A music streaming service. A service that you have to pay to listen to music from the computer. He wondered if it would work in a world where MP3 files were illegally being distributed online through peer-to-peer programs, but it seemed that his superiors actually thought that it was a decent business idea. While working on that, the parent company presented the illegal peer-to-peer website with a suspension and quickly released a music distribution platform. Although the reactions were lukewarm since it was still in its beta stages, it didn’t seem like a far-fetched idea from looking at the precedents in Japan and America.

Hong Janghae nodded after watching the presentation from the team leaders. It had been around a month since he switched from being a senior managing director of a company under YM Logistics to the CEO of an entertainment company named ‘Soul’. In other people’s eyes, it might look like a demotion for him, but Janghae didn’t think of it that way. First up, the parent company invested a huge amount. Although the agency was built from profits from other subsidiaries, the ones that invested were two of the largest subsidiaries of the YM Corporation: YM Logistics and YM Living.

On top of that, the connections he created while working at YM Logistics were maintained, and he was able to utilize those connections for his new company. It wasn’t that his path to promotion was blocked off. It was instead the opposite, it was...