I met Lee Yong Shin, a voice actor who visited the office building on the 17th. He was in his 20th year of voice actor career this year and participated as a singer in the 26th OST of JTBC singer audition program Singer Gain 2, which is currently on air, but he was quietly eliminated and caused fans' regret.
Singer Gain is a reboot audition program that helps singers who need one more chance to stand in front of the public. In Season 2, a total of 73 teams participated. Among them, a number of teams were eliminated in the first qualifying round, but only a few of them appeared on the air.
“Most of the first qualifying rounds were eliminated, and I was one of them. There were limitations in genres, and I felt a lot of lack. In the meantime, I have been singing in a place where I usually wear headphones and monitors in the studio. I was not a live or bus king, so I was very sorry even though I prepared the stage hard. "
Lee Yong Shin said he did not expect the whole compilation, and he was suffering from the reaction that he did not come out on the air. Moreover, he could not disseminate the information about the program, and he had to keep silent, with all the speculation surrounding his editing.
“There’s no other reason. I just fell out of the first round. I was so upset. Others were singing. I was desperate and I didn’t seem to be desperate compared to the other participants who had been singing, but it wasn’t; I was coming home from the recording studio after I was eliminated, and it was so hard that day. I was so embarrassed, and I thought, ‘Why did I come out here, why did I apply?’’ ”
Participating in Singer Gain 2 was a big challenge for Lee Yong Shin, who had been a voice actor for 20 years and was in trouble with his voice identity. It was not a voice that mimics the character, but a desire to find his own voice. However, in the first qualifying round, I was forced to follow the rules that I had to call OST, so I was more disappointed.
“I liked it when I first edited it, but I was impressed by the comments on the YouTube video that included my broadcast. He said, 'It is a courageous act that the voice actor went to such a stage in his career.' When I saw that he was encouraged to look at me, I did not get the results I wanted, but I was happy to think that it had a good effect on someone. The crew put the video on YouTube so well, thank you very much.”
Lee Yong Shin has been active in animation and games such as 'Moonlight Angel', 'Chungu can not be dried', and 'League of Legends'. Some of the participants in Singer Gain 2 secretly told him they were fans of him in the bathroom, but they were not sure who he was.
“Even if participants know each other’s real names, they have to call them only by number, but one participant secretly said, ‘Sungwoo is a fan of that’ in the bathroom. Some people secretly Confessions and run away because they were singers because of the Moonlight Angel. I was surprised how they recognized me.”
Lee Yong Shin added that he was able to soothe his regrets about the dropout when he saw comments directed at him. He said, "I cried a little when I saw the cheering comments." He recalled the heart of the time when he was upset and grateful.