Translator: MarcTempest
Editor: Rxel
Chapter 100
Woojoo’s siblings stared blankly at the TV. Then they turned their heads to him.
“A reality show? Not a docuntary…?”
“Yeah. You rember when the docuntary team ca with another team? They were the writers who wanted to film our reality show.”
Woojoo asked them back, “Didn’t you find it strange? That two teams ca to film one scene for a docuntary.”
“…How are we supposed to notice that, you idiot.”
While Rihyuk glared at Woojoo, Jiho pointed at the screen.
“Oh? Bijoo Hyung is on.”
“Ugh…”
“Hyung, why are you like that?”
And the protagonist of the screen was burying his face in his knees, bending his waist.
He looked like a herbivore hiding from its natural enemy.
Woojoo whispered in his ear, “Bijoo, you can still hear it even if you do that.”
“Ugh, I don’t know.”
He covered his ears as well.
He soon realized how funny his posture was and returned to normal, but his expression was gloomy as he looked at the screen.
“I said so many cringy things…”
“It’s not just you, Hyung. too.”
Rihyuk’s ears had turned red like Rudolph’s nose. It seed like his face would soon light up like an LED lamp.
“Anyway, this is it, right? Revenge for the prank we played on you during the school uniform ad.”
“No, I didn’t do it for that…”
“That’s right. That’s right.”
The youngest chuckled.
“I know. I learned it when I acted with you, but Woojoo Hyung has a habit when he says sothing different from what he feels.”
“Be quiet.”
While Woojoo said that, Bijoo on the screen was lost in thought after hearing the production team’s question.
He had a lot to say, but his expression showed that he couldn’t organize his thoughts well.
The person watching it, as well as the other siblings, had agonized faces.
What did he say that made them react like this?
Woojoo expected the mbers to give a polite complint.
It was an interview with a broadcasting station, so he wanted them to say sothing simple like ‘Woojoo is a very diligent person who lives a life that inspires others…’ A textbook-like and exemplary comnt.
His goal was to capture them feeling embarrassed while saying those cringy lines, but sohow their reactions were too much.
It was like middle schoolers who had their diaries opened by their parents.
Then, Bijoo on the screen answered with a calm face.
-Woojoo Hyung is… I think he’s a very warm person. I’ve known him for a while as a singer, but when I first found out, we were very surprised. ‘What? That person…?’
He smiled.
-Because it was right after our year-end evaluation, like a test. He led us very well then, so he had an image of a smart and capable Hyung.
Woojoo did.
-But… as ti passed and we got to know each other better, I felt that he was a very warm person. Now, even if I hear that Woojoo Hyung did sothing good, I wouldn’t be surprised.
-Can you give us a specific example?
-There was a ti when I was personally very struggling, and I made a snack for Woojoo Hyung. He was working on his debut title song and stayed up all night for almost a week.
That was right.
-I brought him a snack at the dorm where he was resting. But after a few bites, he asked if I had any more dough left.
-He did?
-Yeah, so I said I was going to give it to the other mbers. But he said he wanted to eat it all by himself because it was so delicious.
-By himself?
The production team asked as if they didn’t understand.
How was that considerate?
Bijoo on the screen nodded and smiled.
-Yes, so I was like, what? It was weird… But later I found out that I had put salt instead of sugar.
-Ah…
-After a while, I asked Woojoo Hyung about that ti. Why did you do that, Hyung? When I asked him that, he said he didn’t want to get stressed over sothing like that because I looked so tired.
-It was his way of being considerate.
-Yes, I think I felt it then. He stayed up all night for a week, and he ate that… with a smile.
The other mbers looked amazed as if they didn’t know that happened, and Bijoo and Woojoo felt very awkward.
Woojoo didn’t know how to describe this feeling.
Awkward and embarrassed.
He felt like hiding behind sothing whenever Mrs. Kim Deoksoon was around.
While he was feeling that way, Junghyun asked Woojoo with a puzzled look, “Hyung, there’s sothing I’m curious about.”
“Yeah.”
“Usually, when people do this kind of thing, they’re embarrassed and the purpose is to watch others.”
“That… right?”
“But aren’t you embarrassed by this too?”
“…”
Junghyun hit the nail on the head.
That was exactly what Woojoo was feeling.
No, this was supposed to be a surprise cara that he planned.
He realized he made a mistake from then on.
“Ugh…”
As the video continued, the mbers covered and uncovered their faces with their hands like a cuckoo clock.
And in between, Woojoo’s hollow scream echoed.
“PD-nim, can we stop this…?”
But the cara light kept blinking.
***
While the hidden caras captured the mbers’ reactions, the main writer and the main PD were laughing in a separate room.
-PD-nim, writer-nim… are you there?
It was because of a mber who was desperately calling out to the cara on the screen.
The main writer said with a smile, “He’s unstoppable, really. He looks so smart, but he’s actually a goofball.”
“Right? How did he not see this coming?”
The essence of a hidden cara was that one didn’t get caught and soone else did.
That was why Woojoo’s plan was weird.
It was obvious that he would be embarrassed too.
That was why it was funny.
During the pre-interview, he didn’t fall for the subtle leading questions from the production team and answered smartly, but he was sparkling when he explained this plan.
But the production team didn’t bother to point that out.
It was a plan that could produce a lot of content.
The rest was a breeze.
Since PBS was going to shoot a docuntary, they decided to go out at the sa ti and get so interview cuts.
They didn’t say where, but the mbers seed to think it was a docuntary shooting.
The PD rolled his pen and said, “If we edit this and put it at the end of the first episode, it will get a good response, right? The mbers’ sincerity towards the leader, sothing like that. We’ll put the Woojoo reaction cuts mainly.”
“We have to. The mbers’ reactions too. If we catch the editing points well, we can easily make 10 minutes.”
As they checked the scenes recorded on the cara, they talked about the reality project.
“There were a lot of good things that the other mbers suggested. If we do one of these well, we can fill up eight episodes in no ti, right?”
“Right. The other things too. As long as the reactions are like this, it will be enough.”
“Then, if we do another one of the things they suggested…”
They skimd through the proposals that the New Black mbers wrote on A4 paper.
Then they quickly agreed on their opinion.
“This is good.”
“It’ll be fun to see their reactions. Especially Woojoo.”
They laughed wickedly as they watched him cover his face on the screen.
anwhile, on the screen, the five mbers were suffering and begging, “Please stop this!”
***
PBS Current Affairs and Culture Departnt.
The production team of the special docuntary was busy editing the footage.
The cramped editing room.
Each small room barely big enough to stretch out was filled with PDs like caterpillars.
They each looked at their monitors and clicked their mice.
They had to sift through dozens of hours of shooting to find the usable cuts.
And so of those edited cuts went to the youngest assistant director, who was in charge of the trailer.
The assistant director with a pale face drank coffee repeatedly as he skimd through the footage sent by his seniors.
Soon, he picked out the ones that he thought were suitable for the 30-second trailer.
Maybe it was because he was sleepy, but he instinctively chose the scenes that he felt were “good”.
When he was about to make the final trailer, he blinked his eyes.
“What is this?”
He checked the selected clips and saw that a certain person had a large share.
The owner of a face that attracted people’s attention even without stage lighting or fancy makeup.
He was an idol mber, right?
It was not only his facial features, but also his expressions that were colorful and lively that drew his eyes.
He was so drowsy that he unknowingly chose the ones that looked good.
He shook his head to clear his mind and returned so of the clips to their original state.
Then he added so other clips.
Now the amount of footage of the idol mber that he would use for the trailer was about three seconds.
The assistant director was in a dilemma.
Should he use it at the beginning or at the end?
And he made his decision.
***
[?? Did anyone just watch PBS??]
They were showing so docuntary trailer and it went by in a flash?? Did you see the person who appeared for two seconds at the front??
-What are you talking about;;
-No, there was a scene like an interview and it passed by;; And then there was… Ah, how do I explain this
-Docuntary trailer?
-Yeah
-What’s the title? Go to the PBS hopage. There’s a preview section where they upload the trailers
-Ah! Thank you!
[I found an aweso ordinary person]
(Capture)
I captured the docuntary trailer ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ It looks like a special feature on ordinary people, and there was an interview cut
You have to see this as a gif ㅎ.ㅎ
-Wow…
- too, link please
-Where do I feel like I’ve seen him before
-Yeah, too, it doesn’t feel like the first ti
-How is that an ordinary person, he’s a celebrity…
-ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ That’s him, the one who appeared on Around the World With Dice
-?
-Link [Person info ‘New Black’]
-??
-ㅋㅋㅋㅋ What, he’s a celebrity
-What was his na again? Eunho?
-Woojoo
-No, he has a role in the ad, the magic school
-Oh, right?
-But why is he in that docuntary?? Ordinary people…?
***
The terrible reality show shooting was over and ti flew by without a break.
A few radio schedules and dozens of events, and a live broadcast with their Soufflé.
Woojoo wished he had ten bodies.
No.
Not ten, but one or two.
Around the World With Dice and the SNS ads must have made a good impression, because they were getting requests for advertising contracts from everywhere.
It was a lot for a rookie, but only 10 percent of them were seriously considered.
They couldn’t accept things like jade mats or ion exercise machines, and the company rejected so of the decent ads like water purifiers.
“Think long-term. It’s about image managent,” Seokhwan Hyung said. “Ads are the sa as acting works for actors. You can’t just do everything that pays. You have to do sothing that matches your image. There are plenty of cases where the image gets worse because of a wrong ad.”
Everyone agreed with that.
There was soone who got scolded for doing a debt relief ad, and soone who got a bad image for doing an ad for a company that had a problem with history.
Of course, they didn’t get such ads, but they couldn’t do absurd ads either.
For example, it would be weird for Woojoo, a twenty-sothing, to sit on a massage chair and say, “Ah, this is so refreshing.”
“That suits you perfectly.”
“You and Hyung are perfect for it.”
“Huh? It seems like it would suit you well.”
“They must be trying to use you as an exclusive model.”
There were so ridiculous opinions.
So Woojoo muttered, “Let’s see how we divide the parts for the next song,” and they all said no, and told him that Hyung suited a school uniform ad.
Woojoo totally agreed.
Anyway, for the sake of long-term image managent, the company decided to sign contracts with two of them after reviewing them.
There were better companies, but so of them tried to negotiate the price through a model agency, and they lost the deal.
According to the testimony of their road manager Seo Minki, who was involved in the process, “It was like a robbery, they only didn’t use knives.”
The ads that were selected after such a difficult process were two.
One was a low-cost airline, which was small in scale but had a solid financial structure, and the other was a dostic sports clothing brand that had recently gone public.
To be honest, Woojoo was flustered.
Woojoo felt like they hadn’t done anything other than the first album, and suddenly they got an ad request.
He heard it was for the sa reason as Everdream.
They thought it would be better to buy it cheaply in advance, because it seed like it would do well.
Woojoo hoped they could live up to their expectations.
He had been feeling that way a lot lately.
It was like a balloon that’s inflating.
Every ti sothing went well, it felt like air was rushing into the balloon.
It was getting bigger and bigger, but you were afraid it would pop if soone poked it with a needle.
Maybe it was because the interest had increased a lot.
They even put up a clip of the scene that Woojoo appeared in for two seconds on the internet and made articles about it.
-Who is the idol group ‘New Black’ that appeared in the docuntary teaser?
-New Black “Thankful for the popularity of the ads… We don’t know the rest either”
-[This week’s entertainnt focus] Newcors are always hungry, boy group New Black
Woojoo saw the captured screen and the mbers agreed that it was understandable, but it was burdenso for him.
He was a show-off, but the speed of the interest growing was beyond his expectation.
It was like depositing a bean-sized amount of money in the bank and getting a lot of interest very quickly.
Well.
Woojoo had a lot of thoughts, but for now he decided to focus on the schedule.
“Wow…”
It was the ‘wow’ that he heard again since the day they visited TJ Entertainnt.
And this ti, Woojoo was also participating.
“Wow, it’s really huge.”
It was the weekend before the final recording.
They gathered under the giant stage, each holding a placard with their na on it, and looked around.
Sangam World Cup Stadium.
Woojoo couldn’t help but admire the size of the venue that could accommodate more than 60,000 people.
Today’s schedule was ‘Find Your Dream Concert.’
It was an event organized by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, where they gathered about thirty idol groups.
Since they were rookies, their rehearsal was almost the first in order, so they entered early and checked out the seats.
But the expressions of the younger ones who were looking around the place were strange.
Woojoo probably looked the sa if he looked in the mirror.
There was a fact that only three rookie groups, including New Black, participated in this concert out of the twenty-five groups that debuted this year, but there was another reason.
“It would be aweso to have a concert here…”
Even the always calm Junghyun said that, so the other mbers didn’t need to say anything.
“Right? We’ll be able to do it here soday, right?”
“I guess so.”
Woojoo answered.
“Soday.”
“I want to do it now. With our Soufflés sitting down.”
“That would be hard. Even if our Soufflés were cloned five tis each, they wouldn’t fill this place.”
They all laughed.
And they enjoyed looking at the concert hall.
Even if it wasn’t this place, they thought of the scene where they would sing in front of their fans soday.
“But it’s a sha.” The youngest said, “I think we won’t be able to watch the docuntary because it overlaps with the concert finale.”
“Well, you can watch it on rerun. And I won’t be on it much anyway. How many heroes are there in there?” Woojoo said that and went up to the stage.
They only cared about the docuntary, but they didn’t have high expectations.
There were so many heroes in the world.
As if Woojoo would be on it a lot.
****
While the performance was in full swing on the special stage of the World Cup Stadium, PBS was starting a docuntary.
Peaceful scenes flowed along with the calm background music.
A mother pushing a stroller, a young man helping an old man pulling a cart up the hill, a quiet scene in front of a boarding house, and a view of a port city.
The static scenes slowly connected.
Then.
The atmosphere changed dramatically with the tense music.
The mother lost her balance on a rock and let go of the stroller down the hill, a car rushed at an old man, a fire started in the boarding house, and an oil tank exploded in the port.
And the people who threw themselves at those places without hesitation were captured like a movie.
The words that appeared on the black screen.
[Hero]
“A person who is wise, talented, and brave, and does what ordinary people find difficult to do.” – Korean Dictionary
“A person who does sothing great or courageous.” – rriam-Webster Dictionary
Soon after, the word hero was focused on with an explanation of its origin.
[The Birth of a Hero: Born or Made]
That was the title of the PBS 50th Anniversary Special Docuntary.
User Comments
0 comments from readers