Former Girl Group Member Admits To Earning No Income As An Idol — Worked Part-Time Jobs When Promoting
A former girl group member appeared on a survival show, revealing she had earned no income after debuting twice and was working part-time jobs.
The life of a K-Pop idol isn’t easy and it has been shared by former stars that unless you hit big, it’s almost impossible to make a living in the industry, counting debts from training and costs of promoting.
There is a new music survival show called Undercover airing on ENA, and a familiar name shared the hardships after joining as a contestant.
The judges of ENA’s “Undercover”On the latest episode, the teaser for one of the contestants showed a photo of two groups, one being the fourth-generation group Pink Fantasy. The caption read, “Two girl group debuts, ₩0 KRW in profit.” The contestants seemed intrigued by who it could be.
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It was revealed to be Kim Yechan, who was a member of the acapella group Awe5omeBaby but more known for being the main vocalist in the K-Pop group PinkFantasy.
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Considering the caption, one of the judges, soloist Eunbi, asked if it was difficult to live without income.
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After admitting she had earned no money from her active days, Yechan revealed that she was on the older side of debuting but that it was hard to make money as an idol.
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Yechan explained that she worked at a BBQ restaurant to help earn and that she had been doing part-time jobs, even when she was promoting as an idol. Yechan added that she continues to do the same to earn money.
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You can watch the full video below.
Source: ENA
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Long a trendsetter in action sports, the X Games and its new CEO, freestyle skiing great Jeremy Bloom, teamed with Google founder Sergey Brin to build the technology.
Using Google Cloud tools including Vertex AI, Bloom thinks this experiment has potential to change the game on halfpipes, then maybe on slopestyle courses, skating rinks and anywhere a judge is used to score a contest.
“Part of subjective sports, we see it all over the place, is that even at their best, humans can get it wrong,” said Bloom, who was a freestyle skier at two Olympics while also playing college football at Colorado. “Sometimes getting it wrong has huge implications. What if we could give judges superpowers and they could see things they couldn't see with the human eye, and this technology could help inform them?”
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At the last Winter Games in Beijing, the sport narrowly avoided a potential scandal in the men's halfpipe final. Japan's Ayumu Hirano landed the most difficult trick in the sport — a triple cork — as part of a strong, top-to-bottom run, but was ranked behind another rider who didn't do the trick after two rounds.
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In another episode, Canadian slopestyler Max Parrot acknowledged not grabbing his board on a run that earned him a gold medal, a key element that judges missed but that could be picked up on close review of the video.
The AI at the X Games this week won't have any impact on the official scoring, but will be a gauge of what's possible in the future. Bloom said thousands of hours of halfpipe footage, along with the judging criteria, have been loaded into a system that will be shown on the TV telecast and be made available to the live judges.
The AI will be programmed to watch haflpipe practice and predict the top three finishers. Then its powers will be used to judge and commentate on three different riders as they go down the halfpipe.
“It's early days, but the technology sort of blows your mind,” Bloom said. “It's the power of what it can do when you give it clear direction. It's pretty amazing what this thing can do.”
In snowboarding, judges look at elements like the height of the jumps, the difficulty of the tricks and how well they're executed. They ultimately deliver scores on a 100-point scale based on how runs stack up against each other.
It's a nuance unlike figure skating or gymnastics, where individual tricks have specific point values. Bloom says all that is being taken into account as they work through the experiment.
He does not envision a future with no human judges.
“I don't think this replaces the judges, Bloom said, but I think it gives them power to ensure objectivity.”
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