'170,000 YouTubers' Jung Chan-min and Lim Soo-hyun "Couple channels make money, sorry for 'Ditto' New Jeans"

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Ten Asia reporters visit YouTube stars to listen to their stories. Meet the behind-the-scenes story that was difficult to hear on YouTube at Ten Asia. The full video of the interview can be viewed on the YouTube channel 'TV10 TV10'.

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"It's not a couple's channel, it's a 'comedy channel run by a married couple.'

The YouTube channel 'My Story' is a 'couple short comedy' channel run by comedian Jeong Chan-min and theater actor Lim Soo-hyun. The couple, who got married in April of last year, created this channel in the same month. The couple, who got along well from their dating days to the 'gag code', had YouTube operations in mind even before marriage.

When Jeong Chan-min said, “You should have a YouTube channel,” Lim Soo-hyun said, “I thought that if I got married, I would of course run a YouTube channel.” Jeong Chan-min said, “At the moment when sketch comedy (short gag content that lasts about 10 minutes) was on the rise, I wanted to do a sketch comedy about couples and couples.” “When I first started, there was no camera or equipment. No. I took it with my iPhone," he said. At the same time, "Couple YouTube is money. Parenting is the most important, and then the couple," he laughed.

The number of subscribers to 'My Story' exceeded 170,000. Subscribers are highly immersed as Lim Soo-hyun's realistic acting like a theater actor is added to Jung Chan-min's unchanging sense of gag, which gained popularity as a voice fishing parody of "Are you embarrassed?" during the 'Gag Concert'.

'Guys! Let's wake up!' depicts husbands in an apartment complex going to throw out the trash. The point of laughter is the coy fight between the husbands who say, "I'm better than you," even though they're in the same situation as taking out the trash. Every detail is 'hyper realism', such as the way he puts away a garbage bag to make room for a seat in a narrow elevator, and the way he pretends to be tough while talking to his wife on the phone.

"I caught it from my experience. The men were carrying the trash. I put it in a video in a fun way as a comedy. All of them are men, but a woman went to take out the trash. I looked around and it was my wife. Haha." (Jung Chan-min)

The next most popular video is the content called 'Honey Oh, Oh,' with 970,000 views. While looking for something, changing a light bulb, exercising, or washing dishes, a couple made eye contact while making strange movements. It is the couple's 19 gold skinship signal. Lim Soo-hyun, who has a mysterious look and expression expecting something, and Jung Chan-min, who is embarrassed by repeating 'No', bring laughter. Jung Chan-min explained, "I get ideas from everyday life, but the image in the video is not 100% real." Lim Soo-hyun told the behind-the-scenes story of the 'No' series.

"I'm on the conservative side, so at first I said, 'Do I have to do this?' Yes. And then we fought a few times. My mom always calls me when a video is uploaded, saying 'It's fun', but on the day the 'No' series is uploaded, she doesn't contact me. It's because she's embarrassed. Haha. Joe. When I work with my brother, I like that I can easily coordinate the filming schedule and depend on him. When I work with someone else, I can't completely rely on him. Besides, it's especially attractive that I have all of the proceeds. Working with other people makes money. You have to share, right? Haha."

The two, who mainly made sketch comedy videos, started a cover song series while thinking about new content. Making a video like a music video with the theme of married life, such as 'Event Horizon', 'All For You', and 'Dito'. High-quality video production, witty lyrics with a high synchro rate with actual marriage life, and the two's skillful acting are popular factors.

Subscribers praise Lim Soo-hyun's outstanding singing ability and clear voice, comparable to that of a musical actor. The sketch comedy video has a separate editor, but the cover song video is directed by Jeong Chan-min from planning to filming and editing. monetization was blocked. Lim Soo-hyun said, "It costs a lot to create cover song content. The money earned through sketch comedy is invested there and spent there. The structure that makes it impossible to become rich continues," causing laughter. Jung Chan-min confided, "As I started covering song content, my profit actually decreased," causing laughter.

"It cost 1 million won to make one video that rewrote Bruno Mars' 'Leave the door open'. People around me said they were doing sketch comedy to create cover song content with jokes. Haha. 1 million won. I think it was worth more than 1000 won. They complimented me a lot on how good the quality was. The videos uploaded to the channel can be said to be a kind of filmography of ours. A while ago, a mother and daughter saw a parody video of New Jeans' 'Ditto' while walking down the street. The daughter said to her mother, "It's the couple 'Dito'" and the mother and daughter laughed and laughed with pride. I'm sorry to New Jeans that people who watched the video kept thinking of us changing the lyrics."

Jeong Chan-min and Lim Soo-hyun, who say that there are pros and cons to running as a married couple. Jeong Chan-min said, "Don't you tell your friends not to work together? When you argue over something like this, you want to say, 'Why do we have to fight when we're not colleagues?" The same thing happens," he said.

The couple say they now have a kind of 'responsibility' in content production. Lim Soo-hyun said, "I will work hard thinking about the time when everyone knows what we are doing just by explaining that we are talking about me." Jung Chan-min said, "I want to show that even if you watch our channel and get married, you can have fun like us." At the same time, he shouted, "I will become a channel that encourages marriage and childbirth in Korea. Marriage is a national power," and showed off a sense of humor until the end.

Reporter Kim Ji-won, Ten Asia bella@tenasia.co.kr