Actor Cha Tae-hyun revealed recent news that he has taken office as the CEO at the agency he established with his close junior actor Cho In-sung.
On the 7th, Cha Tae-hyun appeared as a guest on the YouTube channel episode of "Yojung Jaehyung" that was released.
On that day, Jung Jae-hyung asked Cha Tae-hyun about his recent status as the "agency CEO." In fact, Cha Tae-hyun founded the talent agency Basecamp Company with his long-time close friend actor Cho In-sung. In particular, Cha Tae-hyun operates the agency as both a represented actor and its CEO.
To this, Cha Tae-hyun humbly said, "There's nothing special," and added, "It's just the four of us: In-sung, me, Jin Ki-joo and Im Joo-hwan. Four managers and four actors, so we don't plan to expand more. That's it. We just did it among ourselves. It feels like we earn money and pay the kids' salaries."
He continued, "Not suddenly, but about four to five years ago, when In-sung and I were drinking together, we said that when we get older and our agency contracts end, we'll be almost 50 and won't need a big company or a big manager, and we're not singers. Actors have that kind of thing. At that age, if you do your work well, it's not that someone else brings you work. You're not a rookie. We do more things on our own. Rather than joining somewhere, later if there's nowhere to go, we'll do it ourselves: you just bring one manager and I'll bring one, and we won't do commute-like stuff, let's do it like that. It was half a joke, half serious. Then when In-sung's contract ended, we started it."
But even if it started lightly, the "representative" was still a representative. Cha Tae-hyun said with a laugh, "Now that I'm the CEO, the problem is I get a lot of calls. More than two-thirds of the calls I pick up ask about In-sung's schedule," and laughed, "They ask about In-sung's schedule, In-sung's feelings and In-sung's condition. They're people who are close to me, and when they said they wanted to meet me, I went, and they asked about In-sung."
Cha Tae-hyun said, "That can happen. And I have to refuse on behalf of them. I go around refusing. Sometimes when I meet In-sung I say, 'Today I met someone to refuse for you again.' Then In-sung says, 'I'm sorry, hyung.' I thought, 'So this is the position I should be in.'" He also joked, "After all, it's important to refuse now. If I casually meet that person again, that person doesn't think of me, but we meet and just greet each other."
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