Our Neighborhood Arts and Physical Education

Our Neighborhood Arts and Physical Education
Also known as Cool Kiz On The Block
Genre Variety
Created by Choi Jae Young
Written by Moon Eun Ae
Presented by Kang Ho-dong
Country of origin South Korea
Original language(s) Korean
No. of episodes 174
Production
Producer(s) Lee Ye Ji
Running time 80 mins.
Release
Original network KBS2
Picture format 1080i (HDTV)
Audio format 2 Channel Stereo Dolby Digital
First shown in Tuesdays at 23:10
Original release 9 April 2013 (2013-04-09) – 4 October 2016 (2016-10-04)
Chronology
Preceded by Moonlight Prince
External links
Official Site
Our Neighborhood Arts and Physical Education
Hangul 우리동네 예능과 체육의 능력자
Hanja 우리洞네藝能과體育의能力者
Revised Romanization Uridongne Yeneung-gwa Cheyugui Neungryeokja
McCune–Reischauer Uridongne Yenŭng'gwa Ch'eyugŭi Nŭngryŏkja

Our Neighborhood Arts and Physical Education (Hangul: 우리동네 예능과 체육의 능력자), also known as Cool Kiz on The Block, was a South Korean television sports variety show which premiered on 9 April 2013 on KBS2. It was the replacement show of Moonlight Prince. The program's last episode aired on 4 October 2016.

History

It was announced on March 25, 2013 by a staff member at KBS’s entertainment division to media outlet Star News that Kang Ho-dong, Lee Soo-geun, and Kim Byung-man would star as the MC's for a new sports variety show that would replace Moonlight Prince called "Our Neighborhood Arts and Physical Education." He also said that they were hoping to add a few more cast members. It was also announced that Lee Ye-ji will head the program and Moon Eun-ae would be the main writer, from Moonlight Prince and that Choi Jae-young, the main writer for 1 Night 2 Days came up with the idea for the show. KBS said the show would be about everyday people that excel at arts and exercise. The MCs will go to various neighborhood and compete against them and it will be mostly outdoors, but will sometimes be filmed in studio. KBS said that the show would record in early April and the first episode would air on April 9.[1]

On March 27, 2013 it was announced that TVXQ's Max Changmin had been selected as one of the MC's for the program. It was also unfortunately revealed that though Kim Byung-man will appear on the show, he would only be joining temporarily for the show's first project. Jo Dal-han, Park Sung Ho, and SHINee‘s Minho were revealed as the first guests. It was also revealed that the first few episodes would be centered around the ping pong project.[2]

It premiered on April 9 and debuted number one in its timeslot, beating SBS's Hwasin – Controller of the Heart. AGB Nielsen Korea reported on April 10 that the first episode received a 6.2% viewer rating, a solid rating for its time slot.[3]

Format

One sport is chosen for a period of time and a team consisting of a few celebrities competes against citizens from all across South Korea. A few rules of the sport are customized to suit the broadcasting time. For most of the sports they challenge a local amateur team in an official match after some basic training, but the format is subject to change depending on the sports they are doing: for example, when the sport was taekwondo, the celebrity team chose citizens to train together with them and when tennis was the chosen sport they entered a national competition. So far, the show has covered table tennis, bowling, badminton, basketball, taekwondo, football, tennis, foot volleyball, cycling, swimming, judo, volleyball and archery.

The members of the celebrity team change every time they change sports but a few are fixed members: in a few of the earlier episodes Kang Ho-dong, Lee Soo-geun, and Max Changmin were fixed members, but in later episodes Kang Ho-dong is the only fixed MC while the other members rotate, including Jeong Hyeong-don, John Park, Seo Ji-seok, Oh Man-seok and comedian Yang Sangguk.

List of episodes

2013

2014

2015

2016

Ratings

Ratings are based on the Live airing of 우리동네 예체능 on KBS2 on Tuesday 11.10pm kst. (Cool Kiz on the block which airs the English subbed version on KBSWorld TV on Tuesday 11.15pm airs 2 episodes late)

  1. ↑ It debuted number one in its timeslot, beating SBS's Hwasin – Controller of the Heart. AGB Nielsen Korea reported that a 6.2% was a solid rating for its time slot.

References

  1. ↑ http://news.nate.com/view/20130326n02823
  2. ↑ http://www.allkpop.com/2013/03/tvxqs-changmin-joins-as-mc-for-kang-ho-dongs-new-kbs-variety-shinees-minho-to-participate
  3. ↑ http://www.dailian.co.kr/news/news_view.htm?gubun=sp&id=333976

External links

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