Volume 2 2010 Chapter 139: Kwon Eun-bi's Enrollment
Life is a journey of constant experience of gain and loss.
I constantly encountered beautiful scenery along the way, stopped to admire it, and then hurriedly left under the urging of fate, reluctantly but helplessly rushing to the next journey.
The companions who traveled with me along the way changed one after another, and few of them could stay together until the end.
Everyone cannot avoid separation in the process of growing up, and Kwon Eun-fei and Cho Eun-jeong are no exception.
"Oh, really? Today is a good day for you to report to school. It's the starting point of our Enfei's road to stardom. You're not going to cry, are you?"
Zhao Enzhen looked at Quan Enfei who was pursing her lips and looking sad, and shook her head and sighed: "If anyone wants to cry, it should be me! You go to the art high school to prepare to be a big star, leaving me alone to fight for the college entrance examination..."
"Woo~" Before she could finish her words, Enfei's tears started falling. Her tearful look made Zhao Enzhen panic.
"Hey, hey, hey! Miss, don't cry! We're just in different schools, why are you crying?" Eun-jeong is most afraid of Eun-bi's tears. When she cries, she softens her heart: "I didn't move. We can see each other every day!"
"Yeah, yeah, we'll meet every day! It's a deal!" Enfei hugged this best friend who had been with her since the diaper days, and murmured to herself reluctantly.
"Okay! We'll meet every day. I won't leave even if I see you're annoying!"
"Hehe!" The girl burst into laughter.
"Ah! Now you're laughing again! Are you an actor? You cry and laugh at the same time."
"Hmm~Hmm~" Enfei hummed in dissatisfaction.
"Okay! I won't talk about you anymore, let's go!"
Today is the day that Kwon Eun-bi will report to Seoul Performing Arts High School.
The girl, who had cried with her parents and finally untied the knot in her heart, belatedly realized the horrible reality that she and her best friend were going to be separated.
Because their parents are neighbors and good friends, Eun-fei and Eun-jeong have been close friends who grew up together since they were born.
One has been somewhat boyish since childhood, with a straightforward personality and a gentle heart; the other has been beautiful since childhood, with a gentle and lovely appearance and a very opinionated heart.
The two girls with complementary personalities and similar interests developed a deep relationship over the past ten years.
Mother Quan once joked that she raised two daughters, which shows the relationship they have.
Quan Enfei couldn't accept that such a best friend, with whom she spent every day and talked about almost everything, was suddenly disappearing from her life.
Eunjeong seemed calm.
Ever since her best friend said she wanted to be an artist, she knew that this day would come sooner or later.
However, this independent-minded young lady couldn't bear it when the time came and had to comfort her herself.
Look, he even refused to let Mother Quan go to school to register! He had to accompany her himself!
All right! All right! Just treat it as the last time I accompany her to school...
The two said goodbye to their parents and went to Seoul Performing Arts High School.
Kwon Eun-bi lives in Geumcheon District, Seoul, which is a relatively less prosperous area, but fortunately it is in the same direction as the school.
The two of them started from Subway Line 1, took 2 stops, transferred to Line 7 at Gasan Digital Park Station, and then took 3 stops to get off at Cheonwang Station. After exiting the subway, they changed to Bus 6640B, took 5 stops to get off at Yujin Building, and then walked 500 meters uphill to see the school.
"Wow, I didn't expect Seoul Arts High School is so far away!" It took about an hour to change buses. Looking at the school gate not far ahead, Zhao Enzhen sighed.
"It's considered close. It's only about 20 kilometers away from Apgujeong where all the agencies are concentrated." Eun Fei said gloomily, "This is one of the best art high schools in Korea. Most idol artists and trainees who haven't graduated from high school go to school here. It's not conducive to balancing work and life if it's too far away."
Looking at the students returning to school in school uniforms, Eun-jeong feels that these students' looks are obviously a level higher than those of ordinary high schools.
"Wow, there are so many beautiful girls and handsome guys here!" Zhao Enzhen was a little excited: "But our Enfei is not inferior to them in appearance, and she has a domineering figure. After her debut, she will definitely be popular all over the country if she goes the sexy route!"
"Oh~ What are you talking about!" The girl who was teased by her bestie blushed shyly, and her coquettish look immediately attracted the attention of the XY chromosomes beside her.
The yellow stage play style slim-fitting uniform paired with a black pleated skirt 10cm above the knee and black stockings underneath makes the girl's already eye-catching figure even more perfect, and her black hair and fair skin make her look even more beautiful.
Even here, Kwon Eun-bi is an eye-catching presence in the crowd.
The two of them held hands and trotted to the registration office, filling out the information as required by the school.
The registration process is actually very quick, as the management style of art high schools is somewhat different from that of ordinary universities.
Unlike China, South Korea does not have a large-scale, systematic art education system like China.
China has a number of professional higher art colleges such as BJ Film Academy, BJ Music Academy, Wuhan Conservatory of Music , BJ Dance Academy, and Shanghai Theatre Academy, which provide systematic and standardized education and training for art students.
After graduation, these professionally educated and trained students will have employment opportunities in various national, provincial and municipal theatre, dance and orchestra troupes. Thanks to the huge market in China, these students do not have to worry about employment.
Therefore, China's art high schools are mainly connected to art universities, and they train talents for these higher education institutions, and then continuously supply them to art units at all levels, forming a complete closed-loop training and employment system.
As for the cultivation of artistic talents in South Korea, although there are art universities, the scale and categories cannot be compared with those in China, and the employment channels are far fewer than those in China.
Therefore, the commercial trainee system is more popular here.
Each agency pays for the selection and training of these children, and then selects the qualified ones to be packaged and debut to make money.
Basically, the agency is responsible for both the training and employment channels, so Korea's idol economic companies are very developed and have a mature system for selection, training and debut operations.
However, the profit-seeking nature of capital has caused this training system to lack cultural education for artists. After all, companies are not willing to spend money to give trainees systematic cultural courses.
Ordinary high schools whose goal is to increase enrollment rates find it difficult to accept the reality that artist students have poor grades due to long-term absences from school for work.
This has resulted in many trainees and artists dropping out of school, and the overall educational level and cultural level of this group is relatively low.
As "Korean Wave" increasingly becomes a national business card and outstanding artists begin to represent the country's image, this situation is becoming increasingly difficult for the public to accept.
Art high schools came into being as a result.
Korean art high schools are more connected to various brokerage companies, like a training class for trainees and artists. They provide the same complete high school education as ordinary high schools, but the school system and management methods are more flexible.
It can not only meet the needs of artists who are too busy to go to school during their activities, but also provide high school education and socially recognized academic qualifications, allowing artists to take the college entrance examination and receive university higher education. It can be said to kill two birds with one stone.
However, this type of art high school is often very expensive, and only powerful brokerage companies will choose to enroll their artists or trainees here.
Kiroy Company, where Kwon Eun-fei worked, paid half of her tuition, which was also an important reason why she decided to go to arts high school.
Seoul Performing Arts High School is one of the best high schools of this type, and most of the artists from SM Entertainment go to school here.
The school has a total of 6 majors: Broadcasting and Performing Arts, Performing Arts, Film and Television Performance, Practical Music, Practical Dance and Stage Art.
Enfei chose practical dance, which was consistent with her position in the company.
Although she has good singing skills and good looks , she is most confident in dancing.
