Saturday Freedom
| Saturday Freedom | |
|---|---|
| Also known as | Declaration of Freedom Saturday |
| Hangul | ์์ ์ ์ธ ํ ์์ผ |
| Hanja | ่ช็ฑๅฎฃ่จๅๆๆฅ |
| RR | Jayuseoneon toyoil |
| MR | Chayusลnลn t'oyoil |
| Genre | Reality television, Variety show |
| Country of origin | South Korea |
| Original language | Korean |
| No. of episodes | 44 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer | Kim Choong |
| Producer | Kwon Jae-young |
| Running time | Approx. 140 minutes per episode |
| Original release | |
| Network | KBS2 |
| Release | June 4, 2011ย โ March 31, 2012 |
| Related | |
| Happy Sunday | |
Saturday Freedom (Korean:ย ์์ ์ ์ธ ํ ์์ผ; lit.ย 'Declaration of Freedom Saturday') was a South Korean reality-variety show shown on the KBS2 network, which competes directly against MBC's We Got Married and Infinite Challenge, and SBS' Star Junior Show Bungeoppang and Star King. The lineup ended on March 31, 2012, with Immortal Songs 2 becoming a separate program and Invincible Youth 2 moving into the time slot.[1]
History
[edit]Programs prior to Saturday Freedom featured a similar title. Declaration of Freedom Today is Saturday began airing on October 17, 1998, and aired until April 28, 2001. Beginning on May 5, 2001, Show Everyone's Saturday (์ผ ์ฌ๋ฌ๋ถ์ ํ ์์ผ) aired, then on November 10, 2001 Declaration of Freedom Saturday Big Operation (์์ ์ ์ธ ํ ์๋์์ ) took over and aired until November 1, 2003, which at this time KBS's Saturday lineup program was cancelled.[2] It was revived on April 25, 2009, as Invincible Saturday (์ฒํ๋ฌด์ ํ ์์ผ) and aired until December 25, 2010, and KBS's Saturday lineup program was cancelled once again.[3] It was revived again as Saturday Freedom on June 4, 2011. On September 10, 2011, Saturday Freedom divided into two parts, Part 1 airing at 5:15PM KST and Part 2 airing at 6:15PM KST, in an effort to boost ratings.[4]
Broadcasting Times
[edit]- June 4โ11, 2011 (17:35 โ 19:55; 2 hours 20 minutes)
- June 18 โ September 3, 2011 (17:50 โ 19:55; 2 hour 5 minutes)
- September 10, 2011 โ March 31, 2012 (17:15 โ 19:55; 2 hours 40 minutes)
- September 10, 2011 โ March 31, 2012 (17:15 โ 18:15; 1 hour; Part 1)
- September 10, 2011 โ March 31, 2012 (18:15 โ 19:55; 1 hour 40 minutes; Part 2)
Segments
[edit]Birth of a Family
[edit]- Aired: November 12, 2011 โ March 31, 2012
- Starring: Lee Hwi-jae, Kim Byung-man, Boom, No Woo-jin, Hyuna (4Minute), G.NA, Yim Si-wan (ZE:A).[5]
Birth of a Family (๊ฐ์กฑ์ ํ์) was an "animal communion variety" program and was first broadcast on November 12, 2011. The program is divided into two corners, Let's Live Together (๊ฐ์ด ์ฝ์๋ค) and Birth of a Family (๊ฐ์กฑ์ ํ์). Let's Live Together features Lee Hwi-jae and Kim Byung-man as rare animals visit their home. Birth of a Family features idol groups living with and becoming the family of abandoned dogs, and helping them find new owners.[6][7] Infinite and A Pink were the first groups of idols and were replaced with Hyuna of 4Minute, G.NA, and Siwan of ZE:A in March.[8]
Immortal Songs 2
[edit]- Aired: June 4, 2011 โ March 31, 2012 (in Saturday Freedom. Airs today as stand-alone program.)
- Starring: Shin Dong-yup, Eun Ji-won, Moon Hee-joon.[9]
Immortal Songs 2: Singing the Legend (๋ถํ์ ๋ช ๊ณกII - ์ ์ค์ ๋ ธ๋ํ๋ค; Romanized: Bulhueui Myeonggok II - Jeonseoleul Noraehada) is a music competition program and began airing on June 4, 2011. It is a revival of Immortal Songs, and features idol singers performing songs of legendary singers. The singers perform in front of an audience who vote for who they believe best presented the classic songs.[10] It now airs as a separate program, as Immortal Songs 2: Singing the Legend, in the same time slot.[1]
Secret
[edit]- Aired: June 4 โ November 5, 2011
- Starring: Lee Hwi-jae, Shin Bong-sun, Kim Hee-chul.[11]
Secret (์ํฌ๋ฆฟ) (Subtitle: Are You a Good Person?) was a game-talk show featuring secrets of celebrities. Stars must play games and succeed to prevent a secret of theirs from being revealed by a friend.[12] Originally airing after Immortal Songs 2, the program faced difficulty when Immortal Songs 2 aired for too long, thus eating into the airtime of Secret. On one occasion, the program only aired for three minutes on July 23, 2011.[13]
References
[edit]- 1 2 "KBS, ๋ถ๋ถ์กฐ์ ํตํด '์์ ์ ์ธํ ์์ผ' ๊ฐํ๋ด๋ ธ๋ค". TV Report (in Korean). 21 March 2012. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 7 April 2012.
- โ "'ํ ์๋์์ ' '์ผ์์ผ์ ์ฆ๊ฑฐ์' ๋ฑ ํ์ง..KBS ๊ฐ์ ํ๋ก๊ทธ๋จ ๊ฐํธ" (in Korean). Naver News. 20 October 2003. Retrieved 16 November 2011.
- โ '์ฒํ๋ฌด์ ์ผ๊ตฌ๋จ', ๊ฒ์ ๋! (in Korean). Star News. 8 December 2010. Retrieved 16 November 2011.
- โ '์์ ์ ์ธ ํ ์์ผ', '๋ถํ2'-'์ํฌ๋ฆฟ' ๋ ธ์ ๋ถ๋ฆฌ ํ์ (in Korean). OSEN. 7 September 2011. Retrieved 16 November 2011.
- โ "KBS ์ ๊ธฐ๊ฒฌ ํ๋ก๊ทธ๋จ '๊ฐ์กฑ์ํ์' ํ์ , ์ธํผ๋ํธ ์์ดํํฌ ์ถ์ฐ". Newsen (in Korean). 31 October 2011. Archived from the original on 5 November 2011. Retrieved 16 November 2011.
- โ ์คํ๋ค์ ๋๋ฌผ ๊ฐ์กฑ ๋ง๋ค๊ธฐ ํ๋ก์ ํธ (in Korean). Naver News. 9 November 2011. Retrieved 16 November 2011.
- โ '๊ฐ์กฑ์ํ์' ์ ๊ธฐ๊ฒฌ์, ์ ๊ธฐ๊ฒฌ์ ์ํ, ์ ๊ธฐ๊ฒฌ์ ์ํ ๋๋ฐํ๋ก ๋ ๊น. Newsen (in Korean). Newsen. 9 November 2011. Retrieved 16 November 2011.
- โ '๊ฐ์กฑ์ํ์' ์ง๋-ํ์-์์, ์ ๊ธฐ๊ฒฌ ์์๋ณดํธ 2๊ธฐ ๊ฐ์กฑ ํ์ . Newsen (in Korean). Newsen. 12 February 2012. Archived from the original on 7 January 2014. Retrieved 12 February 2012.
- โ '๋ถํ์ ๋ช ๊ณก2' ๋ฌธํฌ์ค MC ์ ์ ๋ฐํ...๊น๊ตฌ๋ผ์ 'ํญํ ์๋ค' ์๊ณ (in Korean). TV Report. 29 September 2011. Archived from the original on 6 April 2012. Retrieved 16 November 2011.
- โ ์์ด๋ ๋๊ฒฐ '๋ถํ์๋ช ๊ณก2', '๋๊ฐ์'์ ์ฐจ์ด์ ์? (in Korean). Star News. 16 May 2011. Archived from the original on 17 December 2013. Retrieved 16 November 2011.
- โ ์ดํ์ฌยท์ ๋ด์ ยท๊นํฌ์ฒ , '์ํฌ๋ฆฟ' MC ๋ฐํ (in Korean). Star News. 24 May 2011. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 16 November 2011.
- โ '์ํฌ๋ฆฟ', ์ง๋ถํ ํ ํฌ์ผ, ๋ ๋ฆด ์ ์์๊น? (in Korean). MyDaily. 21 June 2011. Retrieved 16 November 2011.
- โ "KBS ๋ฐฉ์ก์ด ์ฅ๋? '์ํฌ๋ฆฟ' 3๋ถ ํธ์ฑ ๊ตด์" (in Korean). TV Report. 23 July 2011. Archived from the original on 6 April 2012. Retrieved 16 November 2011.
External links
[edit]- Official website (in Korean)
