Crazy for Views: Era of the Attention Whore

This is an era when people no longer watch TV. With YouTube becoming the trend, how should TV programs survive? Two TV directors have challenged the YouTube world to find answers to this question. Cho Youngjoong, in his 13th year as TV producer, and Jung Yongjae started a competition about who gets more views with subscription clicks. Yong-jae’s Young-tube, which tries anything with his youth as a weapon, and ‘Cho PD’s Abolland (how to raise a kid)’, which utilises his experience of raising three children, will compete head-to-head. A new PD, Yong-jae who appeared ona live broadcast of a famous YouTuber scored 30,000subscribers at once, whereas the old and experienced Cho PD stalled at the subscriber number of 300. Will the fight end like this? This documentary is designed to use a sitcom-like format to depict the various aspects of TV producers who want to become famous YouTubers, while illustrating the impact the viewer-number-first policy has on their content making. Award-winning Cho Youngjung worked in the feature documentary department and directed various programs including expedition, medical and food documentaries. In 2019,he won the grand prize of broadcasting in Korea in the information category with “I don’t want to work”. Since 2007, Cho has been working as a director at the current affairs department at KBS.