2015년 3월 11일 수요일

How much animal actors get paid in Korean drama, movies and TV shows?


"Three Meals a Day," is a South Korean outdoor cooking-reality show with self-sufficient organic life which airs on tvN.
Ratings with more than 6% for a Korean cable television channel are very rare and Three Meals a Day has been getting more than 6 % in ratings since third episode was aired.
Its leading roles are  actor Cha Seung-won and Yoo Hae-jin but various animals like Sanche (dog), Bee(cat), Rodriguez (chicken)are drawing viewer's attention.

In addition to "Three Meals a Day", there are many TV varity shows with animals as lead role such as SBS 'TV Animal Farm' and MBC 'Sunday Night-Animal's'

To cut to the point, some untrained animals(Three Meals a Day)are not getting paid at all because these animals are just pet of staff and trained animals which appeared on various TV shows and dramas usually get paid US$100~500 per episode.

SBS 'TV Animal Farm' is animal reality show which focuses on animal news and stories and quite a bit on animal welfare.
Many animals appeared with a variety of stories on different episodes for more than 15years.
However, the crew of program does not pay money directly to animal owners.
Commonly they only give gift certificate worth of US$100~1000 as a sort of reward to animal owner for their cooperation and DVD containing their animals's part in show.

When you watch television, or a movie, and see a monkey folding laundry, a dog leaping a bike, or a horse opening a gate, you're seeing the results of hours of work between the animal and an animal trainer. It's tempting to assume that the animal or his owner is earning big bucks because the animal is in a production, but usually this isn't the case. In fact, some animal actors and their trainers earn less than the owners spend, making animal acting more of a hobby.

10-year-old Labrador Retriever, Dal-yi was named as one of TV's highest paid animal actors in Korea.
She first played Maumi in the 2006 film “Hearty Paws,” which was also her screen debut.
In Maumi 2, the sequel to Hearty Paws, Dal-yi plays a devoted mother dog who embarks on a journey to find her puppy, who is kidnapped by villains.
In “Maumi 2,” she was known to paid more than US$ 50,000.

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