There‘s nothing like ‘song’ during the holiday season. Among the special programs presented by each broadcasting station during the Lunar New Year holiday, a program featuring trot music was crowned ‘rating the ratings champion’.

According to Nielsen Korea, a viewership ratings research company, on the 30th, KBS 2TV’s ‘Lunar New Year Special Trot Feast The Color’ (Trot Feast) that aired the previous day recorded 6.6%, taking first place among all entertainment programs broadcast during the Lunar New Year holiday.

‘Trot Feast’ was hosted by singer Lee Chan-won, known as ‘KBS‘s son’, and in line with the subtitle ‘The Color’, Kim Yeon-ja, Jin Sung, Park Seo-jin, Kim Hee-jae, Oh Yu-jin, and Hong Ji-yoon performed on four different colored stages to present a unique kind of enjoyment.

On the other hand, SBS’s ‘Trot Battle’, which was considered a competitor to ‘Trot Festival’, aired on the same day and recorded a ‘anti-work’ viewership rating of 3.4%. ‘Trot Battle’ featured Nam Jin, Shim Soo-bong, Seol Woon-do, Jin Sung, Kim Yong-pil, Kim Hee-jae, Sung Min, Son Tae-jin, Song Ga-in, Lee Chan-won, and Jang Min-ho.

SBS‘s ‘K-Pop The Beginning: SMTown 30’ and MBC’s ‘Gayo Daejejeon Wannabe’, which competed by putting K-pop at the forefront, also attracted attention.

The ‘K-Pop The Beginning’ that aired on the 28th commemorated the 30th anniversary of the founding of SM Entertainment and told the stories of the ‘original idols’ HOT, SES, Shinhwa, BoA, TVXQ, Super Junior, and Girls‘ Generation, and recorded a viewership rating of 1.6%.

The program will make its second episode on February 1st. The ‘Gayo Daejejeon’ that aired on the 29th featured the best K-pop singers including aespa, Ive, Stray Kids, Rise, and NCT Dream, recording a viewership rating of 1.8%.



Reporter Lee Jeong-yeon annjoy@donga.com

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