[단독]Byung-man Kim, became a pilot after challenging 31 times… “I will dream until I die”

Kim Byung-man, a comedian who poses as if flying in the sky, wearing an airline pilot's uniform at the JoongAng Ilbo studio on the 1st.  Hyukjae Kwon Photo Reporter

Kim Byung-man, a comedian who poses as if flying in the sky, wearing an airline pilot’s uniform at the JoongAng Ilbo studio on the 1st. Hyukjae Kwon Photo Reporter

How far will Kim Byeong-man, master of challenge, fly? He is a rich man with various licenses and licenses, and this time he obtained the license as an aviation pilot. He is the first of the celebrities to be certified as a business pilot (CPL). It is said that he took only thirty times for a full three years and various written tests. I met him at the JoongAng Ilbo office building in Sangam-dong, Seoul on the 1st, saying, “I finally achieved my dream of a flying pilot.” Personally, this is 10 years after the last recording of the 2011 KBS comedy concert’Master’. His face was full of life, carrying a uniform with a three-stick CPL epaulet.

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-Media interviews have been scarce over the past 10 years.

“I didn’t have time because there were many overseas filmings such as’The Law of the Jungle (hereinafter, Jungbeop)’. Last year, due to Corona 19, Jeongbeop temporarily switched to domestic filming, and there was room for it. He also obtained an aviation pilot license, which he had been known for three years ago, step by step. On March 19, the chief of CPL (a word for aviation certification) came out. I am the first Korean entertainer to win a license for a car or a business plane even if there is a license for an ultra-light aircraft.”

-Why is the pilot?

“It’s time to be the Air Force Public Relations Ambassador in 2015. In the G test, I endured 6G (6 times Earth’s gravity) and rode an F16 fighter, and said,’Wow! I wanted to do this. It was when I fell in love with skydiving for a long time, but I got a new greed. However, due to the lack of time, he suffered a back injury during the jeongbeop filming in 2017. I am a person who uses my body, and I felt depressed as if it was over. ‘Please tell me that airplane.’ It took three years to start studying like that.”

Comedian Kim Byung-man, who first revealed the fact that he recently acquired a business pilot license (CPL) through an interview with the JoongAng Ilbo on the 1st.  CPL holders can drive private planes as well as commercial planes if certain conditions are met.  Hyukjae Kwon Photo Reporter

Comedian Kim Byung-man, who first revealed the fact that he recently acquired a business pilot license (CPL) through an interview with the JoongAng Ilbo on the 1st. CPL holders can drive private planes as well as commercial planes if certain conditions are met. Hyukjae Kwon Photo Reporter

-The exam is difficult.

“You have to pass five subjects: flight theory, aircraft, traffic communication, aviation law, and navigation. I also need a wireless carrier license, but that’s also four subjects. I dropped the written test several times per subject, and took a total of 31 times until I got a CPL. When I was far from studying in school, I sat for 10 hours a day. Even when shooting Jeongbeop, I took a problem book and solved it. “If I pass this, I didn’t study in school, but I didn’t do it.” The actual flight is 200 hours, but I have already boarded 210 hours.”

Kim Byung-man has about 10 qualifications and licenses. Skydiving tandem instructors and coaches, scuba diving trainers, boat licenses, small and large bike licenses, excavators, forklifts, industrial piping, etc. All of them are techniques that have been honed in various entertainment programs. “There is also a figure skating beginner. I got it while doing SBS’Kiss and Cry’ in 2011.” At the time, he was trying to end the’Master’ section, which showed about 250 characters for 3 years and 11 months in’Gecon’. “The director of the arts department said’Kiss and Cry’ is also over, so what he wants to do is,’Tom Sawyer’s adventure is a dream. I can do well in picking palms and building houses on uninhabited islands.’ “The law of the jungle” was launched in a few weeks with the addition of Oji documentary professional PD.”

-It’s been 10 years already. Wasn’t it hard?

“Before’Master’, I think I did a lot of action comedy, so I had to sweat on the stage to work. People ask me,’Why do you leave a good road and go to the gravel?’ It is fun even though it is difficult. Having been living in the jungle for 10 years, it is now more comfortable than home. When I first went there, everyone was nervous, but the cinematographer who took a lot of documentaries in Oji said, “I am addicted immediately if I come two or three times now.” In fact, all of the staff are depressed and depressed as they cannot go because they are blocked by Corona 19.”

Kim Byung-man, the chieftain of'Bill Satisfaction', has shown various survival know-how and challenging spirit while traveling around the world in the SBS reality entertainment show'The Law of the Jungle', which started in 2011. [사진 김병만 제공]

Kim Byung-man, the chieftain of’Bill Satisfaction’, has shown various survival know-how and challenging spirit while traveling around the world in the SBS reality entertainment show’The Law of the Jungle’, which started in 2011. [사진 김병만 제공]

Kim Byung-man, the chieftain of'Bill Satisfaction', has shown various survival know-how and challenging spirit while traveling around the world in the SBS reality entertainment show'The Law of the Jungle', which started in 2011. [사진 김병만 제공]

Kim Byung-man, the chieftain of’Bill Satisfaction’, has shown various survival know-how and challenging spirit while traveling around the world in the SBS reality entertainment show’The Law of the Jungle’, which started in 2011. [사진 김병만 제공]

Kim Byung-man, the chieftain of'Bill Satisfaction', has shown various survival know-how and challenging spirit while traveling around the world in the SBS reality entertainment show'The Law of the Jungle', which started in 2011. [사진 김병만 제공]

Kim Byung-man, the chieftain of’Bill Satisfaction’, has shown various survival know-how and challenging spirit while traveling around the world in the SBS reality entertainment show’The Law of the Jungle’, which started in 2011. [사진 김병만 제공]

-Why do you miss the jungle?

“It looks like the mud smells awful, but it’s not at all. There is a dense forest, so it is not as cloudy as in the city. There aren’t many bugs in the deep jungle and it’s really clean. My nose is open. And I can’t think of misunderstandings. It becomes simpler and I keep getting curious. What does this taste like, can I eat it? Eating, lighting a fire, thinking only of sleeping, without worrying about social life. The natives are much more pure and can communicate with gestures and gestures. I am from the countryside (Hwasan-myeon, Wanju-gun, Jeollabuk-do). I feel like I’m re-experienced when I ran around to my heart’s content.”

‘The Law of the Jungle’, first broadcast in Namibia in October 2011, traveled from the savannah of Africa to the desert of Madagascar, the Himalayas, Siberia, and the South Pacific island nations. In 2018, I went to Antarctica for the first time in Korean entertainment. Kim Byung-man was the only one who kept the same spot while the cast continued for more than 50 years. At all, the name of the expedition was’satisfied with a bottle’. Due to the nature of real variety, there was sometimes controversy over manipulation and exaggeration, but the program has never been shaken by Kim Byung-man’s personal problem. That is why it was possible to live a long life at the 10% rating level for 10 years.

“Originally, I’m scared and introverted, but since I’m an older brother, I can’t get anyone to do it. Since I was scared of water, I learned skin scuba and skydiving just in case. Challenging’Extreme’ like this can help relieve stress in the entertainment industry. It’s also a work that keeps collecting’Kim Byeong-man’s talents’ that are differentiated as celebrities.”

Comedian Kim Byung-man smiles wide during an interview with the JoongAng Ilbo on the 1st.  Hyukjae Kwon Photo Reporter

Comedian Kim Byung-man smiles wide during an interview with the JoongAng Ilbo on the 1st. Hyukjae Kwon Photo Reporter

Kim Byung-man, the first comedian in Korea to obtain a commercial pilot license (CPL).  Some of his photos were covered for privacy. [중앙포토]

Kim Byung-man, the first comedian in Korea to obtain a commercial pilot license (CPL). Some of his photos were covered for privacy. [중앙포토]

I’m in my mid forties. The remote experience may be overwhelming, but now’skilled training’ is an asset. It is basic to understand the materials by climate and region and light it up, and building a house that took three or four days in the beginning is just half a day. He laughed, saying, “It’s so easy that I feel like a tour guide for the cast.”

“As indigenous elders have the know-how to catch animals even if they do not chase after animals, I also have poor physical strength, but the know-how is alive. Such an appearance can be a surrogate satisfaction for viewers. ‘Kim Byung-man also piloted a flight in his 40s, but I can do it too’. Some people say that it’s because of the broadcaster that they are doing (such a challenge), but I also started with newspaper delivery and came all the way. Maybe I’ve been trying to do this all the time. Dreams and goals keep appearing and changing. My dreams seem to end only when I die.”

Pilot certification is not just a hobby. He predicted, “The era of private airplanes will open in the future, and we will be able to make TV programs such as’going to see the night sea of ​​Yeosu’ and’going to eat Jeju Mulhoe’.”

“Personally, my dream is to skydiving and jumping off the plane I drove up with a pilot. There is still a lot to show besides the’Jungle Law’, haha.”

Reporter Kang Hye-ran [email protected]


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