Top Girl Group Scenario Rewritten with My Own Hands - Chapter 84

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Episode 84
“Everyone, listen up! Come to the living room for a moment!”
“…What is it?”
Kang Su-ah burst through the door without warning and called us over. The three of us all turned to look at her.
“I’m requesting a meeting.”
“So why are you calling a meeting like you’re about to announce something serious?”
“I want to do busking.”
“Don’t talk nonsense.”
Yeah, I figured as much.
Kang Su-ah’s nonsense has a slightly different flavor. Like how she suddenly picked Jeju Island as a travel destination, or how she’s now insisting on busking out of nowhere.
“But we’re going to Gwangalli anyway!”
“Yeah. And?”
“There’s a stage there where we can busk.”
“Having a stage and suddenly deciding to use it are two different things, aren’t they?”
“Come on, why not? It sounds fun. Hye-rin and Han-byul think so too!”
Kang Su-ah turned and pushed Ju Hye-rin and Lee Han-byul—who were holding a selfie camera—into the spotlight.
Typical. Kang Su-ah probably wanted to do it, and the other two just got swept along with her “yeah, sure, sure.”
“I… I actually have a romantic notion about busking. I’d like to try it if we can.”
“That’s what Han-byul says. As for me, I thought it might be too difficult, so I tried to talk her out of it…!”
This isn’t like Lee Han-byul at all.
So even the quiet kitten sometimes jumps on the stove first?
“…Until now, I thought you were the type to make rational decisions.”
“Um, when I looked at the busking application site, if there’s an open time slot even on the morning of the day, you can apply. And they said they provide microphone and amplifier rentals.”
“You already looked all that up?”
“And since it’s managed by the Busan city government, personnel are controlled properly for safety. It’s Monday evening, and… doesn’t that seem okay?”
How badly does Han-byul want to do busking, anyway?
My head spun for a moment. Busking was definitely not in my plans.
“The youngest wants to do it! What do you two think?! Hyun-seo and Jae-yi?”
“Oh… I’ll think about it once I get permission from the company.”
“I’m for it! I saw a beach busking when I was little, and it looked really fun!”
One person pushing aggressively, one actively in favor, one neutral.
“Okay, say we do this busking. What are we going to sing? We’re going on vacation—and suddenly we’re going to busk?”
“All our members sing well. Don’t you trust us?”
“That’s not it. But that and this are different things.”
“Come on, you don’t trust the members at all. And isn’t this kind of busking more like playing around? It’s fun!”
Come to think of it, Kang Su-ah was the type who just loved singing in the first place. The happier people are when they listen to her, the more she loves it.
I remember being dragged to Kang Su-ah’s place around this time during my first attempt at this.
I went and listened to her sing, and then suddenly it turned into an impromptu in-house busking.
“…And this is all being filmed on the camera. If I get in trouble with Team Lead after calling her, I’m submitting this video as evidence.”
In the end, I called Team Lead Lee Su-bin right there and asked for her opinion on the spontaneous Gwangalli busking.
“…Yes. Understood. Thank you. I’ll contact you again once our shoot wraps up.”
“What did she say?”
“She said do whatever we want.”
“Awesome!”
I never imagined Team Lead Lee Su-bin would approve so easily, but…
Of course. The company’s roots are in independent artists, after all.
Even when someone suddenly wants to do something weird, they don’t panic—they check the environment first and then give the green light. There’s something extraordinary about how they operate.
Now that I think about it, I think the senior artists mentioned that during their winter comeback, they suddenly picked street busking and just announced it.
It kind of feels like we’re in that same vein.
But wait—Team Lead Lee Su-bin is the idol team lead!”
As I sat there in serious thought, Kang Su-ah spoke in a light voice.
“Why are you thinking so hard? Like you said, we’re going on vacation, we see the ocean, and we sing a little by the water. That’s all.”
“We’re idols. Of course we have to pay attention to how people see us.”
“You sometimes… Oh, from here on, this is for critique purposes. Let me turn off the camera for a moment so we can talk.”
“What are you trying to say?”
The selfie camera in Kang Su-ah’s hand turned off. Go Hyun-seo, reading the mood, also stopped recording on her camera.
“You’re being too serious. You know all our members sing well, right? Why do we always have to show only a polished, perfect image? We’re not trying to do anything extraordinary. We just want to sing the songs we’re good at by the sea.”
“It’s just that there’s no need to do something that could become a risk.”
“Isn’t it actually less risky since it’s not an official schedule? What’s the difference between singing on Univers Live and busking? I don’t get it. We just sing a few of the songs we did on Univers Live. It won’t even be thirty minutes.”
Honestly, Kang Su-ah isn’t being unreasonable. Once Team Lead Lee Su-bin approved it, at least. And the content team would be happy about this.
Send the members on a Busan trip and suddenly they want to busk? The content team would love editing it like some kind of variety show special.
And more than anything, our members are all pretty good singers.
Plus, if Han-byul is actively stepping up like this, it seems like we should support her.
“Then let’s prepare the setlist ahead of time and stick to exactly that. Only pick songs we do well. Sound good?”
“You got it!”
“And only people who want to participate. So Su-ah, Han-byul, and Jae-yi want to do it, right? What about Hye-rin and Hyun-seo? Do you two want to sing anything for the busking?”
“Um, honestly, I don’t really have anything.”
“Me either.”
I looked at the members who expressed ambiguous opinions, and they both shook their heads. Since the busking was decided on so suddenly, of course some members didn’t really want to do it.
“Then would you two both do just the acoustic arrangement of Lucky Days at the end? Since we’ve performed that on the radio before.”
Both Ju Hye-rin and Go Hyun-seo nodded.
“Wait, what? Ji-on, are you planning to play guitar?”
“If we’re busking, obviously. Were you planning to use a backing track for the busking?”
“Lots of busking these days uses backing tracks anyway.”
“You really didn’t think this through.”
“Ha ha.”
My life. I never thought I’d end up bringing a guitar on a sudden Busan trip.
Still, thinking back to the reaction at Kang Su-ah’s place busking, it doesn’t seem like such a bad choice after all.
And so, haphazardly and chaotically, the afternoon before the Busan trip passed, and morning broke the next day.
***
Shin Ji-yoon, the PD in charge of Evergreat’s self-produced content, was in an excellent mood.
She hastily planned a self-directed trip as original content, and now there’s an idol group that’s preparing seriously and even wants to do busking?
Safety was a slight concern, but Team Lead Lee Su-bin had explained in advance that they’d reveal the idol status at the end and conduct everything on an official busking stage designated by Busan city, which put Shin’s mind at ease.
Since they were pre-booking and conducting the busking on a city-managed stage, there were fewer unexpected risks.
Even though the KTX carrying the members had another cameraman and a junior writer on board, and Shin Ji-yoon herself had to drive down from Seoul to Busan!
Still, the thought of producing interesting content cleared Shin PD’s mind.
After arriving in Busan, the members unpacked at the pension and finished sightseeing at the beach.
Before long, 7 PM—the time they’d booked for busking—was approaching.
“Um… according to the details, we need to arrive thirty minutes early to start setup. If we go this way…”
The youngest member, Han-byul, who was somewhat reserved, was being unusually proactive today—and this delighted Shin PD the most.
Actually, the hardest part of self-produced content is managing screen time for each member.
Shy or quiet members struggle to get airtime in idol self-content. Some members have personalities that just don’t mesh well with variety, so getting all members equally on screen is genuinely difficult.
If there was a member from Evergreat who was hardest to feature, it was Han-byul. She was young and quiet. Despite working hard on broadcasts, her personality just didn’t naturally generate screen time.
But today was different. Whether it was the excitement of travel, or because she’d been the one to actively propose busking with Su-ah, Han-byul had been captured on camera in many moments from arrival in Busan through busking preparations.
Hoping that the faint excitement evident in her expression would translate on screen, Shin PD zoomed in on Han-byul’s face with the camera.
Seo Ji-on and Kang Su-ah mainly handled the equipment setup, while Han-byul checked the sound or learned the setup process from the two of them.
Hyun Jae-yi occasionally joined in and asked questions. Go Hyun-seo and Ju Hye-rin, who’d decided to participate only at the end, laid out a straw mat in front of the stage and watched the four of them with interest.
A small wooden stage by the beach, with the sea stretching out behind it.
Yeah, this really does feel like some kind of music variety show!
Editorial directions flowed through Shin PD’s mind. Make episode one from the meeting through arriving in Busan, the live performance as episode two without editing, and whatever happens after the live as the next…
At 7 PM, as the sun began to set and the busking started, that vision solidified.
Even though it was Monday and there weren’t that many people, the four members singing in turn captured the attention of passing pedestrians.
Some stopped mid-stride and stood still, filming on their phones.
The members filled roughly forty minutes of busking time with cover songs.
I already knew it, but this group’s members sing really well.
Though Shin PD had produced self-content for idols several times, she’d never seen an idol group sustain content so consistently through vocal performance alone.
As the busking wound down, quite a crowd had gathered near the small stage to listen to Evergreat’s singing.
Of course, some had already figured out that these were idol members.
“…Thank you. We have just one more song left from what we prepared.”
After finishing their prepared songs, Seo Ji-on took the microphone, and sighs of regret rippled through the crowd.
In the meantime, Go Hyun-seo and Ju Hye-rin, who’d been sitting in the front row, quietly climbed onto the stage. They were about to perform the final song.
“Actually, we’re idols who are currently active, and we came to Busan on vacation. When the members said they wanted to busk, we put this together pretty hastily. Did you enjoy it?”
“Yes!!”
“We knew it!!”
The crowd let out quite a loud cheer, and the members laughed awkwardly at the voices from the audience.
It would’ve been harder not to be recognized as idols by now, anyway. Their cover stage was huge news after the QBS Summer Music Festival.
“Ha ha! Thank you for enjoying the busking!”
“We’ll close out with our debut song, Lucky Days. That’s all for—”
“Evergreat. Thank you!”
Applause erupted from the crowd as the sound of acoustic guitar rang out across the beach.
Shin PD watched the stage with satisfaction.
This project was shaping up to be a well-made music variety self-content she hadn’t even anticipated!
Rewriting the Top Girl Group Story by My Own Hand
Author
: Nam Seo-rang
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: May 21, 2026
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