Chapter 142: Journey to Korea
In the past few years, the relationship between China and South Korea has been quite good, especially after the new chairman came to power in 12 years, China and South Korea have ushered in a honeymoon period.
It's a pity that South Korea's presidents will have accidents after they take office, and every president is like this, and basically there is no good end.
For the country of South Korea, Li Cai doesn't like a lot of things, but for the programs they produce, I have to say that they are still very powerful.
In the 90s of the last century, Korean TV dramas, movies represented by "Blue Life and Death Love", "Winter Love Song", etc., and Korean music pioneered by Rain, Lee Jung-hyun, HOT, etc., swept into the country, forming the so-called "Hallyu phenomenon". For South Korea, which is small in size and lacks history and culture, the "Hallyu phenomenon" is an excellent opportunity for development, and the South Korean government has also made the "Hallyu" phenomenon enter the Chinese cultural goods market more and more widely through different degrees of policy inclination.
Compared with most shoddy variety shows in China, Korean variety shows can be said to be very attentive, because their programs are easy to be cut as long as the ratings are low, and new programs are broadcast, which also leads to the need for a lot of effort on the people who produce the shows.
Of course, this is also related to national conditions. Korean variety shows are basically self-produced and self-sold, and if they don't do well, they will lose their jobs, so Korean choreographers and directors are racking their brains to come up with novel ideas to attract audiences to watch.
And because of their good creativity, they have been broadcast and introduced by many countries, which has invisibly increased the exposure of the show and a large number of fans, and also made Korean variety shows go abroad and was praised by many people.
And they work hard as the host and star of the show, and they are very natural in catching jokes, so they don't make people think that they are acting, or they are very deliberate to find jokes. However, domestic reality shows are different, very fake, the script is set too obviously, all the results are in accordance with the script, like acting in a TV series, completely failing to understand the essence of reality shows, which makes people feel very unreal, and the stars in it often have a very embarrassing atmosphere, probably because they are acting too deliberately, but it is unnatural, for example, they want to create a laugh, but they can't grasp the point, so the atmosphere is very embarrassing, and even cold.
In order to be exposed, most Korean artists are basically not paid for variety shows, so most of the production costs are actually spent on "production". Often, a program needs to use more than 20 cameras to record for a day or two at the same time, consuming 150-200 program tapes, and then post-production captures the details that make the audience feel relaxed and happy in the vast material tape, with subtitles, pictures, sound effects and other different elements to fill and interpret, and exude the humor in the program to the fullest; Use subtitles, voiceovers, etc. to speed up the audience's understanding of the content of the program, etc.
Unlike China, which invests a lot of money in inviting celebrities, basically doesn't pay much attention to the production of programs, and spends all his mind on how to implant advertisements in order to earn sky-high advertising fees.
Li Cai liked to watch variety shows in his previous life, but many domestic reality show variety shows are too fake to watch, and there is only one extreme challenge that can be watched, and the extreme challenge is also an infinite challenge introduced by South Korea.
For the infinite challenges of South Korea, Li Cai, as a variety show fan, is no stranger at all, after all, this is a national variety show in South Korea, and there are many interesting special features, which make people laugh and think deeply at the same time.
Moreover, in Li Cai's view, South Korea's variety shows should be divided into before and after infinite challenges, before the infinite challenge, it was the world of indoor variety shows, and after the infinite challenge created the first reality show variety show in South Korea, it has become a classic, and other shows are just its imitators.
At this time in South Korea, the infinite challenge PD Kim Tae-ho has already begun to conceive of producing a show in which Lee Jae participates, and he also made a report as above, wanting to get more funds to produce this Lee Jae special.
However, South Korea's MBC is full of internal contradictions and is about to face a strike, so naturally it cannot give excess production costs.
Fortunately, Li Cai also knew that there was no money in the production of programs in South Korea, so he participated in the show in friendship, and did not charge the starring fee of the program group, anyway, there was not much acting fee, and he just thought it was interesting to participate.
However, when he heard the news that MBC was likely to strike, Li Cai was a little hesitant, and when the program team of Infinite Challenge repeatedly assured that it would be broadcast smoothly, and said: "There will be one or two strikes every year, and the time is very short, and it will not affect the broadcast of the program." ”
After receiving the guarantee, Li Cai agreed to go to South Korea and prepare to participate in the recording of the show.
In Li Cai's view, South Korea is an Asian "strike republic," and although it cannot be compared with Europe and other countries, the South Korean people have long been accustomed to strikes, and they often make demonstrations to demand an increase in their welfare. And if you make such a fuss in China, it is estimated that you will go directly to the bureau, let alone fight for welfare, and go to the police station to drink tea.
Of course, this also has something to do with the fact that they have a so-called guild organization, which can unite and march together to make trouble.
It's just that they strike and make trouble every year, and they don't improve anything, and the people who get the benefits are some guild leaders.
Many South Korean directors open their films with the following: "This country is hopeless." ”
When he came to South Korea, Lee found that there were many more modern buildings than a few years ago.
Because Li Cai is a superstar in Asian tennis, he naturally has many fans, but Li Cai plans to keep a low profile as much as possible, after all, South Korea has a so-called anti organization, which likes to disguise fans as celebrities and personally attack them, and Li Cai slapped them in the face several times in the Go game, and it is estimated that there will be many radical Koreans who are unhappy with themselves and want to find trouble for themselves.
Therefore, Li Cai adjusted the invisible ring to be visible, and came to South Korea in a low-key manner, so that his economic team could contact the production team of Infinite Challenge.
Before recording the show, Li Cai, who was bored in the hotel, planned to go to see South Korea.
Originally, Li Cai's economic team wanted to send someone to follow Li Cai, but they were worried that Li Cai could not speak Korean and would easily get lost.
However, Li Cai had already prepared and spent a thousand achievement points in the system to learn Korean.
Seeing Li Cai speak Korean fluently, the translator in Li Cai's team was dumbfounded, thinking that he might be losing his job.
Of course, Li Cai's economic team is still responsible for Li Cai's safety, and quietly let the bodyguards follow Li Cai to prevent accidents.
Seeing that Li Cai was about to go out without a mask, Tang Hao, the general leader of Li Cai's economic team, saw it and hurriedly said: "Bring a mask." ”
Li Cai didn't bother to explain, picked up a mask and put it on his face, and after coming out of the hotel, he took it off.
The whole country of South Korea is only the size of one province, and Seoul, as the capital of South Korea, is equivalent to the size of a medium-sized city in China.
Although it was cold outside, Lee wanted to see if Seoul was full of stars.
Going around and around the streets outside, Li Cai didn't see a single star except for freezing like a fool.
There was no way, so Li Cai had to go back to the hotel.
The next day, Li Cai met with the program team of Infinite Challenge and began to prepare for the recording of the program.
watched Kim Tae-ho in the two most famous PDs in South Korea, and Lee found that the real person was uglier than in the show. "It's so ugly!" these three words almost made Li Cai can't help but say it.
Sure enough, most Koreans are all made up, otherwise their appearance is estimated to be a big pie face, which is almost the same.
Because it is Li Cai's special, the program team of Infinite Challenge has obviously done some research on Li Cai, and knows that Li Cai's tennis and Go are very good, and he is the top in the world.
And the content of the program production naturally revolves around these two themes.