Translator: MarcTempest
Editor: Rxel
Chapter 79
Are you good at digging?
Woojoo asked the PD, hiding his confusion, “Digging?”
“Um, I just wanted to check that first.”
“I don’t know if I’m good at it, but I’ve done it quite a bit.”
“Really?”
He crossed his arms and fell into his thoughts.
While Seokhwan Hyung went to the counter to order coffee for the PD, Woojoo recalled what happened yesterday.
‘Guys! You’re fixed for the variety show!’
Last night, Seokhwan Hyung called Woojoo with a hoarse voice and rambled on.
He said he had a hard ti for a month, he would make them famous, he loved Seon Woojoo, he would be mad if they didn’t work hard, variety shows were difficult, etc.
He had a lot to say, but they only heard two things.
Around the World With Dice.
Chuseok Special.
Woojoo couldn’t believe it and asked him several tis.
Around the World With Dice, aka ‘Roda’, was a national variety show that was so popular.
It was the undisputed top in terms of ratings.
If PBS’s ‘Mr. Producer’ was popular among young viewers, Roda was a program that was popular among all age groups.
And they were going to be guests there. It was hard to believe.
At first, Woojoo thought he was joking.
Make so sense.
How could they be on the Chuseok Special of Roda, a program that even Kim Deoksoon, who didn’t know much about TV shows, knew?
Honestly, they were still skeptical.
It was too unbelievable.
But seeing the grim man in front of Woojoo lost in thought, it felt real.
PD Gu Jaeyong.
The star PD who created a national variety show with a very simple format of rolling dice to decide the next filming location and mission.
He was so famous that there were more cafe custors looking at him than New Black.
By the way…
What he said in the interview was true.
Woojoo skimd through so articles beforehand to get to know him better, and they matched his current appearance.
He said he only thought about the show all day, and he said things that seed natural to him, but the other person was confused.
“Ah.”
He seed to snap out of it and smiled when he saw the coffee.
“I’ll enjoy the coffee, sir.”
He looked at them and scratched the back of his head.
“Did you guys get confused?”
“Not at all.”
“I’ve been thinking about the special all day, and I have a rough sketch in my head, but I need soone who can dig well to get the captions and scenes I want.”
“Oh…”
“Anyway, I’m sorry for the late introduction.”
He smiled and greeted them.
“Nice to et you. New Black friends.”
“Hello! We are New Black!”
They all smiled and bowed their heads.
The atmosphere was friendly.
It was their first eting, and it was a light occasion to get to know each other over a cup of coffee.
“Do you feel nervous?”
“Yes, really.”
“All the rookie guests have the sa expression.”
“I’m especially amazed. I was watching Roda in the army barracks this ti last year.”
“Us too. We thought they were lying, sir.”
He laughed and said to Seokhwan Hyung, “Be nice to him. He worked really hard. He ca to see every day with coffee and cake.”
“…I did bother you a lot.”
“Thanks to that, we have this good connection.”
The PD said with a complint.
“When I et guests as a PD, I usually get a sense of how they will be on the show. But New Black is especially good. I’m not lying, I feel like sothing will co out well.”
He rubbed his mustache and looked at Junghyun.
“Junghyun, right? I especially feel sothing from you.”
“?”
Woojoo burst out laughing at his face, which was sniffing his clothes with his head tilted.
The PD, who had been smiling politely until then, showed a genuine grin for the first ti and asked them, “Is he always like this?”
“Yes, he’s really hard to control sotis.”
“Good, good. We need characters like this.”
That seed to spark his interest, and he started to ask Junghyun various questions.
Where he grew up, whether he worked on a farm, and so on.
As the conversation went on, he drank his coffee less and less.
When he turned to them with questions, he even took out his phone and made notes.
“Bijoo, you said cooking is your specialty?”
“Yes, I learned a lot from blogs, TV, books, you na it. I also love it, and I’ve been used to making my own als since I was young.”
“Do you know how to make holiday dishes too?”
“Yes, I have a video of making jeon for Lunar New Year this year.”
Bijoo showed him the evidence on his phone, and he nodded and wrote it down.
“Let’s see, Rihyuk. Singing, quizzes, cleaning…?”
“Yes, yes! I’m the main vocal, so I love cleaning!”
They tried to hold back their laughter at Rihyuk, who was saying anything out of nervousness.
PD Gu Jaeyong frowned.
“Really? You love cleaning?”
“Yes, that’s true…”
“Wow, that’s great. I can picture the scene perfectly.”
While Rihyuk was feeling uneasy in the strange atmosphere, the PD who was thinking hard by himself looked at Jiho.
“I don’t need to ask Jiho.”
“Huh?”
“I don’t think you need to do anything. You’ll be popular with the elders just by standing still.”
He was sharp.
Woojoo was a bit annoyed by the youngest’s expression of pride, saying ‘I’m cute after all’.
“And Woojoo…”
Maybe because of the military, the PD who had been listening to Woojoo about what had happened since last November until now spoke.
“I’ll have a lot to show you, or rather, show you. With Junghyun.”
You just said you’ll squeeze it out.
The person who looked like a bandit gave Woojoo and Junghyun a look of interest. It was scary, but it was a good thing.
National entertainnt, and even sothing that could be on the Chuseok Special. That was the best situation they hoped for.
The eting that was supposed to last for about 10 minutes ended when the ice in the coffee lted.
“When TNT was a rookie and ca on our show, it felt just like this. This feels good,” the PD who was getting up from his seat said.
When PD Gu Jaeyong, who was talking to Seokhwan Hyung about the main shooting schedule and the pre-eting, turned his head to say goodbye to them, he said as if he rembered sothing.
“I forgot to tell you that.”
“Yes?”
“You said you were worried about the doll costu promise earlier.”
Wow, they told you a lot of stories today to a stranger.
He said, scratching his mustache, “I’m saying this to repay you for the free coffee I’ve been mooching off you, but our team has a prop that we’re throwing away. Do you want to take it? It’s sothing we made for filming but didn’t use.”
“…?”
“It’s very unique and cute.”
“…!”
And ten minutes later.
They went to the prop room warehouse and shouted, “Eureka!”
***
The streets of Myeongdong on Friday afternoon were always crowded.
Not only Koreans, but also Chinese and Japanese tourists who ca here for sumr vacation were chatting in their own languages and making the street lively.
People who set up stalls were selling ice cream and snacks, and the street was crowded with custors looking for various costic shops and duty-free shops.
Around lunchti, when the staff with nus in foreign languages were busy moving around the restaurants, so electric wires and amps were installed in front of a building.
“What’s that? What are they doing?”
The passers-by started to look with curiosity.
They didn’t know what it was, but they had a feeling that sothing was going to happen soon.
They stopped their steps and naturally ford a semi-circle around it.
What were they doing?
So tourists wondered if a Korean singer was coming out, so couples thought that there might be a puppet show because the place was spacious, and so people hoped for a prize event.
Along with the majestic BGM.
The door of the building opened and what appeared was sothing they never imagined.
“That, right now…”
“Is that a penguin?”
They were giant penguins.
They were strange penguin dolls with different species and expressions, walking and waddling.
Soone burst into laughter and people took out their smartphones.
They had a feeling that it would be fun.
The penguins showed themselves one by one.
A baby penguin with fluffy fur walked out, followed by a gentoo penguin that looked an.
Then ca a noble penguin that waddled elegantly and a king penguin that waddled boldly.
And lastly.
Everyone laughed at the appearance of the emperor penguin with a crown on its head.
‘What is that?’
It was amazing to see.
While the others felt like they were watching people walking in costu, the emperor penguin seed like a real penguin.
It was customized to look like a human, but sohow it acted like a real penguin.
It looked like it ca out of a docuntary about Antarctica.
People laughed at its huge waddling.
A couple who was laughing uproariously whispered to each other.
“What are they doing?”
“I don’t know. Is it a children’s event?”
“It doesn’t look like it’s for children. The penguins look scary, don’t they?”
It was because of their awkwardness that Gu Jaeyong ordered them for a special feature on Antarctica and then discarded them as unlucky works.
But considering the atmosphere, they thought that a penguin animation song would co out.
The prelude that ca out with the thumping of the amp was unexpected music.
“Isn’t that TNT’s song?”
“Yeah, it is.”
The first song that ca out was BLINK, the most popular song in East Asia by TNT.
As they heard the familiar song, the tourists’ eyes were drawn to it.
But the song composition was not only TNT’s.
There were Teen Spirit, Autumn Girl, and Scarlet.
It was a dley of K-pop songs that had been popular in the music industry recently.
And then.
“Hahaha!”
The reason why people couldn’t help but laugh was because of the dance moves that the five penguins followed.
They were elegant but sohow cute because of the costus.
The moves that stretched out their arms beca flapping wings, and their heavy bodies shook every ti they bounced their steps.
It was not smooth, but rather bouncy.
But there were two unrivaled beings among them who wore those costus.
One was the noble penguin that looked beautiful.
It was a penguin that caught the eye even though it jumped around and moved its wings like cheerleading.
Many people’s eyes followed it from the start of the show.
They had never seen such a graceful dancing doll before.
And then, the noble penguin stepped back and switched places with soone at the center.
They high-fived each other by clapping their wings.
The emperor penguin erged with a haughty strut.
They were amazed by the noble penguin, but now they burst out laughing.
“What is this, they look like real penguins.”
It felt like they were penguins who learned how to dance from idols.
Soone joked that they were masters of describing movents.
Then, a sudden incident happened.
The crown of the emperor penguin, who was dancing breakdance fiercely, fell off.
“Oh no…!”
He knelt down and picked up his crown, carefully putting it back on.
The people laughed again at his sight.
The penguins’ dance continued for five minutes and ended.
The people who were there laughed at the ending scene.
“Aww, how cute.”
The baby penguin, who was in a good mood, ran to hug soone, but the grumpy-looking gentoo penguin slapped him away with his wing.
The baby penguin fell over.
The noble penguin, who was going to help him up, also tripped and rolled over.
The king penguin walked over and lifted them up by putting his wings under their armpits.
And then, the emperor penguin walked over and bumped the gentoo penguin with his plump belly, getting his revenge.
The penguins bowed their heads together, holding their wings.
It felt like watching a cody skit.
The people clapped and laughed loudly.
“Hey, don’t push !”
“My phone!”
The crowd had grown in no ti.
And half of them were filming with their smartphones.
“Excuse .”
A man with a grim expression appeared, pushing through the crowd. He approached the penguins.
He looked like he was related to them.
‘Are they a dance team?’
The people felt that their identity would be revealed soon.
Most of them thought they were a dance team.
If they were idols or celebrities, they wouldn’t need to wear those costus.
They would have shown their faces right away.
Then, they must be ordinary people.
But their dance skills were too good to be non-dancers.
That was what everyone thought.
Especially, the noble penguin and the emperor penguin.
No.
Actually, the emperor penguin was the most interesting.
Who was the owner of that posture that looked like a real penguin walking out?
A codian?
Soon.
The staff appeared and helped them take off their doll heads.
Pop-
And when the faces covered in sweat erged from the steamy costus, everyone swallowed their saliva.
Soone exclaid.
“Wow…”
Inside the costus were actors.
No.
They were faces so handso that they could be mistaken for actors.
One by one, as they revealed their faces, cheers erupted.
The atmosphere of the audience changed drastically from the cute one they had before.
The cute baby penguin had a bright smile and a youthful appearance, flapping his wings happily.
The penguin that had a sharp face and was cooling off his sweat with his wings.
The noble penguin and the king penguin had a refined boy and a man with bushy eyebrows, respectively.
And the last one, the most anticipated one.
The emperor penguin who had captivated everyone’s attention throughout the event took off his costu and there was a mont of silence.
“…”
He was wiping his wet hair with his wings, and his face was unrealistically beautiful.
He smiled awkwardly at the audience and admiration flowed out.
‘He was that penguin…?’
‘Hello, we are the rookie idol group New Black!’ Even as they heard the greeting, people were staring blankly at their faces.
When their images were imprinted in their minds like afterimages.
The five mbers received microphones, as if they were preparing for a new performance.
When they wondered what they were going to do next.
A very refreshing lody flowed out of the amp.
That day, it was a Fireworks song that everyone who was there would never forget.
***
The reaction on the scene was really good.
Woojoo was so happy that he felt like jumping, because it was unexpected.
They prepared this project with the intention of being as cute and funny as possible, since they didn’t have confidence in eting the expectations of their fans.
Woojoo felt inferior while watching penguin videos on YouTube and imitating their movents, but seeing the response made him think it was worth it.
And their efforts also paid off.
“My na is Woojoo, like the greatest star in the universe, that Woojoo.”
Woojoo explained his na in Chinese characters to a Chinese tourist, and in English to those from the West.
He always wondered when he would use the English and Chinese he learned from TJ.
But he finally felt like it was shining.
With that communication, Woojoo repeated New Black enough to engrave it in the ears of those who ca from abroad.
“Did you enjoy it? We are New Black.”
“It was fun, right? It was our first attempt as New Black.”
“Goodbye. We were New Black.”
Woojoo was in charge of interpreting other languages except Japanese, and there was a funny episode when he interpreted Chinese.
“He’s asking if you’re a Chinese descendant?”
“Hyung, what’s a Chinese descendant?”
“I’ll translate it for you.”
So people were puzzled why Wang, a Chinese surna, couldn’t speak Chinese.
Woojoo decided to explain to Jiho later what an overseas Chinese was.
anwhile, Woojoo felt like a Hallyu idol, being in Myeongdong where there were many tourists.
Maybe that was why he was in such a good mood.
After fulfilling their promise for being a first-place candidate, Woojoo felt like they finally wrapped up their music show activities.
Their first album was really over.
Woojoo felt relieved and exhilarated.
It all started when he found a source in May, and it snowballed into this ending.
It was a new feeling.
If he had t his past self and told him this story, would he have believed him?
That the song Woojoo made would rank within the top 100, that the rough sketch of Night Sea that he made back then would receive love as a demo version on the radio.
That Junghyun fixing a pump at an event would lead to a national variety show appearance.
And that they would be lucky enough to be a first-place candidate on a music show.
He would never have believed it.
Woojoo couldn’t help but laugh cheerfully.
Of course, it was only the end of their first album activities, and they still had a long way to go, but he wanted to enjoy this mont for now.
‘You did well, guys.’
As Woojoo looked at his younger brothers who were busy talking to the people around them, he saw the sunset sky behind the crowd.
It was red like fireworks.
Woojoo smiled at the sight.
July 25th, 2014.
With the dance moves of five penguins, their long first album activities ca to an end.
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