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‘Hong Kim Dong-jeon’, a sign of revival after abolition? “A miracle comeback in 2024”
As of January 1, 2024, 'Hong Kim Dong-jeon' ranked first among KBS non-drama dramas on the OTT platform Wave for 30 weeks. 'Hong Kim Dong-jeon' is showing off its high topicality on OTT, having previously ranked first among all KBS dramas and non-drama dramas (as of October 9). At the '2023 KBS Entertainment Awards', he also won Joo Woo-jae's 'Excellence Award', Hong Jin-kyung's 'Top Excellence Award', and Kim Sook's 'Entertainer of the Year Award'. In addition, it is a variety entertainment program that is so loved that it has many fan clubs that were created on its own, but it is scheduled to end in January.
The 69th episode of 'Hong Kim Dong-jeon', which will be aired on the 11th, celebrates the Year of the Blue Dragon, and each member turns into a blue dragon and sets their New Year's goals. Accordingly, it is said that the members are unanimous in their decision to abolish the 'Hong Kim Dongjeon', which makes people laugh.
On this day, members set goals they want to achieve in 2024. Among them, Hong Jin-kyung says, “I hope ‘Hong Kim Dong-jeon’ makes a miraculous comeback,” and as if grasping at straws, she starts the fight and starts to burst into laughter. Jo Se-ho joins in and sets the goal of coming back with an even more upgraded will after reorganizing for a while, saying, “I want to come together again in the summer wearing short sleeves and show off the cool pictures.”
In response to the members' glimmer of hope, Kim Sook said, "If you talk about it, everything will come true," and reached the peak of spiritual victory. In response, Joo Woo-jae said, “No matter what we talk about, it all goes this way,” and was devastated by the sight of the members talking about ‘abolition’ and burst into laughter.
Meanwhile, the members are holding a Lunar New Year special called ‘Making New Year Cards’ through games as an individual exhibition. When a mission card with 'Happy New Year' written on it appears in Chinese characters, Jo Se-ho asks, "Now, Jin-kyung, what does it mean?" and gets serious about teasing his sister since the beginning of the year. Hong Jin-kyung surprised everyone by giving the correct answer, “Happy New Year,” more confidently than anyone else. For a moment, Hong Jin-kyung explained the meaning of the first letter, 'Geun', saying, "Isn't it the root, Geun?" and said that she was working hard to match the meaning of 'Geun New Year' by mobilizing all the 'Geun' characters she knew, making 'Hong Kim Dong-jeon' especially weak in Chinese characters. The members are showing off their true value. Starting from the new year, the sight of members falling into a swamp of Chinese characters is expected to cause laughter.
'Hong Kim Dong-jeon' is an old-fashioned variety show of blood, sweat and tears in which Hong Jin-kyung, Kim Sook, Jo Se-ho, Joo Woo-jae and Woo-young change their fate with a coin. It will end with the 70th episode to be aired on the 18th.
Taeyuna, Ten Asia Reporter youyou@tenasia.co.kr
