Episode 18. First Vlog (2)
Except for Kang Dae-oh, who went down to the underground parking lot first to start the car, Min Seung-yeon took her daughters and got on the elevator.
Before reaching the first floor, the elevator doors opened on the floor directly below, and they ran into their neighbor, an ajumma.
“Oh my! Yera’s mom, are you taking the kids out to play somewhere?”
“Yes. My husband’s cafe is undergoing interior construction until the end of this month. So, I’m going on vacation with the kids during that time.”
“Where are you going?”
Kang Yera opened her mouth before Min Seung-yeon.
“Jeju Island!”
“Oh, really? Yera, that’s great. You’re going on a trip with your mom, dad, and siblings.”
Kang Yera gave a bashful smile.
Even Kang Yebin, who usually showed the fewest changes in expression among the sisters, had her face overflowing with excitement.
It couldn’t be helped.
Before they regressed, Kang Dae-oh and Min Seung-yeon had separated at an early age, so they never had a chance to travel all together like this again.
Perhaps that’s why it was natural for them to look forward to today’s family trip.
The ajumma also told Kang Yebin and Kang Yeyoung to have a good trip.
After seeing the ajumma off on the first floor.
They also followed, coming out of the apartment’s common entrance.
“Dad must have parked the car over there.”
Min Seung-yeon took the children’s hands and headed towards where Kang Dae-oh was waiting.
But.
Kang Dae-oh wasn’t just waiting.
He held the camera Kang Yeyoung had chosen in one hand and said,
“Finally, my beloved wife and beloved children are coming, having finished their travel preparations. How are they? Aren’t they all pretty?”
“······What are you doing? Honey.”
“This? Vlogging.”
A short sigh escaped Min Seung-yeon’s lips.
“Why are you suddenly doing something you don’t usually do on the way to a trip?”
“Ah······ well, you see.”
In fact, Kang Dae-oh had also wondered if he really needed to film a vlog when going on a trip.
If he needed video material to upload to the channel, he thought what he usually filmed would be enough.
However, Kang Yeyoung, the YouTube expert, thought differently.
Because daily parenting vlogs were overflowing.
She had once coached that to add even a small differentiating factor, it was necessary to incorporate the element of travel.
This was content included in the 30-minute crash course this morning.
This was one thing, but.
Kang Dae-oh had another reason for deciding to take the camera from Kang Yeyoung.
“I’ve been thinking. We’ve taken a lot of family photos, but we haven’t taken any separate videos.”
“Now that you mention it······.”
At the sweet words ‘family video,’ Min Seung-yeon gradually seemed to come around.
As if sensing this was the moment, Kang Dae-oh decided to push forward.
His daughters were also sending him looks filled with support for their dad.
Because ultimately, vlog filming could only proceed smoothly if their mom gave permission.
“It would be good to record our family’s travel log while filming videos for Yeyoung’s channel. Later, when time passes, you’ll definitely say this, ‘It was good that we filmed it.’”
“······.”
“Because you can’t see what the kids were like when they were young if it’s not now.”
Moreover, experiencing something through photos and seeing it through video feels very different.
Another sigh escaped Min Seung-yeon’s lips.
“Ugh. Fine. Do whatever you want. But there’s one condition.”
“Just tell me.”
Min Seung-yeon blushed slightly and made a request rather than a condition.
“Don’t let my face appear.”
The moment she heard her mom’s words, Kang Yera strongly protested, “Why!”
“I was going to use this opportunity to boast that our mom is so pretty!”
“If you intend to make mom so embarrassed she collapses, then go ahead.”
Min Seung-yeon still seemed to lack the confidence to stand before people through videos.
In fact, just appearing in an interview video with her family was a tremendous act of courage.
That’s not to say Min Seung-yeon dislikes standing in front of the camera.
Because she used to do fitting model work.
Instead, after having children, it seemed her confidence in her appearance and body had dropped significantly compared to before, so these days, she tried not to step forward for such things.
Of course, from Kang Dae-oh’s perspective, there didn’t seem to be much difference, but she herself didn’t seem to feel that way.
Kang Dae-oh also had no intention of forcing his unwilling wife in front of the camera.
“I promise.”
He decided to trust that the youngest would edit it well on her own later.
Naturally, his daughters were overwhelmingly better at handling the camera than Kang Dae-oh.
Even though Kang Yera and Kang Yebin didn’t have jobs that frequently involved handling cameras like their youngest sister.
This is because idols and actors often hold selfie cameras themselves to record their daily lives when appearing on variety shows.
Thanks to these experiences, they all already knew at what angle and how to hold the camera to get pretty and good shots.
However, it was Kang Dae-oh’s first time filming a vlog.
Perhaps that’s why, from the moment they left home until they arrived at the airport and waited for their flight, his daughters’ coaching continued incessantly.
“Dad. Don’t shove the camera too close. Your face will appear big.”
At Kang Yera’s point, Kang Dae-oh quickly stepped back.
“Should I film like this?”
“You don’t necessarily need to match eye level. That makes the angle look too artificial. You can just shoot from top to bottom.”
“Then······ this, this?”
As Kang Dae-oh assumed an awkward posture, the weight of Kang Yera’s sigh grew heavier.
Kang Yebin, who had been quietly watching this, instead blamed Kang Yera, not Kang Dae-oh.
“As a professional, one should always be prepared to look pretty, no matter who is holding the camera and filming.”
Before the bickering between the eldest and second daughter needlessly erupted, Kang Dae-oh stepped in to mediate.
“Dad will film you however you want. So, if there’s anything you want, just tell me anytime. Dad is fine with it.”
If only he could capture his daughters’ cute and pretty appearances.
Kang Dae-oh was prepared to overcome any annoyance.
As he told Min Seung-yeon.
‘Because photos and videos last a lifetime.’
The saying ‘only photos remain’ didn’t come out of nowhere.
No matter how good someone’s memory is, fully recalling the situation, emotions, and feelings of that time is almost impossible.
But if there are materials like photos or videos.
Even if it’s difficult to perfectly restore the memories of that time, they make you recall as much as possible.
That alone makes filming worthwhile.
Entrusting the camera to his daughters would be the best, but there was a big problem.
‘This is too heavy for the kids to carry around.’
Even an adult like Kang Dae-oh found it difficult to carry the camera for a long time.
It felt a bit off to hand this role over to still young children.
At that moment.
“Oh, right.”
A piece of filming equipment came to Kang Dae-oh’s mind, who had packed the luggage after receiving the items Kang Yeyoung wanted.
‘Wouldn’t they be able to carry a bodycam?’
Kang Dae-oh couldn’t stick with his daughters 24/7 and continue filming.
Because even if they looked like babies on the outside, they were all grown young ladies on the inside.
Their privacy had to be respected.
So, Kang Dae-oh decided to hand his daughters a small camera for them to film separately.
“This, Yeyoung asked me to buy it for her, so I bought it.”
“Wow······ this is a really old model.”
Kang Yera checked the bodycam model she received from her dad and expressed surprise.
Kang Dae-oh tilted his head at Kang Yera’s words.
“That, from what I saw, was newly released this year.”
Kang Yebin lightly poked her unnie.
“If you consider it from the point in time unnie regressed, it’s now more than 20 years later. From unnie’s perspective, it has to be an old model.”
“That’s right, I forgot.”
Kang Yebin’s words were correct.
Kang Dae-oh suddenly became curious about the future 20 years from now.
“What’s it like then? For example······ how much has artificial intelligence developed? Things like that. You know, when you go to a restaurant, robots serve you.”
Kang Yebin nodded her small head and replied.
“In the future, there will be hardly any cases of people serving. Ordering will also change to a world where kiosks are standard. People even say it’s a unique store if a person takes your order.”
“Oh, really?”
“Yes. Cars even fly around.”
Kang Dae-oh’s eyes widened.
“Really? I only thought about autonomous driving becoming commercialized at most.”
He didn’t expect that flying capabilities would be added on top of that.
At Kang Dae-oh’s greatly surprised reaction, Kang Yebin suddenly burst into laughter.
“Huh? Why? Did I say something funny?”
Kang Yera spoke on behalf of the long-laughing Kang Yebin.
“It’s a lie.”
“A lie? That cars fly?”
“Yes. Yebin just lied to trick dad. Even 20 years from now, flying functions aren’t installed.”
“Ah······ really?”
Kang Yebin, who had barely managed to calm her laughter, apologized to her dad.
“I’m sorry, dad. I just wanted to trick you once.”
“It’s okay. That can happen.”
More than that, Kang Dae-oh realized inwardly from Kang Yebin’s joke.
Seeing that she subtly had a mischievous side, he thought, ‘She really is Kang Yera’s biological sister, after all.’
Upon arriving at Jeju International Airport, the first thing that welcomed them was Jeju Island’s blue sky.
Min Seung-yeon made a shade with her hand and looked up at the sky.
“We’re lucky. They said it might rain today.”
It was perfect weather for traveling.
With even the weather luck on their side, Kang Dae-oh had no doubt that this family trip would be a thoroughly satisfying one.
To do so, they first needed to secure transportation for the family to move around comfortably.
“There’s a rental car company nearby, so I’ll go get the car. Stay here with the kids for a moment.”
“Okay.”
Kang Dae-oh returned directly to where his wife and daughters were with the car.
Perhaps because he intentionally rented a large vehicle, it was spacious enough even with five family members and all their luggage.
Unlike the comfortable riding environment, today’s schedule wasn’t very comfortable.
“Honey. There’s a lot of time left until check-in. Shall we look for a place to visit nearby? We could go sightsee and then eat lunch.”
“That sounds good.”
Since only Kang Dae-oh and Min Seung-yeon had smartphones, she had to be in charge of searching.
“They say there’s a traditional market nearby? Let’s go there.”
“Okay.”
While they were moving, Kang Yera began fiddling with the bodycam she received from Kang Dae-oh.
“Maknae. How does this work?”
“Give it here.”
Kang Yeyoung wiggled her small fingers diligently and pressed the buttons hard.
Meanwhile, Kang Dae-oh safely parked the car in the traditional market’s parking lot.
He had worried there wouldn’t be any empty spots because it was peak season. He felt relieved that it was surprisingly spacious.
“There will be a lot to film here.”
Perhaps it was because he was in charge of being the main cameraman during the family trip.
Kang Dae-oh unconsciously started talking about filming.
Considering how quiet the parking lot was, there were quite a lot of people.
Amidst the crowded people, Kang Dae-oh held Kang Yebin’s hand and said,
“You might get separated from mom and dad. Stay close.”
“Yes.”
“Yera and Yeyoung too······ hmm?”
He couldn’t see the eldest and youngest nearby.
“Honey. Where are Yera and Yeyoung?”
Min Seung-yeon, showing a flustered expression, asked back.
“Weren’t you holding onto them?”
“Me?”
A bad premonition washed over him.
Suddenly, a word that shouldn’t have come to mind at this moment popped up.
“Surely they haven’t become lost children······ have they?”
