"Sorry, we don't need any new people right now."
"Are you Mr. Im? I'm sorry, but all the spots are already filled."
"With your talent, our small production team really isn't a good fit."
At first, Im Giseok was very confident, but after receiving dozens of rejection letters, he finally realized that the situation was worse than he had thought.
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Not only was Im Giseok, the scapegoat screenwriter, affected, but even the lead actors were embarrassed by it.
When the show first aired, the lead actress and actor were competing for the top billing, but once the ratings came out, they both quietly reduced their promotion activities.
Even when they had to promote the show due to pressure from the K-Drama Network, they both politely put the other's name first in their posts, hoping the other would take the responsibility for the show's poor performance.
Im Giseok's social media was flooded with insults from the lead actors' fans, who even made up a story that he was secretly working for a rival company to sabotage their idols.
Im Giseok: "..."
A few days ago, he carefully studied the show <
The director was experienced, and the screenwriters were not newcomers.
The reason the show flopped so badly could be summed up with: "Everyone wrote their own parts, everyone acted their own way."
K-Drama Network was known for producing idol dramas, but its reputation was not as good as that of its competitor, Epic Drama Network.
Unhappy with this, K-Drama Network decided to create <
But while they wanted to make a serious drama, K-Drama Network didn't want to lose their existing audience, so they hired two popular young stars as the lead actors and actress.
With young actors on board, how could they not add some love and romance?
So, they had to squeeze some romantic scenes into the serious drama.
The two lead actors were from idol dramas and had trouble working well with other actors.
Plus, there were too many screenwriters, and their writing was scattered and disconnected.
This made the whole show messy and out of sync—filming some parts here and others there, with a chaotic pace that turned a good show into something unrecognizable.
From Im Giseok's point of view, Kim Soseong had more responsibility.
As the main screenwriter, Kim Soseong was supposed to be the one who coordinated everything.
He needed to connect what each screenwriter wrote and make sure the show had a consistent style.
However, Kim So-seong had already left the mess of <
The show's failure affected him a bit—he used to be able to get major projects from top TV stations, but recently he could only work on ordinary shows.
However, his current situation had nothing to do with Im Giseok.
They had lost contact a long time ago, and there were plenty of people in the entertainment industry who were less ethical than Kim Soseong.