Top Girl Group Scenario Rewritten with My Own Hands - Chapter 114

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Episode 114
[PD: Which team among the participants of are you most looking forward to?]
[Evergreat Kang Su-ah: Can I be honest?]
[Evergreat Kang Su-ah: I think we’ll do the best.]
[Evergreat Kang Su-ah: Seriously.]
Episode 2 began with Evergreat’s segment like this.
In reality, before the broadcast aired, the teams receiving the most anticipation online for stage quality were three: Evergreat, Daylight, and Rain Kids.
If you asked who was the most skilled, it would be difficult to answer—the rivalry was that close.
The competitive tension between these three teams, known for performing especially well, was exactly at that level.
[Evergreat Hyun Jae-yi: Kang Su-ah said that?]
[Evergreat Hyun Jae-yi: Kang Su-ah is really thorough when it comes to skill.]

[Evergreat Hyun Jae-yi: So if she says that, then that’s the truth.]
[Evergreat Go Hyun-seo: I do wonder if she was being a bit too assertive, though…….]
[Evergreat Go Hyun-seo: But I don’t think it’s wrong.]
[Evergreat Go Hyun-seo: We always have confidence that we’ll do the best.]
The pre-recorded interviews with Evergreat’s members were largely in this vein.
Confidence that said “let’s see about that,” the kind of confidence that made you want to laugh if they stumbled even a little.
The kind of confidence that felt almost arrogant.
This was partly a point that Evergreat was aiming for.
A survival show needs an edge to it. Otherwise, it’s not entertaining.
V-Net’s survival show formula was generally structured this way.
Even if the skill level was high, if there was no point to highlight, it would easily get buried.
More precisely, if there was no narrative point to justify giving airtime, they had an excuse not to give it.
Without going far, Go Hyun-seo, who always heard complaints about lacking non-stage screentime on , was a living witness to V-Net’s airtime games.
Boldly expressing confidence in one’s skills was seasoning that created that “justification for giving airtime.”
Moreover, Evergreat had more than enough grounds to back up that confidence.
[Evergreat Lee Han-byul: I think Evergreat is the team with the highest group understanding among all participants.]
[Evergreat Lee Han-byul: That’s because Seo Ji-on does the producing for us.]
[Evergreat Hyerin: When you listen to what Seo Ji-on says, it pretty much all turns out right.]
[Evergreat Hyerin: I’m working hard right now to be a member who listens well!]
[Evergreat Seo Ji-on: They said that?]
[Evergreat Seo Ji-on: …it’s making my shoulders feel heavy.]
Self-Producing. Singer-Songwriter.
Among the seven participating teams, Evergreat was the only one with a member actively involved in group producing.
[5 Days Before First Shoot]
[Musicprove Headquarters]
[Evergreat Seo Ji-on: Hello, everyone.]
[Evergreat Seo Ji-on: I’m Seo Ji-on from Evergreat.]
[Evergreat Seo Ji-on: What I’m about to show you is…….]
[Evergreat Seo Ji-on: The final completion process of the Arrangement for that we’ll use in our Self-introduction Stage.]
[Evergreat Seo Ji-on: We have to finish the Backing Track harmony recording today.]
[Seo Ji-on’s First Stage Preparation Selfie! (featuring Producer Moment)]
Evergreat didn’t miss the opportunity to emphasize their Self-Producing, and V-Net didn’t miss that point either.
Idols who write their own songs are becoming rarer and rarer for various reasons—difficulty maintaining quality, insufficient member capability, challenging schedule management…….
Recently, it’s become more mainstream for idols to focus on performance rather than composition, making “Singer-Songwriter” idols even harder to find. V-Net wasn’t about to let Evergreat, who fit this description, slip away.
[Evergreat Seo Ji-on: is originally meant to feel free, vivid, and like many different colors bursting out.]
[Evergreat Seo Ji-on: It has vitality and a sparkly, bouncy feel.]
[Evergreat Seo Ji-on: But the arrangement direction I chose this time is more unified, more mysterious and fantastical.]
[Evergreat Seo Ji-on: It’s much more restrained than the original. But at the same time, more grand in feeling…….]
[Evergreat Seo Ji-on: Like this.]
Seo Ji-on’s selfie cam contained quite a lot.
Concept, Arrangement direction, feeling……. Even parts of the nearly finished Arrangement.
The broadcast naturally transitioned from the selfie cam to the Practice Room, and interviews with Go Hyun-seo and Hyun Jae-yi were inserted.
[Evergreat Go Hyun-seo: The choreography needed to feel different from the existing version.]
[Evergreat Go Hyun-seo: So Jae-yi and I created it new.]
[Evergreat Go Hyun-seo: Seo Ji-on is working so hard, so we couldn’t just tag along without contributing.]
[Evergreat Hyun Jae-yi: The moment I heard the Arrangement, I immediately had a clear image: “This feeling!”]
[Evergreat Hyun Jae-yi: When Seo Ji-on paints the picture, our role is to show it properly in choreography.]
[Evergreat Hyun Jae-yi: We can’t just sit around, after all.]
[Evergreat Hyun Jae-yi: We’re a Self-Producing Idol group!]
The production team clearly loved Evergreat’s skilled image. You could tell from how they highlighted the Choreography Creation in the early episodes in detail—something fans wouldn’t easily know and didn’t really need to explain.
[PD: When you look at the rehearsal, it feels quite different from the original , so what kind of concept is it today?]
[Evergreat Seo Ji-on: When you think about it through the concept of a Prism, colors split off from light.]
[Evergreat Seo Ji-on: If you could understand it as meaning we’ll show Evergreat’s own shining brilliance, that would be great.]
[Evergreat Seo Ji-on: Please enjoy it. (laughs)]
Unlike how other groups were asked “What resolve do you have for taking the stage?” in the pre-interviews, Evergreat was asked “What’s your concept today?”—even that detail was different.
V-Net had designed every element of the background needed to position Evergreat as a powerhouse.
[So just what kind of Self-introduction Stage will Evergreat present?]
Beneath tense background music, the serious expressions of members from various groups looking toward the stage were captured.
(The timing might have been different, but the moment it airs, where the cut came from loses its meaning. That’s why expression management matters in survival shows.)
– But seriously if these kids fail too it’s gonna be hilarious lmaooo that’s how much they’re being pushed
Of course, a selling point designed this carefully could crumble if they slipped up.
But.
└ sounds like u don’t know evergreat
└ if u don’t know girl idols just shut up
└ even ppl who don’t know girl idols know evergreat’s good what’s wrong with u
Evergreat had built up public trust over time.
Girl group that performs well. Girl group that does live vocals well. Girl group with real talent.
And the idol from a small agency who actually beat major-label rookies with that talent and swept the Rookie Awards.
– v-net is good at making stuff up but evergreat;; they’re just literally saying what these kids already do well
– evergreat is genuinely a miracle like no bs a small agency beating out major label groups for the rookie award is literally a miracle in this day and age
– they made songs and choreography themselves and debuted so they swept everything with pure skill and song quality beating major label rookies for the rookie award and now v-net’s just pushing that they’re skilled lol
└ and they even wrote the songs themselves
└ musicprove what blessings did u do to deserve this
V-Net’s editing was received not as “pushing” or “media play” by idol fans, but as “laying out facts.”
The trust built in Evergreat’s skill over the past year was shining online.
And the moment the stage went on air.
– seriously they’re so fucking good insane
– i just watched the ep and cried ㅋㅋ “skilled group” ㅋㅋ where’d all those groups go lol
└ think they’re ashamed of themselves
– didn’t someone say their group understanding was high? ㅋㅋ u can totally see it they know exactly what they’re good at
– honestly thought last week’s group was good too but watching it right after ep 1 i don’t think that anymore lol totally different
└ btw they’ve been around the same amount of time as that other group
└ literally makes no sense
Enormous praise flooded the internet.
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“Hyun-seo, what do you think?”
“It came out better than expected. When I think about the choreography’s key points……, honestly I thought the camera directors might miss some of them, but they caught everything.”
“Yeah, right? They really caught it all? What’s gotten into V-Net……?”
aired every Saturday night.
For Evergreat, whose recent major schedules were mostly university festival performances and Pod Arc shoots, it meant the broadcast was at a perfect time for real-time Live broadcast viewing.
So I ended up spending two consecutive Saturday nights sitting in front of the TV with the members, watching .
It became natural to sit on the sofa and casually monitor reactions on my phone. I stopped hearing “you’re on your phone too much.”
I didn’t have piling assignments or scheduled commitments, and since I’d handed the second round competition’s Arrangement over to Sim Yu-jeong with just a rough feeling, there was no way to avoid watching.
I generally don’t want to watch broadcasts I’m in……. Honestly, it feels awkward.
But being an Idol probably means getting used to this kind of thing…….
Still, I’ve become fairly comfortable monitoring stage footage, but watching myself on a TV screen speak is a different matter.
My phone or tablet is bearable, but only TV feels this awkward. Is it because I have a fixed idea about TV programs…….
“How are you feeling, noona?”
“Hm?”
…I lost the thread of the conversation for a moment, and the dance line’s eyes turned toward me.
Right now on TV the Daylight kids are going on about Evergreat this and rivalry that, so why are they looking at me instead of the broadcast.
“The stage, I mean. Did it come out the way you envisioned?”
“Oh. But didn’t you already say on the day itself? It was perfect.”
The Self-introduction Stage really had been good. The reactions from the Idols sitting as audience members showed it, and our own instinct as performers did too.
We performed well, and the ranking would be good too.
“We’ve got first place two rounds straight. The results speak for themselves.”
“That’s……, true.”
Go Hyun-seo, who’d been quietly reading my mood, quietly agreed and nodded.
Everything else is fine, but sometimes Hyun-seo lacks confidence. That’s the kind of thing I need to help her develop too, but…….
Hyun Jae-yi, who shares the choreography work with me, sits brazenly watching Daylight members’ stage prep process on TV, while Hyun-seo is reading my mood.
What’s the difference here……. Personality?
The difference between someone bold and someone not quite so bold?
She performs well, participated in directing the choreography for the first round too, and what’s with this lack of confidence.
Staring at Hyun-seo directly, she doesn’t seem to want to say anything and slowly turns her head away.
Yeah, nothing to confront right now. Go figure out how to read the room less. Or build up more confidence.
On TV, Daylight’s powerful performance was being broadcast.
And the shot zoomed in on Go Hyun-seo watching intently.
…I think V-Net needs to drop its obsession with DragonGirlfriend.
Not just for Hyun-seo’s sake—that image doesn’t seem to benefit Daylight either…….
Rewriting the Top Girl Group Scenario with My Own Hands
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: Nam Seo-rang
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: June 5, 2026
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