Chapter 19: Dream Concert (1)
Korea Dream Concert, also known as Dream/Concert, is a large-scale music event founded in 1995 by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Korean Performing Arts Producers Association.
As a cultural propaganda campaign led by a government agency, its slogan is naturally lofty, "Let Korean teenagers have more dreams and hopes"! But Cui Zhenlong is a little confused, the "dreams and hopes" of teenagers have a hairy relationship with this concert! Is it to encourage more young people to devote themselves to the entertainment industry?
If it is understood from this point of view, then Cui Zhenlong can only admire that the gang of officials and masters have indeed done it! In the ten years since President Kim Dae-jung put forward the strategy of "cultural nation-building" in 1998, the entire cultural undertaking has indeed shown explosive growth.
But no matter what industry you are in, only a handful of them can really succeed, and the same is true in the entertainment industry, behind each of their successful cases, they are piled up with batches of "corpses", and most of those losers are incompetent, and in the end they can only fall to the bottom of society to struggle.
Therefore, this "cultural country" strategy, at first glance, seems to feel quite reasonable, in the implementation process not only low consumption, less pollution, but also in terms of income is quite rich, can be described as "good quality and low price". But if you think about it carefully, you can find that there are too many drawbacks in this strategy, it is completely a victim of the future of a group of people or even a generation, and a fantastic castle in the air is shaped, which seems to be wonderful, but it is also unstable.
However, this is also a helpless thing, South Korea is a country with many deficiencies in nature, it can not do as steady and steady as those real big countries, steadily advancing the development strategy, can only find another way, through a deformed development mode to seek further improvement of the country's economy, from this point of view, it cannot be said that the "cultural country" strategy is wrong!
Cui Zhenlong couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart, feeling that he seemed to be a little too worried, these problems are things that the country's high-level people need to care about, and what qualifications does he, the president of a small company, have to participate in this kind of political game, as the so-called not in his position does not seek his own politics, and worrying blindly will only find all kinds of unhappiness for himself.
In order to divert his attention, Cui Zhenlong simply stood up directly, as if aimlessly began to look around, but in fact, there is not much to see at this time period, except for the stage that has been built in the center of the venue, the other audience areas are basically dark, only the light sticks of various colors and the light emitted by the cheering lamps are dotted in between, giving people the illusion of being in a starry night sky.
Cui Zhenlong raised his wrist and looked at the time, it is now less than an hour before the official start of the concert, but the venue is already crowded with people, the sound is noisy, looking at this posture should already have more than 40,000 people, if it is a while, the audience may continue to increase, and it must be appropriate to break the figure of 50,000.
However, this situation is also understandable, originally this dream concert did not charge tickets, which for those fans, it is not easy to come across this rare free lunch, plus they can see their idol's performance with their own eyes, it would be really strange if they didn't come to the scene to support!
"Sorry to interrupt! Are the two seniors also fans of Girls' Generation? A high school boy with a toilet lid hairstyle, black-framed glasses, and acne-covered face looked at Cui Zhenlong and Luo Zhongzhi beside him cautiously, especially the latter, which brought him great pressure, who has ever seen the audience who came to the concert in a suit and tie, and posed like a zombie?
"Nei~ We are all here, do you have anything to do?" Cui Zhenlong asked with a smile.
"This... That's right, I see that neither of you seems to have any supporters with you, I just have a surplus here, I can lend it to you first..."As he spoke, the man with the toilet seat helped his glasses and smiled shyly.
"Thank you very much!" Cui Zhenlong reached out and took the two glow sticks handed over by the other party, kept one for himself, and stuffed the other into his bodyguard, "Brother Zhongzhi, don't be idle, remember to support the children of Girls' Generation later!" ”
Luo Zhong looked at the pink glow stick in his hand speechlessly, in his nearly thirty years of life, it was the first time to support a star, it was inevitable that he would feel a little weird, but seeing the audience around him, no matter how old or young they were, he was completely relieved, at least he himself would not look too different.
Time passed quietly unconsciously, originally Cui Zhenlong was still chatting with the high school boy without a word, and suddenly a rush of music sounded, and all the audience in the venue couldn't help but let out bursts of cheers, don't think about it, this is the rhythm of the concert is about to start!
Sure enough, as soon as the music stopped, the entire row of fireworks on the side of the stage flashed into the sky, and the three concert masters walked to the front of the newspaper stage.
"Huh?? The "Frost Flower Shop" starring Song Ji-hyo should have started filming, right?! Cui Zhenlong was a little unsure in his heart, although he hadn't seen this movie, but he had heard of its name, and in his previous life, he had heard that Song Zhixiao had a naked/drama in it, and the scale was staggering, comparable to Huaxia's "Lust and Caution".
However, it is obvious that Song Jihyo is not as lucky as Tang Wei, although the sacrifice is great, he did not become an instant hit with this "Frost Flower Shop", and he is still hovering in the situation of a second-rate actor, and he has been up and down for several years. It wasn't until she became a regular guest in "Runningman" that she really turned over and became a household name.
After seeing her real person at this moment, the soul of poaching buried deep in Cui Zhenlong's heart has revived again, he rubbed his chin and thought about the possibility of digging Song Jihyo to C.P.C company in advance, you must know that the future of Korean variety shows is the general trend, although he already has variety show masters such as Liu Jae-seok and Ji Seok-jin under his hands, but who would dislike the company's excess talent?
But after thinking about it, Cui Zhenlong helplessly found that at least at this stage, it seems unlikely to poach the other party, only after the release of "Frost Flower Shop", it does not achieve the expected effect, and the agency she belongs to now will really "give up", otherwise Song Jihyo will not switch to Baek Chang-so's C-jeS later.
"It's Girls' Generation's turn to perform!" The boy with the toilet seat interrupted Cui Zhenlong in contemplation with a shout, only to see this young fan reverse the calm expression just now, waving the light stick in his hand with his own care, and began to roar hoarsely, like a gorilla in estrus.
This discordant scene made Cui Zhenlong speechless for an instant, and he couldn't help but scold in his heart: "Is it necessary for this brother to be so exaggerated?" Girls' Generation hasn't even appeared yet! Besides, it's so far away from the stage, they will be able to see you then? ”
In fact, it was not only the boy with the toilet seat at the scene, but also other Girls' Generation fans who were also gradually excited, especially when the prelude of "The World Met Again" sounded, the young fans around Cui Zhenlong began to support even harder, and the pink glow sticks and support lights dazzled him for a while, even Luo Zhongzhi didn't know when he started, joined the ranks of supporters, and waved the light sticks in his hands rhythmically with SONE, and now in this area of SONE's concentration, I'm afraid that Cui Zhenlong will be left alone without any action.
"Yun'er, sprinkle the wolf black~" The boy with the toilet seat shouted without warning to the nine people who had just appeared on the stage, and his voice was so loud that it gave people the illusion of deafness.
"I didn't expect that black and thin little girl to have such loyal fans now" Cui Zhenlong couldn't help but sigh in his heart, but then he began to slander maliciously, "If this boy sees the goddess in his mind eating, the big crocodile mouth, I don't know what kind of expression it will be?" Well~~ It will definitely be very exciting! ”