life of one person and his diary.

As a child, Jee Seok-Jin loved speaking in front of people. That's why he already ran school events as a host in high school and dreamed of becoming an MC. However, when he was a high school student in Korea in the 1980s, there was no system comparable to the “MC Open Recruitment Test” and famous MCs were well-known singers or comedians. That's why he concluded if he want to be an MC, he had to become a singer first. Later he formed a band called "Purple Haze" with his high school friends at this time to make music first. Even after he entered the university, he formed a new band to continue his musical activities and also worked as an actor in the theater, an musical actor. However, despite his diverse activities, he did not achieve what he wanted, and finally began a military career in the "Navy Entertainment Group". And in the Navy, he also met his lifelong friend, Kim Yong-man. Since the two were called up at the same time and served 3 years of military service together, a close friendship developed between them. Because Jee Seok-Jin's goal was to become an MC and Kim Yong-man wanted to be a comedian, the two promised each other that they would be successful in the entertainment industry together. So they fostered their hosting skills as MCs by holding around 30-40 military events per year in this 3 years. As Jee Seok-Jin's 3 years of military service came to an end, the performances as MCs, who were still singers at this time, were outstanding. Therefore, he decided to become a singer again and started making his own albums in the army. After his discharge from the military, he visited numerous agencies with his demo tapes. Although no one paid any attention to his work, he did not give up. And finally, one day a record company contacted him. The representative of this record company said, "Your voice is so good that this album would sell 1 million times. " So, Jee Seok-Jin made his official debut as a singer in 1992 with his first album, "Smile on a gloomy afternoon". But the result was disastrous. After hearing that 1 million albums would be sold, he pre-printed 30, 000 albums, but of those only 2, 400 were sold nationwide. At some point the cost of disposing those unwanted albums would have cost more than the production, so he took these CDs home with him. And at this time, his friend had already successfully made his comedian debut and was very active. In light of this, Jee Seok-Jin congratulated his friend but was very disappointed over his own failure. However, at this time he met many comedians through Kim Yong-Man, which soon developed close friendships, and one of them was the rookie comedian Yoo Jae-Suk A year before Jee Seok-Jin's debut as a singer, a new broadcasting station called SBS was launched in Korea. And SBS gave rookie comedians the opportunity to host a wide variety of programs, so it definitely had a huge impact on the comedians around Jee Seok-Jin. And with those opportunities, they got famous. However, Jee Seok-Jin, who was still a singer at this time, couldn't enjoy these benefits at all. After the failure of his first album, he stopped all activities and had a long struggle, so Kim Yong-man recommended him to take a comedian test. So, he started to write the script and practiced it on the stage with the help of his comedian friends. Fortunately, he passed the "KBS Comedian Open Recruitment Test" and officially worked as a comedian from then on. After he officially started his comedian career, he soon formed deeper friendships with other comedians, including Yoo Jae-Seok. But his comedian life wasn't exactly that smooth either. That was because all of his friends were “7th KBS Comedian", as they debuted 3 years earlier than him, and Jee Seok-Jin was alone a “10th KBS Comedian". In the Korean 90s, unlike today, there was a strict hierarchy between seniors and juniors in the comedian world. That was why his close relationships with senior comedians were not welcomed, and many comedians saw him in a bad light. In addition, some senior comedians saw his unique speech and behavior as rude, which earned him a lot of disapproval from these seniors, and that made his comedian life very difficult. Besides, he had neither talent nor interest as a comedian, he again spent a long time without any special achievements.