‘Great Escape’ announces a new stage.

‘Great Escape: The Story’, a TVING original that will be released for the first time in the first half of this year, is Korea‘s only off-planet adventure variety show that unfolds with unpredictable developments on a stage that transcends time and space. It is garnering much attention as a reboot version of the ‘Great Escape’ series that secured a solid fan base starting with Season 1 in 2018.

In particular, this ‘Great Escape: The Story’ will stimulate viewers’ reasoning skills with a more upgraded story and stage that makes the most of the characteristics of OTT. Kang Ho-dong, Kim Dong-hyun, Yoo Byung-jae, Go Kyung-pyo, Baekhyun, and Yeo Jin-goo will join forces as new escapees to display solid reasoning teamwork. The activities of the escapees who will solve various themed mysteries with different backgrounds and time periods are highly anticipated.

First, the teamwork of the original members of ‘Great Escape’, Kang Ho-dong, Kim Dong-hyun, and Yoo Byung-jae, is drawing attention. Kang Ho-dong is the eldest brother of the escapees, and he leads the escapees with his tremendous strength to tear cabinets apart like sheets of paper, excellent leadership, and rich empathy.

Kim Dong-hyun, the ‘Father‘s Power (meaning a father’s strength is strong)’ with his unique ideas and outstanding physique, and Yoo Byung-jae, the self-proclaimed brain with quick reflexes, reasoning, and comedy, also reveal the know-how they‘ve accumulated through the ‘Great Escape’ series.

In addition, the synergy of new escapees Go Kyung-pyo, Baekhyun, and Yeo Jin-goo, who have thrown down the gauntlet in ‘Great Escape: The Story’, is anticipated, raising interest. With Go Kyung-pyo, who has been appearing in a variety show, drama, and movie, Baekhyun (EXO), a self-proclaimed idol game maniac, and Yeo Jin-goo, a natural actor who enjoys situational dramas even in everyday life, the new escapers with a perfect hexagonal balance are making people wonder whether they will be able to escape safely from each theme.

Like this, ‘Great Escape: The Story’ presents an extremely strong dopamine boost with a detailed design and device, a fresh problem structure that stimulates the brain, and a solid story that induces excessive immersion. Curiosity is growing for the comeback of the adventure variety show that will give you the thrill of escape and survival by solving various problems and traps.

Korea’s one and only escape room variety show, TVING original ‘Great Escape: The Story’, will be first released in the first half of 2025.

Choi Yoon-na, Donga.com reporter yyynnn@donga.com