Running Man (2010-2016)
the first episode I watched was one of the early episodes with Yong hwa from you're beautiful because 15 y/o me loved yong hwa from the drama.
and i was intrigued by korean variety for their candidness, the cameras that followed the cast everywhere, the nametag concept.
RM opened the window to South Korea to me and i would dare say people from my generation. I was introduced to their Olympians (the swimmer guy i think hes called park tae yeon? and son yon jae), their famed football star park ji sung, their ahjumma actresses who still have their talents. Girls groups boy groups of course. the Korean food, the sunbae-hoobae culture
but above all,
the fascination that brought so many people to learn Korean as a language.
TV is an influential thing so when you make TV, you have power.
(i have been watching a lot of TV for the past few weeks bc netflix)
but i think, at the end of the day, at the end of this post, at the end of the Running man era, there has to be an end to every TV show because the people in it, they are more than Running man/men/woman
I dont know much about the Skorean variety landscape prior to running man but it was the fall of those shows that caused the popularity of RM.
of course one could say that the smartphones and increasingly smart nations and subsequently well connected people/foreigners led to the popularity of RM.
Like netflix's The Crown, when the organisation does not cater to the change the majority wants/demands, they die off. which was why Philip from The Crown wanted to televise the crowning of Elizabeth II.
similarly, SBS may be still obsessed with domestic ratings but what about the international fans who could possibly mean, economically, so much more than the S. koreans?
SBS has to renavigate just as all old, mature, dated organisations led by the people do.
in a dramatic fashion,
Running Man, out. Running Man, out.
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