I’ve been looking at other types of Korean web novels to translate. What kind of genres do you guys enjoy? I really enjoy webnovels like ‘Arena’ and ‘I am the Monarch’ for those of you who know of those. But for me, as a translator, they’re kind of a pain in the ass to translate all of those Chinese related terms. (The Korean language is based off of Chinese)
So let me know what you guys would like and I’ll choose a couple to translate just the first chapter or two and let you guys decide on whether I should keep translating or not.
I will not translate something that is already being translated.
So let me know your thoughts in the comments below!
Second chapter of the week! Enjoy!
Strong-willed woman
Shi Won entered the office and without a word or thought continued on with her work.
She thought it was a huge waste of time thinking of Yoon Hoo.
"Assistant Manager Han. Conference!"
Shi Won followed her team leader who dragged her to the conference room and wasn't able to get out for two hours.
She heard the nagging from the Deputy Manager until she blanked out and finally it was time to go home.
'It's already 7…'
Slowly, people began to leave the office until there were only a few people left and she stared at the time.
"Yeah… time is really valuable."
Shi Won usually goes home at 6 but Yoon Hoo wanted to meet at 7 so she was annoyed and grumbled.
It became 7 o'clock and Shi Won grabbed her bag and left the office.
She made an appointment with Yoon Hoo and so she made her way to the cafe where she saw his figure behind the window.
Shi Won was worried about getting wrinkles on her forehead so she tried not to have an expression on her face, but when she saw him she automatically frowned.
"That bastard. Why did I love someone like him?"
Without caring about other's thoughts, Shi Won slammed the door of the cafe open and stood in front of him.
"You came?"
Yoon Hoo gave out a small laugh through his nose when he saw her.
"Hurry and tell me. I have to go."
"Take a seat. You aren't going to stand the entire time are you?"
After staring at him angrily for a long time Shi Won sat down.
"Here."
Yoon Hoo took out the bank book from his jacket and placed it on the table.
"Did you really ask me to come here for this? I can just send you the money from the bank. Just tell me the real reason you came here."
It hasn't even been one minute but Shi Won angrily asked him to spit out whatever he was going to say quickly and acted impatient to leave.
"Who is that man?"
She was wondering why he wasn't asking.
"What's your relationship with him? My girlfriend wants to know."
"Have you really been dating him for a year? Were you meeting him while we were dating?"
'Ah…'
I totally forgot. That Manager Moon said that we were dating for one year and she thought about that and she just smiled.
Shi Won slowly made sure there was no expression on her face and just stared at Yoon Hoo.
"What exactly do you want to hear? You had a 200 day anniversary but you're jealous that I've been with him for a year?"
"Hey! Han Shi Won!"
"That's why I'm saying. Tell me what you want and go!"
"Hoo…"
Yoon Hoo gulped his saliva and took a very deep breath. 시원은
"Did you break up with your girlfriend?"
People like you guys always fight over the most trivial things…
"…no…"
"Then you must have gotten in a fight. Is that why you're here to take you anger out on me? You think that if you say some sweet words to me that I'll come running back into your arms?"
"Shi Won ah… I'm really sorry." (Adding 'ah' after someone's name is a sort of term of endearment in Korean.)
"You didn't just come here after you fought with your girlfriend to do something weird with me right? I would be seriously embarrassed if the Lee Yoon Hoo that I dated actually turned out to be this kind of person… Also, I'll pretend that I didn't hear you apologize to me. I'm disgusted that you actually said sorry to me. Just think of it as me never accepting your apology. I won't try to understand nor forgive you for what you did."
"Shi Won. I understand why you're angry and why you're pushing me away. Honestly, while we were dating, Yeh Na was the first one who came up to me. I didn't even like her. But one day I got drunk and… But you also met that man. I'll also understand and forgive you for that."
'Wow… this piece of trash…'
What in the world is he thinking? A while back, Shi Won didn't have an interest in this one guy, but later on he began dating a really pretty girl and then she began to have interest in him. This must be what Yoon Hoo is feeling.
That's what she remembered.
Anyway, that's what happened.
If that's what you think, then I'll definitely end it today!
Shi Won's eyes gazed at Yoon Hoo coldly and spoke.
"Really? You can understand? The fact that I met with another guy? You're so cool…"
"…"
"Wait."
Shi Won took out her cell phone and began putting in numbers. Slowly her lips curved upward and Yoon Hoo's eyes began to show worry.
"Park Yeh Na? Oh, I'm Han Shi Won. You don't need to greet me. When you used to date Yoon Hoo and you were drunk and you tried to date him, is that true?"
" Hey!"
At Shi Won's words, Yoon Hoo abruptly got up and snatched her phone from her hand and looked at the screen.
"Keugh…"
Shi Won saw Yoon Hoo's overreaction and laughed at him.
"I didn't call. I don't even have the number. Why were you suddenly so nervous?"
"Hey! Han Shi Won!!"
"What?! Lee Yoon Hoo! Why are you so angry over a fake prank call? And you even lied! Are you really only worth this much as a person?"
"Han Shi Won. What do you think you're doing? Are you mocking me?"
"Then what are you doing to me?"
"Hey!"
"Are you done? I can't be as cool as you. So don't say any useless words."
She didn't really like being around him, so she turned her head to the window outside.
'Uh…'
Outside everyone was staring at the trash car that parked in front of the cafe.
Sure enough, the owner of that trash car came out of it.
"I knew he would do this! You heard right!? You heard! What do you mean 'I didn't hear anything.'! Why are you even here?"
She saw the face of Manager Moon who exited his car.
Yoon Hoo looked at Shi Won strangely who was staring at the poorly dressed man.
*ring
The cafe door opened and she saw Manager Moon who walked towards them.
Shi Won looked and concentrated on one point and Yoon Hoo looked at where Shi Won was staring at.
The man walked toward them. He was wearing a t-shirt and pants and ugly glasses.
Manager Moon stopped in front of their table and turned towards them.
Yoon Hoo's eyes twitched upon seeing the man who stood in front of their table and looked at Shi Won.
"You came?"
"Yes."
Upon hearing Shi Won speak to the man and hearing his reply, Yoon Hoo looked at them curiously.
"We meet again, Lee Yoon Hoo ssi."
Yoon Hoo's eyes widened in shock as the unfamiliar man spoke his name with a familiar sounding voice.
Manager Moon stood there confidently as if nothing was wrong next to Shi Won.
"Hey… this… what in the world…"
Seeing this weird situation, Shi Won couldn't help but let out a laugh.
Yoon Hoo examined Manager Moon from head to toe and he couldn't believe what he was seeing.
"What?! What are you look at?!"
Even I can't adapt to him. Of course, you can't.
Come at me. It's your first time seeing this type of horrible fashion right?
Don't even think about why he came. I don't know either…
"You… that time… that bastard…"
"What's your mouth!"
Upon hearing me say 'that bastard' Shi Won lashed out at him.
"Yes. I'm that bastard that you met that day."
Yoon Hoo still couldn't believe that he was the same guy and Shi Won turned to look at Manager Moon.
"Why did you come here?"
Shi Won asked him really softly in front of Yoon Hoo for no reason.
"Because I was worried."
It felt like they were comparing who could speak more softly to each other.
Whew… She thought that this was a lucky situation because he didn't see Shi Won acted terribly in front of him.
"Let's go. We're done talking."
She picked up her phone from the table and put it in her bag and held Manager Moon's arm.
"…"
Of course, upon her touching him, he gave out a smirk and she knew he was going to say something.
"Wait. I have something to say to Mr. Lee Yoon Hoo here."
Yoon Hoo looked at Manager Moon and finally he came to his senses and looked at him.
"Truth is, Shi Won ssi and I haven't been dating for that long."
"What?"
Hearing what he said Shi Won cried out in surprise.
"How was she? Lee Yoon Hoo ssi?"
Shi Won looked at Manager Moon without who spoke to Yoon Hoo with no expression.
Yoon Hoo didn't respond to Manager Moon's question and tightly pressed his lips together.
You never knew how bad it felt because you were the cheating right?
"Huh… what are you saying?"
Yoon Hoo was really perplexed and his face began to get red and laughed at Manager Moon's words.
"So now, don't do those trash-like actions. Lee Yoon Hoo ssi, it's because of people like you that men get bad reputations."
Before Manager Moon arrived, Shi Won was the first to attack and Manager Moon attacked second, so Yoon Hoo's face was really angry and ashamed, but he couldn't take out his anger.
"Ah. Also… here."
Manager Moon gently took Shi Won's hand off of his arm and took out his wallet.
Manager Moon opened his wallet and he took out stacks new, crisp bills and put them on the table for Yoon Hoo.
'Ah! Money!'
Shi Won's eyes went wide open upon seeing him taking out such a large amount of money and giving it away.
"I heard that you were able to meet with Shi Won ssi because of money…"
Shi Won couldn't help but laugh at this situation even though she knew she wasn't supposed to.
'What do you mean you heard it from me… you eavesdropped…'
Shi Won contained her urge to laugh and looked up.
"From now on, please don't force Shi Won ssi to meet you using these kinds of methods. If you do, I won't be this nice. Let's go Shi Won."
They both got up from their seat and Shi Won and made contact with Manager Moon's eyes, who grabbed her hand.
Shi Won's eyes turned back to the table.
As soon as they were about to leave Shi Won took her hand back from Manager Moon and screamed out.
"Wait!!"