Saturday Night Live Korea
| Saturday Night Live Korea | |
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| Also known as | SNL Korea |
| Genre | <templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/> |
| Created by | Lorne Michaels |
| Directed by | Yoo Sung-mo Baek Seung-ryong Kim Min Ha Byeong-hun |
| Creative director(s) | Song Chang-ui (Season 4) Jang Jin (Season 1,2,3) |
| Presented by | Shin Dong-yup (de facto) |
| Starring | (see 'Current cast members') |
| Narrated by | Kang Su-jin (Season 3,4) Lee Sang-hoon (Season 1,2,3) |
| Opening theme | by Common Ground |
| Ending theme | by Common Ground |
| Country of origin | South Korea |
| Original language(s) | Korean |
| No. of seasons | 7 |
| No. of episodes | 140 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Jennifer Danielson |
| Producer(s) | Ahn Sang-hui |
| Production location(s) | Multi-studio of CJ E&M Broadcasting Center, Digital Media City, Seoul, South Korea |
| Running time | 60 minutes, including adverts Saturdays at 23:00 (KST) |
| Production company(s) | CJ E&M |
| Release | |
| Original network | tvN |
| Picture format | 1080i (HDTV) |
| Original release | 3 December 2011 – present |
| Chronology | |
| Related shows | Saturday Night Live |
| External links | |
| SNL Korea official tvN website | |
| Korean name | |
| Hangul | 새터데이 나이트 라이브 코리아 |
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| Revised Romanization | Saeteode-i Na-iteu Ra-ibeu Gori-a |
| McCune–Reischauer | Saet'ŏtei Naitŭ Raibŭ Koria |
Saturday Night Live Korea (Hangul: 새터데이 나이트 라이브 코리아; abbreviated as SNL Korea or SNLK (Hangul: SNL코리아)) is a South Korean late-night live television sketch comedy and variety television program broadcast on general service cable channel tvN. It is adapted from the long-running American TV show Saturday Night Live on NBC. The weekly program premiered on December 3, 2011, and airs on Saturdays at 23:00.[1]
Contents
History
Season one
Written and directed by filmmaker and playwright Jang Jin,[2] the show was officially announced on November 24, 2011 at a roundtable press conference in Cheongdam-dong. The original cast was composed of 17 members: Jang Jin, Ahn Young-mi, Lee Han-wi, Jung Woong-in, Kim Bin-woo, Jang Young-nam, Kim Won-hae, Lee Hae-young, Lee Chul-min, Lee Sang-hoon, Park Joon-seo, Kim Ji-young, Kim Ji-kyung, Min Seo-hyun, Han Seo-jin, Go Kyung-pyo,[3] and Kim Seul-gie. The premiere episode on December 3, 2011 was hosted by actor Kim Joo-hyuk.[4][5]
Then-showrunner and head writer Jang Jin spoke about the difficulties in recruiting guests, saying "When you’re offering a film, you give them a script, ask them how it is and if they say no, say that's good and turn around, but to get people to appear in this show, I had to beg. I even asked them to appear on the show by giving them my next movie script."[6] The first season ran from December 3, 2011 to January 21, 2012 for eight episodes.[7][8]
Season two
The second season ran from May 26 to July 14, 2012 for eight episodes. The cast members were Jang Jin, Lee Han-wi, Kim Won-hae, Kang Sung-jin, Jang Young-nam, Jung Sung-ho, Kim Min-kyo, Lee Sang-hoon, Jung Myung-ok, Kang Yu-mi, Im Hye-young, Park Sang-woo, Ahn Young-mi, Kwon Hyeok-su, Go Kyung-pyo, and Kim Seul-gie.
Season three
The third season ran from September 8 to November 15, 2012 for seventeen episodes.[9] The cast members were Jang Jin, Shin Dong-yup, Kim Won-hae, Jung Sung-ho, Park Sang-woo, Kim Min-kyo, Jung Myung-ok, Lee Sang-hoon, Oh Cho-hee, Jang Yoon-seo, Son Bo-min, Seo Yu-ri, Han Seo-jin, Kwon Hyeok-su, Go Kyung-pyo, and Kim Seul-gie.
Season four
The fourth season ran from February 2 to November 23, 2013 for 38 episodes.[10]
Jay Park and Park Eun-ji joined as regular cast members (they had both previously hosted in season 3). Meanwhile, Jang Jin, Go Kyung-pyo, and Oh Cho-hee exited the program.[11][12] The season 4 cast members were Shin Dong-yup, Kim Won-hae, Lee Sang-hoon, Ahn Young-mi, Kim Min-kyo, Kim Seul-gie, Jung Sung-ho, Jung Myung-ok, Kwon Hyeok-su, Park Sang-woo, Seo Yu-ri, Lee Byung-jin, Jin Won, Jay Park, and Park Eun-ji. New cast additions later in the season were Choi Il-gu, Yoo Se-yoon, 2EYES, and Clara. Jin Won exited the show on episode 18, and Kim Seul-gie did the same on episode 24.
Directors Ahn Sang-hee, Baek Seung-ryong, Kim Min, and Yoo Sung-mo are described them as "SNL Korea's F4."[13][14]
Season five
The fifth season ran on March 1, 2014 to November 29, 2014 for 35 episodes.
Narsha and Seo Eun-kwang (BtoB) joined as regular cast members, while Clara exited the program. Weekend Update was discontinued, and replaced by a mini-talk show hosted by You Hee-yeol.[15]
Season six
The sixth season started on February 14, 2015 and stopped in June 20, 2015 for a temporary hiatus for the airing of The Genius: Grand Final. It resumed on September 19, 2015 and ran until December 19, 2015.
Cast
Current cast members
- Shin Dong-yup (de facto host since season 4, cast member since season 3)
- Ahn Young-mi (season 1–present)
- Jung Sung-ho (season 2–present)
- Jung Myung-ok (season 2–present)
- Kim Min-kyo (season 2–5, 7–present)
- Jung Sang-hoon (season 4–present)
- Kang Yu-mi (season 5–present)
- Lee Se-young (season 5–present)
- Jung Yeon-joo (season 6–present)
- Kim Hye-jun (season 7–present)
- Kim Poong (season 7–present)
- Yewon (season 7–present)
- Lee Won-seok (season 7–present)
- Song Won-seok (season 7–present)
Musical theme of the opening and closing, and between segments, are performed by the band Common Ground (커먼그라운드).
Former cast members
- Kim Seul-gie (season 1-4)
- Kim Won-hae (season 1–4)
- Lee Sang-hoon (season 1–4)
- Jang Jin (season 1-3)
- Go Kyung-pyo (season 1-3)
- Han Seo-jin (season 1-3)
- Lee Han-wi (season 1-2)
- Jang Young-nam (season 1-2)
- Kang Yu-mi (season 1-2)
- Jung Woong-in (season 1)
- Kim Bin-woo (season 1)
- Lee Hae-young (season 1)
- Lee Chul-min (season 1)
- Park Joon-seo (season 1)
- Kim Ji-young (season 1)
- Kim Ji-kyung (season 1)
- Min Seo-hyun (season 1)
- Kwon Hyeok-su (season 2–6)
- Park Sang-woo of Bohemian (season 2–4)
- Kang Sung-jin (season 2)
- Im Hye-young (season 2)
- Seo Yu-ri (season 3–5)
- Oh Cho-hee (season 3)
- Jang Yoon-seo (season 3)
- Son Bo-min (season 3)
- Jay Park (season 4-5)
- You Hee-yeol (season 4-5)[16]
- Yoo Se-yoon (season 4-6)
- Park Eun-ji (season 4)
- Lee Byung-jin (season 4)
- Jin Won (season 4 ep. 1-18)
- Choi Il-gu (season 4)
- Clara (season 4)
- 2EYES (season 4)
- Han Jae-suk (season 5-6)
- Kim Du-young (season 5-6)
- Kim Tae-hee (season 5)
- Narsha (season 5)
- Seo Eun-kwang of BtoB (season 5)
- Ko Won-hee (season 6)
- Lee Hae-woo (season 6)
Format and segments
The Korean version follows a similar format as the American version, with a host, cast members and several skits for each episode.
- Weekend Update: News sketch that reviews the week's social, economic, and cultural issues. Anchored by Jang Jin in Seasons 1-3.[17][18][19]
- Wise Search for Life (슬기로운 탐구생활): This pre-recorded sub-segment of Weekend Update satirizes each week's most talked-about headlines and events. Voice narration by Kim Seul-gie.
- Dispatch SNL (출동 SNL): This live-skit is also a sub-segment of WU, and includes interviews by its correspondent Kwon Hyeok-su.
- SNL Invitation (SNL 초대석): This live-skit, also a sub-segment of WU, involves a person (usually the episode's host, or sometimes a cast member) in a fake or actual situation related to the week's best-known events.
- SNL Digital Short: Comedic and musical pre-recorded "video shorts" which are performed by SNLK cast members and hosts each week (usually one or two per episode).[20]
- Lee Oung-don PD's Eatable X-File: Since the latter episodes of season 3, each week Shin Dong-yup (in the role of Production Director Lee Oung-don [이엉돈 PD]) takes 3 or 4 kinds of food from the hands of other cast members for fun, to judge whether it's suitable to eat or not, then runs away quickly. It is a parody of Channel A's infotainment program Lee Yeong-don PD's Eatable X-File.
- Sa-gwa Shilup (사과실업): This is an occasional skit that adopts a business presentation style, for advertising peculiar products. Moderated by Shin Dong-yup, while wearing clothes and make-up similar to Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.
Ratings
The season finale of season two, broadcast on July 14, 2012, was hosted by boy band Super Junior, which was the first non-music program they appeared in as part of the promotion for their sixth studio album Sexy, Free & Single. According to AGB Nielsen Media Research, the episodes achieved a nationwide rating of 1.334%.[21]
Episode 13 of season 3, broadcast on December 1, 2012 and hosted by Jay Park, achieved a nationwide rating of 1.54%, with a peak of 1.85%. It recorded 1.04% ratings in the 20 to 49 age group, as well as 1.96% with a peak of 2.49% for women in their 40s, making it the most-watched program in its time slot for both age groups.[22]
List of episodes and guests
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See also
References
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External links
- SNL Korea official tvN website (Korean)
- SNL Korea on Facebook
- SNL Korea on TwitterLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- SNL Korea's channel on YouTube
- Articles containing Korean-language text
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- TVN (South Korea) television programmes
- South Korean variety television programmes
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- 2010s South Korean television series
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- Saturday Night Live
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