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That's a weird answer. From what I understand publishing companies and mangaka themselves hire assistants and trainees. Those assistants can take care of backgrounds, betas, shading, etc. Of course the more famous your manga is, the more resources you have available (like Eiichiro Oda has a couple of assistants that help with One Piece). But I would think that given how big Skip Beat is in the shoujo community Nakamura would receive the support to have enough people to draw backgrounds at the very least simple ones with no fancy shading.
They don't even bother drawing backgrounds anymore (and for a while now too). I've seen weekly manga with more detail. There's really no excuse for a monthly shoujo classic.