A Feel-Good Showbiz Story: My Bandmates Slack Off After Debuting, So I Shine

Park Yong-an was discovered by a talent scout after a school performance when she was thirteen. She and several girls her age trained day and night in a practice room. Every trainee gave it their all for a chance to debut. After five years of relentless practice, she finally debuted in a group with four others chosen by the company.

Just when she thought they would finally have a chance to stand before the world, and that they would work wholeheartedly to put on better performances and try even harder to make a place for themselves in this fiercely competitive industry, her teammates started slacking off. They coasted through their work, got caught up in dating scandals, and one controversy after another followed. The company treated them unfairly, and the fans fought among themselves.

She watched her teammates make one baffling move after another while the company kept handing them opportunities. Meanwhile, she did her job conscientiously, yet one collaboration and offer after another was turned down on her behalf. If her teammates wouldn’t work hard and the company wouldn’t do right by her, then just watch her shine onstage and amaze the world. She refused to believe that only those favored by their companies could make it in this industry. As long as she did her job well, her own opportunity would come.