“Kim Jong-kook gets paid 10 million won per episode”… Estimated appearance fees of “My Little Old Boy” cast members attract keen attention
The article that gives speculation on the appearance fees of SBS’s entertainment program “My Little Old Boy” cast is drawing attention.
On August 30th, an article titled “Wow, I was shocked at ‘My Little Old Boy’ appearance fees” was posted on the online community Nate Pann. The article contains an estimation of the appearance fees for celebrities and their mothers to appear on “My Little Old Boy”.
Accordingly, the specific numbers, such as MC Shin Dong-yeop 20 million won per episode, Seo Jang-hoon 10 million won, Lee Sang-min and Kim Jong-kook 10 million won, Kim Hee-chul 7~8 million won, Tak Jae-hoon and Kim Jun-ho 5 million won, and Im Won-hee 3 million won, caught the eyes of netizens.
At the end of the article, the netizen said, “The appearance fee for each ‘My Little Old Boy’ mother is between 2 ~ 3 million won. It is quite high compared to the salary of an ordinary person”.
They added, “That’s life~ Lee Sang-min earns 10 million won per one episode but still has a lot of debts?”
In fact, the appearance fees of “My Little Old Boy” cast members have never been officially revealed. It is also hard to check the precise numbers since each cast member signed a different 1:1 contract with the broadcasting station.
However, a cast member of ENA’s program “I AM SOLO”, who is an ordinary person, once said, “My appearance fee was about 1 million won”. Based on this, netizens began to guess the numbers for other entertainment program casts.
In response to this article, netizens gave different reactions, such as “To be honest, isn’t that too much? Assuming appearing on the show once a week, you will get 4 million per month”, “That’s why we don’t need to worry for celebrities”, “The appearance fees for the mothers are really that high? Wow”, “It’s so great being a celebrity”, “Don’t be too jealous. Just try becoming a celebrity”, “They just need to go to a few university festivals and gain thousands of won”, “Some actors even get paid hundreds of millions of won per episode”, etc.
Source: Wikitree
