"When the camera light turns off, 'made' Tae Yeon comes out unknowingly", said Girls' Generation member Kim Tae Yeon.
"Being in Super Junior means, you are attending a school you can never graduate from", said Choi Si Won from Super Junior.
Now, even the Idol groups' life behind the stage has become a marketing system. Crying with their head in between their legs because they can't do the choreography right or blank faces focused on playing a soccer video game is a precious thing to watch for the fans about their Idol groups. This is the case especially for the abroad fans because it is rare for them to see the singers.
A movie, just released into the market called "I AM" is a documentary about seven different teams and thirty two people all together of SM entertainment including, Super Junior, Girls' Generation, BoA, SHINee. This movie includes these singers signing a contract in their teenage years, performing in Madison Square Garden in New York, and their success story as who they are now, 'K-Pop Star". This movie includes current performances as well has past performances of the singers.
This movie was too big of a scale to be said that it was made only for the Idol fans. Just like a normal Korean big scale movies, this movie used 18 billion Won to produce. They included the past 15 years of history in 5000 different videotape form into the movie.
This movie does not speak for all Idol groups but it only speaks for the SM entertainment and what it is like to grow up in that company.
The fans abroad are glad that this movie is made because this is a step closer for them to get to know the Idol groups better. This movie was already released in other countries such as Japan, Indonesia, Taiwan, and Singapore before it released in Korea and brought in a lot of profit and currently it is going to release in Thailand in July 7th.
This is not the first time a documentary on Idol groups or young singers have been made, In America, last year, a movie based on Justin Bieber's life, "Never say Never" was released and it was a huge hit all over. Even Big Bang released a 3D concert DVD, Big Show 3D, Super Junior with, Super Show 3D, which all show the real side off the stage of these singers.
Not just these but also JYJ released a documentary called, "The Day", and end of this month, 2PM and 2AM are releasing one called, "Beyond the One Day - Story of 2PM&2AM" all over in Japan.
