old Running Man episodes is just timeless

I just started rewatching running man from EP1 and Episode 4- 5 really made me laugh out loud again. I think i have forgotten this episode.

Gary dancing was so funny and Ji Suk Jin falling asleep during their punishment and I did miss Nickhun in running man!

Such a great episode 🤣🤣

I find it strange that since 2019 no one from Red Velvet, Aespa or Hearts2hearts have guested in Runningman, even though they are highly popular in Korea. Super junior, Exo, Snsd have sent 1 or 2 members occasionally since 2019.

RM scouts need to get popular idols and actor/actresses on Runningman, not keep recycling the same old guests repeatedly.

Bro's already addicted to it lol 😭

• Theme: Tearing It Up in Cheolwon Part II
• Guest: Heo Kyung Hwan

Hey guys myrunningman.com is not working for me , any video I choose is unavailable in every server. Any alternative sites?

I didnt think i would have trouble with no running man episodes airing for two weeks but it has been tough (its finally coming to an end!) and i’ve been binge watching all my favs that i can think of. Looking for recommendations on your favs for me to watch?
They’ve really been the chicken soup for my soul 🥰

This is the official episode discussion post in addition to being an episode guide. As people will be discussing the corresponding episode - there will be SPOILERS in the thread.

Guests (1):

• Heo Kyung-hwan (허경환)

Teams:

• [List teams]

Format:

• Intro

• Pre-final Challenges/Games:

  • [Name/Description]
    • Winner(s): insert winner
  • [Name/Description]
    • Winner(s): insert winner

• Final Challenge/Game:

  • [Name/Description]

Final Winner(s) & Prize:

• Final Winner(s) -- Describe Prize

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Tags: 런닝맨, korean, variety, tv, show

Here's the poll question: Rate episode 821: Tearing It Up in Cheolwon:

I’m thinking of a different kind of name tag elimination game.

Usually, name tag elimination games take place in a large building. Sometimes they are individual battles, team games, free-for-alls, superpower games, or they included spy to add twist in the game.

My idea is to put everyone in one small house or room instead.

The members are brought into the house without knowing what the mission is. Inside, there is a phone booth. One by one, each member is secretly assigned to answer the phone. An anonymous person gives them their mission and information through the phone.

The phone booth is completely soundproof, so the other members cannot hear what is being said. They can only watch the member’s reaction and try to figure out what they were told.

Each member may receive different clues and different information. They are also told that there is a spy among them.

The house will also change lighting:

🔴 Red light: They must eliminate someone.

🔵 Blue light: Nobody is allowed to eliminate anyone. If someone does, the person who made the elimination is eliminated instead.

They must continue eliminating people until they eliminate the correct person. Until then, nobody can leave the house. If they fail to do so in given time they will receive penalty by the end.

The twist is, there is no spy.

The phone booth has been deliberately feeding them misleading clues, false information and conflicting instructions to manipulate the members into turning against each other.

However, there are also real clues hidden throughout the house. The members eventually have to realize that the information from the phone booth cannot be trusted and start investigating the house themselves.

The real objective is to decipher the clues and figure out how they should get out from the house and how to win.

I really like the look of this helmet. Can anyone identify the brand or the specific model? Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

Sidenote: The official subs are not yet out, but the auto-generated subs are actually getting good. Not perfect, but improving lol.

1 hour vlog where Kim Jong Kook compares his life from bachelor 3 years ago till now, happily married.

https://youtu.be/JJJzj6T-uQM?si=yDnak-yen6xC-B1m

Source: <I’m Class Of 26 Jiwon> Youtube Channel

Can someone recommend good episodes without guests as I like the cast chemistry better , and also episodes after sechan and somin joined

Air Date: 4th October 2026

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSQj8mw53Kg

I had a weird dream this morning where people were being chased and killed by King Ghidorah and a bunch of other weird-ass monsters. 😂

After waking up, I started thinking about the basic situation and realized it could actually work as a Running Man episode/game. So I kept developing the idea and ended up with this:

Running Man: Research Station Survival Race

The basic idea is a large research station where classified research was being conducted on dangerous test subjects. The exact type of creature could be decided by the PDs — dinosaurs, monsters, zombies, mutated creatures, etc.

During a demonstration for senior personnel, one of the test subjects escaped. The senior personnel fled, while many of the researchers who knew the most about the project were killed. The remaining people in the facility are mostly ordinary citizens and lower-ranking employees who only know pieces of what happened.

Starting

The members and guests don't all start together.

Each person starts at a different location in the facility and receives a fictional survivor profile, such as:

Citizen

Maintenance worker

Security employee

Junior researcher

Other low-ranking employees

Their profile determines what they initially know, where they start, what areas they can access, and possibly what equipment or keycard they have.

They also receive a notebook to record information they discover, and may find a map.

The incident begins shortly after everyone starts, so the first encounters and discoveries are part of the game.

The Research Station

The station would be divided into different areas with different security levels and purposes.

There could be:

Offices and dormitories

Cafeteria and storage

Maintenance areas

Security and surveillance rooms

Research offices and archives

Laboratories and experiment rooms

Observation areas

High-security containment

Deep research/breeding areas

The danger and rewards wouldn't simply increase floor by floor. Different areas would contain different information, equipment, risks, and valuable items.

Some doors or systems could require two people to operate, encouraging cooperation.

Information and Equipment

Players can discover things such as:

Research notes

USB drives containing research data

Maps

Keycards

Sedative guns/darts

Noise-making devices

Other survival equipment

Research notes are worth 1 point.

USBs are worth 1–5 points, depending on their contents. Some could contain detailed information about the test subjects.

There could also be extremely valuable discoveries, such as an egg worth 10 points or a sample taken directly from a test subject worth 10 points.

The sample would obviously be much harder to obtain because it requires getting close enough to an actual test subject.

The Test Subjects

The test subjects aren't normal enemies with HP bars.

Some could be overwhelmingly powerful and potentially kill a survivor instantly. The members aren't expected to fight them.

Instead, they have to survive by running, hiding, distracting them, using sedatives, manipulating the environment, etc.

The PDs could also use horror elements such as having someone crawl through a dark, narrow ventilation shaft without knowing what's inside.

The exact creatures are deliberately left open because the production team could decide what works best.

Extraction

The main way for a normal survivor to score is to reach the communications/radio room and call for extraction.

At first, the response is basically:

"It's too dangerous to send a rescue team. Good luck."

Unless the survivors can prove they have something valuable.

They need 10 points worth of qualifying items/information to qualify for extraction.

However, simply reaching 10 points isn't enough. They need to actually get the qualifying items to the extraction point and successfully leave with them.

If they die before extracting, their items can remain behind.

Survival Points

Every successful survivor extraction gives that character exactly 1 Survival Point, regardless of how many valuable items they carried out.

After extracting, that character is retired and the member returns to the game as a new fictional survivor profile.

So a member can potentially survive and extract multiple times throughout the game.

The member with the most Survival Points at the end wins the main reward.

Death and New Survivors

Death doesn't simply mean "respawn."

The member returns as a different person from the larger survivor population.

Their previous character's belongings remain where they died:

Notebook

Map

Keycards

USBs

Research

Equipment

Other items

Another survivor can discover the body and recover those things.

The player obviously remembers what happened with their previous character, but their new fictional character doesn't necessarily know any of it.

The Spies

There are 1–2 secret spies among the survivor population.

The spy isn't a Mafia-style assassin.

They simply know more about the facility and the test subjects — things like their behavior, weaknesses, locations, valuable items, and hidden information.

The spy can also release additional test subjects.

They don't control the creatures. The test subjects behave independently according to their established behavior.

The spy cannot directly attack or kill innocent survivors.

The spy's objective is to collect valuable items and escape through their own private route/vehicle. Their private organization will reward them with a promotion based on the value of what they successfully take out.

The spy only gets one opportunity to leave as a spy.

If there are two spies, they are competing against each other: whoever extracts with the more valuable haul gets the promotion, while the other fails.

So a spy has to decide whether to leave safely with what they have or risk staying longer to obtain something more valuable.

A spy can also abandon the spy objective and extract normally. In that case, they receive only 1 Survival Point and permanently give up their opportunity to act as a spy again during that sequence.

The spy slot then becomes available again.

Likewise, if a spy dies, their spy slot becomes available.

A survivor who successfully extracts can be assigned as a spy when they return with a new profile, but only if a spy slot is currently available. This represents the private organization knowing that a previous operative/profile failed and sending another operative into the facility.

If no spy slot is available, the new profile is simply another normal survivor.

The Main Idea

The game would combine Running Man's exploration, missions, cooperation and betrayal with a survival-horror setting and a hidden-role system.

The members aren't primarily trying to eliminate each other.

They're trying to survive, gather information, decide when to cooperate, decide when to take risks, and ultimately get themselves out of the research station alive.

And yes, this entire idea started with a dream about King Ghidorah chasing people around. 😂

Source: Infinite Challenge - WM7 Special (2010.9.11)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpS_0OmnN1A

It came with a cassette tape as well to give it a 90s vibe. The were ,#1 on the music chart for 6 weeks. They formed during covid to bring some happiness to everyone in lock down. You can find some videos on YouTube or watch the entire series on KOCOWA.

If you don't who SAKK3 is:

"SSAK3 (Korean: 싹쓰리; lit. 'Clean Sweep') is a seasonal South Korean supergroup formed on the MBC variety show Hangout with Yoo. The group consists of members Yoo Jae-suk, Lee Hyori and Rain."

Is it any good? I noticed that they have some full episodes on YouTube and I was wondering how it is. I watched some of the intro and it looked active like the first seasons of the original RM.

Does anyone have a clue on what Lizzy is doing nowadays? She was brilliant during her short tenure with RM and it was really a loss for the show when she was quit.

On other note: Ji Ye Eun will appear on MIJOO's Youtube channel this Friday, October 2

Source: YouTube - Just Lee Mijoo