In the Korean variety show circle (and even the entire Korean entertainment circle), the two people I like the most are the unbeatable Yoo Jae Suk, and the other is Baek Jong Won, who has not officially admitted that he is an entertainer but is becoming more and more interested in variety shows.

To say that this Lao Bai is really extraordinary.

He was originally a small chef who opened a restaurant, but gradually became famous and became a well-known entrepreneur (annual income of 100 billion won), and married a beautiful female star (Su Youzhen) who is 15 years younger than him.

Later, he participated in the filming of a series of food variety shows (Home Cooking, Three Kings, etc.) and became a well-known star writer in Korea.

Later, he transformed into a "lonely gourmet" and traveled around the world in search of special food. He has been to many places in China alone.

What makes him shine even more is that with his own expertise and advantages, he also filmed the variety show "Baek Jong-won's Alley Restaurant" that helped revive and revitalize the small restaurants in the neighborhood, and helped farmers and fishermen

The variety show "Delicious Plaza" sells unsalable specialty agricultural products and seafood? Moreover, the advertising fees and related endorsement fees for the show are donated to help related public welfare projects.

This is what the editor appreciates most. The sense of social responsibility of celebrities or entrepreneurs is very valuable in any society.

And worthy of respect.

In the Korean food industry, especially in the minds of food producers, processors, and catering operators, Baek Jong-won has become a glorious image of a "Baek Dashan" who can turn his fingers into gold.

The original intention of this program is to bring unsalable agricultural and sideline products due to various objective reasons back to the mass market and family dining tables, and to play a role in connecting agricultural products with consumers.

Of course, friends who have watched this show will definitely have some questions: Why do you feel that any agricultural product in South Korea is unsaleable?

Here is a brief explanation: First, the market demand in South Korea is relatively small; second, the Korean Agricultural Products Association is relatively unreasonable. For example, vegetables such as sweet potatoes, carrots, and eggplants, or fruits such as oranges and apples, their usual requirements

Yes, we don’t want the ones that are too small, the ones that are too big, and the ones that are ugly. In this case, the loss of agricultural products alone will be very large.

There are also things like leeks. They require that there be no white leeks (like the white part of scallions), which is almost equivalent to selling only leek leaves.

Once the leeks grow a little older, they can only be cut and thrown away and cannot be supplied to the market.

So in the show, when they saw Lao Bai taking out a handful of "chives" to stir-fry meat, all of them looked surprised, as if they had seen a "new world".

It's incredible.

At the beginning, the show was still following Baek Jong-won's usual style, and everything was done by himself.

After a period of time, the few disciples he brought (Kim Heechul/Kim Tongjun/Liang Shiyong) were up to par, and they began to slowly get started on their own. Even Kim Heechul became decent, and Baek Jongwon slowly let go.

Now, I am becoming more and more idle on the show, so that I am gradually marginalized.

Then, a certain writer who originally worked at Running Man also joined the production team (both from SBS, and RM had also exported some PD to other programs before), so this program slowly changed from a relatively pure one

The gourmet food program has become a "food variety show" with an increasingly strong sense of variety.

One of the links, the so-called "Gourmet Detective" blind guessing link, is quite interesting.

As the saying goes: "Teach the disciples and starve the master to death".

As these disciples get stronger and stronger, the master is increasingly being squeezed into a corner of the kitchen and beaten, or simply driven outside to do nothing, such as lying on a recliner or fishing.

It has become more and more Lao Bai's daily routine in this show.

Seeing this scene, I feel so happy.

One of the biggest features of a good variety show is that you can watch its growth.

This growth includes not only the format of the program itself, which has been developing in a better and better direction, but also the members of the program team, which has a certain plot-like continuity. Everything seems natural and full of expectations.

Including the new member (Yoo Byeong-jae) who joined later, the decision was made seemingly casually but extremely reasonably.

Running Man's peak state also has similar universality in this regard.

This is completely different from some domestic variety shows that can only rely on changing guests on a whim to gain traffic and topics.

And in terms of the sense of variety show, the program team has also made many attempts, such as adding some funny after-dinner games (pictured above), and a new major link like "Gourmet Detective".

This link is set up like this: the apprentices are divided into two teams to compete in cooking skills. At this time, Lao Bai is kicked out of the kitchen (reclining chairs and fishing to kill time).

After the dishes are cooked, Lao Bai is called back to evaluate the cooking skills and guess which dish was made by which team (this is the key point).

During this period, the apprentices would hide clues in various ways, confuse the audience, and try to disrupt Lao Bai's judgment as much as possible, including deliberately ignoring the clues, answering questions incorrectly, or forcing a smile, etc.