In the fiercely competitive and talented Korean showbiz, it is not an easy task to debut, and success is even more difficult! Therefore, many people have done various kinds of part-time jobs in order to stick to their dreams before becoming famous. Recently, South Korea's "TMI NEWS SHOW" selected the "Top 11 Korean Stars from The Migrant Boy to the President Level", today to unify these lists, let's take a look at what Korean stars are there!
TOP11, Street Women Warriors
Many of the dancers who participated in the women's street dance competition program "Street Warriors" launched in 2021 have done various part-time jobs to support themselves. For example, "Honey J", the captain of the champion dance company "HolyBang", has worked part-time as a "street breaking brick" (mainly responsible for laying bricks), "PROWDMON" captain "MONIKA" has worked as a dance teacher at the dance academy, "HOOK" "Aiki" has worked as a yoga teacher, "LACHICA" has worked in a shop specializing in selling margaritas, and the captain of "WANT" "HYOJIN CHOI" He worked in a shopping mall.
Most of the dancers participating in the show were accompanied by well-known artists or dance academy teachers before the show was broadcast, and their incomes were not very stable. However, after starring in "Street Soldiers" and the program was broadcast, they jumped from the original "monthly income of 500,000 won" to the big stars who received soft advertising, and some people even had a 100 times difference from the original income, which shows that the program effect is quite amazing!
TOP10, Li Canyuan
South Korean Tott singer Lee Can-won became popular and popular after participating in the Tott singer talent show "Mr. Trot" in 2020, and his cute appearance has captured the hearts of many viewers! In the past, he had worked in factories, textile factories, brick factories, fishboard factories and other places where fur was made of fiber, and he worked hard because he was independent at the age of 18 and earned his own living expenses and tuition! After some hard work, he finally saved 6 million won and went to Seoul to participate in the South Korean Trote Talent Show and successfully debuted. After the show was broadcast, Lee Chan Won won the love of many viewers, from a minimum-paid migrant boy to a popular king with a monthly salary of 90 million won!
TOP9、Billlie—TSUKI
TSUKI, a Japanese member who debuted in 2021 with the girl group Billlie and is about to turn 20 this year, came to Korea at the age of 15 in order to pursue his dream of being a singer. When TSUKI was in Japan, she worked at Shake Shack's burger shop, which was converted into the lowest hourly wage in Japan in 2019, which was about 8,600 won per hour and earned about 480,000 won a week.
After TSUKI debuted as "Billlie", due to her flexible and vivid expression on the stage, her stage direct shooting film squeezed into the top 10 single shots of female idols in previous years, instantly becoming popular! Revenue also grew to about 70 million won, almost up 145 times! Billlie has grown steadily since her debut, and Wen Xiuya, a member of the team's Rapper, has also recently participated in the music talent show "The Second World", looking forward to Billie bringing more different faces to the public!
TOP8, South Pillar He
In 2022, actor Nan Zhuhe, who once again reached the peak of his career in the TV series "Twenty-Five, Twenty-One", played Bai Yichen, who fell in the middle of the family road and became a migrant worker, as a newspaper delivery man, rented a bookstore clerk, and even worked in the aquatic market to sell fish, perfectly interpreting various part-time jobs and showing excellent acting skills!
In real life, Nam Joo Hyuk actually worked a lot in the early days of the model's debut, because he did not have much income. Once dreaming of becoming a basketball player, he gave up basketball due to injury, but he used his advantages to become a basketball coach, and he also worked part-time as a cart manager in a hypermarket, a parking lot guide, and even a part-time job at a gas station. Nam Joo-hyuk's income rose sharply after he became popular through drama, earning about 2.44 million won a month before his debut, and now he is paid about 50 million won for one episode of the TV series, a 21-fold increase!
TOP7、Jessi
Jessi, a well-known Rapper in South Korea, was runner-up in the first season of "Unpretty Rapstar" in 2015, and the powerful Rap impressed people and was loved by the public. After that, he participated in the rap part of JYP's single "Who Is Mommy", and the song reached the top of the chart as soon as it was released, and also starred in major popular variety shows.
Before Jessi became popular, she had run for her livelihood, gave up her favorite music many times, and worked as a math teacher in two well-known cram schools in South Korea to earn living expenses, earning about 1.9 million won a month. After starring in the show "Unpretty Rapstar", she not only successfully realized her musical dream, but also increased her income, which is now about 840.5 million won in terms of "ZOOM" MV, which has risen by about 441 times in less than 8 years!
TOP6, Jin Yubin
TOP6 is the actor Kim Woo-bin who suspended his acting activities in 2017 due to nasopharyngeal cancer and officially returned to the screen in 2022 with a new work! Jin Yubin returned to the small screen with the TV series "Our Blues Time" for 6 years, followed by the movie "Alien + Man 1" and Netflix", "Doomsday Rider" to meet the audience, still showing excellent acting skills and handsome appearance. In addition, in the variety show "Accidentally Becoming president 2", Jin Yubin showed an all-round side, thanks to his past work experience in Western restaurants, izakayas, and gym counters.
In fact, Jin Yubin did not go quite smoothly in the early days of the model's debut, and even did unpaid work! At that time, his part-time monthly income was about 1,169,280 won, but he did not give up his dream, but through continuous efforts, he had achieved good results now! Based on his salary in 2015, when each episode was 50 million won, now he is paid about 100 million won per episode, with a monthly salary of about 800 million won, and his income has increased by about 695 times compared with the part-time period!
TOP5, Lin Hero
Singer Lin Ying, known as the "BTS of the Trot world", was raised by his mother because of the early death of his father, and in order to supplement the living expenses, he began to work from high school. He used to work in tonkatsu shops, convenience supermarkets, cafes, cosmetics and furniture factories, and now the tonkatsu shop is plastered with pictures of him, and even a tourist spot for fans! At that time, the monthly salary was about 1,874,880 won.
In 2020, Lin Yingxiong participated in the Trote singer talent show "Tomorrow is Mr. Trot", because of his gentle voice and special singing voice, he was loved by many viewers and fans, and won the first place with more than one million votes! In 2021, he will be featured in MBC's Show! Music Center" won one, which is the second time in 14 years that a Trote singer has won one! Now he has gained a lot of popularity, and as soon as the new song was released, he reached the top of the music charts, and inferred from the two-day concert income, his income rose to about 2.7 billion won, an increase of 1440 times! If you add the future national tour and advertising fees, I believe it is definitely more impressive!
TOP4、THE BOYZ—NEW
The BOYZ, a Korean boy band that has just finished a world tour in the United States, Europe, Jakarta, Bangkok and South Korea's Encore Field, has soared in popularity after winning the first and second places in "Road to Kingdom" and "Kingdom" respectively, and has gained a lot of popularity! Among them, the lead singer member NEW is known as the "King of Part-time Workers" in the team, because he has worked part-time before his debut, such as Western restaurants, barbecue shops, hot pot restaurants, sashimi shops, fried chicken shops, etc., and has a wealth of part-time work experience! Based on the hourly wage at that time, it could earn about 48,240 won a day.
Today, THE BOYZ has become a popular idol all over the world, taking the June tour to the United States as a benchmark, AND's revenue has also increased by 2010 times, with a daily income of 96.98 million won! THE BOYZ is also about to hold a concert in Japan in October, and I hope that their acting path will get better and better!
TOP3, Li Xianbin
On the TOP3 is Li Xianbin, an actor who is quite popular with "Drunkard City Women", who perfectly digested the role of variety show screenwriter in the play, in fact, she was also a migrant worker, who began to work part-time from middle school, and even worked hard during the trainee period! For example, such as leaflets, barbecue shops, duck meat shops, shopping models, 31 ice cream, etc., she herself has joked that "there are almost no part-time jobs that I have not done." Based on the minimum salary in 2015, Li Xianbin's daily salary at that time was 44640 won, and now the income is at least 100 million won per episode based on her recent variety show appearance fees, an increase of about 2240 times! The smooth career, coupled with the love with the artist Lee Kwang-so in the stable long-distance run, is completely a life victory group!
TOP2, MONSTA X — Kiken
MONSTA X, which recently finished its US tour, also announced on August 8 that SHOWNU, Wei He, Ki Hsien, Heng Yuan, and Zhou Xian had completed their contracts, and although im would not renew their contracts, they would continue to participate in group activities, bringing quite happy news to fans. The members of MONSTA X, who have gradually ascended to their current positions, have worked various part-time jobs in the past, SHOWNU was Li Xiaoli's accompaniment dancer, Zhou Xian worked in a hamburger shop, and IM worked in a tender tofu shop. Among them, member Ji Xian has the most part-time work experience, and has made filters and calculated the grams of activated carbon in the factory of air purifier filters, and the monthly salary at that time was about 875,280 won.
MONSTA X, which is now a world-renowned group, has a five-day ticket price of 14.1 billion won based on its U.S. tour in May and June 2022, and each member receives about 2.828 million won, which is about 3,200 times higher than when he was working in the United States!
TOP1, Bulletproof Youth League - SUGA
Breaking a number of world records and leading K-POP to another peak in the world, the world's bullet "Bulletproof Youth League", although they are now mainly based on individual activities, but the high popularity of the Bulletproof Youth League, still let their upcoming free concert in Busan has been highly discussed! Based on their one-year contract, the advertising endorsement fee is as high as 5 billion won, and it is speculated that their advertising revenue alone has 62 billion won a year, but it is quite impressive! Coupled with album sales revenue, the income of each member is as high as more than 500 billion won. As well as the concert held in South Korea in March 2022, a total of 1.02 million fans were mobilized online and offline, and the income of each member in the three-day concert was about 15.2 billion won!
However, the Bulletproof Youth League has not been so smooth from the beginning, and they have also had a period of no name and no favor. Among them, the member SUGA was a trainee 10 years ago, because he was facing the dissolution of the group, in order to stick to his dream, he used to work as a delivery man and a convenience store clerk. At that time, the part-time worker suffered a car accident and suffered a shoulder injury, and he did not go to surgery until 2021. Based on the three days of the concert, the income is about 210,000 won, and the difference between the income of the present and the past has increased by more than 70,000 times, and the staggering number has successfully made him the top 1 role.
The above are the 11 Han stars who have jumped from working boys to president-level income, are you also very touched by the editor? Once an unknown migrant worker, he worked hard for his dreams and moved forward step by step. Through hard work, the value has now increased several times, and it has become a president-level income. In addition, I would like to share with you that Jessi has encouraged all people with dreams to say, "The dreams will come to you, but you must work hard."