376. It's good to have you
Just like Lee Jun Hyuk said, because of the different starting point for the so-called strength itself, Lee Jun Hyuk and SM Company's Girls' Generation agent look at the same place.
Girls' Generation's current agent,Was transferred when he was about to debut after Girls' Generation finalized the candidate.,Before that,He was TVXQ's agent assistant.,Because of his outstanding appearance.,Strong business ability was valued by Kim Young-min.,And then when Girls' Generation was about to make his debut, he was transferred to Girls' Generation as the main agent.,Manage all things in Girls' Generation.。
Although he is not a music professional, he has been in the circle for a long time, and he has gradually gained some of his own evaluation criteria for the so-called strength of each artist, so his praise for Girls' Generation is not a mouthful, but what he has personally felt along the way with Girls' Generation in this year.
But what he saw was only the appearance of the Xiàn that had been active for nearly a year since the debut of Girls' Generation, and as for the internal strength of Girls' Generation during the trainee period and the selection period, he actually didn't know it and didn't care too much.
In fact, any agency in South Korea that specializes in singers has a deadline for the training of its trainees, and when this deadline is reached, they will start selecting and then forming a group to prepare for their debut. If the selection is successful, then you will become a singer idol, and if the selection fails, then you will have to leave the company.
Regardless of success or failure, at the same time as the selection ended, the company's training of the singer was completely over, and the selection was successful. If you want to make your debut as an idol singer, you will work hard to make money, and then most of it will be siphoned off by the company in return for the money and energy that the company has spent on cultivating you during the trainee period, and they can only get a small part of it. This situation will not improve until the first contract expires, which is generally five years, and after five years, when the company signs a second contract with you. But for idol, five years is actually a watershed moment. Many groups have not supported it for five years before they go downhill. Or even disbanded. This is also where South Korea's entertainment agency contracts are criticized.
And what about the failed selection. Except for a few companies that feel that there is a possibility of continued development and will stay and continue to train, the remaining trainees are no longer trainees of the company to which they belong. As for whether you give up on going back to study or move to other companies, no one cares.
The same goes for Girls' Generation. From the moment they debuted. The company's training of them is over. After the debut. As long as they can show 80% of the level at the time of their debut selection, it is enough for the company. So, as an SM cultivated broker. The same concept is the main agent of Girls' Generation.
But Lee Jun-hyuk looks at it differently, unlike the company's view of earning power as the benchmark, he is people-oriented, that is, he does not look at the current earning power of Girls' Generation, but for the sake of their group and individual development.
In fact, compared to SM company, he is the one who knows the most about the singing strength of the 9 girls of Girls' Generation, because before their debut, these 9 girls more or less sang in Lee Junhyuk's coffee shop in order to train their singing skills, and until now, Lee Junhyuk still retains the video materials of that time.
So when he watched all the stages since their debut in order to help Girls' Generation, and then compared the audio materials they left behind in the coffee shop before, he came to this conclusion, that is, in the nearly a year since Girls' Generation's debut, in addition to slowly recovering their strength during their debut period because they are familiar with the stage and work, their own strength has not improved much.
After listening to Li Junhyuk's words, the girls' faces gradually became strict, because they knew that Li Junhyuk's words were related to their future development.
"Of course, in the past ten months, although I didn't pay much attention to your activities, I also have a certain understanding of your company's actions, and in addition to your own lack of notice, whether you have time to practice is also a big problem. But now it's different, even if your company makes a special program for you to clarify, at least before the next album, in order to calm down this matter, you have a blank period of at least half a year or so. So ......"
"So, we have to seize this blank period and work hard to improve our shortcomings, right, uncle." In fact, when Lee Jun Hyuk mentioned this, the stubble girls understood his intentions, so when Lee Jun Hyuk finished the main words, Kim Hyo-yeon, who had a cheerful personality, said what Lee Jun Hyuk had not finished.
"It's good to know. I'll take the time to sort out what I personally think you need to improve, and the methods of targeted practice, of course, it's all about singing, and as for the problems of dance and variety shows, I can't do anything about it. Anyway, this so-called blank period is a rare opportunity for you to improve your strength, if you can firmly grasp it, it is not impossible to become a heavenly group like HOT and TVXQ in the future, come on, fighting! Speaking of which, Lee Jun-hyuk's video call today is almost over, and his purpose has been fully achieved.
"Thank you, uncle." Seeing that Lee Jun Hyuk was about to close the call, there was no need to communicate, so the girls bowed in unison and said in unison.
"Ah, little girl, come back with me." Seeing that the girls hadn't raised their heads for a long time, Li Junhe said helplessly.
"Oh, by the way, there's another particularly important thing I told you." And just as Lee Jun Hyuk was about to turn off the video, he seemed to remember something important and hurriedly said.
"What's the matter?" Hearing Li Junhyuk's words with an anxious tone, the girls asked nervously again.
"Practice is practice, but the body is more important than practice, so you can't even ignore your body for the sake of practice like before your debut, with a good body, the effect of practice will be twice as effective with half the effort, you know. Eat and sleep on time every day. Didn't Xiaoxian say that 12 o'clock in the evening is the time for cell regeneration, if you miss it, you will get old......"
"Okay, okay, we know, uncle is really, why don't you see it for a few days, and you become an old mother." Originally, when I heard Li Junhyuk's tone, I thought it was something important, but in the end, what the girls heard were the words that their parents usually nagged about. But despite the impatience on their lips, in the hearts of the girls, they are all warm......
Closing the video, Lee Jun-hyuk breathed a sigh of relief again. Even if the things of girlhood are over, the rest depends on their own efforts.
In fact, Li Junhyuk's attitude towards them has always been like this, and he has the ability to help them go all the way to the road. But whether it is as the uncle of the girls or as Zheng Xiuyan's lover, he can't do this.
This is because of respect, in Lee Jun-hyuk's view, whether it is Jung so-yeon or other girls in Girls' Generation, they are all living and independent people with their own thoughts, and their path is for them to break through by themselves, rather than following the road laid out in advance by him Lee Jun-hyuk. Therefore, unless something like this is something that they can't solve on their own, he will definitely not participate too much in the rest.
Turning off the computer, Lee Jun-hyuk stretched his waist greatly. Since learning about the accident in Girls' Generation, he has basically not slept much, and has to solve all kinds of things in the studio and investment during the day. At night, I was lying in front of the computer and carefully watching all the videos related to Girls' Generation, this is not a small project, you know, there are 9 people in Girls' Generation, and it is normal to be divided into several groups to participate in different programs every day, and Lee Jun-hyuk In order to help the girls of Girls' Generation get out of the haze, he watched all the videos starring the girls seriously.
After putting water in the bathroom, Lee Jun-hyuk is ready to take a hot bath and get a good night's sleep. When he had just finished putting out the water, he heard the text message ringing.
"Uncle, thank you. It's nice to have you by my side. (To be continued......)