#257
K-pop idol training system
The news of Ian's joining has not yet been released, but the revival of 'American Got Idol', which led the British and American pop culture in the 2000s. And the news that K-pop is benchmarked and made has reached Korea as well.
America's largest franchise series, 'American Got Idol' will be revived
Resurrection of 'American God Idol'... Making K-POP idols in the US
'American Got Idol' creator Isaac Cooper... "K-pop is already global... I will make a K-pop style idol"
- Have you seen that K-pop idols serve in the US?
- Is Kaiser Fischer coming too? When it comes out, it would be fun
-Is that a famous program originally?
└ You don't know Agata? Natalie Bell, who is famous but is currently eating charts, is from here.
>아갓아 →AGATA→ 아메리칸 갓 아이돌 →American Got Idol →the first letter of Idol in Korean is A (Aidol)
└ It was one of the most talked-about towers in the UK and America. How old are you and you don't know Agata?
└ (Writer) I was born in 2005.
└└Ah...
└└ Grandmother felt the generation gap heh;;
-Honestly, making K-pop style idols in the US sounds like good news, but I don't know if they'll make it well.
-Would Westerners do well? Trainers, judges, and all of them probably don't know the K-pop system.
-There is no way to promote K-pop openly. If you look at the surface, aren't they just making a boy band like WYWD? What will change if they add K-pop?
-Still, was K-pop like this? It's a bit like gukppong
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Ian arrived at Company A's studio to shoot promotional materials and videos for 'American Got Idol' and finished the filming.
"*Would you like to twist your body a little bit there? Great."
Ian changed the angle as the photographer ordered. The flash was enough to sting his eyes.
"*oh... great. It's done."
The photographer who checked the monitor gave a small exclamation. Ian is perfect no matter what angle he took.
"*What is the reaction in Korea?"
"*Do you really have to do K-pop in the US? Like this. There are a lot of negative reactions."
"*Ah, too. But public opinion will change if Mr. Ian is revealed."
"*That's it... I guess so."
For better or worse. Park Dong-soo has already seen netizens arguing over Ian's qualifications.
Isaac Cooper left to greet guests, and Ian filled in.
"I'm going to dine with Kaiser Fischer, is it okay?"
"Yes. But do you mind if just to take pictures?"
"He's doing it on purpose. It's not long before it's revealed anyway, so they're secretly letting it go and making people look forward to it. It's a good picture It's better for the judges to meet in advance and eat."
"Ahhh... ."
Is this also a strategic use of the paparazzi?
Ian walked side by side with Park Dong-soo and headed to the meeting place. . It is said that the restaurant's terrace seats were reserved so that paparazzi could be taken openly.
"But will it be the same as Kaiser Fischer's broadcast, hyung?"
"It is said that Isaac is very gentlemanly, but are all the images of vitriols on the air a concept?"
"It could be. Oh, should I catch a character too?"
"Even if you don't have to pick a character, I think you can act like Woo Sang-Yuni.""
Is that so? Ian stretched all the way and made a sound of pain.
As they neared the restaurant, someone called Ian behind his back. It was Isaac Cooper and Kaiser Fischer.
"*Hello, Mr. Fischer."
"*Ian, feel free to call me Kaiser."
As he heard from Park Dong-soo, there was a middle-aged man in front of him with an attractive soft smile.
'Still, the spirit is great... . In this age?'
[He's a famous American producer and a genius in show business. The atmosphere is not a joke.]
When Ian glanced behind Kaiser Fischer's back, the paparazzi who had been following recognized Ian and pressed the extended shutter.
"*Congratulations on winning the American Music Awards. I also watched Awy's stage well."
"*thank you. It's awkward to see someone I used to only see on TV when I was young."
"*What is it, we will meet a lot in the future."
'American Got Idol' had a training camp period of over two months. Ian also decided to help with training while staying with the participants.
"*I hope you find a good gem in 'American Got Idol'."
"*Is it okay for Kaiser to pick out that rough stone and me to make it look pretty?"
"*You know that."
Ian responded with a joke, and Kaiser Fischer grinned.
And the contestant finally selected from Agata under "American God Idol" was scheduled to enter Kaiser Fischer's agency and work on a comeback album.
After a brief greeting with Park Dong-soo, the paparazzi openly started taking pictures of them even while they are sitting down to eat.
"*I'm so sorry for this."
"*Ah, it's okay. Because this is everyday."
Ian wish he didn't know, but it was okay because there were things he didn't want to call sasaeng fans.
"*From a producer's point of view, the K-pop system was very interesting. As you know, I have had a failure experience once."
"*Failure. Weren't their grades okay though?"
"*It didn't come out as well as expected. So, what is the secret to being able to perfectly manage both your skills and your personal life?"
To that question, Park Dong-soo and Ian scratched their cheeks at the same time. well... . Wouldn't it have been impossible if it weren't for the fan culture that had already been handed down from the first generation of idols?
When he said that there was a moderate cultural difference, Kaiser Fischer nodded with a serious expression.
"*Ian, how were you trained? I need to refer to it for program planning."
"*that's right. What is the K-pop idol training system like?"
Isaac Cooper and Kaiser Fisher put down their forks and looked at Ian's face.
"*Simply put... It's a competition."
"*Competition?"
Isaac Cooper asked. Competition was not a special secret. Because it can happen anywhere.
"*I got into the debut group by chance, but if you look at other large agencies, there are over 100 trainees."
"*That much?"
"*There are only 100 contracted trainees, but if you include trainees who are still apprentices without even signing a trainee contract, there will be more."
"*Then the apprentice trainee is competing to sign a trainee contract?"
Ian nodded at Isaac Cooper's question.
When he entered BHL Entertainment as a trainee, he was lucky to get a spot in the debut group that was already empty, but the experience of being a Jupiter trainee during Kim Yong-min's days remained vivid.
'Come to think of it, what happened to that nephew?'
[Jupiter's incompetent member? Since they made some money on tour, where are they going to use their money? Of course to live well. He must have been a bit incompetent to continue living in the entertainment world.]
I picked and picked and survived, but I was kicked out because of the Director's nephew. Jupiter was angry with him, but after their debut and became famous, they cut off all contact.
"How did you know that? We didn't have that much."
"Ah, I heard about it from a friend from MI Entertainment."
He answered the low-pitched whisper and drank a glass of water.
"*There are evaluations every week and every month, and if you get good grades in the evaluations, you move up, and trainees who drop out from there are released or transferred to other agencies."
"*It's thinning out."
"*yes. They will take a card key and enter the practice room to see how long they have been working hard. They can see through the CCTV to make sure they don't do anything stupid in the practice room."
"*that... Isn't that surveillance?"
"*All the trainees know it. Anyway, that's how one survive until the debut team. It's also important to get the timing right... The older you are, the harder it is to debut. That's why they sometimes join the company when they were young. One of our members was a trainee for over 10 years."
That's Kim Hyun. There must have been more memories of sitting in the practice room and giving lessons than going to school.
Kaiser Fischer and Isaac Cooper shut up.
"*Because our practice time averaged 16 hours... ."
"*16 hours? How many hours did you sleep?"
"*Yes, I wish I had slept a lot during my trainee days... four hours? five hours? That would have been enough."
The eyes of the people listening on the other side stung. Park Dong-soo hurriedly changed the topic because he thought he would become a malicious agency employee.
"*We systematically managed the trainees. Vocal and dance training, as well as composition, songwriting, acting, foreign language, etiquette education, and recently, mental counseling."
"*oh... you teach in a variety of ways. Don't you have time to go to school like this?"
"*they were told to go to school consistently, but there were special schools that allowed one to attend as long as they had assignments, so they couldn't make them attend. Among Awy, there were members who voluntarily dropped out to debut."
Ian waved his finger up and down.
Kaiser Fischer knew of an agency that fostered singers in this way. They only pursued perfection and sales volume, and referred to singer training as 'quality control'. In the end, didn't the singers who escaped from that system become more famous musically and grow?
What if you manage it systematically? Isn't this a factory-style system to create perfect entertainers in many ways, not to foster musical creativity? So what happens to those who do not survive this competition, do they become losers?
"*So, were you satisfied with the system?"
"*Me? Rather than satisfaction... It was something I had to do. If we don't, we won't be able to debut."
Kaiser Fischer clicked and tucked his tongue. Having survived this kind of factory competition, he has his own musical world, and his skills and personal life are clean. In the midst of this, it was amazing to see that his mind is still intact.
If WYWD, which he debuted, survived in this system and made their debut, he would have been taking drugs somewhere.
"*Looking at the faces of the two of you, it seems like I was forcibly dragged. Anyway, I made my name known as Awy and was able to come all the way to America like this."
"*Aren't you originally an American?"
"*Oh, I am."
Ian smiled at the heavy atmosphere. Park Dong-soo was somehow stabbed and moistened his dry throat with water.
"*Ian, you must have had a lot of other options."
Isaac and Kaiser were completely immersed in Ian's situation. Ian grinned softly as if he's at the interview.
Ian sometimes had that thought. What am I going through this for? Being in the debut group doesn't mean you can gain popularity just because you debut.
'It's a shame that no one told me the risk of failure....'
There was a time when he ran with the belief that everything would go well if he made a debut. Even if he made his debut as an idol, his success was another thing. In that state, he was pushed into society without gaining anything, and he couldn't get rid of his lingering feelings while working part-time, so he was stuck in the entertainment industry.
"*Well...I was fine."
It is his daily life to stay up all night to join the debut group, and he didn't go to school properly, so it was okay to drop out and take the qualification exam. Because of that, he was a little sad that he didn't have any friends from his school days, but he didn't regret it.
He would be an idol even after going through those times and coming back to his original body. What I did was just....
"*Because it was a dream."
I had a desire to succeed even if I die soon, but I wanted to see myself on stage once again. I thought it would be okay if there was even one fan like Jang Min-hee even if there were not many people cheering in front of me.
"*Huh..."
Kaiser Fisher clicked his tongue as he watched Ian spit out blankly.
Dreams don't feed you. Is it okay to let my childhood go because of my dreams?
Ian, who survived the competition and eventually made his name known, seemed great, but on the other hand, resistance arose.
Something is wrong with this system.
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