Yoo Jae-suk, cash donation on ‘Running Man’ … 1 trillion won in assets rumored

TV Jun 02, 2025

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Broadcaster Yoo Jae-seok.Sports Donga DB
Broadcaster Yoo Jae-seok.Sports Donga DB
Yoo Jae-suk has rekindled the ‘1 trillion won fortune theory’.

SBS ‘Running Man’ broadcast on the 1st was decorated with the ‘Vote for Spring’ race that took place in Chuncheon, Gangwon-do.On this day, the cast members were divided into teams and voted on various agenda items in a unique way.In the ‘Shout Vote’ mission where the team with the most responses wins, guest Park Ji-hoo first caught everyone’s attention by declaring, “If you scream a lot, I’ll give you 10,000 won.” After that, Park Ji-hoo actively encouraged responses by raising the amount to 30,000 won and 50,000 won, and the scene was filled with cheers.

Yoo Jae-suk, who was watching this, responded with, “Are you kidding me?” and then took out cash from his wallet and said, “I’ll give 200,000 won to the person who screams the loudest.” The staff members, surprised by the sudden ‘cash flex,’ responded with cheers, and in the end, Yoo Jae-suk’s team won the mission by recording 128 decibels.Yoo Jae-suk handed cash to the staff member who screamed the loudest and said, “Use it for now.”

Photo courtesy of SBS
Photo courtesy of SBS
This performance was Yoo Jae-suk actually carrying out the promise that Kim Jong-guk had first suggested, and the two wittily added, “A promise is not a blackmail promise.” Yoo Jae-suk’s activities did not stop there.In the subsequent tablecloth removal mission, he also made the team members laugh by cleanly succeeding and giving them a chicken galbi dinner.

The broadcast that day also garnered attention for its scenes showing Yoo Jae-suk’s extraordinary wealth.Recently, Yoo Jae-suk purchased two buildings in Nonhyeon-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul for 11.6 billion won and 8.2 billion won respectively, all in cash, and also bought a penthouse worth 8.6 billion won, sparking speculation that he has “1 trillion won in assets.”

Photo courtesy of SBS
Photo courtesy of SBS


Reporter Lee Su com jin sujinl22@donga

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