In fact, there is no so-called rest time from the moment you enter a Korean brokerage company and become a trainee. If you want to debut earlier than others, you can only practice over and over again. One day's practice time may be as long as 8- 10 hours. Dancing and singing is the so-called basic kung fu. Students must record their dancing clips with iPad, and then check their movements after dancing, or their expressions can be better and repeated day after day.
In addition to 8- 10 hours of internship time every day, some brokerage companies will confiscate interns' mobile phones and prohibit their interns from using SNS or other social software for exposure. If interns (who are still studying) do not live in Seoul, they must go to the company for internship in advance on Saturday and Sunday, and then go back to school.
For full-time students (not going to school), they are basically locked in the practice room for a whole day. In the high-pressure and hard environment, many students leave halfway because they can't adapt.
In addition, there are many students selected by brokerage companies, and the competition is fierce. If you don't want to be brushed off by the company, students will have to pay more practice time and sacrifice sleep time. I may only sleep for 2-3 hours every day, and I will try my best to dance and practice songs the rest of the time.
Han Geng, a former member of Super Junior, stood out in the SM draft with a competition rate of 3000 1. During his internship, he didn't sleep for 20 hours, and he didn't even know that he had broken his bone while practicing dancing.
In these trainee days when there is no "free" rest, every trainee has to be lucky to make a debut besides his own strength, and after making a debut, he has to face another kind of "workplace pressure" because the competitors in the next competition will be stronger than those in the trainee period.
Idol groups must digest more domestic performances, overseas tours, variety shows, fan meetings and brand platforms. And there is almost no so-called rest time.
When he appeared in the program "Omnipotent Intervention Perspective" before the 17th National Congress, he completely revealed the group's very tight schedule for the whole day.
Get up at six o'clock in the morning to run the trip, rehearse the music center at eight o'clock, check all kinds of business at ten o'clock, have a short rest at eleven o'clock, and have lunch at twelve o'clock.
Because of the large number of members, there is more time to put on makeup each time than the ordinary group, and then there is a rehearsal in the music center at three o'clock, a formal video recording of the program at four o'clock, and a fan signing meeting at seven o'clock in the evening, with almost no rest time.
If it happens to coincide with the publicity time of idol groups, members can only sleep for 2-3 hours a day and can only make up for it when they move. The workload is three to four times that of ordinary office workers. Because there are many activities and members, SEVENTEEN's huge business volume often weighs on the members, and the life of idol groups is not as glamorous as the outside world imagined. It often happens that idols faint from overwork.
In order to digest the huge trip, Korean idol groups also have many examples of car accidents.
For example, there was a fatal car accident in the ladies' group code 20 14. At that time, they finished their local performances. In order to reach Seoul for their next trip, their agent drove the vehicle on the expressway at a speed of 130 km/h. As a result, the car skidded and members Eun Bi Ko and Quan Rishi were thrown out of the car, which shocked the entertainment circle.
Without enough rest, even after their debut, they have to work hard for their next album. It is obviously limited for idols to bear the pressure of fame with their own body and mind.
The popular TWICE is facing a health test. Mina, a member, suspended all performance activities because of "stage panic", but as an idol, she contracted "stage panic", which dealt a great blow to the idol. Not only Mina, Soyul, a former member of crayon pop, but also Joy, a member of Red Velvet, suffered from stage phobia.
As can be seen from this year's TWICE World Tour Schedule, since the concert in Seoul on May 25th and 26th, TWICE has held 65,438+00 solo concerts in 9 cities around the world (Seoul, Bangkok, Manila, Singapore, Los Angeles, Mexico, Newark, Chicago and Kuala Lumpur), including 4 cities in North America.
The interval between some concerts and the next concert is only 1-2 days. Regardless of the rest time, the rehearsal of a concert will take a whole day. From the plane to the hotel, after a short rest of 3-5 hours, I got up and went to the concert to practice.
For a large concert, there may be more than 20 songs in the whole concert, and it must also include positioning and choreography. If there are more members, the two rehearsals will take longer.
Nalian mentioned in the program twice before that although she went abroad to perform, she didn't have time to rest, because she had a trip every day, so she didn't have much time to travel.
In the case of soaring popularity, Sana's frequent dozing off on variety shows twice was also recorded by the show.
The reason is that "I have stayed up for three nights in a row" before, and even the director at that time told her to go out for a blow and then come back to continue the video recording. Lack of sleep has become the most basic problem of idol groups, which not only affects physical condition, but also affects psychological level. It is not difficult to understand why Mina, a member, is infected with "stage panic".
Compared with the boys' group, the girls' group is under greater pressure. Because of the need to present the most "perfect posture" in front of the stage, every female idol is quite strict with her body.
For example, Wendy, a member of the red velvet, often causes hot discussion among netizens because of her "too thin" figure. She admits that in team activities, she will deliberately diet and exercise, just to avoid looking "too fat".
Doshun, a former member of SISTAR who has been dissolved, also publicly stated that he has a "one kilogram phobia". As long as he has one kilogram more, he will start to feel anxious, and keeping in shape will become psychological pressure.
Idol groups have too many trips and the working environment is bad. Under various psychological pressures, from time to time, they learn from the news media which idol member has fainted again, or they have to perform on stage even though they have a high fever. The working hours and schedules of idols have gradually become the focus of attention of the Korean public and media, which is an urgent problem to be improved.
Previously, the fans of the women's group MAMAMOO initiated an "open option voting" to decide the idol itinerary, forcing the brokerage company to apologize and modify the itinerary, precisely because MAMAMOO had to digest the itinerary of two returns, seven concerts, Japanese debut, more than 70 local performances in Shang Yan, solo albums, five solo concerts and OST singing in a short time.
The intensive schedule made the fans unable to see the past and protested, asking the brokerage company to give the members enough rest time, otherwise they refused to participate in any MAMAMOO activities.
After listening to the fans' voices, Rainbow Bridge, the brokerage company of MAMAMOO, also attached great importance to the problem of idol overwork and promised to improve MAMAMOO's travel time.
According to the Korean Labor Standards Law, the longest working time in a day is 8 hours, that is, 40 hours at most in a week. However, when the schedules of these idols are spread out, every idol group's activities during the publicity period are beyond these so-called legal time.
As a public figure, the labor rights and interests of idols are often ignored, and there are often cases of "unable to get off work" and "working overtime every day". In order to improve this situation, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of the Republic of Korea has formulated the Consultation Letter on the Standards of teen pop Cultural Artists as an annex to the exclusive contracts of adult artists such as singers and actors, including the right to sleep, the right to personality and the right to free choice.
Of course, except that the establishment of the law can alleviate the problem of "idol overwork", all brokerage companies actually have their own psychologists, who can pay attention to the mental health of idols at any time and relieve their unknown pressure in time. Brokerage companies will also provide one or two days of leisure time to meet family and friends every month to alleviate the work fatigue of idols.
Although making laws can help idols improve the so-called "working environment" and "overwork".
However, for them, time is money. Every minute without activities, they have to bear the impact of declining reputation. In the highly competitive entertainment environment, it is the biggest test and problem for brokerage companies to measure the time and reputation of idols and strike a balance between them.