In the 24th episode of ‘I‘m SOLO’, an unprecedented scene called ‘5:1 Date’ was born.

On the 5th, on SBS Plus and ENA’s real dating program ‘I‘m SOLO’, an unprecedented scene unfolded where Ok-soon swept the votes of Young-soo, Young-ho, Young-cheol, Young-sik, and Sang-cheol in the men’s date choices. On the other hand, Young-sook, Soon-ja, Young-ja, and Hyun-sook all received ‘0 votes’ due to the ‘Ok-soon‘s aftermath of voting’, swallowing their bitterness.

On the morning of the 4th day of ‘24th Solo Country’, Young-sik called Ok-soon out. He appealed, “I’m going to choose you finally. Whether you choose me or not, I respect and support you.” Here, Ok-soon replied, “I told you (in the production team interview) that I would choose you if it was a date (picked by women).” However, Young-sik was caught off guard by Ok-soon‘s words and became “frozen”, saying, “I liked it too much...” and could not continue speaking. Then, Ok-soon said, “But did you make the beef radish soup?” and brought up the beef radish soup that Young-sik had promised to make the day before. Young-sik turned his gaze on Ok-soon, saying, “No. I didn’t ask you to do it,” turning his gaze on her. Ok-soon‘s expression quickly darkened. Right after, in an interview with the production team, Ok-soon said, “I like people who show their actions more than words. He said he would make the beef radish soup and then said, ”You didn’t ask me to do it,“ which was disappointing. ”I changed my mind at that time and decided not to choose Yeong-sik,“ he confessed his changed feelings.

Yeong-sik, who did not notice this at all, told the other single men and women about his conversation with Ok-soon. He called Yeong-ho, Yeong-sook, Hyun-sook, Yeong-ja, and Jeong-sook and bragged, ”Ok-soon said she would choose me, so I was dumbfounded.“ Seeing Yeong-sik looking like a ”dumb dumb bot,“ Yeong-ja cheered him on, saying, ”That‘s love, do your best.“

Yeong-cheol cooked for everyone in the kitchen. Ok-soon, who found out, went next to Yeong-cheol and wiped his sweat, expressing her affection by ”flirting.“ At the same time, Yeong-sik, who had finished his testimony tour of ”Solo Nation 24,“ found Ok-soon, ”I was dumbfounded when she said she would choose me for (the single women’s date) selection. So I couldn‘t say anything,“ and ran wild again. Ok-soon said in an interview with the production crew, ”I think Young-sik took (what I said) as a date request. I was just saying what I said in a previous interview with the (production crew),“ and confessed her awkward feelings due to Young-sik’s misunderstanding, before expressing her disappointment, saying, ”(Young-sik) thought I was eliminated here.“ After that, Ok-soon avoided Young-sik who was looking for her and went to meet Young-chul. When Ok-soon encountered Young-chul, she said, ”Yesterday, (the production crew) asked me who I wanted to date. I told you then. Just know,“ and quickly disappeared.

After a while, a new date selection was conducted. This date matching was where a single woman would sit in a photo zone, and a single man who wanted to date her would go next to her and take a picture. Yeong-sook, who was the first to go, had to take a picture alone with the ‘0 votes’. Next up, Jeong-sook had the unexpected appearance of Gwang-soo, confirming their ‘1:1 date’. After Soon-ja confirmed that she had the ‘0 votes’, she turned on the ‘Happiness Circuit’, saying, “Is this perhaps a second date?”. Yeong-ja, who also had the ‘0 votes”, expressed her disappointment by saying, “I thought Yeong-ho would come, but he didn‘t”. When it was Ok-soon’s turn, Yeong-sik ran out before the production team‘s sign-off, and following him, Yeong-soo, Yeong-ho, Yeong-cheol, and Sang-cheol chose Ok-soon, making the unprecedented ‘5:1 date’ a success. MC Defconn couldn’t hide his laughter at the sight of the crowded ‘Team Ok-soon photo’, saying, “What kind of company outing is this?”. Finally, Hyun-sook, who came out, sadly took a solo photo when she found out that she had ‘0 votes’.

Kwang-soo, who unexpectedly won the date selection, continued to only talk about ‘Ok-soon Talk’ while talking about how he intuitively witnessed the birth of ‘5:1 Ok-soon-dan’ during his date with Jung-sook. Jung-sook continued her soulless reactions, saying, “Yeah, that‘s right, that’s right”. Nevertheless, Kwang-soo joked, “Do you want to go watch the five of us go on a date?”, and even showed his thoroughgoing individualistic tendencies during the meal, making us feel that he had a style that was 180 degrees different from Jung-sook‘s. Furthermore, on the way back from the date, Kwang-soo suddenly started singing Sung Si-kyung’s song and even showed off his beatboxing skills, performing a whopping 23 songs. After the date, Jung-sook said in front of the production crew, “I actually hate people who beatbox. She confessed her feelings for distancing herself from Kwang-soo, saying, “My heart feels like it’s cooling off.” Kwang-soo also said, “I don’t have any worries about Jeong-sook, but there’s no strange tension between men and women,” revealing that he didn’t feel any romantic tension.

The date of ‘Team Ok-soon’ was tense from the beginning. The five single men who entered the restaurant engaged in a tense war of nerves from taking their seats to putting down their cutlery. Ok-soon was embarrassed, saying, “No one looks happy. Where should I match them?” At that time, Young-soo said, “Then match me,” making Ok-soon burst out laughing, and to Young-chul, whose tension had dropped significantly, he wittily said, “If a man is that discouraged, how can a woman be attracted to him?” Young-soo also brightened the mood by dancing to a 2PM dance, saying, “I’m appealing to your ears.” Immediately after, in an interview with the production team, Young-soo showed his extraordinary determination, saying, ”Come in if you want. I‘m confident. Come at me!“ Seeing Young-soo like this, Ok-soon also admitted that it was a rediscovery of Young-soo, saying, ”I didn’t notice it when we were alone, but I saw his charm when I was with someone else.“

During the meal, Ok-soon asked everyone why they chose her. Young-ho said, ”I made today Ok-soon Day. I wanted to talk to you,“ and Young-chul said, ”I tried to talk to you, but I‘m as busy as the bank opening hours, so I came because I wanted to get to know you.“ Young-soo said, ”After talking to you, I realized your different charms,“ and mentioned the commonality of treating a sick stray cat. Young-sik said, ”I used to be a fan of Ok-soon. Even if you didn’t choose me, I think I‘ll be really happy that you liked me.“ Immediately after, in an interview with the production team, Young-sik said, ”It was frustrating to see (other single men) forcibly appealing to their common interests,“ and activated his ”recent feelings.“

In the following trailer, Sang-chul and Young-soo, who had a ‘1:1 conversation’ with Ok-soon, romantically appealed to each other by saying, “If you have to pick someone, you should pick me, what else would you do?”, “I will run to you with a new love.” In addition, Young-chul turning to Soon-ja again after his ‘5:1 date’ with Ok-soon and Gwang-soo sitting across from Soon-ja after his ‘1:1 conversation” with Jeong-sook were captured, foreshadowing ‘The return of Soon-ja’s heyday’.” Here, ‘Solo Nation 24’ is depicted as falling into chaos again due to the ‘Super Date Ticket Battle’, raising curiosity.

The burning romance of ‘Solo Nation 24’ continues on ‘I‘m SOLO’, which airs on SBS Plus and ENA at 10:30 PM on the 12th (Wednesday).

Jeon Hyo-jin, Donga.com Reporter jhj@donga.com

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