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Yoo Jae-seok's national snack brag begins
In MBC's entertainment show 'What Do You Do When You Play?', which aired on the 21st, detectives from the 'Nol What Police Station' were depicted carrying out an operation to rescue Jin Do Jun-ha (Jeong Jun-ha), 'the youngest son left behind by a chaebol family.' Along with this, the 'National Snack Show', which was born thanks to the popularity of 'Mokpo Jjondeugi' introduced through the 'Nolmeudu Restoration Center', began.
According to Nielsen Korea, on this day, 'What do you do when you play?' The household viewership rating was 4.9% in the metropolitan area. The 2049 viewership rating, a key indicator of channel competitiveness, was 2.8%, ranking first among entertainment programs broadcast on Saturday. The best minute was the scene where 'snack agents' Yoo Jae-seok, Jeong Jun-ha, and Lee Mi-joo, who were dispatched to Daegu, headed to the glutinous rice donut and bean soup restaurant, recording the highest viewership rating of 6.0% per minute.
The detectives' investigation to save Jin Do Jun-ha (Jeong Jun-ha), the third generation of a chaebol, was thrilling and entertaining. Detective Team 1 Leader Yoo (Yoo Jae-seok), Jin-cheol (Park Jin-joo), and Jae-sik (Lee Mi-ju) discovered the kidnapped vehicle before Detective Team 2 and succeeded in obtaining the radio. Detective Team 2, Yoon Gae-sang (Haha), Mad Dog (Shin Bong-seon), and Seok-gu (Lee Yi-kyung), arrived late and began the investigation, combing through the remaining clues. And based on Jin Do Jun-ha's hint that "it smelled like eel," the investigation began with Detective Team 1 following closely behind.
Detective Team 1 began wandering around the area where Jin Do Jun-ha was kidnapped using walkie-talkies. Jin Do-jun, who looked outside through the window, said, “There is an orange steel tower about 200 meters long,” and delivered a new hint to Detective Team 1. Still, when Detective Team 1 couldn't find him, Jin Do-jun complained, "Are you insincere in saying that the bounty is 300,000 won?", causing laughter.
On the other hand, Detective Team 2 carried out the investigation by moving only by feel, without a radio. When it became difficult to find Jin Do Jun-ha, Seok-gu said, "If it isn't for special Jin, I'll throw Jun-ha away." Yoon Gae-sang elicited laughter by expressing his sincerity (?) by saying, “I don’t want to go home, so I want to find Jun-ha very slowly.” In the meantime, Seok-gu showed off his possessed instincts and came close to the location where Jin Do Jun-ha was, contributing to the investigation.
In the end, the team that found Jin Do Jun-ha first was Team Leader Yoo's Detective Team 1. When we went to the place where we could see the iron tower mentioned by Jin Do Jun-ha, there was MBC, and Detective Team 1 burst out in pleasure. Jin Do Jun-ha also spotted their vehicle and shouted, “Here it is!” Jincheol and Jaesik enjoyed the joy of victory by taunting Team 2 by saying, "We said we do it with our heads! We run with our heads, and you run with your feet."
The 'National Snack Show' that followed attracted attention with a list of mouth-watering fun and unique and different snacks. As the nostalgic snack 'Mokpo Jjondeugi' restored through the 'Nolmum Restoration Center' became a hot topic, comments from viewers poured in saying, 'There is a snack like this in our neighborhood too.' Accordingly, the 'national snack pride' started with the ball launched by 'Mokpo Jjondeugi'. The members appointed as 'snack agents' were delighted to travel around the country and taste various snacks.
The agents expressed their expectations by looking at the list of snacks reported. Pohang fried dumplings, Daegu glutinous rice donut bean soup, Daegu bean sprout fish cake, Busan kibi dango, Mokpo egg hot dog, Okcheon tornado potato, Gangwon corn filling, Jeju pheasant taffy, Gwangju sugar noodles, Ulsan water ramen, Danyang garlic affogato, Jeonju bibimbap waffle, A variety of snacks were introduced, including fried Daegu kimbap and Ulsan jjondeugi. Yoo Jae-seok said, “It’s amazing that there are such different snacks in each region.” The agents tasted it and said, “It looks delicious.”
Yoo Jae-seok announced the start of the project, saying, “I will complete a ‘national snack map’ that has never been seen before.” Yoo Jae-seok, Jeong Jun-ha, and Lee Mi-joo chose Daegu, Haha-Park Jin-joo chose Ulsan, and Lee Yi-kyung and Shin Bong-seon chose Jeonju to test the taste.
Yoo Jae-seok, Jeong Jun-ha, and Mi-joo Lee, who arrived in Daegu, brought laughter with their bickering sibling chemistry. Lee Mi-joo said to Yoo Jae-seok and Jeong Jun-ha, who stood on either side of her, "You look like the Grim Reaper." Yoo Jae-seok emphasized, “Isn’t it like ‘Goblin’? It’s Dong-wook on the left and Gong-yu on the right.” In addition, Lee Mi-joo insisted that she would take the wheel, and three months after the previous 'What a Manpower Center' special, a situation unfolded where the three people got into the same car again. Yoo Jae-seok and Jeong Jun-ha could not hide their anxious feelings while driving, but they did not spare praise, saying, "Miju, do well now."
After many twists and turns, the three arrived at the first snack shop and entered the store selling glutinous rice donuts and soybean soup. Customers described it as “savory and warm. It’s full of nutrients.” The three people who faced the long-awaited glutinous rice donut bean soup put the first spoonfuls into their mouths with great anticipation. Yoo Jae-seok continued to put the food in his mouth, saying "delicious" repeatedly, and described the taste as "not spicy, but spicy." Yoo Jae-seok also said, “If it wasn’t for the person who reported it, I would never have known about it.”
The next broadcast trailer showed other teams heading to Ulsan and Jeonju. Haha and Park Jin-ju tasted Ulsan Jjondeukgi and water ramen, which they had only heard about, while Shin Bong-seon and Lee Yi-kyung predicted the appearance of a big eater brother and sister devouring snacks from Jeonju. Yoo Jae-seok, Jeong Jun-ha, and Lee Mi-ju welcomed snack industry legends in Daegu.
Kim Ji-won, Ten Asia reporter bella@tenasia.co.kr
