Kang Ho-dong, male, born in 1970, Jinju, Gyeongsangnam-do. City people, variety show hosts, funny artists, wrestlers.

Jiang Hudong's process from wrestler to host is not very vigorous, but it is also quite legendary. As a wrestler who has won the "World Hero" five times and the "White-headed Hero" seven times, turning to the variety show industry seems to have burst out of his second spring.

From "The Fun of Super Sunday TV" hosted in 1998 to "Natural Fate" in 2002, and then to "X-man", "Night Heart" and "Artist Village" in 2003, Jiang Hudong can be said to occupy all time periods of the audience's TV.

Kang Ho-dong 678 Barbecue Restaurant Myeongdong No. 2 Store, in the private room, Jung Hyuk-jae and Kang Ho-dong sat facing each other, and Kang Ho-dong copied a few pieces of meat from the plate from time to time, cut them into strips with scissors, and put them on the barbecue rack.

"Ah, you won't just have a meal for my brother today!" Jiang Hudong glanced at Zheng Hyukzai, who was eating with a mouth full of oil, how many days had this kid not eaten meat, and couldn't help crying and laughing.

Zheng Hyukzai heard his words, pulled out a tissue and wiped the grease stains on the corner of his mouth, and then said the purpose of his visit this time, "Brother, I came here this time but I have good news for you!" ”

Jiang Hudong shrugged disapprovingly, and while smearing the sauce on the barbecue, he asked, "Tell me, what is the good news?" ”

Jung Hyuk Jae looked at this brother helplessly, could it be that what he said was so unreliable?

"Brother, is it important to have good news, or is it important to barbecue?"

When Jiang Hudong heard this, he raised his head and glanced at Zheng Hyukzai, "Ah, of course the barbecue is more important, don't you think this is the most beautiful music in the world when you listen to the sound of this zizi on the barbecue grill?" ”

Zheng Hyukzai was speechless, "This good news is related to you, brother, if you don't want to hear it, I'll go find Brother Zaishi!" ”

"What?"

An hour later, Jiang Hudong put down the thick setting and plan book in his hand and fell into deep thought. Jung Hyuk Jae was not in a hurry, he dipped the sauce on his own, and looked extremely leisurely eating the barbecue.

"Hejae, I'll go out and make a call, and I'll be back in a while!" Jiang Hudong came back to his senses and explained, picked up the mobile phone on the table and went out.

Seeing him walk out, Jung Hyuk-jae touched his smooth chin a little helplessly, and secretly thought: Shouldn't I grow a beard? Sure enough, everyone thinks it's 'hairless and can't do things well'?

While thinking like this, Jung Hyuk-jae reached out and put aside the plan book on the table to prevent the oil stains splashing on the barbecue grill, and the words "Love Letter" on the homepage were particularly eye-catching.

This is the good news he brought to Jiang Hudong this time, a special variety show - "Love Letter"!

When talking about "Love Letters", perhaps the first thing that comes to most people's minds is the short story "Love Letter" written by Shunji Iwai of Japan, or the film adaptation directed by him.

If Japan's "Love Letter" is about remembrance and sentimental love, then Korea's "Love Letter" is accompanied by laughter and laughter, which is completely different.

In the history of Korean variety shows, "Love Letter" has its own unique status, although the time from the start to the end of the broadcast is only a short three years, but it has the "Korean pop manufacturing machine" and the "Dae Jang Geum" in variety shows.

There are two main aspects to the popularity of Hallyu, one is TV dramas, such as "Blue Life and Death Love"; The other one is variety shows, among which "X-man" and "Love Letter" take the lead.

"Love Letter" belongs to the star speed dating program, under the command of the MC, the male guests show their charm to the female guests, and finally win the heart of the heroine through dancing, games and other links. The content of "Love Letter" is positive and healthy, does not talk about scandal lace, does not play erotic side ball, and uses games to let the guests participating in the show really participate in it to show its humorous and witty side.

The success of "Love Letter" in the previous life is inseparable from the participation of the "myth" group, you must know that even the "myth" group that debuted for 17 years in 2015 has indeed become a myth, not only breaking the 5-year curse of breaking the group, the curse of military service, and the curse of being divided for a long time, but also leaving many magical legends, and fans still have an extremely strong cohesion.

In the previous life, in 2004, because of the return of the 7 episodes of the mythical group, and also for the promotion of the 7 episodes, sBs tailored the variety show "Love Letter" for it.

The first season of "Love Letter" can also be called "Mythology Season", and the mythical members participated in a total of 7 episodes, and it was these 7 episodes full of highlights and jokes that laid a solid foundation for "Love Letter" to become South Korea's ace entertainment program in the next two years.

In the setting of the program plan, Eric's romance, Shin Comet's gentleman, Kim Dong-man's humor, Lee Min-woo's dance, JunJIn's artistic ability, andy's cuteness, and the personality of the six people and six colors are all excellently interpreted in the show, and it can be said that the cooperation between "Love Letter" and mythology is a win-win cooperation.

For mythology, in such a program that emphasizes the charm of personality, it is also a good stage to show yourself in various ways, which not only attracted many new fans that year, but also with the introduction and broadcast of "Love Letter" abroad, it has driven the popularity of mythology even more, making them famous overseas.

As early as a few days ago, Jung Hyuk-jae called goodentertainment, because Myth is about to release his own 7 albums to return to the song industry, goodentertainment attaches great importance to this cooperation with sBs TV, and the company's president even personally called to ask Jung Hyuk-jae to have a meal together.

As early as May 1, 2003, as ** and the expiration of the contract of Myth could not reach a fair agreement acceptable to both parties, Myth refused to renew the contract with **, and after the contract expired on the 8th, the 5-year contract with ** was completely ended, and in June of the same year, Myth switched to gooDenTeRTaInmenT to start a new acting career.

In addition to the collective job hopping of 6 people, they also successfully took the right to use the name "Myth", the right to use the name "Myth", the right to use the stage names of the members, the fan organization "Myth Creation (the official organization of mythical fans started by ** company)" and the right to use the song.

Speaking of the 2003 earthquake in the Korean variety show industry, the new owner of 'Myth' can definitely be on the list, the first and only example of an idol group that has successfully broken away from ** and can be preserved intact, just a collective exodus, which has shocked the entire Korean entertainment industry back then.

The new owner, GoodEntertainment, was founded by the departure of a director of the original S.M, and as the new owner who took over the 'Myth', he naturally wanted to try his best to keep the cash cow of 'Myth' and create more wealth for him.

After almost ten minutes, Jiang Hudong put away the phone and walked in, his face was relaxed for a while, and he even waved his hand when he saw Zheng Hyukzai looking at him.

Returning to his seat and sitting down, Jiang Hudong stared at Zheng Hyuk-jae in front of him with emotion, and said, "Hyuk-jae, brother thought you were just joking before, but I didn't expect to give my brother such a big surprise so soon!" ”

Just went out, Jiang Hudong called his agent on the phone, talking about the program plan of the new variety show he saw, and his agent on the phone was even more surprised, and even said that this is definitely a new variety show with high ratings. When asked about the PD of the show, 24-year-old Jung Hyuk Jae was even more shocked, especially when he heard that he was also the director and screenwriter of "Weekend Reversal Drama", and the agent made it clear that Jiang Hudong would take over this new variety show.

Zheng Hyukzai stopped the chopsticks in his hand and put them aside, "So brother is preparing for the next?" ”

Jiang Hudong nodded and shook his head, looking at the youthful and energetic Zheng Hyukjae in front of him, he said with emotion: "If you don't know, anyone who walks on the street will think that you are an artist, where is there a show president like you!" ”

"Isn't that now?" Jung Hyuk-jae smiled.

Talking about the new variety show "Love Letter", it was not a whim of Jung Hyuk-jae, but it was made under the threat of Choi Zhizhi of the Variety Show Bureau. You must know that he is just about to take over the moon fire drama of sBs TV in November, and it stands to reason that he has no time to prepare a new variety show in terms of time, and he runs on both sides, both serving as the chief PD.

Fortunately, variety shows are not filmed and broadcast like TV dramas, in addition to the time that may take a long time to prepare in the early stage, if the time and the itinerary of the participating artists allows, Jung Hyuk Jae can even complete the recording of three episodes of the show in one day.

The two chatted while eating and chatting about the detailed plan of "Love Letter", and time passed quickly. Twenty minutes later, Jiang Hudong's agent rushed here, and under Jiang Hudong's recommendation, Zheng Hyukzai had a preliminary understanding with him.

"Hejae, this is my agent, Quan Shusheng!"

Young people in their twenties, the specific age is not visible, and the appearance is not bad, the soft hair is obediently covered on the eyebrows and eyes, slightly delicate, but compared to himself, there are still some shortcomings, Zheng Hyukzai has some stinky beauty in his heart.

"Hello!"

"Hello, Jung Hyuk Jae!"

Because of the middleman Jiang Hudong, the two sides didn't seem very embarrassed to talk, after all, these are all serious things.

"Jung Hyuk Jaexi, may I ask what are your expected ratings for the new variety show "Love Letter"?"

"More than 25%!" Faced with the questions of the scholars, Jung Hyuk-jae replied without hesitation.

Hearing his answer, the whole scholar couldn't help but gasp, this is too big to say, right? Although he listened to Jiang Hudong's introduction to the new variety show on the phone, he had a general impression in his heart, and the ratings of more than 25% were not something he dared to think.

For a while, the three of them fell into silence, and after a while, Quan Shusheng raised his head, "We took the variety show!" ”

(Ps: Thank you for the tips of 'Scholar's Struggle', 'Joy of Heaven' and 'aresanDdream' and 'dyw8367304' some time ago.)

In addition, it turns out that today is Xu Xian's birthday, and it feels so fast, and he is a year older!

By the way, ask for a recommendation and ask for a collection, and those who don't have a recommendation are so pitiful! ）