"Welcome to watch the live broadcast of popular songs in the last episode of July 2008. I am the host Yin Zhiyuan!"

"I'm Xu Yizai!"

"This week our popular song will usher in a strong return to the stage lineup! They are Seo In-young and the girl group KARA who has just joined the new member!"

"There is also this week's TAKE7 singer Yeon Chenghua, Lee Hyori will soon bring us a wonderful stage performance..."

The main music program "Popular Songs" of South Korea's SBS TV station is in its last rehearsal for live broadcast. Just as the two hosts were seriously introducing the highlights of this issue, the backstage had already entered a state of preparation. The newcomers who played in the first half rushed back and forth in the backstage, which made many staff frown.

"Ah! I'm sorry!" A rash little girl seemed to have just run out of the dressing room and accidentally hit someone else's body. The water that had not been dried on her hands left a clear palm print on the neat white suit.

"What are you doing? Is this a place where you run around?" Before the man in the white suit was hit, the agent running behind the girl quickly taught his newcomer a lesson. While scolding him, he carefully bowed to the other party, "I'm really sorry! I've caused you trouble..."

Seeing that the etiquette was in place, he showed intentional alienation everywhere. The man who always had a smile between his eyebrows seemed to be very used to it. He nodded casually to the other party's agent, and then looked at the girl who was startled by the sudden situation with a warm smile. "Is it a newcomer group? The name is...KARA, right? The current group is really amazing... Being energetic is a good thing, but you have to pay attention to safety!"

He gently patted the other person on the shoulder, and the man pulled the agent who looked resentful and wanted to say something to the other person, and walked towards his lounge in a hurry. People passing by would subconsciously make way for him, stood aside and greeted him carefully. It was obviously a polite greeting after a while, but everyone present would feel a chill...

"Be careful in the future!" The KARA agent, who was about 30 years old, watched the other party walk into the lounge before turning around and saying seriously to the little girl who was called the KARA group by the "white suit": "You have just been reorganized. If you want to develop well, give me 100% of your energy!"

"I understand..." The girl agreed carefully, and then looked at the extremely deserted standby room in confusion. "That guy just now... seems to know us? Now few people can call out our combination name..."

"Remember it for me! You can't mention the thing just now! He can't tell you even if he knows you! You must remember it for me! If you can hide when you see him, if you really can't hide... You have seen everyone's reaction just now?" The abnormal agent seemed a little irritable and warned the girl over and over again. This behavior made the girl feel curious about the previous white suit. She followed the agent to the public lounge where she was. She quietly observed the former's face until the other party's expression relaxed, and then she asked in a low voice: "Brother, who was that... that...? Why are you all hiding from him so much?"

"Don't you know who he is?" The agent looked at the youngest girl in the group beside him in disbelief. After a while, he sighed slowly, as if he was recalling something, and his eyes were no longer as firm as before. "That's right, it's right for you not to know him... You were only 5 or 6 years old when he was the most glorious? How could you know K..."

"K?" The little girl repeated the strange name in confusion, suddenly widened her eyes and asked in surprise: "Is that... the person who was the captain K of the 'Sons of Music' group just now? Is it right that the 'Sons of Music' group? "

"Where is the second 'Son of Music' in Korea?" It is completely different from his cautious appearance before. At this moment, when talking about the "Son of Music" group known as the "ancestor of idol groups" and "pop music pioneers", the agent's face was unconcealed with pride. "Since its establishment in 1994, K took 'Son of Music' to win all the awards that can be called in South Korea. Go and ask, who is a person of my age who is not an idol music that he starts to come into contact with after listening to their songs? Captain K, Rapper Park Junshang, lead singer Yoo Hyun-woo, and dance god Jang Hyun-dao..."

"But later..." The little girl's curiosity was not satisfied, but this sentence "later" made the agent's face suddenly become cold. "Jiang Ji-young, remember it well. Whether it is an interview or a show in the future, you can say that you like the 'Son of Music', but you must not mention K, and you cannot say that you like K's music! This is for your own good!"

The rehearsal time on the stage is very tight. In order to give more time for today's big-name "protagonists", other singers only have 5 minutes of rehearsal time. They go on stage to check the sets, and then walk the songs and then step off the stage quickly. K, the "senior" who debuted in 1994, did not receive more attention. In 5 minutes, a group of staff stood in the audience and looked at the former "national captain" with complicated eyes for a serious rehearsal.

The songs are very average, even more expensive than the songs of many new singers. However, K's performance on the stage makes people unable to describe it with a sentence of "cheap". The lights are on. When K started the performance, everyone in the audience showed complex expressions - full scores in dance, full scores in singing, and the expressions of the artist are also full scores. However, with so many full scores, they are performing a song that scores less than 20 points. Who is the loss?

"Director, how should we speak?" the assistant next to him said with some embarrassment: "Every time I see him performing so seriously, I feel like I am a crime..."

"Do you think so alone?" The director also had deep helplessness in his words, so he simply took off his monitor headphones, just stared at the man dancing seriously on the monitor, and said lightly after a while: "There is no way. This show will definitely delete some of the songs... Apart from those we don't want to provoke, we can only complain about him... Go over and explain to him... Even if the other party is angry, you can bear it. If you don't say anything else, his qualifications on this stage are older than you..."

Most music programs nowadays are conducted in a live manner, and accidents will inevitably occur beyond the scheduled time. When encountering this situation, the unlucky ones are usually the new singers from small companies, because the company dares not offend the TV station, and the production team is not afraid to cause other situations.

The scale of the music company K belongs to is not too small, and it can even be considered a middle-to-high-level strength in Korea. It has many artists. It is not his turn to have songs cut, but the production team thought of him the first time because K is a well-known "cold-accepted singer". His company has been acquired twice in recent years, and his new owner has never treated him as his singer, so it is good for everyone to cut him off.

"Brother... you can tolerate it too much! If it were me..."

"What can you do if you change it?" The man in white suit who was called Brother by the young man beside him-oh, we can simply call him K now. K smiled softly, looking at the agent beside him who looked aggrieved, tall and thin, looking like a stinging pole, said: "Do you grab that little girl and give him a hard lesson, or grab the PD who gave you a look before and punched him twice?"

"They are so bullying! What did you look like when you were invited to the show? Now you even have to cut off your part of the music show? How can we promote this album if this continues? Will this album be sold?" The young agent has been following K. The experiences over the years have made him more mature than his peers, but when things come to an end, his youthful spirit is still hard to suppress.

"Anyway, the one who sells it is the same way..." K seemed not angry, but just gently stroked the ring on his index finger. This was a large ring made of platinum, with a large note pattern on it, and there was a line of clearly visible small words under the note, "Please protect the faith of music for life, Captain K, the son of Music."

"Then let it go?" The agent sat on the sofa opposite K and said dissatisfiedly: "Why do you say that you have to cut the show after a long time? Why do you cut ours? Isn't it just to see if we can bully it? If this was the year..."

"What could you do back then?" K asked back with a smile, "If this were the past, just like you did just now, don't say that you were explaining to you, even if someone apologized, he would never give up with you. Don't think about going on this show again! You have to thank yourself for having a good time..."

"Yes! Thank you! I thank you! I thank you for meeting a good company that can shout when you are wronged, and encounter a good company that doesn't care about us and lets others bully you, and it's just a fun thing! Brother, I really can't stand it all day..."

K stopped talking, but just stood up gently, walked slowly to his agent, patted the other person's shoulder hard, and said softly: "Let's bear it... let's patiently endure it together! What's the point of not letting me choose a song by myself? What's the point of not giving me resources to promote it? I kept putting it so tepid there. They wanted to force me to give up myself, but I just wanted to go on and show it to them. Kwang Soo, we have been holding on to the eight-year contract for 2,900 days... There are 20 days left, and we only need to endure it for another 20 days..."

Kwang Soo slowly raised her head, looking at K's eyes full of vicissitudes, but her heart was full of bitterness. In order to protect her beliefs, he just watched his idol from a dazzling top star slowly become a "unlucky star" that everyone feared. The company was transferred twice, but no buyer would become interested in K. They just regarded him as a burden and put it there to fend for him. There was no support or plan, and the company only symbolically produced an album for K every year according to the contract. The contract stated that all production matters were decided by the company, so they ignored K's own opinions without hesitation.

Save money as much as possible to collect some cheap works by unfamous songwriters, and make them casually. As for making money? The rumors of that year are well known in the small circle of the Korean music industry. Who dares to make money on this "Captain All-National"... "Are you worried?" K seemed to see the other party's thoughts and said with a smile: "Don't worry, when I was a teenager, I could come to Korea alone to make a living now. Now it's nothing scary for me. I have never relaxed my exercise in the past few years... Let's go! The show is about to begin, and I don't want to wait for the TV station to rush us to leave..."
Chapter completed!