Days before the highly anticipated variety show ‘Jinny’s Kitchen‘ or ‘Seojin’s Korean Street Food’ begins, the cast guested on another variety show, ‘The Game Caterers.’
The unscripted variety show stars Lee Seo Jin, Jung Yoo Mi, Park Seo Joon, Choi Woo Sik, and BTS’s V, aka Kim Taehyung, running an overseas Korean restaurant in Bacalar, Mexico.
The show proved to be popular, and both episodes of ‘The Game Caterers’ trended to #1 and #2 on YouTube South Korea after their release.
Anecdotes shared by the cast about Taehyung during the show also became the main topic of interest among the general public. More than 15 articles about him trended in Naver’s most-viewed news section.
The trending article topics included:
- Seojin revealed Taehyung was difficult to manage because he came to Mexico to ‘play’
- Taehyung and Yoomi’s food argument
- Taehyung learning to love tequila despite his low alcohol tolerance
- Taehyung asked Seojin what his monthly salary will be
- Taehyung’s wrong answers in the quizzes
- and many more
Three of Taehyung’s most-viewed articles received 344,000, 182,000, and 180,000 views, and a total of 700,000+ combined views in 24 hours. He also trended on the main pages of other platforms like Daum and Nate.
After the recent ‘Game Caterers’ episodes and ‘Jinny’s Kitchen,’ highlight teasers, fans are excitedly anticipating to see more of the cast’s chemistry with each other, and the challenges they’ll face running a Korean restaurant in a foreign country.
Check out both episodes of ‘The Game Caterers’ with English subtitles on YouTube.
‘Jinny’s Kitchen’ premieres on February 24 at 8:50 PM KST on tvN and TVING for viewers in Korea.
Global fans can enjoy the show on Amazon Prime Video in the U.S., UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines, Indonesia, and Vietnam. More countries will be added later.