MTL - Korean Entertainment Kpopstar-Chapter 10 Current Situation of Kim Jong Kook
Yeouido XXX BBQ restaurant is open 24 hours a day, and the quality and quantity of meat are quite good, so it is deeply loved by celebrities. Korean TV stations are running almost 24 hours a day, so even if there are no ordinary diners coming to dine late at night, many celebrities will come to dine after finishing today's filming. Especially in the early 2000s, the gathering culture was very developed. After almost every program group finishes filming, the program group PD, 100% will invite the stars for a round of dinner.
Anyway, there is no pressure on the PD of public funds to eat and drink, and he can even interweave his own network, why not? At this time, the reimbursement procedures are not as systematic as in the future, with special review regulations, what can be reported and what cannot be reported. Now as long as your PD takes the invoice, the TV station is OK.
In this period of the 2000s, the stars are the most important, not like the star who was rotten after the idol vigorously hit the market a few years later. At this time, the actors and comedians were all recruited by the TV station, and the editors were all from the TV station. The actors needed by a drama, if the TV station produced a TV series by itself, first of all, the actors must definitely choose their own TV station. This has also caused many actors trained by TV stations to become popular after filming a TV series, and then outside brokerage companies will come to dig their feet.
It is very strange that South Korea's economy has only just begun to recover after the Asian financial crisis. Everyone is still struggling to live, but I didn't expect that the 'star status' suddenly soared. At this time, the remuneration of the actors is in the tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions, and it is the remuneration for one episode!
In the future, this is something that I would never dare to think about. In the future, actors with 40-50 million level will belong to the movie emperor level. Now 40-50 million will only invite a first-line actor, and there is still a distance of 18,000 miles from the top actor.
Why do people hold stars so high? That's because the products endorsed by top stars in this era are absolutely sold out. Manufacturers throw money at artists in order to make money. A top celebrity endorsement costs at least 150 million per year. It's only in the early 2000s, and the 100 million won at this time is definitely 10 times what it will be 10 years later!
That is to say, the income of stars is too high, which is ridiculously high, and the money they make from one play will make ordinary people unable to earn it for a lifetime. The income of the rich and the poor is pulling too much, so the Broadcasting Commission had to intervene, of course, these are all for later.
In other words, the income of stars is too high, so high that countless women want to become stars, so the market becomes even more polluted. What accompany/sleep, sneak/rule/rule, this situation is getting worse and worse, any woman wants to accompany/sleep for a night, I got a role, in case it succeeds? Then I can live a good life for the rest of my life. No success is just one night, and many people have this idea at this time. In addition, the "income ratio" between artists and the public is extremely unbalanced, so in the thinking of many people, the entertainment industry is really "dirty"! Of course these are all later stories.
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An hour ago, in a certain box of the XXX BBQ restaurant in Yeouido, Kim Jong Kook, Kangta, Cha Tae Hyun, three people sat around the dining table, and there were three empty soju bottles in front of them.
There was still a bottle of soju that had just been opened on the table, and Kim Jong Kook kept drinking cup by cup. Kangta tried to persuade him many times, but Cha Taixian stopped Kangta: "Let him drink. Besides drinking, what other way can he use to relieve the pain and betrayal in his heart? I really didn't expect their company to do this. For the sake of it, there is enough."
Turbo announced the disbandment after the release of his fifth album in 1999, and Kim Jong Kook also left Star.Music agency due to the expiration of his contract to start his solo career. But the matter of SOLO was not as simple as he thought. After the contract expired, Kim Jong Kook chose not to renew the contract because he could not make much money, but the brokerage company directly spread rumors outside that they wanted to block Kim Jong Kook.
In 2000, there were not many well-known songwriters in this era. They were either cultivated by the TV station (specializing in TV drama OSTs) or the songwriters of the agency. However, there are really very few free songwriters out there, and of course we are referring to well-known songwriters.
So, when Kim Jong Kook chose SOLO, his former agency said hello to those songwriters that Kim Jong Kook had contact with during the Turbo period, not to provide Kim Jong Kook with songs.
Freelance songwriters are also human beings. They have to eat, and the agency is their "parents". The lyrics and music they created were voted for by the brokerage company. As for the adoption or not, the brokerage company had the final say. Obviously, the quality of the song is very good. If you give it to a brokerage company that has cooperated with many times and a company that you have cooperated with for the first time, the price of the buyout is completely different, and the price difference is very large.
So when Kim Jong Kook's former company greeted the songwriter, they must sell it to the agency to save face.
Only that made Kim Jong Kook's solo road really difficult, because the songwriters he knew were those who dealt with the previous company. Their company has threatened to "kill him", and he really can't find the song.
He had no choice but to settle for the next best thing and chose some second-rate songwriters. The effect of that album is obvious. His SOLO scores are a slump compared to his Turbo days.
After the failure of SOLO, Kim Jong Kook couldn't find a good song, so he brought his friends out for a drink.
For the first time, the muscular man Kim Jong Kook denied himself in his heart. After he drank it several times, he looked at his two friends with tears in his eyes: "Kangta, Tae Hyun, do you think I'm not anymore? Is it suitable to take the show business? Now I can't really ask for a song except to buy some second-rate songwriters. Star.Music is amazing, really amazing."
Cha Tae Hyun touched Kim Jong Kook with a glass of wine, and then comforted him: "Don't say such things, you are a Turbo." The only thing he can do is to comfort him. He is an actor, although he is also relying on the popularity of movies this year. An album was released, but he didn't know the songwriter.
Cha Taixian turned his attention to Kangta naturally: "Kangta, aren't you good at writing? You can provide two songs for Zhong Guo."
"Brother Taixian, although I can write, but the lyrics and songs I create can't reach the level of the title song. My song is almost a subsidiary song in the album. I'm talking about it, I'm an artist of S.M, I don't care. Even if you create lyrics and music, you can’t pass it on.”
Cha Tae Hyun may not understand the problem on the singer’s side, but Kim Jong Kook knows that it’s not that Kangta doesn’t want to help but that he can’t help. First, although he has studied writing, he wants to create the kind of songs that people will like as soon as they listen to them. His strength is even worse. And he is also an artist, and the company also has constraints on him. Even if he is inspired to write a good song, don't forget that Kangta is also doing solo.
So... Kim Jong Kook just smiled and filled Cha Tae Hyun and Kangta with wine again: "Don't talk about this, let's not talk about this today, let's drink, drink!"
After Kim Jong Kook poured them the wine, he raised his glass, raised his head, lowered his stomach, poured again, raised his head again... This action was repeated three or four times before he put down the glass. The big man's tears finally burst out uncontrollably. Tears rolled down his face, but Kim Jong Kook did not speak, because the bitterness in his heart could not be expressed in words.
Since the beginning of SOLO, his path has been cut off by the previous company. This time, he stubbornly came up with the album. Unfortunately, the album really failed. His stubbornness has now become a joke.
It seemed that there were countless laughing voices in his mind: Kim Jong Kook, you left the previous company, you are nothing!
Looking at Kim Jong Kook's pain, UU reading www.uukanshu.com Cha Tae Hyun could only say: "Jong Kook, why don't you call your former company, make a mistake and apologize to them?"
The road ahead made Kim Jong Kook unable to go any further, and this muscular man had to bow his head to reality. Taking advantage of Jiu Jin and Tai Xian's persuasion, he took out the phone and called the former company, and apologized to him. , mistaken. But what I didn't expect was only to get a burst of ridicule, "You Kim Jong Kook can't go on and come to beg me?" ’
Kim Jong Kook didn't expect that the other party didn't care about friendship so much, so he kept his breath low, but they stepped on Kim Jong Kook's self-esteem to the bottom of their feet and completely crushed them!
Kangta, who was sitting beside him, couldn't stand it any longer, and he said, "Brother Zhong Guo, I know a very good freelance songwriter! J.S."
Kim Jong Kook looked at Kangta in surprise: "J.S? I know you H.O.T worked with J.S. Do you really know him? Is he willing to write songs for me?"
Cha Tae Hyun asked inexplicably, "Who is J.S? Is he a very good songwriter?"
Kim Jong Kook nodded and said, "A very famous songwriter, H.O.T, S.E.S, JYP, and Seo Taiji have all used his songs as the title track. JYP's "Honey" was co-authored with JS."
"Then what are you waiting for, Kangta called J.S to come over? Whether or not we can write songs for Zhong Guo depends on whether we can get him drunk at the wine table for a while. It's easy for a man to agree when he's drunk. By the way, J.S is a man, right? . . "
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