[Exclusive]"Cha Gane" Yang Jungwoo EP "Attempted to throw away, forming a 'new' consensus with Cha Seung-won" [Interview 1]

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• Interview with Yang Jung-woo's EP of tvN's entertainment show "Cold"

Yang Jung-woo's EP revealed the whole story of "Chagane," which he didn't know where it would hit.

Star News met and interviewed Yang Jung-woo EP, who directed tvN's entertainment program "Chagane" at the CJ ENM Center in Sangam, Mapo-gu, Seoul on the 5th.

"Chagane," which ended with the 9th episode, is a real spicy variety of gangsta family Chagane, which aims to take a shot in life by developing a new spicy sauce, and actor Cha Seung-won, mixed martial arts player and broadcaster Choo Sung-hoon, trainer Tommy, rapper Dindin and violinist Danny Koo joined forces.

"It's cold" is a quirk. The beauty of "Chagane" is that the result value varies according to each choice, like a kind of board game that does not follow the existing entertainment composition and seeks a direction by rolling a dice. The program, which doesn't know where it's going to stand out, even wore the mask of "Sitcom," and the sitcom-like editing style that pops out from time to time stands out for its novelty, which was hard to find in broadcasters.

The cast is also diverse. Cha Seung-won, who is careful and planned, Choo Sung-hoon, who is improvised and active, Tommy, a thrifty housekeeper who treats his two brothers, Dindin, who says what to say here, and Danny Koo, a human retriever. Other program producers would be bent on bringing the cast together, but "Chagane" was simply "Freestyle." As expected, nothing went the way it was intended, but there is the real fun of "Chagane" hiding there.

"Of course, there was a big stem in our program," said Yang, who met with Star News. "Because Cha Seung-won likes Korean food and kimchi so much and is proud of his cooking, I tried to go through the process of exploration (sauce development). The goal was set, but the process was unknown, and that's how 'Chagane' started upside down and ended upside down," he said.

The borrowing of the two compositions, entertainment and sitcom, was decided only during the shooting in Thailand. Yang EP said, "It's been a long time since we talked with Cha Seung-won about 'Let's do a program together'. The concept of "Cha Ga-ne" was fixed in Thailand, and the consensus between Cha Seung-won and I was, "The way we did it is no longer fun, so let's make it fun for both the people who do it and the people who watch it." But we've even gotten to do that new thing overseas."

"From the 3rd day of filming in Thailand, let's think of this as 'three men and three women' and 'non-stop'. I filmed it while talking about 'Let's think of it as an office sitcom,' he confessed.

Chagane collaborated with CJ Cheil Jedang under the goal of developing a global spicy sauce. Yang EP said, "The hardest part was explaining this to the people who helped. It was not easy to help understand because there were no set things in the filming. Even the cast members were casted one by one, and it proceeded by calling them out and then finding roles. What we had was a feeling of "Let's do something we haven't done before," and we were worried about the future of the broadcasting industry off-camera every night, drawing laughter.

"The format of Sitcom was also decided when I went to Thailand," he said. "The most frequently referenced was Choo Sung-hoon's YouTube channel. I don't set anything and do it as it is, but my expression is really good. It was regrettable to include them in the way they always did when they went on a business trip to Thailand. The production team and the cast had a meeting, saying, "This program doesn't seem to fit into reality. Let's get out of what we've been doing so far." Then, I wondered what it would be like to take the form of a play, so I decided to take the form of a sitcom. But in fact, this sitcom is really difficult and we have to have a lot of meetings. Nevertheless, I decided that it was a direction I hadn't tried and a fresh direction," he explained.

The members of "Chagane" went on business trips in the order of Thailand, Japan, and Busan. In Thailand, we got a big hint about the sauce development through the unique spices and spicy taste of Thailand, but we didn't get much results in Japan.

In response, Yang's EP said, "In my head, I thought, 'The hot spicy taste of Thailand and the cold spicy taste of Japan can be combined, right?' but that was not the case. When I went there, it was completely different. "I can imagine the taste of Thailand to some extent, and there are a lot of materials, but the spicy taste of Japan was too difficult, apart from the familiarity," he recalled of the time of shooting in Japan.

He then said, "I have an obsession as a production team. Still, there is an obsession that the story should end successfully with a happy ending, but this time, it was not a situation to the point of "I'm in big trouble" because I endured failure. There were different opinions from the cast, but in the end, Cha Seung-won's judgment was right and (the business trip to Japan) was a decisive opportunity to make kimchi," he said.

The appearances of the contestants dealing with the added item, 'Kimchi', were also different. Cha Seung-won seasoned his hand, Choo Sung-hoon completed Sylvie Kimchi-style Kimchi, DinDin completed Maple Syrup Kimchi, and Tommy and Danny Gu completed apple kkakdugi.

Yang's EP said, "It was best to have kimchi in your own style. Everything was fine because we had respect for each other. As a result, kimchi with Cha Seung-won's "taste" and Choo Sung-hoon's "spicy" has been completed.

(To be continued in the interview ②)

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