Underplayed Gems

Barefooted Friends (2013)

Barefooted Friends poster
Genre
variety show
Country
South Korea
Length
1 season, 31 episodes
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How it feels

A group of South Korean entertainers go on outdoor challenges that are meant to be difficult but sincere. The host returns to television after a long break and leads the cast through tasks that explore real friendship. The show ended after a few months because not many people watched it.

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What happens

Barefooted Friends (Korean: 맨발의 친구들) was a South Korean reality-variety show; a part of SBS's Good Sunday lineup, along with Running Man. It was first aired on April 21, 2013. The show is a "real outdoor hardship variety"; a spin on typical outdoor variety shows. The members experience "real happiness" with others through challenges. The words, Barefooted is supposed to mean essence, sincerity, and real hardships, where as Friends not only represents the cast, but the people that are met as well. It has garnered attention as being the come-back program for Kang Ho-dong, the main MC of the program, after leaving Good Sunday's X-man in April 2007. After a seven-month run, the program was cancelled due to low ratings and to make room for K-pop Star 3, with the final episode airing on November 17, 2013. In 2020, due to the requests of Kim Hyun-Joong's Japanese fans, after the completion of his previous Japanese variety show "Raw Hyun-Joong", the Japanese Cable Television "Satellite Theatre (Eisei Gekijo)" began to air Barefooted Friends from June 28 till July 28. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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