Golden Print [EN]: Chapter 77

By the time the work at the site was about 80 percent complete, Woojin had already left.

Originally, he had planned to stay and greet the filming crew, but PD Gong Jinyoung strongly said it wasn’t allowed.

“Woojin, we’ve booked you at the salon. Go there right away!”

“A salon… for me?”

“It’s a shoot today, so you need to get your hair and makeup done. What, do you think you’re a movie star already?”

“N-no, but still…”

“Even famous actors get dolled up on filming days. So, no arguing… Get yourself looking as good as possible. Got it?”

In his entire life of 40 years, he’d never even put on makeup before.

It was natural that Woojin felt awkward getting made up at a salon.

He barely used lotion, let alone makeup, and he had never even used hair wax.

But in this industry, it was right to listen to the experts, so Woojin went to the salon without complaint and obediently received all the treatments.

The salon treatments took over three hours. It felt like a very long time to Woojin.

Already from the car ride back, Woojin wondered if he had made a mistake agreeing to do this show.

Woojin had been actively promoting himself to raise the profile of WJ Studio.

But before the broadcast even started, he was already exhausted.

For Woojin, the three hours of getting his hair and makeup done felt several times more difficult than doing woodworking for the same amount of time.

He needed to get used to this.

He arrived at the filming location, Café Fresco, on time. Then, Woojin realized something. All the tiredness he felt before was nothing compared to what was coming.

“Ah, you’re here, Woojin.”

“PD-nim, you’re already here.”

“Wow, Woojin! You look like a star already with that hair and makeup!” PD Gong Jinyoung said, welcoming him.

Woojin touched his face. “I feel like I don’t even recognize my own face…”

“Oh, you’ll get used to it soon enough.”

“Am I too late?”

PD Gong shook his head. “Your timing is perfect.”

“Huh?”

“See those three people filming over there?”

“Y-yes, I do.”

“Go over there and greet them naturally.”

“Greet them? Just greet them?”

“Yes. So, don’t be nervous, just greet them as you normally would.”

PD Gong only gave Woojin very simple instructions: “Just go greet them.”

Woojin felt unsure, but he walked over to the group anyway.

Lim Suha spotted Woojin first and waved with a delighted expression. “Oh, CEO! Over here!”

As Lim Suha’s voice echoed, the cast members’ gazes immediately turned to Woojin.

“Wow! Unnie! Is this the person who designed my favorite café?”

“What? Since when did this become your favorite café?”

“From the moment I first saw it. So, about fifteen minutes ago?”

Then, Jaeyeop and Ria came towards him, chatting so much that it was hard for Woojin to understand what was happening.

Thanks to them, Woojin felt overwhelmed, but the filming proceeded very smoothly.

Yoon Jaeyeop was a very famous TV host known for being funny and quick-witted.

“We suddenly came to visit, so you must have been a bit taken aback, CEO?”

“Taken aback? Not at all! No need to read the script, Yuria.”

“Ugh, Oppa. What script? You know I can’t memorize scripts?”

“Alright, alright. You must be a little nervous since it’s your first time filming, Woojin?”

“Ah, yes, yes. I was suddenly dragged in front of the camera…”

“Wow, look at these people. They’re just ignoring the script?”

“You were just saying it wasn’t a script until a moment ago.”

“This is bewildering, really. PD-nim. Is this okay? Is this how variety shows are usually filmed?”

Even without Woojin and Lim Suha, who were new to variety shows, Yoon Jaeyeop and Yuria’s conversation alone provided more than enough footage.

“So, Woojin, you’ve heard why we came to find you, right?”

“Yes. Well, I heard it from actress Lim Suha.”

Yuria quickly picked up the thread. “We want to beat Dooyoung Oppa’s team, CEO.”

“Hey, Ria. Aren’t you coming on a bit strong?”

“Oppa, just stay still for a bit. I’m totally hooked on this café right now. We absolutely have to bring CEO Seo on board.”

“Hey, even if you’ve heard about the program from Suha, we should at least introduce ourselves before we start.”

As Yoon Jaeyeop and Yuria naturally spoke to Woojin and led the conversation, Woojin was soon able to relax his stiff expression and join in.

It was true that he was nervous because it was his first time filming, but that nervousness was nothing compared to the SPDC final presentation.

Woojin smiled naturally and spoke to Jaeyeop and Ria first. “Haha, there’s no need for that. I know both of you very well.”

“Oh…! Really?”

“Isn’t it strange if someone doesn’t know you two these days?”

Woojin then finished a brief self-introduction following Jaeyeop’s lead, and with that, the initial filming came to a close.

Now that the opening scene had been roughly filmed, it was time to prepare for the main filming.

Fortunately, Woojin was given some time to catch his breath before getting into the main content.

“Woojin, you’re doing great right now, so there’s no need to feel too pressured.”

“Thank you. Well, Jaeyeop and Ria are doing such a good job of talking…”

“No, Woojin, at this rate, you seem to be a natural for broadcasting? It’s rare to see someone who isn’t this nervous on their first shoot.”

Following Jaeyeop and Ria’s compliments, PD Gong, who was standing behind the camera, also came over to Woojin and patted him on the shoulder.

“Ria is right. Woojin, you’re doing really well… Please do even better in the future. Got it?”

Seeing PD Gong Jinyoung winking as he spoke, Yoon Jaeyeop retorted in disbelief. “Hey, PD-nim. Why are you putting pressure on a friend who’s doing well?”

“I think he’ll do even better if I put pressure on him.”

About ten minutes passed.

“PD-nim! Setup is complete!”

In a good atmosphere, filming began again.

The start of the main segment focused on Woojin and Suha.

The scene began with them telling the story of how they met.

PD Gong Jinyoung found the story he heard from Suha interesting, so he wanted to include it in the broadcast.

Since the story wasn’t something they needed to hide, the two readily agreed.

“So, Suha Unnie, you met Woojin while going to apply for an apartment subscription?”

“That’s right. You know I can’t stand injustice. I thought he was cutting in line, so I went to stop him.”

“Hmm, was that so? Weren’t you usually good at tolerating that kind of thing?”

“No, I wasn’t!”

Amidst light jokes, the cast members’ conversation continued naturally.

The story of Woojin and Suha’s connection was absurd yet quite intriguing.

“We really met like that, and it turned out she was a fan of mine.”

“Woojin, be honest. You were just pretending to be a fan, right?”

“Haha, no. Why would I pretend to be Suha’s fan?”

“Ria, are you going to keep interrupting?”

“Ah, sorry. Sorry. So, what happened, Unnie?”

Now, Suha, who had completely adapted to the atmosphere just like Woojin, shook her head and vividly described the situation at the time.

“I even received investment advice there, you know?”

“Investment advice?”

“I thought I was listening to some real estate investment lecture, seriously.”

That story was quite immersive.

“Wow. Woojin, give me some advice after the show, too. I’m really in a bit of a crisis.”

“Why is this Oppa butting in again?”

“You know, I have a bit of a sad story.”

“That’s why you shouldn’t have bought a house in a very expensive neighborhood he had bought about a year ago…”

Yoon Jaeyeop jumped in with a joke about the price of his house having fallen, also added to the fun of the story.

“Anyway, so Woojin. Got it?”

“…”

“I’m serious. You have to help me!”

The filming atmosphere was consistently warm and friendly.

A naturally interesting dynamic was created without the production team needing to handle anything separately.

After the filming was once again wrapped up like this, the final filming, where Café Fresco would be the main focus, began.

, planned by PD Gong Jinyoung, was not just a variety show that pursued one-dimensional fun.

While taking the small joys that variety shows provide as a base, it also aimed to pursue a higher level of fun that comes from satisfying viewers’ intellectual curiosity with content related to ‘interior design,’ which is close to everyone.

Therefore, explaining ‘Café Fresco,’ the space where this filming was taking place, was an indispensable part, and at the same time, it was also the most worrying part for PD Gong.

If the filming became too boring, focusing too much on professional content, he even thought about editing it out drastically and broadcasting only the minimum amount of content.

But as a result, PD Gong’s worries turned out to be unfounded.

The explanation of the café’s interior design that started from Woojin’s mouth was very interesting even to Gong Jinyoung.

Woojin never brought up boring topics.

“The term we use very commonly, vintage, originally refers to ‘that year’ when grapes were harvested and wine was made.”

“Grapes must contain a certain level of sugar and various nutrients to be made into wine, but the climatic conditions for grape farming, such as sunshine hours and rainfall, are different every year… So, the quality of the wine can be predicted depending on which year’s grapes were the raw material for the wine.”

“So, today’s vintage design means a design that does not lose its value even after a long time. Or a design that exudes beauty due to its long period of aging. So, it means a design that feels new even though it is old.”

“Going a little further, it also means the best design that does not ride the times and trends.”

“So, the value of vintage that I put into this café design is related to that complex beauty.”

“It expresses the sensibility of the old food culture of coffee in a space by incorporating modern and sophisticated refinement into the beauty of the old.”

PD Gong Jinyoung thought that Woojin was a natural orator.

Rather than being an orator in the sense of telling stories very interestingly, he had a knack for conveying certain values or information contained in his head in a way that the listener could listen to with interest.

Of course, since this program is not a documentary, not all the stories that came out of Woojin’s mouth could be captured on screen.

But it was up to him, the PD, to take these good sources and package them in an interesting way.

Besides, there were cast members who were showing enough reaction next to him, so he thought that cooking the content would not be too difficult.

“Good, if we keep going like this in the future…!”

PD Gong Jinyoung, who was watching the filming set from behind the camera, clenched his fist holding the script without realizing it.