Ryeo-woon is embroiled in controversy due to the real culprit of the audition rigging, Lee Seung-jun, and her debut is on the verge of collapse.

In episode 9 of the Genie TV original drama ‘Namib’ (written by Eom Sung-min, directed by Han Sang-jae and Kang Min-goo) that aired on the 20th, trainee Yoo Jin-woo (played by Ryeo-woon), who was transferred from Kang Soo-hyun (played by Go Hyun-jung) to a large agency, fell into deep frustration due to various controversies, which was heartbreaking.

As soon as the contract was finished, Yoo Jin-woo asked Kang Soo-hyun why she sold him. Yoo Jin-woo, who had thoroughly kept his promise to protect her son Shim Jin-woo (played by Lee Jin-woo) after believing Kang Soo-hyun‘s words that they would succeed together, lost his reason and began to run wild when Kang Soo-hyun said that he needed money to buy Shim Jin-woo’s factory.

Yoo Jin-woo, who was traumatized by being abandoned by someone who was like family, pleaded with Kang Soo-hyun, but Kang Soo-hyun coldly pushed away Yoo Jin-woo‘s hand. This is because he thought that in order for Yoo Jin-woo to rise to a higher position, he needed to receive training from a more systematic agency than Kang Soo-hyun, and he also had to break up with the person who knew his past well. However, Yoo Jin-woo, who could not know Kang Soo-hyun’s feelings, cried tears of sorrow while standing there, adding to the bitterness.


Despite breaking up with Kang Soo-hyun, Yoo Jin-woo joined the debut group right after joining TA Entertainment and even filmed a commercial, walking down a smooth path in his life for the first time in his life. Although he received a call from his mother (played by Lee Joo-young) about money again after hearing the news of his debut, Yoo Jin-woo firmly cut that off, unlike in the past, and devoted all his energy to preparing for his debut.

In the midst of all this, a rival of Yoo Jin-woo‘s from an audition program, Kim Yi-joon (played by Ha Yoo-joon), joined the debut group, and a vague sense of uneasiness began to creep in. To make matters worse, tension grew within the company when a controversy over manipulation erupted in the Star Rise auditions that Yoo Jin-woo had appeared in. Jang Hyun-chul (Lee Seung-jun), the CEO of Pandora Entertainment, the mastermind behind the audition rigging, exposed the fact that Yoo Jin-woo had visited clubs in the past in order to divert people’s attention elsewhere, causing the viewers to become angry.

Even as the delinquent students who harbored ill feelings toward Yoo Jin-woo continued to make false accusations, Yoo Jin-woo ended up bearing the dishonor of audition rigging, club visits, and school violence controversies. He tried to explain all the controversies to his agency, but no one would listen to him, and the situation worsened.

Kang Soo-hyun, Shim Jun-seok (Yoon Sang-hyun), and Shim Jin-woo, who realized what was happening, hurried to see Yoo Jin-woo, but Yoo Jin-woo‘s body and mind were already in shambles. Furthermore, the sense of crisis doubled when Kang Soo-hyun, who was running towards Yoo Jin-woo, fell unconscious in a car accident. With the future of the two people becoming uncertain due to the series of bad news, it is curious how Kang Soo-hyun and Yoo Jin-woo will resolve this crisis.

Hong Se-young, Donga.com reporter, projecthong@donga.com

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