The Road To Glory [EN]: Chapter 234

[Extra] 36. The Real and the Fake

[Shin Joo-hyuk: Ah, if I knew it would be like this on a variety show, I would have asked him to come with me.]

Even after ‘Wise Island Life’ aired, Halo’s daily routine didn’t change much.

The members’ faces did pale for a moment when they received the sheet music for Halo’s EP 14 and Nohaeil’s second full album, but this wasn’t the first time this had happened.

The label staff began to help prepare for Halo and Nohaeil’s comeback in earnest.

That’s not to say nothing changed at all.

Due to Halo’s first variety show appearance, offers flooded in again, and there were even more personal contacts. But this was the staff’s responsibility.

They would probably focus on album production for the time being, at least until after the comeback. Unless Halo became interested again.

“A drama? Why are we getting drama offers?”

“There are a lot of similar variety shows coming in.”

“The broadcasting station contacted us to schedule music show dates without knowing when Halo is coming back. Do they know we’re making a comeback?”

While the label staff handled the offers and various administrative tasks, Halo received quite a few calls from acquaintances around the time the teasers were released.

[Haeil is on a variety show! I’ll definitely watch, sis]

[When did you become interested in variety shows?]

[Are you busy these days? Maybe for a moment-.]

[Haeil, don’t forget that I was your first PD [Producer Director]…]

The calls that came in turn, as if by appointment, were mostly similar in content.

[Shin Joo-hyuk: Do you know how many times I’ve been asked to bring Haeil on Running Man?]

[Shin Joo-hyuk: They interrogated me about whether you were stopping him. As if I could stop you.]

[Shin Joo-hyuk: It was edited out on the show, but it was crazy in reality.]

Halo replied that he enjoyed watching the Shin Joo-hyuk bashing clips.

[Shin Joo-hyuk: You think it’s funny?]

[Shin Joo-hyuk: Yeah, it must be funny for you. People need to know this. The scary one isn’t me, it’s you. How kind was I to accept someone who spoke informally to me at our first meeting.]

Halo scoffed.

Kind, my ass.

[Shin Joo-hyuk: So, are you thinking about it?]

Shin Joo-hyuk, who usually didn’t make such recommendations, suggested it.

Halo, who had only watched a few clips, asked.

[Was it fun?]

[Shin Joo-hyuk: Yeah, there are a lot of funny people, so the editing points are a bit brutal.]

[Shin Joo-hyuk: You don’t have to worry.]

[Shin Joo-hyuk: Just come out and do whatever you want.]

Whatever picture the PD drew, Halo would be in it, doing whatever he wanted. Shin Joo-hyuk was convinced after seeing the boy, a variety show novice, hard-carrying on Wise Island Life.

He probably didn’t consider editing points or variety shows like other people, and just did what he wanted. That just happened to be what the public was expecting. Blessed broadcasting talent.

Even if he caused controversy(?), he wouldn’t be called boring.

Thinking that, Shin Joo-hyuk burst out laughing when he saw Halo’s reply.

[I respect the PD’s opinion and cooperate well.]

[Shin Joo-hyuk: ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ]

[Shin Joo-hyuk: You? ㅋㅋㅋㅋ Who told you that?]

[Shin Joo-hyuk: Did PD Na tell you that? ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ]

[Shin Joo-hyuk: ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ]

What a useless guy.

Did this guy have nothing else to do, sending only consonants in a row? [Korean internet slang for laughter.]

[Shin Joo-hyuk: I’m not saying come out now, but around the time you make your comeback? How about it?]

[Not long left.]

[Shin Joo-hyuk: ? 1]

[Shin Joo-hyuk: You’re making a comeback? 1]

[Shin Joo-hyuk: With Halo’s second full album? 1]

[Shin Joo-hyuk: Look at your phone 1]

[Shin Joo-hyuk: Hey hey hey hey 1]

Startled by the bombshell, Shin Joo-hyuk sent whatever he could, but Halo ignored him to focus on work again. After recording, there was a mountain of things to do, such as music videos, stage performances, and album covers.

“Shall we start again?”

“Yes!”

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After the first episode of Wise Island Life – hereinafter, ‘Wise Island’ – aired, behind-the-scenes footage was released on Wellma World Episode 7 that Friday, and the lingering feeling continued into the second episode of ‘Wise Island’ on Sunday.

[I love watching the first episode of Wise Island Life, reviewing the behind-the-scenes on Wellma World that comes out on Friday, and then watching the second episode. It’s a feast of content.]

[Thank you, PD Naㅠㅠㅠ You gathered only people who don’t appear on variety shows. I don’t know where you are, but I’ll bow to you from all directions. Please live a long and prosperous life and make it to season 100.]

[Oh, what’s with the synchronization rate between the characters and the actorsㅋㅋㅋㅋ The casting was crazy.]

[Everyone is the same except for Hee-tae.]

└ Hee-tae grew up and became an adult.

└ I was praying for We Are Season 2, but I’m happy it came true instead.

[What I felt while watching the first episode of Wise Island Life + Wellma World is that we should be grateful that Nohaeil didn’t go to Baekil High School (the ‘O.W’ school) because he was busy with music. If Haeil had gone to Baekil High School, Teacher Kwon and the entire Class 2 of the 3rd grade would have debuted as Nohaeil and the Children.]

└ LOLOLOLOL Nohaeil isn’t even a character in O.W.

└ No, I think he was in it. He’s in my memory!!

└ Actually, Halo was there and in charge of the songs next to them.

[Teacher Kwon and Sora unnie swept away by Taeyang’s My Pace + and Lee Jung-min who gets swept away. jpeg]

Until then, people accepted ‘Wise Island’ as a chaotic rural diary of four top stars.

What made them realize why ‘music’ was in the tag of ‘Wise Island’ was the child they encountered when the cast members were appointed as temporary teachers at the school.

As soon as they arrived at the school, a child with messy hair ran up and clung to Halo.

Whether people were surprised or not, Halo recognized the child.

“Have you been well?”

“Yes!”

The child then looked at the people around and greeted them.

“Hello.”

And the interview was inserted.

The child, who seemed to be new to the camera, looked around and introduced herself.

“Hello, my name is Jin Gyeoul. …I’m ten years old, and my favorite food is… I like everything my mom makes! And I like music too…!”

People who were busy grilling meat screamed at the sight of the child with bright eyes and a pink dress.

Until then, the reason why Gyeoul, who was just cute, received attention was when she conducted Halo’s music class… a class disguised as a scam.

[I didn’t think anything when they said Mozart’s dice game, but they made it themselves??]

[Did you hear Haeil muttering ‘This works’??]

[Do they really compose like that?]

[Oh, I want to do it too]

[Can I see the sketchbook if I go there?]

[LOL This guy doesn’t even pretend to be in a slump anymore.]

At first, Halo played the piano himself, but when he stepped back, Gyeoul took over.

While the page turner was turning the sketchbook to find the measure that matched the number, Gyeoul played it alone.

“Oh?! How did you know?”

“I played it earlier….”

[?]

[It did come out once as number 10 earlier.]

[Wait, she memorized it in that time?]

[Is it rigged?]

[Can’t she just memorize it?]

[I think they played the dice game three times in between, can she memorize it? Isn’t she a prodigy?]

[I see it… the second Halo…]

“Teacher, number 132 is missing.”

“Ah.”

When Halo approached to play number 132, which he hadn’t made, Gyeoul watched intently as Halo played.

I just thought she was a cute kid. I felt something unusual.

PD [Production Director] Kyung started shaking his legs again.

Kim Seon-cheol was adamant that she wasn’t a prodigy, but isn’t that a prodigy?

Halo says.

‘Okay, now you remember?’

The girl replied.

‘Yes!’

Since Wise Island was a story about the cast members adapting, that was all there was to Gyeoul’s story, but as the weeks went by and the number of episodes increased, more and more stories about Gyeoul came out.

And the reason why they directly suspected her of being a prodigy was when Halo admitted it.

While talking with the cast members about how he met Gyeoul, Gyeoul’s sketchbook naturally came up, and Gyeoul excitedly ran to get the sketchbook as if to show it off.

People get to see a picture full of musical notes.

Crazy, what is this? Is she really a prodigy?

At this time, the reactions of the viewers and the cast members were the same.

Moreover, Halo directly interpreted this difficult score.

Just like how a child draws a picture in the center of a sketchbook and the picture gradually spreads out, this score also starts from the center.

And Halo played the guitar.

“Can you look at the next one for me?”

Gyeoul showed the next page with shining eyes.

This time, the staff was properly drawn.

Halo smirked when he glanced at it.

“It’s not bad.”

“Really?”

“Yeah. You worked hard.”

Gyeoul’s face brightened.

‘Damn, how is that not a prodigy.’

PD Kyung, who was watching Wise Island, got up in a fit.

No matter how he looked at it, he could only see her as a prodigy or a genius.

Unlike the mentee of the ‘Me. Mentor’ who was slowly being suspected of not being a prodigy.

PD Kyung bit his nails and hurriedly opened the community.

The viewership ratings were still gradual, but it was okay because it was forming a growth curve, but he didn’t know what would happen next week.

And he finally found it.

The comparison article he had been worried about.

[Who seems more like a genius, Me, Mentor’s Dajeong vs. Wise Island Life’s Gyeoul?]

└ Definitely the latter. The only thing that can beat a ten-year-old’s composition sketchbook is Halo’s practice notes.

└ 222

└ Both are great, but it’s a bit of a comparison since they’re the same age and live in different places.

└ Why are you comparing ten-year-old kids when there’s nothing to compare?

Most of them were criticisms not to compare, but PD Kyung didn’t see them.

[I don’t know much about music, so I don’t know who’s more of a prodigy, but if I could choose one teacher, I’d definitely… wouldn’t I LOL]

└ Ugh

└ What is there above Taeyang

└ I was quietly watching, but you guys are really mean LOL

└ Don’t just post this on Halo’s fan community. They’ll go crazy saying who are you comparing LOL

└ But are Halo fans that scary? I don’t really know

└ (Helicopter cremation. jpeg) [Internet slang for intense backlash.]

└ That side is a religion. Even idol fandoms are backing out

[Dajeong is pitifulㅠ She could have met a better teacherㅠ]

└ The reason why connections are important in society

└ Is Dajeong really pitiful? Even if it’s not Halo, her family is well-off, so she can just take 1-on-1 classes with a university professor, right?

└ University professor vs. Halo ㄱㄱ [Korean abbreviation for “Go go,” meaning a competition.]

PD Kyung’s fingers trembled.

Unable to bear it, he posted a rebuttal.

[Still, wouldn’t it be better to have someone with experience as a current instructor to teach? Just like being good at studying and being good at teaching are different.]

└ Is that Seon-cheol?

└ I’m willing to pay 50,000 won to listen to Kim Seon-cheol’s lecture

I have to break my savings account to listen to Halo’s lecture (but I can’t get in)

└ Even the lecture is ticketed LOLOLOLOL

└ To be honest, if he’s going to give a lecture, he should do it at Olympic Park

“These bastards, really.”

└ That’s because you guys are Halo fans, but I think Kim Seon-cheol is better?

When PD Kyung left a comment, replies poured in. It was as if the coordinates had been 찍힌 [Korean slang for “targeted” or “marked”]. Useless bastards. PD Kyung cursed and started an internet battle.

└ ?

└ No, even if it’s Liv, Kim Seon-cheol is a bit

└ I’m someone who thinks it’s too much to deify Halo, but it’s Halo rather than Kim Seon-cheol

└ Does the Grammy look like a joke to you? Is it possible to release 13 albums a year?

└ No LOL What changes because you received a Grammy? LOL Since when has the Grammy become the standard for dividing the best LOL The Grammy is just one of the awards

└ So has your singer ever received a Grammy? Have you ever been on Billboard?

└ Come back and talk after releasing 13 albums, Seon-cheol

“I can’t communicate.”

PD Kyung pondered and then opened SNS [Social Networking Service].

The ‘Me, Mentor’ page appeared.

He inhaled and exhaled.

Originally, it’s right to discuss with the PR team when posting something, but this is to ask viewers for a personal favor, and I’m going to say good things, so it’ll be okay.

So he left a comment below the promotional post for the next episode of ‘Me, Mentor’.

[Hello, this is Kyung Yun-gi, the director of Me, Mentor. First of all, I would like to sincerely thank all the fans who have shown a lot of interest and support for Me, Mentor.

Recently, there have been increasing cases of comparing the cast members with the cast members of other programs and criticizing their qualifications on/offline and on mobile.

Our cast members have a lot of experience as artists and instructors for many years, and I think they have the qualifications to be mentors more than anyone else.

Also, calling a young cast member the second OOO can be an act of denying his personality.

As such, frequent comparisons and malicious criticisms hurt and offend the cast members.

So I earnestly ask you to please stop.

Thank you always for your interest and love.

Please continue to give us warm encouragement and support]

I wondered if the words were a bit strong, but I was relieved when Kim Seon-cheol immediately ‘liked’ it.

I’m doing well.

PD Kyung turned off SNS. He hadn’t been able to sleep for a while because he was behind on editing, and now he was slowly getting tired.

When I wake up, the community guys will have reflected and deleted the posts on their own.

Without knowing the repercussions his statement would cause, PD Kyung smiled as he fell asleep.