#rkfeb17eval

[rkevent]

THE SAMSUNG COMMERCIALS ARE FINALLY AIRING!

The announcement is made over breakfast in both the Seocho Complex and the five company buildings alike: the commercials trainees filmed for Samsung’s Galaxy A7 series in March will begin airing starting Friday, in the spirit of the holiday season. Each commercial will air on Korea’s main television channels at least twice in the next month, and will continue to air periodically for the next six months. Commercials that suit each season will be aired more frequently during each season they suit, while commercials with no seasonal theme will air at about the same rate during the six month period. The commercials will make rare appearances on television networks all over the world as well, and as ads preceding Youtube videos based on each viewer’s Youtube history. All commercials will be uploaded onto the Samsung Mobile Youtube channel as well. 

The commercials will closely follow the concepts outlined in this post, with information about the Galaxy A7 with a clean design expertly spliced in between the shots of the trainees. Throughout the year, the information and editing in the commercials will change based on Samsung’s current promotions and deals, but they’ll contain the same scenes of the trainees, though shorter versions of each commercial will air as well.

Trainees featuring in the commercials will be listed in the fine print of every commercial, including their names and the company they were under contract with at the time of the commercial filming. The fine print will also show the time the commercials were filmed: March 2017. This means when the commercials air, all featured trainees will be public trainees under the Samsung Group! A lot can change in several months though, and the public has no way of knowing if everyone featured in these commercials are still currently under their companies (yet, anyway). Those not presently under contract with Samsung will receive minimal screen-time compared to those who are still trainees. 

All trainees involved in the commercials are reminded by company staff to present a clean image to the public, both on SNS and anywhere they appear, as the commercials air. More eyes will be on them than before! (This isn’t a bad lesson for trainees who won’t be shown in the commercials, either.)

[rkcheri]

                                                     █ 지현 。going red. █

in the last twenty-two years of her existence, red had never been her color. 

red lips, red dresses, red hair -- they were all whims and miscellaneous thoughts that never lasted long in a mind too frivolous for a replay. she was more of a pink, pastels, bubblegum bursts of energy. 

never red.

red had always been too daring, too much, too bold -- too risky. a coordinated complexity that jihyun swears she doesn’t live by. they all brought an attention jihyun thought didn’t match.

she was too happy, too bound by the simple joys in life. she didn’t need something as crazy and obnoxious as red to paint the town. and yet, here she sits, a stillborn pause as eunho washes away the soft pink from her roots, once more a bleached goddess. a clean palette to be tainted by a burgundy organza. 

“what was it you told me all those years ago?” eunho says from behind, fingers massaging into her scalp.

jihyun sighs, eyes closed. “i love my job.”

“exactly, and why are you doing this?”

“because i still love my job.”

maybe it won’t be as bad, she thinks. that thought process lasts for about a second because the moment eunho shows her the vibrant red; she feels her face pale in comparison. the sloshing of red and orange and conditioner pains her. it begins, a brush dipping red dye along her roots to the very tips of her hair. 

“i promise you, it’ll look gorgeous, jinny. i swear it.” even eunho’s praises do little to calm her.

usually, they’d be a glow to her cheeks, a blushing pink and a oh stop it! to combat them. but today, they do little, and instead she’s mum to the print as she watches bleach tendrils seep into the bloodied color. she could only hope it wouldn’t look as loud as it appeared.

she was already loud enough, she didn’t need her hair actually personifying her character attributes to a hue. to a point that the color could only identify the clear dramatism behind her actions. she was dramatic, “it’s just hair, jihyun, you can change it the moment the commercial is over.” and he was right, it was just hair. 

( but for jihyun, it was so much more than that -- but would she admit it? )

jihyun mumbles a quick, a soft “fine.” as fingers try to keep her distracted, flipping through glossy pages in the latest japanese magazine the stylist has stocked at his counter. the cute fashions doing just as little to divert attentions. 

it was only a matter of time before she would be seeing red.

[rkjxy]

SOOYOUNG☼ @joyxis

back to black! 🙆🏻

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the hair dyeing process was not as dramatic as she thought it would be.

she did not put it past her to fear the inevitable -- to think that she would get the worst end of the stick. after all, there were so many trainees following one higher individual, it’s like fading into the background against the grander scale of things. joy feared that she would get a hair color as ridiculous as blue, or something as blatantly uglier as sun orange. just the thought of it makes her shudder.

she sat through the dyeing process as smoothly as everyone else. going from brown to black did not require heavy hours as how it seemed to be with all the other trainees. black. seemingly boring but she’d gladly take it. it’s a color that is all too familiar with her, something that she will always return to if she wants to give her good old roots a break. she likes to believe that it’s a color that suits her well -- good of the company to know that much.

with her fresh new hair color, she immediately runs off to post something about it on social media. she likes to think that posting about it is a subtle celebration, both of comfortable changes and the newest challenge they’re about to embark on.

[rksona]

February Evaluation, 2017;

one step forward, two steps back.

it was fitting, in a way, and dawon would be lying to say that the humor was entirely lost on her. lately, it felt just as though her past was coming back in full force, and there wasn’t a thing that she could do to stop it. whether it’s old emotions becoming increasingly difficult to control, old wounds and feelings that she’d tried to forget being made new again, old tragedies returning to the forefront of her mind; everything about this year felt like a return to the old days of her past, a step backward in time.

and now, the blonde hair felt like the final nail in the coffin. for someone constantly trying to move forward, these last few weeks have taken an enormous toll on dawon, and she wasn’t entirely sure of just how long she could keep bottling up each of her feelings, pretending they don’t exist. it's rather sad that she’s forced to throw up a facade each time she interacts with anyone else, regardless of who they are, only allowing her true self to show when she’s left alone with her feelings, certain that no one can see her.

while she might have preferred to have hoseok dye her hair again, dawon doesn’t have the heart to ask that of him. he had worked so hard to make sure her brown hair turned out just right, even going so far as to visit her and jiae’s apartment in the early hours of the morning when any normal person would be fast asleep. if they liked my blonde hair so much, why didn’t they tell me to keep it? she feels no shortage of frustration regarding the matter, even if her opinion hardly influences anything. she’ll have to move forward and deal with this, to adapt or die, regardless of her stance.

the stylists are all business, though the lack of chit-chat could easily be attributed to dawon’s sour mood. this wasn’t something that she wanted, not one bit. however, it was something that she’d have to endure. while she may be internally against the decision, she wouldn’t publicly oppose it aside from a few negative facial expressions; after all, it wasn’t as if her passive-aggressive pouting was hurting anyone. so what if she hates the ‘new’ color? it’s what she signed up for, in a way. while blonde may be a nice enough color to most, in no way was it one that dawon had hoped to revisit so soon.

when it’s finally over, she takes one long moment to examine herself in the mirror. it didn’t look bad, though it had looked better only yesterday. she feels resentment towards the company for forcing her to go through with this so soon—why was it necessary? if there were promises of debuts waiting just around the corner, maybe she would understand, but there weren’t any promises. she’ll get over it and move past her bitter feelings eventually, though, for now, she finds herself thinking of ways to act out of spite.

maybe i’ll dye it again, once this is all over and done with. remind them of how much better i was before.

[rktiffxny]

                                          ❝ THERE’S SOMETHING ABOUT BLACK ❞                                      ( &&. like georia o’keefe said — you feel hidden in it )

#rkfeb17eval — it’s your turn to change ✦* BLACK’S A CLASSIC

déjà vu. that’s the best way to put it. it’s back to black, back to the basics and tiffany think it’s ironic. the timing. the first time had been for dream high and then the gayo performances. now it was for the commercial filming and photoshoot. her saving grace, her true solace in this, is that jihyun is in her team. kibum and junhong too. she’s blessed. her entire group comprised of people she not only likes and works well with but her friends.

but no matter what, it doesn’t save her from having to dye her hair again. even that, tiffany tries to make the best of. jessica and jennie, her beloved cousins, making the process bearable. it was one thing to dye her hair every once in a while but it hadn’t been that long, at least in her standards to preserve her hair, since she last lightened it. the change wasn’t drastic but in the time when tiffany felt like she was beginning to change, when she was too attached— toodramatic, honestly — to the concept of her hair representing that; the equivalent of “new hair, new me.” as if she can’t have that, not in this moment when everything’s chaotic at home, it’s back to the past and she knows that it couldn’t be more true.

the situation with leo brings up everyone’s old scars, cassie’s the most. for her, it’s more about her future and she tries to tell herself it means nothing— that black’s a classic.

but she’s just not convinced.

[rkxangel]

who likes this sh*t? not me. the only black jung soojung likes is dark souls three.

              dark ends, dark trails. dark tresses, dark souls three.

              dark souls is her favourite game of all time. but having dark hair is not her favourite. it’s a raven colour and it’s not to her liking, jung soojung prefers her long pin-straight hair with the colour of light brown. she’s yet to get attached to this colour. never that she’ll see admiration for it in the end. soojung feels the dire need to ditch the black and readjust it back to its original roots, a brown. then again, she can’t do that because she has a shooting sometime to do this month.

              when people say that hair colour really does change your appearance drastically, she shouldn’t have doubted what people said. because it’s true. they’re right and she’s wrong. her appearance looks paler as if she’d been porcelain white. it brought out her features though. not that her brown hair didn’t do the same but it’s new.

              at least, they didn’t cut her hair off and she’s thankful for that. she didn’t know what to do if all that hair she grew out, taking care of was gone.

              it’s a part of her, everything about the hair colour and the colour before that. the length of her hair and how it’s styled.

              i’ll go back to playing dark souls three.

[rkxjongsuk]

Meet Me Halfway ||

@kaiark

A new thing to do? Oh this was going to be so much fun! He was split into a group and he was a bit sad that he wasn’t with the same people that he already knew it was okay. He was just a cool Youtuber and social media star. Social media was his whole life and he was really happy. As soon as he got his group assignment, he showed up at the meeting place. 

“Ayooo, wassup yall! So #beclassy? How classy we are? Super classy!” he exclaimed, introducing himself loudly and almost obnoxiously. “I’m Jongsuk aka starkravingmad on youtube and instagram!” he added, flopping down into a chair, feeling like a complete boss. 

[rkxrm]

small talk ||

@rkgunhee

Kris had modeled before and so this evaluation was right up his alley. He was nervous about modelling with trainees that he had never spoken to. He didn’t do well with people and as they were waiting for the photographer to start with the individual photos, he saw one of those trainees close by and the tall man nervously walked over. 

“Hi, I’m Kris.” he decided to awkwardly introduce himself. Oh god, he could already tell that this was going to be the longest fifteen minutes of his life.