Episode 18. First Vlog (5)
“Dad, it’s this way. This way!”
Kang Yera excitedly took the lead to guide Kang Dae-oh and the family.
Every time his daughter hopped, her long hair fluttered like waves.
Kang Dae-oh chuckled at the sight.
‘How excited must she be to be like that?’
Kang Yera had seemed to be in a very good mood ever since yesterday. This was because it was the first time the whole family had gathered and come on a trip like this. Before the regression, Kang Dae-oh and Min Seung-yeon had split due to unfortunate events, so they couldn’t go on family trips. And now, they had finally reunited today. It was only natural that Kang Yera’s energy was high.
When Kang Dae-oh arrived at the snack bar where Kang Yera and Kang Yeyoung had briefly stayed yesterday, the first thing that caught his eye was the interior of the store.
‘There really isn’t a single customer.’
Not even a single fly was visible.
When the sound of the store door opening was heard, the young female owner, who was in the kitchen, showed her face.
“Welcome… Oh my!”
She was greatly surprised to see Kang Yera and Kang Yeyoung entering behind Kang Dae-oh.
“Girls! What brings you here?”
Kang Yera pointed to her family, whom the female owner was seeing for the first time today, and said.
“The food you made yesterday, ma’am, was so delicious that I wanted to let Mom, Dad, and my sister try it, so we came again!”
At Kang Yera’s clear words, the female owner felt a deep lingering emotion of impression.
“Thank you, dear. I was regretting that I couldn’t make it more delicious yesterday because I was so flustered.”
Today, she was confident.
Before that, Kang Dae-oh expressed his gratitude to the female owner.
“Thank you so much for taking such good care of the kids. I came to greet you yesterday, but the door was closed.”
So Kang Dae-oh couldn’t bring himself to thank the female owner.
A weak smile appeared on the female owner’s face.
“The hospital suddenly called. They said my child wouldn’t stop crying. It seemed like her mom had to come and comfort her, so I quickly closed the store and went to the hospital.”
“I see.”
There’s nothing that tears a parent’s heart more than their child being sick.
‘If only I could be sick instead.’
Such thoughts arose countless times, but unfortunately, heaven was not granting the female owner’s wish.
“Is your daughter… safe?”
As a mother with a daughter of her own, Min Seung-yeon was filled with worry.
Fortunately, the female owner nodded.
“Yes. Her surgery date is next week, so I think she’s been very scared lately because of that. She used to be a child who would try to be brave, saying she wasn’t scared even if she had surgery.”
“It’s probably… a tough thing for a young child.”
Not just for the child.
Parents who have to watch it must also be very tired.
Since she was experiencing not only emotional but also financial problems, the female owner’s hardship was double… no, more than triple.
“Is the surgery expensive?”
“Yes. But fortunately, I’ve somehow managed to prepare it in advance for this month. Next month is the problem. So starting today, my mother… the child’s maternal grandmother decided to take over the nursing care, and I decided to keep the store open. My husband also goes to work at dawn and works until late at night. I have to contribute too.”
Until the day when families, like Kang Dae-oh, Min Seung-yeon, and their three daughters, can gather together and go on family trips with bright faces.
The female owner was determined to work hard.
At this moment, Kang Yeyoung raised her voice.
“We’ll help you too.”
The female owner looked at the youngest one as if she was cute, at Kang Yeyoung’s lisping words.
“Yeyoung, you just need to eat the snacks I make deliciously. That alone is helping.”
Just seeing the child eat the food she made to her heart’s content was enough to satisfy the female owner emotionally. It was the same yesterday. That’s why she didn’t try to get money from the sisters. This was because the female owner already felt that she had received enough compensation for it.
However, Kang Yeyoung could not accept this kind of happy ending.
“Ma’am. Please do one thing for us.”
“What is it? If Yeyoung asks for it, I’ll grant anything.”
The female owner thought Kang Yeyoung would ask for a specific food she wanted to eat, asking if she could make it. However, Kang Yeyoung’s request was not like that.
“We’re filming a travel vlog. Could you allow us to film here?”
“Vlog? Do you mean those things where you film daily life and upload them to YouTube?”
“Yes.”
“It doesn’t matter, but there’s nothing much to see in our store. It’s a bit embarrassing.”
Kang Yeyoung reassured the female owner by repeatedly saying it was okay.
Kang Dae-oh’s family, who had settled down, ordered food, choosing what they wanted to eat. Perhaps because a family-unit customer had come after a long time, the female owner’s face and hand movements in the kitchen were full of vitality.
Kang Dae-oh muttered to himself while watching the female owner.
“She seems to really love cooking.”
Kang Yera nodded, agreeing with her dad.
“You’ll be very surprised when you taste it later.”
“Is it that delicious?”
“Yes. I really like tteokbokki, so whenever I saw a snack bar while on schedule, I used to secretly buy and eat it, hiding from my manager unnie. But among everything I’ve eaten so far, it’s among the top.”
Putting aside the expression of taste.
“Why did you eat it secretly from your manager?”
It’s not like she’s a criminal.
Kang Dae-oh couldn’t understand this part of what Kang Yera said.
Kang Yebin took on the answer for this.
“Because the trainer told unnie to eat as few carbohydrates as possible to manage her figure.”
It was because she was eating against the trainer’s words.
At Kang Yebin’s confession, Kang Yera’s face turned red.
Diet is like a fate for idols.
Even so, Kang Dae-oh hoped that Kang Yera would eat whatever she wanted to her heart’s content.
“Before you start your idol activities, eat whatever you want to your heart’s content. Dad will buy it all for you.”
Kang Yera’s expression brightened.
“As expected, Dad is the best! Oh, of course, Mom too.”
At her eldest daughter’s sly compliment, Min Seung-yeon chuckled.
While the family was talking.
The food they ordered was served in abundance on the table.
“I’ll eat well…”
“Wait a minute!”
Kang Yeyoung asked Kang Dae-oh and Min Seung-yeon, who were about to pick up their chopsticks, to pause.
“Why?”
“To take a picture before eating?”
If you’re a Korean citizen, you can’t resist taking a certification photo before eating.
They thought Kang Yeyoung was also that type, but.
She was slightly different.
Kang Yeyoung held the camera and said this.
“We have to take an opening shot. Because we decided to film a vlog.”
Before Kang Dae-oh and Min Seung-yeon could ask what an opening shot was, Kang Yebin anticipated her mom and dad’s actions and began to explain.
“It’s called an opening shot, or preview. It’s a filming technique that captures the entire appearance of the food in detail with the camera to amplify viewers’ visual expectations. It’s also used in dramas.”
“Ah… is that so?”
The female owner was more flustered than Kang Dae-oh and Min Seung-yeon.
“I knew the children were smart. But the second one seems even smarter. If it’s okay, could you subtly tell me later how you educated your children at home?”
At the female owner’s words asking for the secret, Kang Dae-oh almost answered like this for a moment.
‘You just need to give birth to regressed daughters,’ he almost said.
Kang Dae-oh’s family, who returned home from Jeju Island.
As soon as they returned, Kang Yeyoung immediately started video editing through her dad.
“Look at the timeline, and you just need to insert the subtitles I wrote for you. I also wrote down the font and font size, so you can check that.”
“…Alright.”
Even when editing the legendary school play video that Kang Yera appeared in, it was done in this manner, receiving real-time coaching from Kang Yeyoung.
He thought that since he had done it once, the second time would be easy, but.
‘It’s still difficult.’
Kang Dae-oh is a beginner among beginners in video editing.
So Kang Yeyoung was explaining in a very detailed way, telling him where to click the mouse.
Video editing was good, but.
Kang Dae-oh was also worried.
“But will people watch the video a lot?”
“The school play video got good views, didn’t it?”
“That video also had the help of parents watching it diligently at the beginning. But this vlog video won’t have people like kindergarten parents to boost the views rapidly at the start.”
He worried if he edited diligently only for the views to end up at 10 or 20.
However, Kang Yeyoung was still confident.
“I have my own secret, so trust me.”
The position of Korea’s number one influencer wasn’t simply gained for free.
It was because of that much effort and strategy.
Kang Yeyoung, who already had the experience of conquering the Korean YouTube scene once.
Unlike her small baby body, her eyes were sharper and hotter than an adult’s.
Kang Dae-oh, who received a call that the construction of the store for the second expansion was almost complete, drove out alone after a long time.
Upon arriving at the site, the interior Kang Dae-oh had hoped for was almost 100 percent realized.
Kang Dae-oh felt very good at this sight.
“Boss, we look forward to your continued cooperation.”
The CEO of the interior company shook hands briefly with Kang Dae-oh.
“The pleasure is all mine. More importantly, did you have a good trip?”
“Huh? How did you know that…?”
Kang Dae-oh had never mentioned to the CEO of the interior company that he had gone on a family trip.
The CEO took out his smartphone and showed him a video that had recently been gaining views at a terrifying speed.
“A while ago, a video from your daughter’s channel appeared in my YouTube algorithm, Mr. Kang. This is your youngest daughter’s channel, right?”
Despite being the first video, the views had exceeded 200,000.
Thanks to that, the number of subscribers was also rapidly increasing.
Kang Yeyoung had maximized the correlation with the school play video that had hit big views by inputting keywords and creating thumbnails in a similar way.
This was also why Kang Yera’s appearance frequency was increased.
Thanks to this, the number of people looking for the snack bar that appeared in the vlog also rapidly increased.
The CEO of the interior company chuckled and said.
“After seeing this, my wife told me we should go on a trip to Jeju Island too. We’re planning to visit that snack bar Mr. Kang stopped by. But I heard that so many people gathered there that a waiting line formed.”
“Really? I knew people were gathering, but this is the first I’m hearing about a waiting line.”
“Oh my. It’s no joke there.”
Thanks to the CEO of the interior company, Kang Dae-oh was able to hear about the female owner’s recent situation.
For some reason, Kang Dae-oh felt as if the female owner’s happy screams were echoing in his ears.
‘It worked out well.’
Most things were accomplished by his daughters.
For some reason, Kang Dae-oh’s shoulders gained strength.
This might be the feeling of a father with capable daughters.
