"So no one is optimistic about this work?" Sitting in front of Director Choi of Variety Shows, Jung Hyukjae chuckled while drinking tea.

"You're so embarrassed to laugh?" Choi Ji-hui felt that her head was about to explode. She finally decided to shoot "Reversal Drama". Before the filming started, the director was hospitalized? What's the matter?

Jung Hyukjae leisurely looked at Director Choi beside him and was anxious and angry, without any panic. While watching, he took a few sips from time to time.

"Ah! You don't think about what to do next?!"

"Director Choi, look! Now no one in the TV series production department wants to send it here, but they are all ready to watch our jokes!" Speaking of this, Jung Hyukjae paused, "Director Choi, what do you think of our short drama?"

"Can!"

"What about the predicted ratings?" Jung Hyukjae continued.

"Although it may not be as good as "X-man", because "X-man" was broadcast immediately, the popularity of "X-man" will definitely not be low!" Cui Zhihui thought for a while and nodded.

"Since the script is good and the ratings are not low, why should I give this piece of fat to them?"

‘As long as someone stays in the place, it’s a world of martial arts’, this sentence is nothing wrong. Even for SBS TV stations, which seem to be a piece of iron, there are competition and conflicts of interest between departments.

In fact, since the invention of TV, after a period of long development, the TV station has already developed its own profit model. In addition to some capital inflows such as government funding, viewership has become an important criterion for a variety show and whether the TV series is successful.

High ratings naturally mean that there are many people watching, so the effect of advertisers putting advertisements before and after the broadcast of variety shows is good.

If the ratings are low, then the effect of advertising will naturally be poor, and the following is the reduction in the cost of advertisers.

Choi Ji-hui naturally has this idea, but after all, the variety show section is a world of difference from TV series. It is already a dangerous move to let Jung Hyukjae be the screenwriter and the deputy director. Then he pushed this young man in his early twenties to the position of director?

Just thinking about it in my heart, Cui Zhihui felt very uneasy!

"No, no!" Before Jung Hyukjae could reveal his inner thoughts, Choi Ji-hui shook her head and said, "This... there is no precedent for TV stations until now, no!"

Jung Hyukjae smiled. Isn’t there any precedent before, as the deputy director? He refilled his teacup with water. He stared at Choi Ji-hui with a smile on his face, and he didn’t intend to speak.

After lowering his head and thinking for a long time, Choi Ji-hui then looked up and stared at Jung Hyuk with a solemn look, "Can you guarantee it?"

"dare!"

"What guarantee?"

"If the ratings do not reach one-third of "X-man", I voluntarily return the script fee!" Jung Hyukjae replied affirmatively.

"It's not enough!" Cui Zhihui shook her head and did not agree to his condition.

"What do you want?"

"For free planning for the Variety Show Bureau, the ratings must not be lower than one-half of the current average ratings of "X-man"!"

"I agreed!" This time, Jung Hyukzai responded readily.

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The man in his forties looked at the magnificent waves outside the window. Hearing the knocks from outside the door, he came to his senses and slowly sat down to his seat.

"Come in!"

When he pushed the door, he walked in with a young man in glasses. He looked down at his boss and then stood quietly aside, waiting for the boss to speak.

"Minister Kim, I heard you are looking for me?"

Jin Youzhi put down the little jade artifact he was playing with, raised his eyebrows and glanced at the young man who was trembling, "How is the screenwriter's contact? Are there any good scripts recently?"

The young man in glasses heard Boss' question and had a cardiac arrest for a moment. Then he hurriedly took out the notes and repeated them word by word. Obviously, he did not see his minister's face gradually getting cold.

"That is to say that the screenwriter said there was nothing? Or we don't like it?" Jin Youzhi groaned. Although he was anxious, he did not show it on his face because his subordinates were present.

For a TV series, script is the key. The skeleton of a phenomenal TV series lies in the script, and the director is the one who fills the flesh and blood of this skeleton.

The three major Korean TV stations have trained many screenwriters. Because they pay for expensive training costs, the TV station only pays enough living expenses every month for these intern screenwriters (or intern screenwriters, assistant screenwriters, etc.). If a script is adopted, it will only subsidize some living expenses.

If you want more, I'm sorry, please exchange the training costs first! Moreover, for these screenwriters, each TV station also uses the form of signing a long contract to control them to prevent job change.

When they have the ability or can get out of the army, they generally don’t choose to stay because the salary that the TV station can give is too low, and the scripts that are independent of the screenwriters usually have more than 5 million per episode.

The price of 2 million per episode given by Choi Ji-hye to Jung Hyuk is actually for screenwriters who have just entered the industry. For some well-known old screenwriters in the screenwriter industry, the cost of one episode can reach 20 million won, and the annual income is as high as an astonishing 3.3 billion yuan.

Therefore, not only SBS TV stations, but the other two TV stations are also facing the trouble of shortage of good scripts and scarce screenwriters.

Whenever I get news that any well-known screenwriter has finished writing a script, it will inevitably attract the competition from the three major TV stations.

Putting this trouble aside for the time being, Kim Woo-ji continued to ask, "Is there any movement in the Variety Show?"

"I made a phone call in the morning, but no one has come here yet!" The young man with eyes glanced at the notes and continued.

After hearing what his subordinates said, Kim Woo-ji couldn't help but sneer in his heart, "I've been here for now and I'm still trying to save face and suffer!"

He also heard about the news that the Variety Show was about to shoot a short drama. He sent a previous MV director of the TV station, which should be enough.

Who knew that something like this happened as filming began?

Originally, Kim Woo-ji didn't take this matter to heart, and he only heard it when he was listening to his subordinates discussing gossip. It turned out that Choi Ji-hui was about to do it by herself.

‘What kind of climate can a straw troupe become?’ Thinking of this, Kim Woo-chi showed a hint of sneer on the corner of his mouth. I heard that the script of that short drama was written by a young man who had just left school?

Even the young man was covered with the title of "screenwriter, deputy director", which sounded like a "pretending to be an adult".

Seeing that his subordinates were hesitating and unable to speak, Kim Woo-ji couldn't help but feel angry, "If you have something to say, what big girl are you pretending to be there?"

Hearing Boss say this, the young man with glasses then talked about a gossip he had just heard, "I heard that Director Cui has appointed the screenwriter in their crew as the director this time!"

"What? Are you talking about that young man in his early twenties?" Kim Woo-ji looked incredible. He never expected that Choi Ji-hui would bet on a young man.

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After work, Yoo Jae-suk insisted on pulling Jung Hyukjae out for a drink and came to the ‘Jang Ho-dong 678’ barbecue restaurant opened by Kang Ho-dong himself. The two of them were ready to have a good meal.

Coincidentally, as the owner of this store, Jiang Hudong came here after the notice and prepared to inspect it and solve it. The three of them got together like this.

While waiting for the meat, the three of them chatted in a word.

"I heard you are going to quit "X-man"?" Yoo Jae-suk sighed before confirming to him.

Jung Hyukjae didn't speak, but hesitated for a while before nodding.

"Ho Jae, what exactly is it that you want to quit from "X-man"?" Kang Ho-dong was also surprised after hearing Yoo Jae-suk's words.

Although he had not been in contact with Jung Hyukjae for a long time, the young man left a very good impression. Many old seniors in the column also admired this talented but not proud at all.

The news about Jung Hyukjae Gaosheng did not spread as quickly, and under his conscious low-key, almost no one around him knew that he had become the director of "Reversal Drama".

Yoo Jae-suk glanced at Jung Hyuk-jae, who was pretending to be unfathomable. Combined with some rumors he had heard, he stared at the young man sitting in front of him in a daze, his face full of disbelief.

"You're not going to be a director in "Reversal Drama"?"

Oh my God, the director in his twenties? This has never been on SBS, or the entire three major TV stations, right?

Whether it is variety shows, TV series, or movies, which director is still thirty years old?

Jiang Hudong didn't even bother chewing the barbecue that Jiang Hudong stuffed into his mouth, and swallowed it whole, "What Zai Shi said is true?"

"Yes!" Jung Hyukjae didn't show off this time and nodded with certainty. After all, almost all TV stations will know about tomorrow, and they can't hide it.

Yoo Jae-suk glanced at Jung Hyukjae and said, "Hyukjae, how many years have you been?"

"What's wrong in 80 years?"

"Are you twenty-four years old in 80 years? I have a relative's sister who is about the same age as you..." Liu Zaishi instantly turned into a matchmaker and introduced his relative's sister.

After a few words of emotion, Yoo Jae-suk and others continued to drink, and the meal was treated as Jung Hyuk-jae's high-salt banquet.

The TV network is not big or small. Before the early morning, almost everyone knew that a young man in his twenties actually became the director of a short drama.

Questioning, disdain, worrying, watching the show...

Everyone's reaction was different, and without exception, almost everyone expressed concern about the action made by SBS TV.

In his twenties? What can he do?

(PS: There is only one chapter today, and it seems that the collection needs to be updated? Well, wait tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.

After writing this chapter, there is something to deal with.
Chapter completed!