The story of the late Song Hae shouting at a local government official who was trying to enjoy the privilege during the recording of the National Singing Contest was told. Song is said to have frequently used the word ‘fairly’ during his lifetime.
Min-seok Oh, professor of English and Literature at Dankook University, who wrote the biography of the Song family, ‘I am different’, appeared on the CBS radio ‘Bout’ on the evening of the 13th and introduced an anecdote related to the Song family.
Professor Oh said, “Mr. Song often said things like ‘fairly’.” “During the recording of the National Singing Contest, he never reserved a separate seat for local administrators, members of the National Assembly, or the head of the local government. If there was no seat, he told him to sit in the middle. is a citizen and a citizen (he said),” he recalled.
He continued, “I was filming in the Chungcheong Province area, and when a public official came out with a plastic chair for the audience to sit on, I asked what Song was doing. He said, ‘What are you doing now?’, ‘If you sit in the front row, the audience and the people are all nervous’, ‘You spread out behind me and there is no such thing as a special seat.’ It was good to break that hierarchy at once.”
Professor Oh also told the story of how Song took special care of the members of the National Singing Contest. “It was the time of the Sewol ferry. Hundreds of people were suddenly immersed in water, laughing while boasting a national song, and because this didn’t work, KBS stopped airing itself for a month or two.” “He said.
He continued, “Isn’t it hard to live because I don’t get paid? (At that time) Mr. Song said, ‘Aren’t these people supposed to make a living?’, ‘How much have you contributed to the National Singing Contest? He said, “He’s a great person,” he said.
Song is said to have always pursued perfection during the National Singing Contest. Professor Oh said that Song had been through hundreds of PDs while taking on the national song show for a long time, and he was told that he had never had a producer who had never fought. He continued, “(Mr. Song) had a very strong desire for stage completeness. It had to be perfect.” “When recording, from the teacher’s point of view, it is said that he doesn’t like the invited singer or that there are people who should not have been selected among the cast. No matter what, he didn’t pass any of those things.”
Professor Oh also said that Song stopped by the public bathhouse to understand the local people’s feelings before going on stage. He said, “He had to talk openly with the locals so he might talk more closely when he was on stage, so he went to the bathhouse.”
Song passed away on the 8th at the age of 95. Song, who made his debut in 1955 with the Changgong Music Troupe, has been the MC for the National Singing Contest since 1988 and has led it for 34 years. Last month, he was listed in the Guinness World Records as ‘the oldest TV music contest host.’ He was also the first comedian to be awarded the Order of Cultural Merit.
