Chapter 9: An Unexpected Offer and the Art of Negotiation.

‘…Fast.’

I felt like I received a reply about 3 seconds after sending the message.

[Yu Sieun: Ah yes!!!]

Was she keeping the messenger open?

Even so, including the time it takes to write that, it means she pressed it almost as soon as the message popped up.

At this speed, it seemed like EunSiyu was waiting for my reply to the email, just as I had been looking forward to EunSiyu proposing to run the official YouTube channel for the past few weeks.

‘I’m sorry…’

If it were normal, I would have replied as soon as the email came, saying that I really liked it and wanted to work together.

After cursing my magical abilities, which I had cursed enough for 8 days while lying on the bed, I unlocked my phone and turned on the messenger application again.

Even in that short time, another message had come to Yu Sieun, the name set in the messenger profile by EunSiyu.

It was a message with content that seemed to contain a summary of the apology part in the email.

‘……Is she a person who thinks a lot?’

I know a lot about the broadcaster EunSiyu, but I don’t know anything about the human Yu Sieun.

I thought she was a slightly mysterious person.

It could be that my not seeing the email for a long time and the fact that the fan channel’s video uploads, which had been steady, had stopped felt like a strange signal to EunSiyu.

Misunderstandings originally start from something that is nothing from the perspective of the person who knows about it.

But EunSiyu’s apology reached even for not being able to offer it to me quickly for the past month.

It seemed that she had been thinking deeply in some strange direction during the four days that my emails had been ignored.

‘…You don’t have to be sorry for this. It wasn’t because of this in the first place.’

I started writing a message to make the unknown thoughts that EunSiyu was having disappear.

It’s rather me who is sorry for checking the email late.

There were some circumstances that made it impossible for me to do other work for quite a long time, and that time overlapped strangely.

As for running a YouTube channel together, since it started with fan spirit, the fact that I’m receiving the offer now is a very happy thing for me.

My heart was really pounding the moment I checked the email.

EunSiyu, who had been reading the messages I sent silently, sent another message with the same content as me, saying thank you.

There was also a question that followed that message.

Asking what the circumstances were.

It was a very cautious tone, but it was a word that was slightly out of the context of a normal conversation.

‘…Do people usually ask about this?’

I don’t have much of a chance to talk to women, even for work, so I didn’t know this well.

Maybe it’s not a gender thing, but the tendency of the person Yu Sieun.

I didn’t feel uncomfortable.

Just a feeling of that much, wondering what had happened that I couldn’t even check my email.

However, in this case, it was difficult to return an answer.

What I had experienced for the past 8 days was not something that I was ashamed of or anything like that………

No.

It’s something to be ashamed of.

Telling another person that I had been lying down because I was sick, especially a person I was talking to for the first time today in all of my memories, was too much for Ha Eunsol’s sensitivity.

So I chose to mumble.

Saying that there were some circumstances that were a little difficult to talk about, but I had solved them all.

Fortunately, EunSiyu didn’t ask any more questions.

It seemed she realized that I didn’t want to tell her that.

There was a process of a moment of subtle questions and refusal to answer, but the flow of the conversation naturally changed to the main point that EunSiyu had proposed by email.

I spoke first because it seemed like EunSiyu was hesitating.

‘Come to think of it… I haven’t thought about the conditions. I’ll have to discuss it.’

When people work together, there have to be things that are decided.

No matter how well they get along, no matter how close they are.

If it’s a relationship formed by employment rather than friendship, the necessity of these defined things increases dozens of times.

What needs to be decided between a YouTuber and an editor is not that complicated.

There are very many if you want to find the detailed things, but you can easily decide just two things.

If you run a YouTube channel together, what kind of work process will you go through?

What method will you use to give the pay?

EunSiyu would be new to this.

So originally, it would have been smoother for me to roughly plan and ask EunSiyu’s opinion to find a consensus.

However, I was also not ready yet because I had checked the email and sent the message so suddenly.

There are no materials at all.

[Yu Sieun: Um, would it be okay if we talked a little more?]

EunSiyu seemed to be trying to talk about this right away too.

I had the thought that there would probably be a little difficulty in the conversation.

Throughout the long history of mankind, what negotiation and agreement mean has always been an act to maximize one’s own profit.

What usually happens when two selfish subjects who want each other’s maximum benefit find a consensus is a battle.

Negotiations are usually full of conflicting opinions and the various problems they create.

The negotiation between broadcaster EunSiyu and prospective editor Ha Eunsol did not completely deviate from that pattern either.

The two problems of work and pay.

Quite a few problems arose while discussing these.

However, the agreement we were making was developing in a form that was very different from the aspect of a traditional agreement process.

EunSiyu’s argument was 50 percent of the channel’s revenue and a per-video fee.

My argument was to subtract the channel revenue distribution from that.

Of course, it’s better to get more money.

I can’t deny that what EunSiyu is saying is a good condition.

‘Hoo….’

I know that EunSiyu will feel strange that I’m stubbornly refusing to take the channel’s revenue.

But I have my own reasons.

If I posted it as a worry in a community of people who do video editing as a profession, I would be cursed at with a pot full of swear words for being stupid, but… it was my own worry.

It was also due to my experience as an editor in my memories.

YouTube will have almost no revenue for the first few months, but it will be different later.

If the revenue goes up to thousands of dollars, the weight of 50% of the revenue at that time is different from now.

EunSiyu may not be thinking about that time, but I was thinking that EunSiyu would grow to a scale that is dozens of times larger than now, even if she doesn’t know that much.

That is of course a good thing and something I want.

However, if I accept EunSiyu’s proposal, I will be receiving 50% of the revenue even at that time.

Since she’s even paying me per video, it’ll go up more than the average editor employment cost.

People change little by little.

I wouldn’t think much about it now, but later, if EunSiyu becomes a mature broadcaster.

I didn’t want a sentence with the nuance of whether I was taking too much money compared to what the editor does to come out of EunSiyu’s thoughts and mouth.

[Yu Sieun: …Then I understand.

Instead, I think it would be good to raise the amount per minute a little for the video.

How about ₩18,000 per minute?]

‘…Haa.’

EunSiyu changed her mind to my stubborn argument.

However, she was calling for ₩18,000, which is even higher than the amount per minute mentioned earlier.

It’s an amount that a video editor with a long career and ability deserves to receive.

Rather, from those people’s point of view, it can be said to be low.

But it was definitely not an amount that a novice broadcaster would use to hire an editor for a small YouTube channel.

I had the thought that perhaps EunSiyu, who was hiring an editor for the first time, was getting carried away and doing something unreasonable.

Time wasn’t just needed on my side.

I wrote a message.

It was a message containing a few things.

I think it would be better to think about it a little more and talk about it than to decide it urgently now, since this is also my first time with this kind of experience….

[
I think.]

EunSiyu sent a reply after a bit of a pause.

It was a message saying that it seemed difficult to decide in the messenger right now, so she was asking if I would be available three days later.

If my sense of time is correct, three days later was the day of EunSiyu’s regular day off.

That must mean that we will talk about it accurately again then.

I agreed, and EunSiyu said thank you once again and ended the conversation with a final message saying that she would contact me later.

I didn’t expect to see the contact right away, so I was also flustered.

I was flustered, but I have experience.

Even if I only worry for about 30 minutes, I can create an employment type that we can agree on and the process until the video comes out.

It seems like I should consider a little when setting the consensus that EunSiyu wants to give me something as compensation.

‘Three days, huh….’

With the thought that I could sort it out with persuasion three days later, I started thinking about what would be needed to switch to an official channel.

One day later, I sat still in front of the computer and came up with one thought.

Should I have just said that I was busy because I had to edit and didn’t have time?