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KoREa-Canada Blog 2015

2 X-Man (X-맨)

• Air date: 2003 - 2007
• Highest rating achieved: n/a
I don’t think I have missed a single episode of this program
ever since its’ inception. It was everything you can imagine in
a variety program. It was funny, smart, cunning, entertaining,
and even romantic. one of my favourite corners from the show was “of course! (당연하지!)”
where each guest and fixed members would go one-on-one and say things about the other
that would antagonize them. They would try to say “of course!” after each remark (which
basically meant that you accepted the criticism) and if you couldn’t, then you would lose.
But the end goal of every episode was that someone is the “X-man” and he or she would
purposely (but secretly) try to lose at every game and the other guests and fixed casts would
guess who the X-man is at the end of the episode. I highly recommend watching this relic
if you have the time, you might be surprised to find who the guests were before they got
famous!

3 rUnninG Man (런닝맨)

• Air date: 2010 - current
• Highest rating achieved: 25.9 %
I really like the format of this show. They star a new guest in
almost every single one of their episodes and they are divided
into two or more teams. Each team solves puzzles and
completes missions to get to their end goal. also, they literally
run to finish every daunting task as fast as they can. This brings diversity and unexpectedness.
The latter characteristic because you never realized a certain guest could be that entertaining
so you start to perceive them in a new way. This might be because they run so much and
get tired that they start to get aggressive. as such, their dormant ‘other’ side comes out.
Sometimes I miss a couple of episodes here and there but every time I jump back into it, I
don’t feel lost and it’s easy to follow – something a lot of variety programs are missing
currently.

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