Peninsula: The Great Producer

12 month 29 day.

Yeouido, K Broadcasting Station Headquarters.

Third floor, Arts Center.

If you don't know, you might think this is Wall Street. People are standing at their workstations, making phone calls, communicating excitedly with each other, and the scattered documents make the busyness of the place vivid.

I don’t know if it’s the same in all industries during the last half month of the year. After walking through the corridor, Qi Yaojiu arrived at the director’s office.

Park Jong-min was already waiting for Ki Yo-gu.

In addition to Ki Yo-gu, PD Kim Sang-mi was also in the office.

"sit"

The atmosphere feels a bit serious.

Ki Yoo-gu sat next to PD Kim Sang-mi and exchanged a quick glance with her.

Director Park Jong-min was personally pouring tea for Ki Yo-gu, and PD Kim Sang-mi whispered, "Last night's Gayo Daejeon set a new record in viewership ratings."

S Broadcasting Station has always done a good job in music programs, and this is recognized in the broadcasting industry.

Over the years, the S Broadcasting Station's year-end music festival has invited popular idol groups and solo singers, and many entertainment companies will also make special preparations for the music festival stage.

In fact, Ki Yo-gu watched the Gayo Daejeon at home for a while last night. To be honest, the stage setting of the Gayo Daejeon was very grand. At least Ki Yo-gu knew that the stage setting of K Broadcasting Station was not as good as that of S Broadcasting Station.

The idol group also put on a performance that was different from their usual music shows, especially the opening medley stage by newcomers, which was eye-catching.

Director Park Jong-min placed the teacup in front of Ki Yo-gu and asked, "Did PD Ki watch the Gayo Daejeon last night?"

Qi Yaojiu nodded and said, "I watched it for a while, it's pretty good."

"Yes, it's pretty good, and the ratings are pretty good too. Even though S-Broadcasting didn't broadcast it live worldwide this year, the response was quite good."

PD Kim Sang-mi said slowly, "Director-nim, in fact, S Broadcasting Station does spend much more on music programs every year than ours. Inkigayo often organizes overseas compilation concerts, and I've suggested this many times..."

Park Jong-min raised his hand to interrupt Kim Sang-mi: "PD Kim, our broadcast station needs to have its own characteristics. It's easy to hold a compilation concert, and you and I both know that, but others have been doing it for years. It would be too unclassy for us to do it now."

Kim Sang-mi remained silent.

Qi Yaojiu didn't say anything either.

Who can influence this kind of leadership consciousness? He wants to be better than others, save costs, and maintain his own integrity and not copy or imitate others.

There are only a few program formats. Others have done it first, and it is harder than climbing Mount Everest for those who come after you to innovate.

Even at this year's end-of-year music festival, Ki Yo-gu's plan was really novel, but it was just a stage performance at the music festival, and even just this year. Next year, there will definitely be similar plans at the year-end performances of S Broadcasting Station and M Broadcasting Station.

In competition, gentlemanly behavior is the most useless.

Twenty minutes later, Qi Yaojiu and Jin Xiangmei walked out of the director's office.

Jin Xiangmei shrugged and said, "It's like this every year at the end of the year."

Qi Yaojiu smiled and replied, "So, at the end of this year, Kim PDnim specifically wanted me to feel it?"

Kim Sang-mi didn't deny it, and smiled slightly and said, "If a producer hasn't experienced year-end preparation, his career is incomplete."

Qi Yaojiu said sincerely, "Thank you."

Jin Xiangmei also replied sincerely: "You're welcome."

They smiled at each other, and in the corridor, Jin Xiangmei waved and said, "I'm going to the control room. I'll leave the last rehearsal of the scene to you."

The second floor.

Backstage of the studio.

The assistant PD who joined the company this year has been reporting the situation on the scene to Qi Yaojiu.

"PDnim is good"

The idols came to the studio one after another to prepare for the final live rehearsal.

"Oppa"

Looking back, Qi Yaojiu saw Choi Sulli waving at him.

Fx did not walk towards the audience, but went straight to the right side of the stage.

"PDnim is good"

The other members greeted Qi Yaojiu politely.

Qi Yaojiu asked, "Are you still wearing the Calabash Brothers costume on stage today?"

Choi Sulli pointed at herself with a confused look on her face.

Song Qian next to him burst out laughing.

The other three members didn't understand what was going on. Song Qian apologized, "I'm sorry." The members quickly asked Song Qian what was going on and what Qi Yaojiu meant by the Calabash Brothers shape. Song Qian glanced at Qi Yaojiu, unsure if she understood it correctly.

But to be honest, Song Qian wanted to say during the first stage that the hairstyle the stylist gave Sulli was really a bit like the gourd-topped hairstyle in Calabash Brothers.

Sulli touched her bun and asked Qi Yaojiu curiously, "Oppa, what does the Calabash Brothers look mean?"

Just as Qi Yaojiu was about to say that it was the appearance of the protagonist in a Chinese cartoon, all the members of T-ara came to the right side of the stage.

"Oppa"

"PDnim is good"

Led by Song Qian, all the members of FX took the initiative to greet each other: "Hello, seniors."

All T-ara members, led by Eunjung, quickly responded, "Hello."

Qi Yaojiu next to him interjected, "Have you always been like this?"

Choi Sulli immediately understood what Ki Yo-gu meant and said, "Actually, we rarely meet, but T-ara is indeed a senior."

If Ji Yaojiu remembered correctly, the debut time of the two groups was only more than a month apart. People of the same age should be more relaxed when getting along with each other. In addition, the personnel structure of the two groups is similar, and the age difference is quite large.

"Go get ready, there's only one live rehearsal today."

T-ara left first, and Choi Sulli stayed behind and whispered mysteriously into Ki Yo-gu's ear, "Oppa, Ji-eun-unnie looks so beautiful today, really."

What do you mean?
Did Choi Sulli say that on purpose?

Is she intentionally trying to act as a matchmaker?

The assistant PD holding the walkie-talkie communicated with the control room about the on-site preparations, and the sound team and lighting team were also ready.

Another assistant PD on set called out, "BEAST and MBLAQ are ready for the opening. Are Afterschool, 2ne1, 4minute, Fx, T-ara, Secret, and Rainbow all here?"

The opening was similar to yesterday's S Broadcasting Station's Gayo Daejeon, which was a medley performance of new groups that debuted this year, especially the seven new girl groups at the end.

The difference is that after the medley stage, the cover stage follows immediately. There are not many groups that can perform on the cover stage.

The new group only includes 2ne1 and FX.

2ne1 is the cover of "Lie" by Big Bang, a senior group from the same company

Fx is Cover's "Ring Ding Dong" by Shinee, a senior group from the same company

Others participating in the cover stage are popular idol groups, such as Girls' Generation and SJ covering each other, 2pm and 2am joining together to cover each other with Wonder Girls.

The final live rehearsal has begun.

Backstage waiting room.

Various idol groups are also preparing in full swing.

People were coming and going in the corridor, and many idols who usually didn't have the time to meet each other also seized the opportunity to get to know each other.

Visiting someone and saying hello and giving them records is a basic procedure.

Among them, IU's waiting room.

Pei Zhonghan said with a smile: "Our Jieun is so beautiful today, she is like a princess. The company finally did something right."

She wore a white cake princess dress with red high heels, a wig, and a light and elegant makeup. The whole look was so pure that the word "pure" was written directly on her face.

This is also the first time since her debut that her makeup and hairstyle are in line with her age.

Obviously, the company attaches great importance to Lee Ji-eun's first participation in the year-end music stage.

After admiring the beautiful and pure Lee Ji-eun, Bae Jong-han also lamented the treatment in the waiting room.

Even though Lee Ji-eun is not a new singer, her popularity and recognition have increased over the past year since her debut through the variety show "Bengbeng Earth Game Hall".

Such celebrities are actually no different from newcomers on the year-end music stage.

But Lee Ji-eun's waiting room today is exactly the same level as SJ, Girls' Generation, Big Bang, and Wonder Girls, a separate and spacious waiting room.

Bae Jong-han muttered, "The company should be especially grateful to PD Ki."

"dong dong dong"

There was a knock on the waiting room door.

"crunch"

The door opened and the assistant PD reminded, "IUxi is getting ready for the live rehearsal."

After notifying the assistant PD, he left directly. Only then did Bae Jong-han cheer up and take Lee Ji-eun to rehearsal.

In the corridor, Bae Jong-han was still talking to Lee Ji-eun: "Ji-eun, do you think PD Ki will be so surprised when he sees you like this today that he will be speechless?" (End of this chapter)