Real Man-Chapter 763

“Unlike other platforms, Reverb allows you to earn money easily by writing just one good article. I think we should highlight this advantage of Reverb.”

“How so?”

“By targeting not the general public, but the star YouTubers, the content experts who have experience in generating revenue. If we can attract them, Reverb will grow rapidly.”

“Hmm.”

Yoo-hyun looked over the document that Won Gi Joon had handed him.

It was impressive.

He had not only talked, but also brought concrete methods.

Under the detailed examples, there were traces of his deep thoughts.

He wondered why he had been working overtime alone, but it seemed that he had been writing this.

He felt admiration, but also a bit of regret.

Thud.

Yoo-hyun put down the document and asked.

“Why didn’t you post this on the Reverb improvement board?”

“I wanted to hear your opinion directly.”

“If you had posted it on the board, you could have seen it more easily without having to organize it like this. And you could have heard the opinions of your colleagues as well.”

For the past week, Yoo-hyun had not given any special instructions to his employees.

He just asked them to think about the direction of Reverb and post their thoughts on the improvement board freely.

There was no format, and the environment was familiar, so they all wrote without any pressure.

They gave feedback through comments, and gathered at the table whenever they needed to talk.

A culture of communication gradually took shape.

But Won Gi Joon was not in it.

-Gi Joon seems to dislike sharing ideas with others. He seems to check the board, but he doesn’t leave any comments.

As Yoon Bo Mi said, he seemed to deliberately distance himself.

Won Gi Joon, who had been hesitating for a moment, answered.

“I didn’t want to show a result without deep thought. I didn’t think it would be helpful to write a few lines and get feedback.”

“But wouldn’t it save you some time to think? You could also revisit some points that you didn’t think of through various opinions.”

“Well, I don’t know. I doubt it would be meaningful.”

Won Gi Joon looked reluctant, so Yoo-hyun suggested.

“Then why don’t you check it out?”

“Now?”

“Yes. I’ll tell you what I think after listening to the opinions of others.”

“Okay… I will.”

Won Gi Joon reluctantly nodded.

As he opened the door of the president’s office, he saw the view of the high-ceilinged office.

The marble floor sparkled under the LED rail lights.

Above it, there were wooden desks without partitions and plants between them.

Maybe it was because of the open feeling?

The office looked quite spacious despite its small size.

Trudge trudge.

Yoo-hyun walked past the cafe-like office and headed to the window.

There was a lounge-like resting area in front of the large window overlooking the Gwanghwamun Square.

The employees gathered there were chatting while eating ice cream, snacks, and drinks.

They looked very relaxed.

Yoon Bo Mi, who was sitting on a high chair at the bar table, clapped her hands.

“Oh my! Man Bok, did that really happen?”

“Yes, it did. So I told the real estate agent…”

“Hahaha!”

Yoon Bo Mi and Gong Hyun Joon laughed while holding their stomachs at Jang Man Bok’s exaggerated gestures.

Lee Ji Hyun also covered her mouth and slightly shrugged her shoulders, as if she found it funny.

Won Gi Joon shook his head in dismay.

He felt frustrated by the sight of his colleagues playing during work hours.

Yoo-hyun pretended not to notice and approached them, and Yoon Bo Mi raised her hand.

“President, Man Bok has come up with an amazing idea.”

“Really?”

“Yes. Let’s gather and talk about it.”

“Sure. I have something to share with you as well.”

Yoo-hyun readily agreed to Yoon Bo Mi’s suggestion.

The employees sat around a long wooden table.

Yoon Bo Mi moved the window on her laptop screen to the TV on the wall.

The Reverb site and the improvement board accessed in administrator mode appeared on the large screen.

52 posts.

It had only been a week since the board was opened, but there were already many posts.

Jang Man Bok had the largest share among them.

He felt that he had made a mistake at the first dinner, so he tried to help the company by pouring out his ideas.

Travel, accommodation, movie, food reviews, etc.

They were mostly about new categories, and the post he uploaded this time was no exception.

Click.

The keyword was visible in the free-spirited content as the title suggested.

Jang Man Bok said in an excited voice.

“President, thanks to Reverb, I was finally able to get out of my monthly rent.”

“Congratulations.”

“Thank you. So I went to see some real estate, but it was so hard to find out the market price, the interior structure, and so on. I had to walk around a lot. It was so inconvenient that…”

Jang Man Bok naturally led his argument based on his experience.

Real estate needs reviews too!

The content that would not have caught his eye if it had been made into a report, felt very lively through his mouth.

It was easy to empathize with him because it was something he had felt in his life, and the category was broad enough to add flesh to the base idea.

Gong Hyun Joon added his opinion.

“Since you actually live in the house, the verification is solid. There won’t be any problems like attaching a verification shot to a product that you haven’t even used, like in IT reviews.”

“I agree with Hyun Joon. And there haven’t been any reviews on houses before, right? It might have the effect of pioneering the market.”

Yoon Bo Mi also joined in.

Without Yoo-hyun intervening, they continued to concretize the content through conversation.

“To prevent exaggerated reviews for selling houses…”

“Since there are so many cases, we should distinguish the formats…”

“Like the purchase tab in IT reviews, we could also mediate real estate through Reverb…”

Tap tap tap.

Lee Ji Hyun cleverly extracted only the core points and posted them as comments.

The comments became the minutes of the meeting.

The free conversation had the collaborative atmosphere that Yoo-hyun wanted.

‘It’s time to move on to the next step.’

Now that they had established a good discussion mood, they needed to be more critical.

An idea could become reality only when they examined the cases where it wouldn’t work, not just when they accepted it blindly.

This was Jang Man Bok’s strength: he could come up with relatable ideas from his mundane life.

His colleagues filled in the missing details, and soon they had a plausible outcome.

It was the collaboration that Yoo-hyun wanted, but it had some flaws.

It was too freewheeling, and lacked realism.

As he expected, it was time to improve it.

Swoosh.

Yoo-hyun turned his head and looked at Won Gi Joon.

Then he pulled him into the conversation, who was acting like a bystander.

“What do you think, Gi Joon?”

“I have no comment.”

“Come on, you never say anything. Just be honest. I’ll take any criticism.”

Jang Man Bok approached him with a good-natured smile, and Won Gi Joon sighed.

He looked around and said his opinion.

“To be honest, I think Reverb should focus on growing its core, not branching out right now.”

“Are you saying that new categories are branches?”

“Yes. Simply increasing the items is meaningless in the current situation. We need to fix the center first. That’s why Reverb is only focusing on IT reviews right now.”

Won Gi Joon’s cynical criticism made the cheerful atmosphere awkward.

Gong Hyun Joon, who had been listening quietly, broke the silence.

“IT reviews are important, but it’s not meaningless to think about the future direction. That’s why we’re doing this work.”

“That’s also to a certain extent. The ideas that are coming out now are all things that can’t be done until Reverb becomes a portal site. They’re unrealistic.”

“How can you be so sure? Reverb could become a portal site, you know.”

“I don’t think we need to talk about the distant future right now. I’ll stop here.”

“Well, that could happen. But not now.”

The confrontation between Won Gi Joon and Gong Hyun Joon created tension in the organization that had been only freewheeling.

The moderate tension induced competition and stimulated each other.

It was the leader’s role to lead this stimulation to the organization’s development.

“No, now…”

Gong Hyun Joon tried to argue more, but Yoo-hyun stopped him.

“Okay. Let’s leave this here and look at the idea that Gi Joon prepared.”

“Huh? Gi Joon? Really?”

Yoon Bo Mi was surprised by the unexpected remark.

They might have just praised the idea and moved on as usual.

But because of the tension that Yoo-hyun intended, the meeting became serious.

The people who had only said good things about other ideas started to look for real problems.

Yoon Bo Mi raised her hand.

“Why would people who are based on YouTube bother to do Reverb?”

“If they just put a video link on Reverb, they can get another income. There’s no reason not to. And they can increase their YouTube revenue as well.”

“…”

“What do you think, everyone?”

When Yoo-hyun asked, the people who were watching the situation said one by one.

“Wouldn’t it look too insincere? Even if they have a video, it doesn’t seem very competitive.”

“The scale of YouTube reviews is much larger than Reverb. If the YouTubers just upload videos, their followers will flock to Reverb.”

“Why bother to come to Reverb? They can just watch it on YouTube.”

“You can easily see other reviews on Reverb. The rating system is good, and there are various types. The interface is also neat.”

Won Gi Joon’s logic was that if they could gather them, they could hold them.

Was it because Won Gi Joon’s idea was so realistic?

Unlike when Jang Man Bok was talking, people started to dig into the hidden problems.

“The search reliability might drop due to duplicate reviews.”

“The overall quality of the reviews will decline. If this type of review becomes popular, people won’t bother to write reviews diligently.”

“The existing reviewers might even leave for YouTube.”

There were many things that Won Gi Joon had not considered in the pouring criticism.

But he did not avoid it and fought fiercely.

“That’s why I think we should attract YouTubers to increase the scale in the short term, and develop a video service in the long term so that Reverb users can easily upload video reviews. To do this…”

As the questions and answers piled up, the content became more specific.

It was the next step that Yoo-hyun had in mind.

Problem solving was not done with just criticism.

They needed a strong motivation to make it a reality.

They needed a stronger stimulus to break the existing frame and unleash their potential.

When the heated atmosphere subsided, Yoo-hyun opened his mouth.

“There were quite a lot of opinions. Gi Joon, how do you feel after hearing the opinions of others?”

“…”

Won Gi Joon hesitated for a moment and answered.

“First of all, thank you for your various opinions. To be honest, there were some things I didn’t think of. So I want to prove it to you first.”

“Prove it?”

“Yes. I’ll show you that YouTube video reviews really work on Reverb.”

“Hmm. How do we decide?”

When Yoo-hyun raised the stakes, Yoon Bo Mi clapped her hands.

“How about we decide by the Reverb ranking after a month?”

“That sounds good. We can check it objectively.”

Won Gi Joon agreed, and Gong Hyun Joon asked in a puzzled tone.