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BTS RM first requested appearance on 'Pisik University'
MBC's 'Radio Star', which aired on the 29th, featured Kim Soo-mi, Yoon Jeong-soo, Lee Ji-young, and Lee Yong-joo's 'Mountain Battle!' It was featured as a special feature of ‘The Gulluri’.
According to Nielsen Korea, a viewership rating research company, 'Radio Star', which aired on this day, ranked first among households in the same time slot with 5.1% (hereinafter based on the metropolitan area). Next, the 2049 viewership rating, which is a key indicator for advertising officials and a key indicator of channel competitiveness, also ranked first in the same time period at 1.3%. The best minute was the behind-the-scenes scene where Lee Yong-ju's character Bae Yong-nam, the Dongdaemun clothing store owner who is his side character and the main character of '05 is Back, was born, and the household viewership rating rose to 6.4%.
Lee Yong-ju, who debuted as an open comedian at SBS in 2016, is active as a founding member of the comedy YouTube channel 'Pisik University'. He is captivating the MZ generation by showing off his hyper-realistic acting skills and various secondary characters that captivate subscribers in 'Class of 2005 is Back', 'Hansarang Mountaineering Club', and 'Fish Show'.
Lee Yong-ju revealed the birth story of '05 Class Is Back,' a content that made the 'Pisik University' channel a popular channel on 'Radio Star'. He revealed that there was a savior who helped create his representative sub-character, Bae Yong-nam, the owner of a Dongdaemun clothing store.
Lee Yong-ju told the story behind the content ‘Pisik Show’, which boasts a huge guest lineup including RM, CL, and Jay Park of BTS. Lee Yong-ju said, "Our manager was in a meeting and I got a call from an unknown number, so I passed it up about twice. But the calls kept coming, so I thought it was a delivery man and answered it. He said he was a BTS manager. A member named RM said he wanted to go on 'Pisik Show', so of course I said yes. “I did it,” he said. He then said, "The number of views reached nearly 4 million, and the number of overseas subscribers increased. RM said he saw it when we had 80,000 subscribers," confirming that RM is a big fan.
Yongju Lee told an episode about living in a house with 8 people, including Haejun Kim and Minsu Son, when he was an aspiring comedian. He said, "Even when we had a drink, we divided it into n parts, but now everything is fine, so we each try to calculate the bill ourselves."
Kim Ji-won, Ten Asia reporter bella@tenasia.co.kr
