars!
However, in this issue of "J-young Literature" published on April 15, Jin Jingcheng no longer used poetry, lyrics, prose poems, and creative notes to make small fuss, because this issue of magazine serialized his short story "Mirror and Flower", which is 4,000 words long.
This is the first time that Jin Jingcheng has published a novel in newspapers and magazines!
Although Kim Jong-sung had already written three short stories about "The Piano Prince without Hands", "The Philosopher in the Small Courtyard" and "Hairang" for the first issue of "Mirror and Flower", the first issue of "J-young Literature" was only released on May 1, so this time the publication of "Mirror and Flower" was Kim Jong-sung's first novel, although it was just a short story.
At present, Kim Jong-sung, who was sitting alone in the luxurious study, picked up the latest issue of "j-young Literature" magazine on his desk and read it. He was the first to read "The Days of Confucian Scholars in Sung-kwan", and Kim Jong-sung is also following this novel. In his previous life, Kim Jong-sung only reads Zheng Eun-que's novel "The Moon Embracing the Sun", and reads the Chinese version. Now Kim Jong-sung directly follows the original Korean version of "The Days of Confucian Scholars in Sung-kwan", which is a unique interest.
Of course, fun is only one aspect. The main reason why Kim Jong-sung reads this novel is that he wants to learn. Zheng Eun-que is a writer who can write best-selling stories and has solid literary skills. Her novels combine commerciality and artisticity well. Reading her novels can not only allow Kim Jong-sung to further understand the aesthetic tastes of Koreans, but also accumulate for Kim Jong-sung to write Korean versions of novels in the future.
Kim Jong-sung has already planned to write novels in the future. Now he lives in Korea, and writing novels is inevitably going to write Korean versions.
"The Days of Confucian Scholars in Sungkyunkwan" has not much content in each issue, only a few chapters. With Kim Jong-sung's reading speed, he finished it in 20 minutes. After reading it, Kim Jong-sung followed by his own short story "Mirror and Flower".
Chapter completed!