KBS Gag Concert's new segment uses envy to mirror life's hardships

The new "I'm Jealous" segment on KBS Gag Concert portrays the struggles of various individuals, ranging from job seekers eating triangle kimbap to office workers facing immediate credit card bills after payday. The sketches explore themes of regret and deficiency through the lens of envy, even concluding with a paradoxical wish to suffer from a disease called "Oryeong."

From the exhaustion of job hunting to the regrets of old age, individuals standing at different stages of life express their respective deficiencies through the keyword of "envy." The new segment "I'm Jealous" presented by KBS Gag Concert induces laughter by transforming the hardships of reality into paradoxical exclamations.

Between triangle kimbap and credit card bills: the desire to work versus the desire to earn

The segment begins with a job seeker who dreams of graduating from a prestigious university, achieving high grades, and earning a high salary, but in reality, attends interviews every day and eats triangle kimbap for meals. The performer reveals their deficiency by repeatedly saying, "Wow, I'm jealous," toward professionals who work and eat whatever they want with their salaries.

The reality of office workers carries a different weight than the longing for employment. While they find strength waiting for payday, the scene follows as the salary is immediately depleted by rent, maintenance fees, insurance premiums, and credit card bills, leaving the bank account empty. The struggles of office workers, who must endure reprimands from bosses at the workplace, are also depicted as objects of envy. The segment portrays situations where one must respond with "Yes, my lord" even in the face of reprimands mixed with jokes that seem to disparage a boss's appearance.

A walking dog's mismatched love and the passing years

The objects of envy expand into everyday scenes. In a moment of envying a dog that walks leisurely without working, reality intersects with a situation where the dog, having gone out for a walk, continues the walk for four hours to meet a mate. The contrast between one dreaming of love and one whose relationship has already ended drives the flow of the segment. Within a relationship where people were once family but have now become strangers, regrets about the hardship of working to support a person intersect.

Scenes showing the latter half of life contain the voices of the elderly reminiscing about the past. The regret that they could have managed marriage well and done everything if they could return to their youth, along with the emptiness regarding their current lives, is condensed into the short phrase, "I'm jealous." The segment concludes by mentioning the hardships of modern people, ending with the paradoxical expression of wishing it would be better to suffer from a disease called "Oryeong."

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