Korean Entertainment: Perfect Cheating Life

SM's monthly assessment is coming soon, and there are many candidates who continue to work hard before the exam, including Luo Zaimin.

He is now very competitive and wants to do all the projects well.

Luo Zaimin was practicing his song "River Flows in You" in the piano room when the phone on the piano chair rang with a notification sound from the Kakao chat app.

Kakao's bubble is open to all companies and all idol groups have joined.

However, Luo Zaimin currently only subscribes to someone's bubble.

He picked up his phone and clicked to check, and sure enough, it was a message from Kim So Min.

Somin: "Teacher Yu Yongzhen is simply a devil!"

She also included a photo of a piano with notebooks and pens placed on the keys, silently announcing her plight.

The function of the bubble is a little unfriendly: the artist can see many messages from fans, but Luo Zaimin, as a fan, cannot see what other fans say.

He swiped the screen and saw that she had sent several messages in succession.

Somin: "This is the homework assigned by the teacher. It's so difficult."

Somin: “Compared to that, math is a piece of cake.”

Somin: “Mathematics is something you know, and if you don’t know, you don’t know. But music composition is an art that is difficult to express in words.”

Somin: “Anyway, I just can’t compose music.”

Composition… ?

Luo Zaimin remembered.

After successfully holding several autograph sessions, Red Velvet ended its promotion activities.

This month is a short break for them.

But they are an idol group that has just come to the fore after all, and they can't just stay at home even during their break.

Red Beibei occasionally records radio programs together, and the rest of the time they are busy with their own schedules.

Luo Zaimin recalled that the other four sisters had variety show recordings, and Jin Yilin was also assigned to host the company's program.

Movie actors and idols have different audience groups.

Idol fans are more active, need to collect data, have stronger stickiness, and are more loyal.

Fans of movie actors are more Buddhist. They like you because they recognize your acting skills. At most, they will buy a few more movie tickets for the actors and praise their acting skills.

After Kim So Min debuted as an idol, she gained a large number of fans who only followed idols. Since she ended her promotion period, she disappeared. The fans were so angry that they often went to SM’s official account to scold the company for not letting the beautiful sister out for business.

To be honest, SM is unfairly criticized for this.

Kim So Min is the only member of Red Velvet who doesn't need to rely on variety shows to make a name for herself. Because of her status as a "movie queen", she can't take on many small endorsements or go to small variety shows, so she can only stay in the company.

She is not idle in the company either.

The success of any group basically starts with widely sung songs. One of the habits of the people on the peninsula is that they enjoy listening to songs that correspond to specific seasons or time periods.

EXO, the senior group, has a special winter album project, and the song "First Snow" is still on the music charts. Whenever the season of falling snowflakes comes, "First Snow" will quickly climb to the top of the music charts.

Red Velvet's ICE has made a good start, and the company's planning department hopes to take this opportunity to create Red Velvet's own summer trump card.

When chatting not long ago, Kim So-min and Luo Zaimin mentioned that teacher Yu Yongzhen thought she was capable enough to participate in composing lyrics, so she was detained in the recording studio to write new songs.

Writing songs...

This kind of thing is too difficult, and being asked to do this also shows that SM is confident in her abilities.

Luo Zaimin thought that even though he didn't stop trying, the gap between him and her seemed to be getting bigger and bigger.

Kim So-min works much harder than him and has learned more and more skills. It seems that there is nothing in front of her that she cannot master.

Despite his loss, Luo Zaimin is still happy for Jin Zhaomin - it is beautiful enough to see the person he admires always shining, even if he can only watch from afar.

He looked at the photo carefully and recognized Kim So-min's practice room from the familiar piano.

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In order to make its idol groups stand out in the fiercely competitive market, SM will work hard on the songs.

SM's dedicated A&R department will purchase a large number of song demos from all over the world, and the company will invest more than 300 million US dollars in creating a successful idol group.

These funds not only cover the cost of working with world-class music masters, but also cover the selection and production process of the songs.

The demos received are produced through collaboration between the company's internal professional producers and external internationally renowned production teams. Each song is strictly screened and matched to ensure that the song fits the artist's style.

This approach can indeed ensure the quality of the songs, but it also limits the artists' autonomy to a certain extent.

Therefore, a major feature of SM is that the concept and style of each group are often set by the company, and the artists only need to perform according to the route set by the company.

After Kim So-min joined Red Velvet, Yu Young-jin placed high hopes on her and hoped that she could compose songs for his team.

Although she was very happy that her teacher had high hopes for her, writing a song was really difficult...

Kim So-min sat in front of the piano, her mind blank, trying hard to think of ideas for the song.

Teacher Yu Yongzhen assigned her the task of composing a song about summer.

Although Kim So Min had accumulated many scattered demos earlier, there were only a few tracks that could be used in the summer.

She sat back down at the piano stool and struck the keys, trying to play a melody with her scattered inspiration.

The chaotic and discordant notes on her fingertips made her feel even more irritated.

What does summer feel like?

She seemed to remember only summer rains and cool ice cream.

I can’t write about ice cream for the time being… they just finished singing ICE.

There was a light knock on the door, and Luo Zaimin poked his furry head in from outside the door: "What is Nuna playing?"

Luo Zaimin's bright big eyes moved away from the piano and turned to Kim So Min, revealing his signature bright smile.

Kim So-min: "Are you here to see me?"

"Yes."

Seeing that Kim So-min did not directly refuse him from entering the room, Luo Jae-min boldly walked into the practice room.

He already knew how to take advantage of his good looks, and after some training at the company, he has made rapid progress. Now he is even better at using his looks and smile to impress others.

"The company is about to have its monthly assessment. I just saw Nuna here on Bubble, so I want to ask Nuna how to play the piano."

He originally had a cold look on his face, and when he had no expression he had a cold beauty.

But when he smiled, his delicate features, peach-like eyes and cat-like lips immediately melted the coldness. His charm full of youthfulness and sweet smile was irresistible.

Kim So-min's focus was off.

"Is it time for another monthly assessment?..."

The price of getting 40% of the company's stock is that she has to work when she grows up, and she has to confirm the results of every assessment.

Thinking of the workload, Kim So-min wanted to sigh.

She didn't bother to guess why Luo Zaimin subscribed to her bubble, and she never wasted time on such things.

Taking advantage of his coming, Kim So-min also wanted to take a break and relax her brain.

So she asked him what piece he was going to perform: "Which piece are you going to play in the assessment?"

Luo Zaimin was a little embarrassed: "River Flows in You, so far, I have only learned this song."

"Then play it once, and I will listen carefully."

She said this, moving her body to make room for him to sit down.