SEOUL, March 17 (Korea Bizwire) – MBC, the producer of the famous real variety program “Infinite Challenge,” will create a Chinese version of the program in partnership with CCTV. MBC announced that it would hold a production press conference to announce the advancement of the program into China, and sign an MoU with CCTV to jointly [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean entertainer Kim Sung-joo paid 10 times more than he should have for a bus ride in Taiwan, in a story that became the talk of the town. In the episode of MBC’s reality show “Dad! Where Are You Going?” broadcast on December 14, Kim and his son Min-yool took [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – The biggest variety hit on Korea’s small screen, ‘Infinite Challenge,’ is finally taking a step towards overseas sales. Producer Tae Ho Kim, the man behind the show’s success for last ten years, was officially invited to the Asia Television Forum (ATF) in Singapore. ATF is the largest content trade [...]
“As is applicable to other entertainment programs, it will be better, to my understanding, if we drop the program when the audience most loves it. I don’t want to direct the final episode when there is nothing but indifference or finger pointing left.” “Although it was low in viewer ratings at the beginning, we have managed this program [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – In a TV commercial, Kim Min-yul, Yoon Hoo and Lee Jun-soo showed their cute dances. The three kids are fixture at MBC’s entertainment program “Dad! Where Are We Going?” The commercial begins with precocious facial expressions of Min-yul and shows the natural acts of the three kids putting unnecessary [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Mega-hit blockbuster K-drama “My Love from the Star“, which engulfed the entire China into a “Xing Ni” – a nickname for the show in Mandarin – syndrome last winter, will be re-created into a mobile game and is expected to once again fascinate the Chinese market. WeMade Entertainment, Korea’s mobile [...]
SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) – In its vacation themed episode of MBC’s entertainment program “Infinite Challenge,” members offered scenes of boisterous laughter by catching octopus only with their mouths. In the special episode of “Bang Kok,” which does not mean the tourist city of Thailand but “locking yourself up in your room” (being forced [...]
SEOUL, June 12 (Korea Bizwire) – In an episode of MBC TV’s entertainment program “Infinite Challenge” which was broadcast on June 7, one of its members Park Myeong-su showed off his comic wave dance. The episode themed with “hunger,” the members had to find food by hunting or collecting in Seoul not by purchasing food from restaurants [...]