Yes, it was ideal for the entertainment industry. It would be a very important attribute because it is preferable to attract attention, since there will be times when you have to change occupations on stage.

However, due to the name and explanation of the attribute, it was impossible to shake the impression that this new skill was just to seek attention.

It didn't have an exact percentage of effectiveness of using the attribute.

Why is the information for this attribute so imprecise?

Is it because it's class D?

But miraculously, the status window didn't answer my questions. I finally accepted reality. Yes, a special attribute... Well, I hope it will help me debut.

Tururun!

As soon as the status window disappeared, my phone vibrated. I checked it right away, in case it was a call from the production team, but it wasn't.

What does it say?

I had received some messages.

-...

I should have muted his personal chat as well, but I hadn't thought of that before. It would be troublesome if I ignored his messages even though I had already read them, so I had no choice but to reply to him.

Will there be any special news? I opened the group chat with the guys on my team from the first battle and it showed over 500 new messages. Of course I wasn't going to check all of them, I just went down the messages to read the last conversation.

The boys were talking about the team battle.

There was someone who said "everyone in this team is beautiful~". It seemed that his social life was based on admiring the beauty in women and men.

Shut your fucking mouth, bastard...

Of course I couldn't tell him that in front of everyone, so I just told him I wouldn't.

This guy sent me personal messages asking me to check out the group chat and recommend a dermatologist... he must really want to tease me.

I felt exhausted, but at that moment, my phone vibrated again.

A long message appeared in the group chat. It was strange because no one else sent messages, everyone was silent.

-...

After giving him a brief reply, I turned off my phone's data usage. Next time we meet... I'll have to tell them that I couldn't read any more messages because I didn't have WiFi at home.

There were only five days left for the next shooting of the program.

* * *

The days passed and we went to the shooting for an event in which the participants of the program would be presented, which would take place before the first broadcast.

The 77 contestants didn't have much work to do, they just had to sing "Shining Star" and take some photos.

The fact that the same contestants took photos was very important. This is because it has already been shown that photos taken at that time can play an important role in getting ahead of voting and qualifying periods.

"Thanks to that event, I got paid to take some photos."

The contestants did not take photos to sell them themselves, but there were other people who chose a participant according to their tastes and took photos of them and then sold them, the pay they received was quite good.

Anyway, if I had to express how I feel about the existence of such an event... Yes, I support it.

"Because I will see many people that I have already seen before."

I was familiar with the faces of the people holding their professional cameras. It seems that most of them were by my side for at least one or two events.

Analyzing my memories well, there were some like me, who only took photos to sell and get money. But there were also fansite masters of other idols, I'm sure half of them came to the event for fun and the rest was for the purpose of finding a new potential idol. Perhaps for this reason, the latter kept their cameras focused on a single participant.

For now, as the event had not yet started, there were not many people taking pictures. I've seen some photographers wait for three or four participants to come out for one shot, then crop the photos to look like individual shots.

A lot more people attended than I thought. It seems that the atmosphere is being implicitly created that the show, despite its controversy, will succeed with flying colors.

"Unfortunately, even if I used all my saved points in my window's 'Appearance' option, I wouldn't get past grade B."

Probably, the participants who will benefit the most from this performance event will be everyone who has their appearances grade A- or higher, so I'll have to do my best to perform the song when I go on camera.

"The trend is to have a beautiful face..."

I regretted again not having improved my appearance before the photos.

-We'll start after all the reporters come in!

The staff told us while we were standing on the grass in the same formation with which we rehearsed from the early hours of the morning the day the video for the show's theme song was filmed.

I was doing some warm-up exercises for my legs, when someone suddenly spoke to me.

-I saw your presentation.

-Eh?

It was Cha YooJin, who was at the front of the formation. If I remember correctly, he was first in the rankings this season.

"Why is he talking to me out of the blue?"

Suddenly I remembered. He spoke to me like that that time too.

I think it was during the filming of the performance of the theme song "Shining Star - It's me!". Cha YooJin asked me if I couldn't dance, so I told him to judge my dancing ability after seeing my next stage.

It is possible that he is now continuing that conversation we had.

If we talk about my introduction, it will most likely refer to the one I had in the team battle. If that's the case, I must admit you did a great job of not forgetting it and thinking about it a lot. But still, he surprised me that he spoke to me out of the blue.

I know this isn't, but if it was a manhwa/comic for young boys... it would be like when you meet your rival.

And unexpectedly, YooJin gave me a thumbs up.

-You did a great job!

-Oh, thanks.

-Let's team up next time.

-If it's possible, it would be great.

I don't care what this guy is thinking of doing, I know it would be great to do it together, so I accepted his proposal without question or discussion. If he were in other circumstances where he hadn't improved my abilities, he wouldn't have had to worry about me.

I finished chatting with Cha YooJin.

-W-Would you like to...?

-Ah, thanks.

-Oh! AhHyun-nim, do you have any for me?

-Wow, it seems like yesterday that Keun SeJin stepped down as our team leader.

-He-here you have.

I ate the gummy that AhHyun had offered me and finished warming up my legs. Then, the staff gave us a warning again while the Gold grade guys on my team distributed the other gummies.

-Get ready~

Suddenly the main theme that I learned in the first week of filming began to play, a song that bored me a week after having heard it too much.

Since this presentation will be uploaded to WeTube, I'd better not make any mistakes.

* * *

When I perfectly finished my Shining Star performance, I heard someone scream.

-MoonDae!

Did they just call me? To Park MoonDae? I turned to check and saw that it was a woman holding her camera. She was wearing a hoodie and seemed to be constantly pressing the shutter on her camera as soon as I turned around.

...Was it me the one she called? When I reflexively brought my index finger up to point at my face to point at myself, the woman screamed again.

-MoonDae! Give me a heart!

-...

I didn't know the day would come when I would hear that. But I had to take advantage of this opportunity, so I put my fingers together, made a heart and held it up to show it.

It was a bit... embarrassing.

-Now your cheeks! Touch your cheeks!

Seon AhHyun is trying to sneak aside. It seems that he also suffered from the calls of a photographer.

I blinked in surprise.

"You feel that way too."

I would feel less embarrassed if there was someone to accompany me.

As if he got my signal, Seon AhHyun ran up to me, but Keun SeJin stepped between us.

-What are you doing? Oh, the photos~

He is very good at taking advantage of situations.

I didn't want to hug other people's shoulders, but I had to put up with it because there were cameras. The three of us hugged to take a picture.

"Because of this, now the three of us will have a photo together before the first episode."

Well, it didn't cost anything to happen, since we already had a group chat.

It was a little awkward, but they were already supportive of us since the presentation we had as a team, so I decided not to turn down the opportunity to take a photo.

When the woman looked away from her camera to check if she got a good angle, I looked at her face.

-Oh...

She bought videos from me in the past.

There were several fans who, if at any time it was difficult for them to attend an event and they could not film or take pictures, they could buy the material from other people and upload it to the networks as if they had really filmed or taken it. Of course they did it after editing it.

Well, the price of the material to be sold depended on the demand it had.

Let's see, according to what I remember, I sold my material without being aware of the price. That brought back bad memories.

"...But I didn't film any idols' personal lives, even when they arrived or returned from their flights at the airport."

If I didn't sell my material, I would upload it for free to fan communities or WeTube.

"Well... I don't have much to say. Maybe because I was that kind of photographer, now I'm cursed."

The production and organization team of this event is allowing photos to be taken for free publicity reasons for the program, but it is also allowing the rights to take photographs of other people and profit from them to be ignored.

Perhaps for having committed that crime, if I don't debut, I will die immediately.

Now I can feel the emotions of an idol when he is photographed.

-Park MoonDae is so cute!!

-...

No... I really can't get used to this.

Come to think of it, this trainee they're photographing is actually an older man who lost his body when he got drunk on one of the last days of the year.

"This man was the main vocalist of his team..."

Maybe... I want to keep Park MoonDae's body.

I waved my hand to ward off the weird feeling I got from thinking that.

Anyway, the presentation photos are valuable, so I hope they have taken many photos of me.

"It would be better if they could upload the photos before Friday."

This Friday, "Idol Corporation, Reincorporated!" will air its first episode.

* * *

The editing room, located in a corner of the ninth floor of the building of the television company called Tnet, was packed with workers all night.

Ryu SeoRin, who chose Park MoonDae to join the show, was one of them.

-SeoRin, your eyes are going to drop from looking at the screen so much. Get some rest, have a coffee and then continue.

-I have no time. Bring me another coffee, please.

It would be the seventh coffee she drank all day.

After hours of continuous review of various edited videos, her face looked very pale. After drinking his coffee, she sighed exhausted.

-The editing of the first episode is important.

-...Yes, you have to direct the direction of the program well.

She had to decide what content to show and when to cut.

-Yeah, it's fun to have a story to tell.

-It's funny when people dive into the story of the episode without thinking.

Survival shows also had to tell stories, which had to be easy to understand and moving so that viewers would become fans of the show.

-Right. That's why... I was trying to join parts of the 4th episode with some cuts from the 1st...

-Very well, it would also be perfect to show the best team that won the battle at the end of the episode... We must smoothly narrate the story of the team and each of its members.

Neither SeoRin nor her companions had enough authority to determine the flow of the story.

"After all, the PD-nim's opinion is more important."

So she stopped the video for a moment.

-Are you going to rest?

-...I would like you to give me some suggestions.

-Oh, for editing?

-Yes.

-Hmm~ It's alright. In the 1st season... Was it Lee GoYoon? PD Jung accepted the suggestion that we narrate her story because she was a girl they found in the general public.

Should I do it again? Ryu SeoRin snorted at his partner's words.

"I was trying to find the right time."

And this was just the time.

People who were seriously burned out sometimes forgot their sense of authority thanks to the friendship and companionship of their workers.

-Right now, we don't have anyone else to give us ideas, so that suggestion is perfect.

-Yes, you just have to focus more on the rating of the program.

As the previous season ended prematurely due to controversy, there were hardly any requests from powerful agencies to send their trainees to compete.

If so, how should they show the contestants so that viewers feel cathartic when the team battle is broadcast?

-It is important to have a boy that the public likes, but we also need another boy that they do not like. How about we narrate that? It would be great.

Her fellow editor responded to her mean comment with a pout. Ryu SeoRin shrugged.

-Oh come on, did you think the editing team made that up? The public is like that, they will love the boys they like and hate the ones they don't like.

-Hmm.

It was very likely that when they talked to the PD, that editor would keep quiet and not support his idea.

-We will simply be making it easier for viewers to immerse themselves further into the story.

-That's true.

The editor gave up because Ryu SeoRin's argument made sense, so he preferred to change the topic a bit.

-Have you already chosen the "underdog" for this occasion? There are many candidates to choose from.

-...

The underdog effect.

Just as David defeated Goliath, the underdog effect arose when the weak got excited by the hope that they could beat the strong.

And of course, it was one of the most interesting narratives a survival show could show. Although for that, it was necessary to choose the right participant well to be able to cause that effect.

-Have you already chosen someone? I'm still searching.

-Uh... I'll look.

Ryu SeoRin wanted something popular, but in a positive way.

"No matter how much I think about it... I have to do it."

After remembering all the videos that she had already reviewed, she made a decision.

-Fighting~!

She responded moderately to her partner because she didn't like her idea, but then she went to the producing manager's office.

-Excuse me, PD-nim.

She was almost sure that the PD would think the same as her.

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NT: Sorry, in the first chapters I thought Ryu SeoRin was a writer (and the name of her job was translated like that), but her specific job was a video editor.