Super Karaoke Survival: VS (초대형 노래방 서바이벌 VS)

The total amount of money spent at domestic karaoke businesses...

last year got close to three billion dollars.

Karaoke has become a permanent fixture in our culture.

A karaoke business started in Busan in 1991.

In only 3 years, 25,000 karaoke businesses sprang up.

Karaoke has become the biggest hit of the 90s.

We have a strong karaoke culture.

Every neighborhood has a karaoke business.

I learned how to sing at karaoke.

When I was in middle and high schools,

should I say I practically lived in those karaoke rooms?

I often sang songs with high notes.

Back in the day, I sang "For You" and Brown Eyed Soul's song.

I also remember relieving my stress...

while singing my heart out.

I think it's the same for everyone.

My parents also liked going to karaoke.

I especially sang a lot of duets with my mother.

My son is singing.

Going to karaoke is my only hobby.

It was my own playground.

Some days, you feel down.

I go to karaoke alone and cry while singing some songs.

People these days lead very busy lives.

Singing at the top of your lungs...

would relieve some stress.

When you're exhausted from your day-to-day life,

you casually ask your friends.

"Hey, let's go to karaoke and sing some songs."

There's a certain energy you get from suggestions like this.

The most special performance...

of the most ordinary people will begin,

right here, in this enormous karaoke stage.

Korea's very first competition show of karaoke.

Numerous participants who love singing at karaoke...

will embark on a fierce journey...

of competing with popular karaoke songs.

You'll see undiscovered, yet talented vocalists...

and masters of performances with so many talents to show.

The most ordinary people become the most special performers...

at karaoke.

Starting today,

the entire country will get to sing along with them Friday night.

They'll fight to win the cash prize of 100,000 dollars.

It will be an intense showdown of the karaoke vocalists.

Mnet presents KING OF KARAOKE: VS!

These kingmakers will help them achieve the glory of winning.

I present you the five teams of producers.

Young from Woo Young.

Kwang from Eun Kwang.

Young Kwang. - Young Kwang.

Hello.

We're Young Kwang. - We're Young Kwang.

Should I say we were the front runners of K-pop?

Gosh. Let's be front runners.

The front runners. - Yes, the front runners.

Idols... They know best...

what it means to be in the spotlight.

They have a lot of experience in delivering...

complete performances on stage.

That's right. We performed countless times abroad.

We gained our own know-how from our experience.

With open-minded perspectives,

we will do our best to help them emerge as excellent singers.

Can you say hello and introduce your team?

Introduce our team?

You haven't named your team yet, right?

You didn't tell us to name it.

Lim Han Byul is popular at karaoke.

Since we had to divide the song among the members,

I became impatient and desperate for more.

So I ended up being on my own for a long time.

I think I locked myself up and kept practicing my singing.

I posted many videos of myself, singing cover songs on YouTube.

These videos started some momentum, and then I went viral later.

That's how I was able to release an album in 2018.

It's called "The Way to Say Goodbye."

Thankfully, a lot of people liked the song.

I think that's when people became interested in me as a singer.

Han Byul.

The system analyzed my viewers.

So 89.6 percent of them are men...

and 10.4 percent of them are women.

To be honest, I feel so reassured to have him with me.

Gosh. I'm going to kill you, seriously.

It will be us, probably.

No. Roy Kim and Parc Jae Jung will be most popular.

They'll be much more popular. - Right. It will be them.

It's a team of two winners from competition shows.

That's right.

The name of our team is Roy Jung.

Please show us a lot of love and support.

Our strength... - Our strength.

is that both of us have experience winning competition shows.

Won't that be enough to explain everything?

All those clips will go toward his royalties.

I thought he must have made a lot of money.

I've known Jae Jung for ten years.

As soon as I heard the song, I said,

"Don't think about it. Just make that your title track."

Then he released the album. Look how successful he got.

When we team up,

no other team can scare us. That's what I think.

As for the team that I feel to be a threat...

None of them.

Will you go with... - That will be my answer.

this arrogant producer theme?

Car the...

Car the Boy. - Yes.

Should I call them Car the Giri?

I think they will go with Giri Garden.

We're Giri... - Garden.

He made a lot of hit songs...

while starring on "Show Me the Money."

They're the ones to watch out for.

Someone like Giri Garden...

We're looking for people like us.

Someone from the wild. - Right.

Someone who's been through a lot.

As for Kim Min Seok and Young K...

I see them as my biggest threat.

To me, they look like the smartest team.

It's Young K and Min Seok.

So they should come to us.