150 Dreams and Hope

It had actually been quite a while since Eden first became interested in artists from the Far East.

Nearly ten years had passed since he first watched K-pop begin appearing on the global stage.

During that time, K-pop had seemed to him less like something led by a single genius and more like an industry run by a system, assembled by composers of every nationality.

And that was true, too.

That tendency only grew stronger over time, and K-pop transformed into an experimental playground where every genre in existence was brought in and mashed together.

As such, the emergence of an artist like Seo Si-yeon was both surprising and strangely out of place to him.

She was an outlier who had blossomed through her own talent, rather than breaking through K-pop's traditional, systematic competitive process.

That was why Eden continued to take an interest in Seo Si-yeon.

He had also approached Park Han-su at a party he'd happened to be invited to, where Park sat in a corner looking bored.

Park was good at music and, like Hwang Du-seong, was Korean, but more importantly, Eden had heard rumors that Park was the one who had raised Seo Si-yeon...