One of 10 - Nicole Lee Snsd

19.Champion

Sky Castle was the gift that kept on giving our wrap party was an event, the kids and I appeared on entertainment tonight on KBS.The season finally made headlines. One of the very first scenes I did was the Christmas party where I tell everybody about my hardworking time at Harvard.
Everybody in the cast was there individually an many came from different agencies so I didn't feel at loss.They came into the project by themselves and alone. 'Is not that scary.'I told myself.
But the first day felt like jumping into deep black waters.It is a little embarrassing to admit but I felt my anxiety rise high.I tried to shove it away but it got bigger and bigger.
'Yoona and Yuri just filmed there parts. They are not here because they are on another schedule.Tiffany is in make up.' I lied to myself.My brain produced an image of Tiffany sitting in the makeup chair I just sat with her maltese dog Prince in her lap. The lie made my body calmer.
That is really fascinating and should be studied at a university hospital.I thought.
All the cast was great especially Jo Byeongkyu who played my younger brother.He was one of the sweetest guy ever.Not taking himself seriously saying he lacked and wanted to learn from others all the time.He was cute and said funny things with a kid's smile.He started dating one of the co-stars of the show and he asked me for advice on how to swoon her. I replied you already did.His twin brother on the show Kim Dong Hee was two years younger than him and my role of big sister almost went to a girl born in between.

Oh Nara had a vibe of extroverted fun.
"Omo,omo look how pretty she is! " She said and ran up to me.
"Girls generation in this drama , my hair is not as pretty as yours!"
"No it is unnie, you have great hair" I said and smiled to her.
"Oh really?"She said in English" Ok can you say that again on camera?" she joked.
"What shampoo and conditioner you use!?" 
"Everybody stand by!!" yelled the director
"Wait a minute,she can tell me quickly" She said and grabbed my arm.
I told her the brand and the next day at lunch she sat eating a sallad. She saw me and waved her hand franticly so I would get closer.She put down her fork and grabbed her phone that was on the table.
"The products you told me about I'm ordering them right now.Her face got 2 inches away from mine cheek to cheek.Look if I order 8 bottles I get  a discount but it's a bit much you want some? I order for us,ok"
"Yeah ok I said and smiled"I was running out any way"I said and pulled up my own lunch I made with Donghae.
"Ohh good, ok ,Unnie will fix it!"She said tapping way at the phone.
She was beautiful,open,charming and smiling,I remember thinking if I was a guy this is exactly the type of woman I would go for.Other people came in had lunch.I did freak out a little on the inside like were are the members of my group or anybody's manager from SM town.It took a little moment to get used to being in a working environment and there is person after person of complete strangers. But later as we gathered for press inteviews or people begging us for a special I got used to it. 

I had decided to go back to school during this time.I went to Seoul national University and studied creative writing,Marketing / Pr and Japanese.I was good at Japanese but I wanted to be able to read and write anything.I had a good time with it.

I asked Sooyoung,Yuri and Seohyun for advice about campus life.I recieved tons.
On my first day nothing special happened,On my second day there were paparazzi there and People waited outside the lecture halls.It made me think of the scene in "My love from the stars"

My agent who worked with me also got attention from "Sky Castle". He got a job offer he could not refuse in Canada.So there I was on my own again but I was fine.I knew all of 2019 was going to be filled with award shows where "Sky Castle" was going to be nominated and win. 

For me I thought it would be nice to have managers and people looking out for me again so I looked around for labels.I read a One man agency was created for actress Kim So-hyun at Kakao corp and thought of doing the same.I met with Kakao M, a separate division and they really wanted me on board of creating this together.Meaning I pay them in advance.I put down 50.000 dollars and they put in 45.000 and I had my own agency called "Horizons". The name came from you know having "something new on the horizon."Having my own agency SM could't come after me with anything but at the same time Kakao was going to back me up if anything went down.
Kakao has is own social media that in South Korea is as big as twitter and instagram as well as taxi services,bank and many other things. Kakao owns MelON music which is the biggest music streaming platform in Korea.So its like if SM came for me they would come for "the corporation that owns Spotify."