Chapter 10: Kim Jong Kook’s current situation

Release time: 2025-04-08 05:18:09
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Yeouido xxx barbecue restaurant is open 24 hours a day, and the quality and portion of the 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 eat late at night, many celebrities will come to eat after finishing today’s shooting. Especially in the early 2000s, the dining culture was very developed. Almost every program team has finished filming and the program team will 100% invite the stars to have a round of dinner.

Anyway, there is no pressure on the public fund to eat and drink programs, and you can even intertwin your own network of relationships. Why not? At this time, the reimbursement procedures are not as systematic as in the future. They have a special review charter, and they can’t report what can be reported and what cannot be reported. Now as long as you get the invoice with your pd, the TV station will be OK.

In this 2000s, the stars were the most important, unlike the extent of the idol’s strong impact on the market after the market was overwhelming. At this time, all actors and funny artists were recruited by the TV station, and the editors were all from the TV station. The actors needed for a drama. If the TV station casts a TV series by itself, the actors will definitely choose their own TV station first. This has also caused many actors trained by TV stations to become popular after filming a TV series, so the outside agency will come to poach.

It is strange that South Korea’s economy has just begun to recover after the Asian financial crisis. Everyone is still struggling to live, but unexpectedly, the “star status” suddenly soars. At this time, the actors’ pay is about tens of millions, and there are even hundreds of millions of dollars, and it is a one-episode pay! !

This is something I dare not even think about in the future. In the future, actors of 40 to 50 million will be ranked as actors. Now only one first-line actor is hired from 40 to 50 million, and it is still a thousand miles away from top actors.

Why do people praise celebrities so highly? That’s because the products endorsed by top stars in this era will definitely be sold out. In order to make money, manufacturers spend money to artists. The cost of endorsing a top star is at least 150 million yuan per year. It’s only the early 2000s, and the 100 million won at this time is definitely 10 times that of 10 years later! !

In other words, the income of celebrities is too high, and the money they make in a play will never be made by the people in their entire lives. The income of the rich and the poor is too high, so the broadcasting committee has to intervene, of course these are all later stories.

That is, the income of celebrities is too high, so many women want to become celebrities, so the market becomes even more dirty. What are you going to accompany/sleep, and secret/rules. This situation is getting worse and worse. Any woman wants to accompany/sleep for a night. I got the role. What if I succeed? Then I can live a good life in my life. If you don’t succeed, it’s just one night. At this time, many people think this way. In addition, the “income ratio” between artists and the public is extremely unbalanced, so in the thinking of many people, the entertainment industryIt’s really ‘dirty’! ! Of course, these are all later stories…

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An hour ago, in a private room at the xxx barbecue restaurant in Yeouido, Kim Jong Kook, kangta, and Cha Tae Hyun, three empty soju bottles were already placed in front of them.

There was also a bottle of soju that had just been opened on the table, and Kim Jong Kook was drinking one cup after another, constantly. Kangta tried to persuade him many times, but Cha Tae Hyun stopped him: “Let him drink. What other ways can he use to relieve the pain and betrayal in his heart besides drinking? I really didn’t expect their company to do this, it was amazing.”

Turbo announced his disbandment after releasing his fifth album in 1999. Kim Jong Kook also left the star.music agency because of the expiration of the contract and started his solo career. But solo’s affairs were not as simple as he thought. After the contract expired, Kim Jong Kook chose not to renew the contract because he couldn’t make much money. However, the agency directly spread rumors outside that he wanted to ban Kim Jong Kook.

In 2000, there were not many well-known songwriters in this era. They were either trained by the TV station (specialized in TV series OST), or they were the songwriters of the agency’s own. However, there are really few free songwriters outside, and of course we refer to well-known songwriters here.

So, when Kim Jong Kook chose solo, his former agency greeted the songwriters he had met during his turbo period, not to provide music to Kim Jong Kook.

Freelance songwriters are also human beings. They have to eat, and even the agency is their “food and clothing parents”. The lyrics and music they created were invested in to the brokerage company. As for adoption, the brokerage company had the final say. The price of the buyout is completely different, and the price of the price is very different for the brokerage company that has cooperated with many times and the company that has cooperated with the first time.

So when Kim Jong Kook’s previous company greeted the songwriters, they must sell them to the agency for face.

Only this makes Kim Jong Kook’s solo road really difficult, because the songwriters he knows are those who deal with the previous company. Their company has threatened to ‘kill him’, and he really can’t find the song.

There was no way, he had to settle for the second best and chose some second-rate songwriters. The effect of the album is obvious. His solo performance has plummeted compared to his time in Turbo.