Volume 2 2010 Chapter 259: Chat in the Tutoring Group
Since Yi Haoyan’s suggestion is so effective, the "Running Man" program team will naturally continue to promote it.
The new episode on October 24th did even better.
The TNmS (national) rating was 13.2%, and the AGB (national) rating reached 11.1%, creating the highest ratings since the show was launched!
It can be said that after adopting the boy’s advice, the program completely got out of the trough and began to enter a stable period.
It seems that Jin Zhihao can rest assured for a short period of time, and Yi Haoyan can also have some peace and quiet for a while.
Life returned to the dull rhythm of attending classes and taking tutoring classes.
After the test of two exams last semester, the members of the tutoring group have gained full confidence in Yi Haoyan.
This also created a new problem.
It turns out that the reason these trainee members needed tutoring was that they were too busy practicing and had too few classes, causing their academic progress to fall behind.
Now with Yi Haoyan, a capable guy, as a backup, these girls are even less likely to come to class!
I never missed any tutoring classes.
Since you can guarantee passing the test by just taking extra classes, why bother spending time studying?
These girls are slow in reading, but they are very shrewd when it comes to calculating.
The boy was furious.
I gave them a good scolding during tutoring.
"Ah! You guys! Don't use tutoring as your main means of learning! It's only for exams. You should learn more knowledge. Don't just practice all day long. You should prepare for your life!"
"Oppa! We practice to accumulate knowledge. As long as we can debut, we can make money in the future! Studying is also for working and making money in the future, right?"
The youngest, Kim Na-hyun, answered bravely.
Although this Chinese oppa often speaks harshly to them, after getting to know them for a long time, they find that he is just harsh in words and is actually easy to get along with.
So these little girls are not afraid of him now, and are willing to talk to him even if they are dissed to death sometimes.
"Ah! Kim Na-hyun! How are you going to survive with this brain of yours? Is it really okay to just rely on being pretty?"
Yi Haoyan got angry when he heard such brainless remarks.
“Let’s not talk about how difficult it is to make a debut!
Debuting is difficult for trainees from large companies. Debuting is not difficult for trainees from small companies, but survival is difficult.
Do you know how many idol groups debut in Korea every year? And how many of them can survive after three years?
Even among the popular girl groups from big companies, how many of them will still be active five years later?
Ah! You can make money just by debuting! Kim Na Hyun, are you dreaming? "
"Isn't it okay as long as it's red?"
The youngest member who was scolded was not angry at all. Instead, she responded with a smile, showing the carefreeness that is unique to little girls.
"Ah! Does that mean it can become famous just because you say so?
What gave you this confidence?
Pretty face and an empty head?"
The boy felt like he was talking to a deaf person.
"Are you calling me pretty, oppa? Kang Samitah!"
"You just don't mind having an empty head?"
"Hmm~ I don't mind~"
“…”
"Hahaha!"
Hearing the youngest member’s off-line reaction.
Everyone laughed, and Quan Eun-fei laughed the happiest. It was the first time she saw Yi Haoyan speechless.
"I understand what Oppa means. He wants us to not give up learning while being idols. After all, the career of a Korean female idol is very short. When they get older, they can no longer be active. Learning more will give you more choices in the future."
Kim Nam Joo added.
She was the smarter one among these girls. She understood her situation very early and was one of the few who did not give up studying.
"Nanzhu is right. Female idols are generally completely inactive when they are around 30 years old. They either transform into solo singers, or develop into actors and variety shows. Stage plays and musicals are also an option. However, none of these alternative directions requires accumulation.
Everyone wants to be an actor, but how many idols have successfully turned actors in recent years? Yoon Eun Hye and Sung Yuri?
The competition among actors is also very fierce, and honing acting skills takes more time. Idols have no advantage over professional actors in this respect.
It's also possible to be a solo singer, but it requires real strength and singing skills, and now is obviously the era of groups, so it's not easy to be a solo singer.
It is even more difficult for professional singers, as those who can do this are those with natural singing skills, and even the lead singer in a group may not be able to successfully transition.
Therefore, in the end, most members of idol groups will slowly return to being ordinary people, especially female idols, whose final destination is to get married and become housewives.
Is this the future you want?
Being an artist is not something to be proud of in Korea! Will your future in-laws mind?"
"Ah! Why did Oppa make our future sound so bleak? It gave me goose bumps."
Cao Enai complained.
"If I don't say it's a little miserable, how can you study hard? The stage may be beautiful, but people still have to live! The idol profession is really not that good, you must work hard to learn more!"
Yi Haoyan's words made everyone fall into deep thought. Except for Bae Suzy who was in the event, everyone else had arrived today. It was rare for the whole group to be together.
"Since the idol profession is so bad, why do so many people still yearn for it? Our country is also vigorously promoting the Korean Wave?"
Choi Sulli, who had been silent, suddenly asked.
As the only debuted idol among the people present, she is the most representative when it comes to her experience in this profession.
Everyone looked at Shirley for a moment.
“It’s not that the idol profession is bad, it’s that the idol profession in Korea is bad.
This is different.
The Korean entertainment industry is very mature, with clear division of labor between professions, and the market is small, so competition is very fierce. As a profession with a very low threshold in the entertainment industry, idols are naturally not very good.
But it’s different in China.
As long as you can become famous, whether it's singing or dancing, you can try .
Look at the artists in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Once they become famous for singing, they can try acting, movies, TV series and variety shows.
And the income is very high.
That’s the difference in market maturity and market size.”
Yi Haoyan was not surprised that Shirley would ask this question. She was actually a very smart girl and would think about some issues that children of this age would not think about.
Perhaps it was her unfortunate childhood that made her feel the cruelty of society too early, and in some aspects she matured earlier than other children.
“As for why the government supports Hallyu, it is determined by South Korea’s economic structure.
Because of its small domestic market and scarce resources, South Korea is an export-oriented economy.
Hallyu is essentially an export business.
Same with cars, semiconductors and electronics.
The Hallyu Wave exports cultural products, songs, film and television works, variety shows, celebrity peripherals, etc., and the Hallyu Wave can also drive the export of other products.
Cosmetics, clothing, daily necessities, games, comics, and other related products used by celebrities can all be considered Korean Wave-related.
This is big business.
Since President Kim Dae-jung proposed the "culture-based nation" policy in 1998, the cultural industry has achieved explosive growth.
According to statistics from the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of South Korea, in 2000, South Korea's cultural industry exports were only US$500 million; but by 2004, the cultural industry had become the second largest export-earning industry after automobile manufacturing; in 2010, it reached US$3.2 billion.
Between 2008 and 2010, the export volume of South Korea's cultural industry grew rapidly at an average annual rate of 22.5%.
Currently, the cultural industry accounts for about 15% of South Korea's GDP.
This has become a very important industry, and the government will certainly encourage it.
The government encourages it, capital is willing to invest and promote it, and the practitioners in this industry are all young, so it is naturally easy for them to be encouraged and driven.
It is inevitable that children throw themselves into it for various reasons, such as the dream of becoming a star, for wealth, for a stage, etc. ”
"It sounds like this is different from the future Oppa talked about? The country supports it, the company is willing to do it, and it can also earn a lot of foreign exchange. It feels like being an idol is pretty good!"
Eun-bi felt strange, not just her, all the girls felt strange.
From this perspective, isn’t being a Korean idol a good career?
