Three Korean Variety Show You Shouldn't Missed

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FYI, I have following since these three show for quite some time. 




Running Man


First airing July 11, 2010. Currently airing at 6:30 pm KST on Sundays
At first, focused more to complete missions to win the race and go back home. 



And eventually evolving to reality variety show. Sucessfully produced a lot of nice episode with different themes which is very unforgettable until now. 

Running Superhero

Running Man VS PD team 
( Giant Jenga Game - Ji Hyo unnie actually have to sit on top of it when the game start, and she falls asleep during that. )


Running Man Jail Escape / Yommes Bond Come Back

They will normally invite 2-3 guests to play the games together. You often found new comedy gems in the show. They had actually gained more international audiences and rating instead of Korea itself. Even members from this shows is getting more popular etc Lee Kwang Soo oppa , the Asia prince. Kim Joong Kook gained higher attention and popularity in China than Yoo JaeSuk.  



Running Man China ( 奔跑吧兄弟)


This show also had been subbed into many languages (English, Spanish, French, Thai, Malay, Vietnamese, Chinese, Indonesian, Burmese (Myanmar), Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian and Turkish) which had proven its popularity in the international markets. As due to SBS had signed a deal with ZhejiangSatellite TV to produce Running Man China together,  so some of the producer in the team will fly to China to guide them to get the show done.( Cr : SBS)




 Running Man original cast in 2011


Current Running Man Member

Current member :Song Ji Hyo, Kim Joong Kook, Kang Gary, Haha, Yoo Jae Suk, Ji Suk Jin, Lee Kwang Soo
Former member : Song Jong Ki, Lizzy


Infinite Challenge



First Airing April 23, 2005. Currently airing at 6:30 pm KST on Saturdays
A very successful variety show that had been aired for 10 years. That’s an incredible number as they would need to survive in such a competitive market in Korea whereby so many variety shows had been release from time to time. Known as the “nation's variety show”.  The show aimed for doing challenge that is like mission impossible and crazy challenges.  What I should say is they know what they are doing and they are very particular on it. At beginning of each year, each member would need to think and propose few shows whereby they would need to present it. They come out with ugly friend festival ( basically vote for the ugliest person in Korea and invite them to the show) , Saturday Saturday is a singer ( whereby invite those famous 90’s singer/group/band to perform).




ugly friend festival ( part of the candidates) - 
Omo, they are really....


Saturday Saturday is a singer
( all 90's singer that joined the show)


My personal fav is their music festival. I started to watch it from second music festival (Westcoast Highway Music Festival ) on 2011 onwards. They actually keep evolving and improving this festival. From a small little concert and members had to use their own connection to find artist to write song ( or maybe using other people rejected work or maybe rearrange the song lyrics ) and sing with them until the very recent 2015 music festival (Yeongdong Highway Music Festival), production team invite a few popular, talented singer, boy bands to write a song and perform together with all members and held in stadium and do it like a famous top singer concert. To this show production team, I salute to them. I can see a lot of efforts putting into it. ( Cr : MBC)






infinite challenge, 2009 duet festival




Infinite Challenge 2009, Duet Festival



Music Festival 2015 Yeongdong Highway Music Festival




Current Member : Yoo Jae Suk, Park Myung Soo, Haha, Jeong Jun Ha, Hwang Kwang Hee
Former member : Noh Hong Chul, Jeong Hyeong Don, Gil

The Return of Superman





First Airing 2015. Currently airing at 6:30 pm KST on Saturdays
Mom often play important role in the family and esp to the kids in the tradition family and still apply now in most of the family. Mom is the one spending most of the time take care and play with them and often with the absence of their dad.



TROS cast 2015

The idea is inviting several celebrity dads take care their kids alone without their mom for 48 hours.  And their mom can go for holiday and perhaps have their own sweet time pampered themselves. Dads will need to play 2 role in the show. Take care the kids like eomma do, play with kids like appa do. Each of the family will have set up tent for cameraman in all area to film the interactions between appa and the kids and kids’ reaction. Some of the time they will invite some celebrity to help them take care their kids.


Lee twins , Seo Eon , Seo Jun

At the beginning, I think the intention is let appa feel how eomma feels like when eomma have to take care of the children all the day non-stop. Then in later stage, the show starts to show some of the advices below reason parents should do that to their kids. 


OUG member

And in recent episodes, they start to do some test in public to test the kids reaction to certain case or give some task to build their social ability and economic view. Like how kids will react when strangers come, how kids have their way to differentiate good person and bad person , ask them to buy some thing in the mart and stall and give them money or last episodes, Hwijae appa and Dongguk appa wants to know whether their kids will bully the weak ones with absence of parents, and to what extent that kids will do to protect the weak ones. Kids always have different faces, the one that when their parents is around, and the one when their parents not around. ( Cr : KBS world)

Current family
Lee Hwi Jae - Lee Seo Eon, Lee Seo Jun ( My personal fav)
Lee Beom Soo - Lee Seo Eul, Lee Da Eul
Lee Dong Guk - Lee Si An, Lee Soo Ah, Lee Seol La ,Lee Jae Si ,Lee Jae Ah
Ki Tae Yong - Rohee
OUG member - Yang Dong-geun (Yang Joy), Oh Ji-ho (Oh Seo-heun), In Gyo-jin (In Ha-eun)

Former Family
Choo Sung Hoon - Choo Sarang
Song Il Guk -Song Dae Han ,Song Ming Guk, Song Man Se
Tablo -Lee Haru
Jang Hyun-sung -Jang Jun-woo (Junu), Jang Jun-seo
Uhm Tae-woong - Uhm Ji-on


Just sharing my thoughts… No offense.


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