LG U+ STUDIO X+U‘s popular zero-base game ‘Golden Spoon War’ has finally revealed its first episode. The ‘3rd generation chaebol’ Jain, who caused a stir on the scene with his appearance, became the winner of the first game with his excellent strategy and competitive spirit.

The U+ mobile TV ‘Golden Spoon War’, which was first revealed on the 4th, revealed the 8 people from the 0.1% golden spoon class in Korea who entered the virtual world ‘Zero City’ where there is no free lunch. Zero City is a thoroughgoing capitalist society where you can earn food, clothing, and shelter through three income-generating activities: main games, real estate investment, and hidden investments. In addition, you challenge the final mission, a real-life pop-up business, using only the money you earn in Zero City as capital, and the final winner monopolizes all the citizens’ assets.

The first main game with 10 million coins on the line was the ‘Interview Game’. This is a game where you guess who the main character is after watching the pre-interviews of 8 people. If you succeed in finding the main character, you win a prize, and if many people guess correctly, the prize is split. If no one guesses the correct answer, the prize money is monopolized by the interviewee. The interviewee must hide himself, and the other citizens win the prize money by guessing correctly. This is the core of the ‘Interview Game’.

The main character of the first round is Jain, the ‘grandson of a conglomerate founder’, and he is given the strong keyword ‘I‘m not a silver spoon in my mouth, I’m a diamond spoon in my mouth’. While Yoon, Stark, and Munsung guessed correctly, Stark said, “That‘s the only person who came to mind as a diamond spoon. When Jain appeared, Yoon suddenly said, ‘Huh? I know that person’’, revealing the secret to the correct answer. In the second round, there were a series of unimaginable comments such as, “You need assets of 100 billion won to be successful”, and “I lost 20 kg in a month and maintained it”. In-hye was suspicious that Mu-moo’s photo was different from the present, but she was fooled by his perfect acting. In the end, no one guessed correctly, and Mu-moo, the interviewee, monopolized the prize money.



The protagonist of the third round, given the keyword, “Our parents need a bodyguard for their business”, was Yoon. He needed a bodyguard to travel to countries with poor public security for his jewelry business, but he was also suspected of being a dark business (?) by the cast, which was amusing. When the other contestants bet on Jenna and Mun-seong, Ja-in made a gamble by considering the odds alone and monopolized the prize money. The protagonist of the 4th round, ‘I‘ve never heard a single compliment from my father’, was Munseong. Inhye, with her amazing deductive powers, was convinced that the interviewee was Munseong, and even used a distraction tactic to fool everyone, becoming the only one who answered correctly. In the 5th round, the content of Stark’s interview, ‘I like Starbucks, so I opened a Starbucks on the first floor of my building’, was revealed. When Robinson was receiving a landslide victory, Jain, who showed his competitive spirit this time, chose Stark alone and took the prize money.

The final results of the first main game were Jain with 3.1 million coins, Mumu with 2 million coins, Inhye with 1.6 million coins, Yoon with 1.2 million coins, Stark with 1.1 million coins, and Munseong with 1 million coins. Jenna and Robinson had 0 won in assets. About Jain, the ‘genius diamond spoon’, who suddenly rose to first place, Jenna honestly expressed her feelings, saying, “That character is annoying, but I think he‘ll do well”. Inhye said, “He has a genius side, but he’s also dogmatic and self-righteous”, and Stark said, “He has his own world”, showing his restraint. Robinson expressed shock at the gap between the rich and the poor that occurred in just a few hours, calling himself a “loser”. Jenna, who looked around Zero City‘s facilities, said, “This is money... If you don’t have money, you can‘t do what you want”, in regret.

In the midst of this, the room selection was made. While Inhye suggested a peaceful method, saying, “If you find a roommate, you can all move into a room”, Jain suddenly declared war, saying, “I put myself in room 302”, surprising everyone. After all six contestants’ room choices were decided, Jenna and Robinson, who cannot afford to pay the room fee, were moved to the ‘Labor Room’. The tearful struggles of Jenna and Robinson in their hell of labor, and the bloody competition between ‘1st place’ Zain, who took over the personal safe room 302, and the other contestants who are trying to take it away from him, will continue next week.

The zero-base game ‘Golden Spoon War’ is released every Monday and Tuesday at midnight on U+ Mobile TV.

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