Friday, December 24, 2010

Episode 58: Season finale
Constructing Idol Village mascot (Shinyoung, Hara, Hyomin, Juyeon).
Cooking for the final meal with the villagers (Euni, Narsha, Sunhwa, Victoria, Sori).
Ribbon cutting with the mascot inaugurating Idol Village as a future tourist attraction.
Christmas party with all the villager peripheral cast in the green house, now transformed into an IY photo gallery, Taewoo guests, games for prizes (4-of-a-kind, deaf version of telephone, karaoke game) thank you to the villagers.
Goodbye to the animals, farewell gathering and final sign-off.
G7 songs: Jumping (Kara), Yayaya (T-ara), Love Rain (Kim Taewoo).

updated KBS link: episode 58 complete.
part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5.

Friday, December 17, 2010

Episode 57:
Seat cushion elimination race to determine in whose name the money G7 has earned over the past year will be donated.
Delivery of G7 brand rice to visiting teams who helped them, Euni, Sunhwa, Hara, Juyeon travel to Boeun, Chungcheongbuk-do, to deliver rice to Tractorformers team, town tour, dinner.
Chief Noh, Narsha, Hyomin, Victoria, Sori return to the bank to repay the loan and make their donation, then deliver rice to Yonsei University construction club (Habitat for Humanity) team in Seoul, Hyomin has to leave for music show recording.
Design of Idol Village mascot (Shinyoung, Hara, Hyomin, Juyeon).
G7 songs: Ya Ya Ya, Why Are You Being Like This (T-ara), Jumping (Kara), Bbi Ri Bba Bba (Narsha), Madonna (Secret).

updated KBS link: episode 57 complete.
part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5.

Jumping, Lupin (Kara)

I Go Crazy Because of You, Magic, Madonna, Ya Ya Ya (Secret, T-ara shared stage)

Friday, December 10, 2010

Episode 56:
Queen of proverbs contest (Sunhwa, Sori, Juyeon), hot snacks for getting answers right.
Memory lane: creating one-day tour route for the increasing amount of tourists, Shinyoung, Hyomin, Hara, Juyeon go into town, Yangdeokwon 5-day market, restaurants, hair salon; chief Noh, Euni, Narsha, Sunhwa, Victoria go to the river, rock stacking game, Wanggu's farm; everyone ends up at the same restaurant, tongue twister for noodles.
G7 songs: Ya Ya Ya (T-ara), Madonna (Secret).

updated KBS link: episode 56 complete.
part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5.

Friday, December 3, 2010

Episode 55:
Guest: Taemin (Shinee), Victoria absent.
Visit to master traditional sauce/side dish maker; Euni, Hara, Narsha, Hyomin, Taemin make fermented soybean paste (cheonggukjang), Blue Soup a cappella group; Sori, Juyeon, Sunhwa, Shinyoung make dried turnips, proverb battle.
Group dinner, competition to see which team closes jar lids.
G7 songs: Jumping, Lupin (Kara).

updated KBS link: episode 55 complete.
part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5.

Jumping (Kara)

Why Are You Being Like This, Ya Ya Ya (T-ara)

Friday, November 26, 2010

Episode 54:
Guest: Bora (Sistar), Hara and Narsha absent.
Village Solidarity Festival, sports competition (hoop rolling relay, strength endurance contest,  tug of war, jump rope, relay race), and performance.
Mudfish catching teams: Euni, Victoria, Sunhwa, Sori vs. Shinyeong, Bora, Juyeon, Hyomin; hand pushing game for fishing tools.
Mudfish soup making, cooking G7 rice for the first time; kimchi making, "crash Bora".
Dinner with villagers, Invincible Youth photo book.
G7 songs: NU ABO (f(x)), Jumping (Kara).

updated KBS link: episode 54 complete.
part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5.

Thursday, November 25, 2010

Friday, November 19, 2010

Episode 53:
Casual cold morning, funny rock-paper-scissor (Shinyoung, Juyeon, Sunhwa), Sunhwa describes meeting Yoo Jaesuk (Ep. 50), Hyuna sends bigger clothes for puppy Chanran.
Last G7 harvest: quiz to pick Chinese cabbage and daikon planted in Ep. 43.
Invitation to village sports festival and first practice (hoop rolling, standing weight endurance lift, jump rope, foot race), Bora (Sistar) guests; performance preparation for the sports festival.
Announcement of winners for G7 rice harvest.
G7 songs: Chu (f(x)), Jumping (Kara).

updated KBS link: episode 53 complete.
part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5.

Friday, November 5, 2010


Episode 52: Anniversary episode, part 2.
Rice harvesting continues, Sunny has to leave early, new guests arrive: Jieun (Secret), Jiyoung (Kara), Krystal, Sulli, Luna (f(x)), Hara drives a combine.
Evening truth-telling gathering.
Narsha, Hyomin, Hara visit rice mill, first packages of G7 rice revealed;
G7 songs: Madonna (Secret), NU ABO (f(x)), Mister, Pretty Girl (Kara), Hoot (SNSD).

updated KBS link: episode 52 complete.
part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Friday, October 29, 2010

Episode 51: Anniversary and reunion episode, part 1
Party preparations, Sunny, Hyuna, Taewoo arrive as guests, reunions with the animals.
Rice harvesting, rice field flashbacks, guests: Lee Gye-in, Cheon Myeonghun, Ko Juwon, the three visiting teams.
G7 songs: Hoot, Oh! (SNSD), Honey (Kara), Change (Hyuna).

updated KBS link: episode 51 complete.
part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5.

Hoot (SNSD)

Friday, October 22, 2010

Episode 50:
Sunhwa delivers sweet potatoes to Yoo Jaesuk (“Happy Together”, "Running Man" host) (October 9).
Competition to help villagers part 2: Victoria, Sori, Euni, Sunhwa, Narsha (sesame seed threshing with the villager who taught Hara and Victoria how to dry red peppers and lent them a drying tarp (Ep. 44), corn shucking; Shinyoung, Hara, Juyeon, Hyomin (pumpkin picking off a roof, pepper trimming, Victoria, Sunhwa "We Got Married" clip, cooked noodles for soldiers); older men gather pine nuts.
Competition for G7 brand rice packaging design, calls to invite people to help in harvesting rice.
G7 songs: Lupin.

updated KBS link: episode 50 complete.
part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5.
part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5 slightly better quality

Friday, October 15, 2010

Episode 49:
Intro: cold autumn morning, reminiscing about cold times last winter, pretending to sleep gag.
Sweet potato harvest, previously unaired sweet potato planting diary (April 7 seeding, May 19 planting with the three visiting teams), longest sweet potato contest, snakes in the field.
Competition to help villagers part 1, Victoria, Sori, Euni, Sunhwa, Narsha (red pepper flipping, pepper leaf picking); Shinyoung, Hara, Juyeon, Hyomin (sesame seed threshing, red pepper sorting).

updated KBS link: episode 49 complete.
part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5.

Friday, October 8, 2010

Episode 48:
Intro: picking red peppers, eggplant, cherry tomatoes; Juyeon, Sori give demonstrations of acting auditions at Youth Hut, Narsha absent.
New doghouse building (guest Park Gwanghyeon (actor), Shinyoung, Hara, Juyeon); Shinyoung, Hara, Juyeon end up cooking.
Helping villager with the grape picking and sorting (Chief Noh, Euni, Victoria, Sunhwa, Hyomin, Sori), first love stories (Sunhwa, Hyomin).
Group meal.

updated KBS link: episode 48 complete.
part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5.

Friday, October 1, 2010

Episode 47: part 2
Shinyoung, Victoria, Juyeon nap, Juyeon gives a makeover, raid grandmother's cassette collection; Hara, Hyomin, Sori cook lunch, flower petal fingernail dyeing; Euni, Narsha, Sunhwa finish making rice cakes, grandmother cooks lunch.
Meet back at town hall to steam rice cakes for elders, games and quizzes.
Visit to Narsha's adopted grandmother.

updated KBS link: episode 47 complete.
part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5.

Friday, September 24, 2010

Episode 46: Chuseok (Thanksgiving) shoot, part 1.
Shinyoung, Victoria, Juyeon feed Pureumi and find the mission card.
Mission: use the wedding photos of the villagers provided and find them and become their granddaughters for the day, make rice cakes and meet back at the village center by 3pm: Narsha, Sunhwa, Euni go to chairman's house, chestnut picking, nap; Shinyoung, Victoria, Juyeon go to grandmother and her older sister, Victoria cooks omelet; Hara Goo, Hyomin, Sori go to photographer grandfather, sesame seed collecting; Chief Noh, Wanggu, Road Lee pick pine needles, pay respects at Wanggu's parents' grave.

updated KBS link: episode 46 complete.
part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5.

Mamma Mia (Narsha)

Saturday, September 18, 2010

Friday, September 17, 2010

Episode 45:
Hara takes and fails farming machinery license test (July 11, 2010), test preparation diary.
Weeding emergency; three visiting teams come to the rescue; Narsha, Sunhwa absent, Song Euni kept on to replace Taewoo.

updated KBS link: episode 45 complete.
part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5.

Monday, September 13, 2010

Friday, September 10, 2010

Episode 44: (shot August 18, 2010)
Guests: Garam (who?) from Daeguknama (who?), comedian Kim Youngchul, comedienne Song Euni.
Pick and dry red peppers, pepper farming diary (unaired footage: Feb. 10 (ep. 18 shoot): planted seeds; March 3 (ep. 21 shoot): sprouts; May 19: planted the crop with the three visiting teams); Hara, Victoria learn how to dry red peppers from a villager.
Peach picking (Shinyoung, Youngchul, Hara, Sunhwa, Juyeon), Youngchul flirts with Hara; and sorting (Song Euni, Narsha, Sori, Victoria, Garam), part-time job stories, peach acrostic poems.
Snacks with peach owners, talent contest to send box of peaches to parents.
Songs: Sign (Brown Eyed Girls), Bbi Ri Bbap Bbap (Narsha),

updated KBS link: episode 44 complete.
part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5.

Madonna (Secret)

Friday, September 3, 2010

Friday, August 27, 2010

Episode 43:
Victoria, Hara absent; guests: Wuyeong, Chanseong, Junho, Junsu, Taecyeon (2PM), Jea (Brown Eyed Girls), Lizzy (After School, Orange Caramel), introductory 2PM dances.
Tour, chicken catching initiation (Wuyeong, Jea, Juyeon, Shinyoung, Hyomin); cooking, Jea is as much deadweight as Juyeon; Shinyoung laments Sunny, Hara not being there; Hyomin, Wuyeong pick eggplant for soup,
Youth Hut introduced, planting Chinese cabbage, daikon (Narsha, Sunhwa, Sori, Lizzy, Taewoo, Chanseong, Junho, Junsu, Taecyeon), 2PM gets lots of grief over farming abilities; cornstalk collecting from harvested corn for Pureumi (Sunhwa, Taecyeon); Junsu names puppy Chanran.
Bibimbap lunch at the new Youth Hut.
Water games in the river, Lizzy left after lunch, contests to win barbecue, losers have to fish, losing team aegyo to win barbecue, they all share in the end; Taewoo announces he's taking leave to have vocal cord nodules removed.

updated KBS link: episode 43 complete.
part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5.

Mamma Mia (Narsha)

Thursday, August 26, 2010

Friday, August 20, 2010

Episode 42:
Agriculture and Fisheries Industry Exhibition (July 29, 2010), Yuri guests, Hara, Juyeon absent; appreciation plaque from the Ministry of Agriculture for promoting Korean farming, flashback of garlic crop growing, G7 product sale, certificate of appreciation from the Rural Communities Association for bringing attention to the value of Korean rural communities.
Corn inspection and picking to enter into competition (Taewoo, Sori, Hyomin).

Corn competition day (Aug. 23 date on the English translation is obviously wrong):
Hara absent, corn poem contest, corn eating contest (Narsha), corn spitting contest (Juyeon), corn peeling contest (Sunhwa), corn sale.
Sunhwa, Hara deliver corn to Gag 7 who helped plant the corn (Eps. 29, 30), cameos by other Gag Concert members, Kim Sugeum, Kim Byungman, Wang Biho, Heo Anna.
G7 songs: Genie (SNSD), Bo Beep Bo Beep (T-ara).

updated KBS link: episode 42 complete.
part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4.

Madonna (Secret)

Friday, August 13, 2010

IY as a variety show

Episode 41:
Continued from the previous week's shoot, G7 brand eggplant processing and packaging with MBLAQ, and then auction (shot separately with Taewoo and Road Lee).
Eggplant feast w/MBLAQ prepared by Victoria and G.O likely while the previous episode's consignment sale was going on and the crew was preparing for the night shoot.

Summer “horror” episode:
MBLAQ likely stayed on for the night shoot with other guests arriving. Narsha left to do her radio show during the consignment sale in the previous episode, but returned for this shoot, arriving late.
Guests: Jiyeon (T-ara), MBLAQ, Lee Seokhun (SG Wannabe), Park Hyunbin (“prince of trot”).
Couples pepper eating game, watermelon seed spitting contest, piggy back stocking removal game, karaoke contest, corn shucking contest.
G7 songs: I Go Crazy Because of You, Bo Peep Bo Peep (T-ara).

updated KBS link: episode 41 complete.
part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5.

Friday, August 6, 2010

Episode 40:
Chief Noh, Narsha, Hyomin, Sunhwa and Sori go see Yuchi's puppies (flashback with Yuri and Hyuna to May, Yuchi's “wedding”).
MBLAQ guests, MBLAQ's "Y" dance demonstration and G7 copies.
Eggplant (ep. 22, 32), cherry tomato, melon (ep. 30) harvest; Mir, Hara, Juyeon hang water-filled gloves to keep flies away from Pureumi.
Lee Joon's hidden camera (ep. 27) revenge against Taewu backfires.
Consignment sale #2 of G7 melons at the local market (Shinyoung, Narsha, Hara, Mir, Thunder).

updated KBS link: episode 40 complete.
part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5.

Sunday, August 1, 2010

Friday, July 30, 2010

Episode 39:
Victoria visits the student who helped her during her first appearance on the show (ep. 33) (Shinyoung, Victoria, Juyeon, Hara).
Corn (planted in eps. 29, 30) inspected by experts to enter into a contest (Narsha, Sunhwa, Sori, Hyomin).
Guests: Cheon Myunghoon (N.R.G, comedian), actor Ko Juwon, quiz to choose G7 members to work with; Taewoo absent because of vocal cord nodules.
First harvest: potatoes (planted in ep. 26), competing for Ko Juwon's affection, wig comedy contest, Hyomin absent.
G7 songs: La Cha Ta (f(x)), Bbi Ri Bba Bba (Narsha).

updated KBS link: episode 39 complete.
part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5.

Friday, July 23, 2010

Bbi Ri Bba Bba (Narsha)

Episode 38: Biei, Hokkaido, Japan, part 2
Hot springs part 2 (Shinyoung, Victoria, Juyeon, Sori).
Sunny, Hyomin, Taewoo, Juyeon, Sunhwa visit an animal farm (horse riding, cow milking, ice cream/caramel making).
Chief Noh, Shinyoung, Narsha, Hara, Victoria, Sori do fieldwork (asparagus field weeding, asparagus humor contest, snacks with field owner family).
Thank you performance.
G7 songs: Lupin, Rock U, Pretty Girl, Honey, Mister (Kara), NU ABO (f(x)), Diva, Dream Girl (After School), I Go Crazy Because of You (T-ara), Abracadabra (Brown Eyed Girls), I Want You Back, Magic (Secret), Love Rain (Kim Taewoo).

updated KBS link: episode 38 complete.
part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5.

Saturday, July 17, 2010

Friday, July 16, 2010

Episode 37: Biei, Hokkaido, Japan, part 1 (shot on June 29, 2010)
Sunny guests; passport photos, luggage raid, flight to Japan, Jang Hyuk cameo, airport arrival.
Bus ride to Biei, welcome and tour of Shikisai no Oka flower gardens, flower field planting (field is named for them).
Welcome from the Biei chamber of commerce women's association, obon dancing, prepared snacks, gift exchange.
Hotel scenes: G7 without makeup revealed, card playing.
Hot springs part 1 (Shinyoung, Victoria, Sori, Juyeon).

updated KBS link: episode 37 complete.
part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5.

alternative footage not used in the episode (looks like it was put together for a Japanese special): part 1, part 2.

Sunday, July 11, 2010

Friday, July 9, 2010

Episode 36:
Soldiers help with weeding the G7 rice paddy, cold noodles lunch.
Visit to army base (shot on June 24, 2010), tour of soldiers' quarters (and which G7 pictures they have), tank demonstration.
G7 special performance at the army base, special appearances by Secret and Koyote.
G7 songs: Bbi Ri Bba Bba (Narsha), Diva (After School), Lupin (Kara), NU ABO (f(x)), I Go Crazy Because of You (T-ara), Abracadabra (Brown Eyed Girls), Magic (Secret).

updated KBS link: episode 36 complete.
part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5.

A choice history of Koyote.

Return (Koyote)

Friday, July 2, 2010

Episode 35:
New members arrive early to be awkward with some of the villagers.
Cooking competition in three teams (Shinyoung, Victoria, Hara - mabo tofu, Chinese fried rice; Taewoo, Hyomin, Juyeon - steak and salad; Jongmin, Sunhwa, Sori - seafood ddeokbokki), performance competition for the villagers to boost their scores.
Reporters invited to Idol Village to interview G7, G7 popularity contest, participate in weeding the corn field, pruning watermelon and eggplant branches; finishing up the weeding, age reversal game.
Songs: I Go Crazy Because of You (T-ara).

updated KBS link: episode 35 complete.
part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5.

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Bo Beep Bo Beep (T-ara)


Rare performance with Hyomin absent and Jiyeon present.

Friday, June 25, 2010

Episode 34:
40 degrees Celsius, hailstorm hit during the week; wrestling to decide tasks (who has to work vs. who gets to play).
Crayfish catching (play) (Taewoo, Sunhwa, Hara, Victoria, Hyomin), pushing hands game, watermelon break.
Repairing crop damage from the hailstorm (work) (Shinyoung, Narsha, Juyeon, Kim Jongmin, Sori), comedy challenge (punishment: bury yourself in the ground), G7 managers called in to help.
Questions for new members to get to know them better.
G7 songs: Bang! (After School).

updated KBS link: episode 34 complete.
part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5.

Friday, June 18, 2010

Episode 33:
New members (Victoria (f(x)), Juyeon (After School), Kim Sori (singer/dancer)) introductions and initiation tests, meeting Pureumi, chicken catching, shoveling competition, race to find certain objects in the village, Victoria gets help from high school student. Kim Jongmin joins as "temporary host/new member trainer". Or not.
Spreading river snails in rice paddy as part of eco-farming (Shinyoung, Narsha, Hara, Sunhwa, Hyomin), snail comedy show.
Make a heart in the rice paddy using black rice (Taewoo, Victoria, Sori, Juyeon).
G7 songs: NU ABO (f(x)), I Want You Back (Secret).

updated KBS link: episode 33 complete.
part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4.

Sunday, June 13, 2010

Friday, June 11, 2010

Episode 32:
Continued from previous episode shooting (May 19):
Guest team talent show, bicycle donation to Yoochiri for villagers to use, eggplant planting.
G7 songs: Magic (Secret), I Go Crazy Because of You (T-ara), Oh! (SNSD), Change (Hyuna), Lupin (Kara), Abracadabra (Brown Eyed Girls).

Separate shoot:
Farewells to Yuri, Sunny, Hyuna.

updated KBS link: episode 32 complete.

Saturday, June 5, 2010

Friday, June 4, 2010

Episode 31: (shot May 19)
Three guest teams arrive to help with rice planting (Yonsei Habitat for Humanity club, cycling team, Tractorformers); introductions, games to decide which G7 members work with which team, Hara uses rice-planting machine, Sunhwa cooks with Shinyoung, Yuri's Yoochiri yoga class.
G7 songs: Genie, Oh! (SNSD), I Go Crazy Because of You (T-ara), Magic (Secret), Abracadabra (Brown Eyed Girls).

updated KBS link: episode 31 complete.

Saturday, May 29, 2010

Magic (Secret)

NU ABO (f(x))


This is a few weeks before Victoria joins, but it's the only high quality video from around the time when she joins. (OK, I lied. I found the high quality June 13 performance later, but will keep this here since that performance was towards the end of the promotions and it's their signature song at the time).

Friday, May 28, 2010

Episode 30:
Continued from previous weeks shooting: Gag7 Part 2
Losers of last week's comedy contest plant corn in bad weather, winners (Sunny-Song Joongeun, Hyomin-Ryudam) barbecue meat.

This week (shot: May 12, 2010):
Rabbits donated to Idol Village, standing long-jump contest for rabbit ownership; jumping contest.
Watermelon eating contest to divide into tomato, melon planting team (Shinyoung, Hyomin, Sunny, Sunhwa, Hara) and fatsia and bonnet bellflower picking and gathering team (Narsha, Hyuna, Yuri, Taewoo).
Reviewing submissions from viewers for rice planting.
Sauce delivery to 104-year-old grandfather and Narsha's adopted grandmother.
Songs: Lupin (Kara)

updated KBS link: episode 30 complete.
part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5.

Friday, May 21, 2010

Episode 29: (shot on April 28):
Winners chosen to receive G7 brand sauces (Ep. 23).
Gag 7 guests (Song Joongeun, Han Minkwan, Heo Kyunghwan, Park Youngjin, Ryudam, Byun Gisoo, Park Sungkwan).
Comedy competition (make judges spit out water) for corn planting or barbecue.

updated KBS link: episode 29 complete.
part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5.

Friday, May 14, 2010

Episode 28:
Opening: Narsha got a radio show, Hara shot a CF in Thailand.
Field fertilizing singing "Do Re Mi" as acronyms (Hara, Sunghwa, Shinyoung, Hyuna, Yuri), Kentucky Fried Chicken punishment for messing up
Training Pureumi to work as part of the hands-on farming experience (Narsha, Taewoo, Hyomin, Sunny, Chief Noh, Wanggoo), great cow chase #2.
Hara tills the field driving a tractor.
Cosmos garden planting (Taewoo, Narsha, Hyomin, Sunny), naming master Hyomin.
Putting up new signs to advertise Idol Village for tourists, tourist sign photo competition.
Submissions from viewers to win G7 brand sauces revealed
Songs: Magic (Secret).

updated KBS link: episode 28 complete.
part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5.

Sunday, May 9, 2010

Friday, May 7, 2010

Episode 27:
Idol Village News (Yuri, Hara, Hyomin, Wanggoo, Road Lee), updates on garlic, eggplant, weekend tourists and theft prevention, town hall meeting for creating hands-on farming experience.
Guests: MBLAQ's Lee Joon, Jung Joonha (annoying guy - he's not annoying at all on other shows, but here he's really, really annoying).
River fishing with the annoying guy (Yuri, Hyuna, Hara, Chief Noh, Shinyoung), stone skipping, infamous, controversial fish torture (it's OK to treat fish like that, but not the chickens you eat at KFC? Is the fish's suffering non-existent? If the fish doesn't suffer, then why care about whaling or shark finning? Why care about humane treatment of any animal that's going to be eaten?).
Maple syrup gathering (Lee Joon, Sunhwa, Sunny, Narsha, Hyomin, Taewoo), infamous, controversial Lee Joon hidden camera (it's OK to treat male idols like that, but not members of T-ara or SNSD? Is MBLAQ's feelings non-existent? If Lee Joon doesn't suffer, then why care . . . oh, nevermind).
Songs: Run Devil Run (SNSD).

updated KBS link: episode 27 complete.
part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5.

Friday, April 30, 2010

Episode 26 (shot on April 14):
Hyomin invites T-ara's Eunjung to replace Hara for the day; Kim Jongmin (Koyote) invited to help out.
Rice paddy intro; G7's popularity in Thailand shown; Sunghwa-Kim Jongmin white paper contest, aegyo demonstrations for Jongmin, using tractor and plow to fertilize the pre-paddy mud field, Eunjung-Yuri mudfight, announcement for teams to volunteer to help with rice planting (shot on April 28 during episode 28 shoot, also the same as the photo at the top of this page).
Narsha explains the plan for field planting, group dance for Secret's "Magic".
Musical chairs for misutgaru drink, losers eat lemons.
Potato field fertilizing, tilling and planting (Shinyoung, Narsha, Sunhwa, Jongmin, Hyuna), "Singing in the Rain", leg prying game to determine who has to plant the last row of potatoes, making fun of the show's end credits.
Hibiscus planting (Taewoo, Hyomin, Eunjung, Sunny, Yuri), talking to Eunjung, Hyomin hints she got in trouble for missing the DJ Koo shoot (eps. 23, 24), Hyomin naming talent begins, "hibiscus flowers have bloomed" game (sexy version), loser has to plant more hibiscus plants.
Songs: I Go Crazy Because of You, Bo Beep Bo Beep (T-ara), Love Rain (Kim Taewoo), Magic (Secret), Run Devil Run (SNSD).

updated KBS link: episode 26 complete.
part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5.

Friday, April 23, 2010

Episode 25:
Opening in front of KBS building in Youido, Seoul (parodying 1N2D), cameo by Yoon Hyungbin (Gag Concert) and Bucheon middle school students.
Field trip to idol village chief Noh's home for barbecue party, regrets on the bus about not treating chief Noh closely enough, audition re-enactments, chicken catching and manure spreading, “crowd forming” game to decide who cooks.
Lettuce harvesting (from ep. 15) and consignment sale #1 (Yuri, Sunny, Hyuna, Shinyoung).
Songs: Lupin (Kara).

updated KBS link: episode 25 complete.
part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5.

Friday, April 9, 2010

Episode 24: continued from previous week's shooting (so Hyomin still absent, but Ock Juhyun leaves):
Morning news (filmed separately) by Yuri, Sunny ("Would it kill you to call me 'Sunny'"), Sunhwa; update on Pureumi, submissions for G7 brand sauces.
Check-up on garlic field planted in November (Narsha, Sunhwa, Yuri, Taewoo).
Guest DJ Koo part 2: mural painting (Sunhwa, Narsha, Hara, Shinyoung).
Sunny, Hyuna,Yuri, Taewoo dig up and roast wild pig potatoes, rock stacking game/potato washing punishment, gather shepherd's purse.
Closing news (filmed separately) of Idol Village attracting more and more tourists (Yuri, Sunhwa, Narsha, Hyomin - reporter outstanding in her field).
Songs: Lupin (Kara), Magic (Secret), I Go Crazy Because of You (T-ara).

updated KBS link: episode 24 complete.

Thursday, April 8, 2010

Saturday, March 27, 2010

Friday, March 26, 2010

Episode 23:
Continued from previous week's shooting (late afternoon to night, March 10, Sooyoung guest):
Hyomin, Sunny busted for trying to swindle chicken money.
G7 brand paste making (Sunny, Sooyoung, Sunhwa, Hyomin, Hara), Taewoo, Narsha, Hyuna crush fermented soybeans, viewer contest to win G7 brand pastes announced, Taewoo ruins a pot of red pepper paste.

This week:
Hyomin absent (in Japan with T-ara. it may be hinted in the later episode with Eunjung that she might have gotten in trouble because of miscommunication about her absence).
Taewoo makes up for ruining paste (Ock Juhyun (Fin.K.L) guests, Narsha, Sunhwa, Yuri), "Forever Love" (Fin.K.L) G7 imitations, musical tryouts ("Roxie" from Chicago).
Visit from the vet #3: shots for the animals, cleaning poop and disinfection (Hara, Hyuna, Sunny, Shinyoung).
Guest DJ Koo part 1: G7 aegyo demonstrations.
Songs: I Go Crazy Because of You (T-ara), Oh!, Genie (SNSD), Abracadabra (Brown Eyed Girls), Lupin (Kara).

updated KBS link: episode 23 complete.
part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5.

Bo Beep Bo Beep (T-ara)

Run Devil Run (SNSD)

Friday, March 19, 2010

Episode 22 (shot on March 10):
Sooyoung (SNSD) guests for sick Yuri.
Spreading rice husks and feeding Pureumi, renovating henhouse (Taewoo, Sunny, Sooyoung, Hara), sawing contest - loser dances barefoot in the snow.
Getting a bank loan (Shinyoung, Narsha, Hyuna, Sunhwa, Hyomin).
Eggplant grafting for G7 crop (Shinyoung, Narsha, Hyuna, Sunhwa).
Buying more hens with loan money (Taewoo, Hyomin, Sunny, Sooyoung, Hara).
Songs: Mister, Lupin (Kara), I Go Crazy Because of You (T-ara), Oh! (SNSD).

updated KBS link: episode 22 complete.
part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5.

Saturday, March 13, 2010

Friday, March 12, 2010

Episode 21: (shot on March 3, 2010)
Yuri joins later (sick).
Lettuce patch check-up and weeding (planted in Ep. 15).
Piercing Pureumi's nose, feeding with lettuce and soybean milk. Funny Hara: "Kamilia, rise".
Learning to drive various farm machinery, tractor race.
Songs: I Go Crazy Because of You (T-ara), Lupin (Kara).

updated KBS link: episode 21 complete.
part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5.

Lupin (Kara)

Friday, March 5, 2010

Episode 20:
Field trip to visit Lee Gye-in's chicken coop to learn more about chickens (Shinyoung, Yuri, Hara, Hyuna, Sunhwa), raw egg and chicken eating,
Field trip to visit Old Partner (movie) grandfather and learn more about cows (Chief Noh, Narsha, Sunny, Hyomin), cow training, plowing contest; Hyomin tries to teach Chief Noh T-ara's new dance.
Lee Gye-in introduces the idea of using local resources and turning Idol Village into a hands-on farming experience to promote tourism into the area, improve the economy and educate the public; tour of Sangho-ri village's hands-on farming experience, bats in the abandoned gold mine, strawberry picking.
Promises to the nation: after 20 episodes of basically having fun while working and entertaining, the show decides on a real direction.
G7 songs: Lupin, Mister (Kara), Oh! (SNSD), I Want You Back (Secret), I Go Crazy Because of You (T-ara).

updated KBS link: episode 20 complete.

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Sunday, February 28, 2010

Friday, February 26, 2010

Episode 19:
Guests: Noh Yoomin (N.R.G.), Shindong (Super Junior); Taewoo absent.
Hyuna and Hara collect 5 eggs from the chickens.
Wood gathering for daljib burning (Chief Noh, Noh Yoomin, Shindong, Hara, Narsha, Hyuna, Yuri), playing with Noh Yoomin's wig, Hyuna leaves early, jajungmyun eating contest (losers have to stick their feet in the freezing brook), preparing fire lanterns for first full moon celebration.
Shinyoung, Sunny, Hyomin, Sunhwa take bus to go grocery shopping and then cook rice and vegetables; role switching, "nee, chef!", call to Hyomin's dad, break up stories, Hara betrayal (eating her chicken's eggs).
Dinner and eating nuts, daljib burning celebration with the villagers.

updated KBS link: episode 19 complete.
part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5. 

Friday, February 19, 2010

Episode 18: IY Open House
Rainy day songs, calls to invite people to the open house. Narsha calls swimmer Park Tae Hwan. Sunny calls Kim(?) Jisuk.
G7 appearance at a local elementary school graduation in exchange for pork for the open house.
Tofu making #2: Shinyoung calls Kim Heechul (Super Junior), Seungri (Big Bang), Seungri likes Sunhwa; Hyomin calls Lee Seojin; Taewoo calls Yeon Junghoon, Rain; Chief Noh calls Lee Gye-in.
Hara, Sunhwa, Hyuna retrieve mushrooms to cook. Hara also claims to having tried calling Seungri.
Cinnamon-ginger tea and mushroom pancake making.
Final guest list: Kim Heechul (Super Junior) (also likes Sunhwa); Lee Gye-in (actor); Hyoyeon (SNSD); Nicole (Kara); Beast (same agency as Hyuna, still up-and-coming so not a lot of screen time); Yeon Junghoon (actor), Sunhwa's grandmother and siblings
G7 songs: Genie (SNSD), Abracadabra (Brown Eyed Girls), Change (Hyuna), Like the First Time (T-ara), Pretty Girl (Kara).

updated KBS link: episode 18 complete.
part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5.

Friday, February 12, 2010

Episode 17: Lunar New Year's Special
Games with Yoochiri residents #2: Playing yoot to win a donated motorized farming cart (night shoot).
G7 first sleepover night in Yoochiri, make-up free faces, U-Go-Girl, waking up.
Kite making and flying (Yuri, Narsha, Hara, Taewoo, Road Lee).
Wonton soup making and cooking (Sunny, Sunhwa ("calcium"), Hyuna, Hyomin, Shinyoung), hidden wasabi dumpling (backfires).
G7 songs: Oh! (SNSD), Like the First Time (T-ara), Change (Hyuna).

updated KBS link: episode 17 complete.
part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5.

Friday, February 5, 2010

Episode 16:
Winter outing: Early meeting point; first time since episode one that G7 ride on a bus together, brain maps (Yuri, Sunny, Narsha, Sunhwa), ice fishing in Chuncheon, ramyun and fried pond smelt for fellow fishers.
Acorn jelly making (Hyuna, Hyomin, Sunhwa, Shinyoung, Sunny), complaints from the rooftop, Shinyoung & Hyuna's silly pranks, food show parody.
Cinnamon-ginger tea/honey cake making (Taewoo, Narsha, Hara, Yuri), "cinnamon-ginger tea" acrostic poems (Narsha, Hara), complaints about Sunhwa and Hyomin improving too much on the show.

updated KBS link: episode 16 complete.
part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6, part 7, part 8, part 9, part 10.

Oh! (SNSD)

Friday, January 29, 2010

Episode 15:
Exercise for Pureumi and Yuchi, the great cow chase.
Lettuce patch planting (Sunny, Hyomin, Narsha, Shinyoung), soil tilling contest.
Snack making with villagers (handcut noodles and potato pancakes), potato grating contest.
Mushroom cultivating (Hyunah, Sunhwa, Hara, Yuri, Taewoo), mushroom pancake snack.
Hara, Hyuna (“hwaiting!”) collect eggs (3).
Lettuce ownership quiz (Yuri cute), mushroom growing for losers (Kara, Shindong cameos).
G7 songs: Oh! (SNSD), Like the First Time, Bo Beep Bo Beep (T-ara), S.I.G.N. (BEG), Mister (Kara).

updated KBS link: episode 15 complete.
part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5.

Saturday, January 23, 2010

Friday, January 22, 2010

Episode 14:
Feeding the animals (Sunny, Hyomin and Hara, Sunhwa), Pureumi seems to not like Hyomin, chicken lays its first egg.
Bathing the puppy (Shinyoung, Hyomin, Hyuna, Sunny).
Building a doghouse (Taewoo, Yuri, Narsha, Sunhwa, Hara), sawing contest - loser has to get coffee for everyone else.
Sledding contest for black bean noodles Taewoo won in Ep. 12.
Yuri, Hyuna growing bean sprouts at home (punishment from Ep. 8), Sooyoung, Hyoyeon cameos.
Contest for puppy ownership.
G7 songs: Like the First Time (T-ara's new song).

updated link: KBS World episode 14 complete.
part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5.

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Sang Sang Plus

Hyuna, Hara, Hyomin, Sunhwa, Narsha, Shinyoung and Taewoo's appearance on talk show Sang Sang Plus.

part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5

Friday, January 15, 2010

Episode 13:
Snow shoveling after a huge snowstorm (Yuri, Sunny, Hyomin, Sunhwa, Taewoo, Shinyoung).
Choosing a puppy they won in Ep. 12 (Hyuna, Narsha, Hara, Chief Noh); visit from the vet #2 (mostly edited out).
Soldiers arrive to help clear snow from ginseng field (Yuri, Sunhwa, Hara, Hyuna, Taewoo) and church (Sunny, Hyomin, Narsha, Shinyoung), G7 popularity contest, Hara's silly puns, Sunny aegyo.
Deliver water to Narsha's adopted grandmother (Narsha, Hyomin, Sunny, Shinyoung, Chief Noh).
Cooking ramyun for the soldiers, lying conversation.
G7 songs: Love Rain (Kim Taewoo), Bo Beep Bo Beep (T-ara), Gee, Genie (SNSD), Mister (Kara), Abracadabra (Brown Eyed Girls).

updated KBS link: episode 13 complete.
part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6, part 7, part 8, part 9, part 10.

Saturday, January 9, 2010

Friday, January 8, 2010

Episode 12:
Yuri, Hara, Sunhwa, Taewoo make bar rice cakes, "yangmiri" (sand eel) acronym contest.
Yoochiri Olympic ice games: Kim Yuna impersonations, foot ice hockey, ice relay race, ice crate rowing relay; bar rice cake snacks.
Games with Yoochiri residents #1: hacky sack, wrestling to win a puppy, Yoochiri-wide bathroom privileges and black bean noodles, (Hyomin hilarious in bunny outfit. Or Hyomin in hilarious bunny outfit).
3-month anniversary knowing each other game: hidden camera on poor Sunhwa revealed, competitiveness contest (Yuri admits being competitive but it fades away when she shoots IY -- and it shows that she just has fun on IY), Yuri sleeping with tongue out revealed, who is most likely to fall victim to a scam one day, who changes most in front of male guests, who is most different on-screen and off-screen.

updated KBS link: episode 12 complete.
part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5.

Change (Hyuna)

Friday, January 1, 2010

Episode 11: New Year's Special
Villagers go to Seoul to attend KBS awards ceremony, G7 performance cuts, Kim Jongmin (Koyote) first (accidental) appearance (shot on December 26, 2009, probably after the rest of the episode).
Hanbok fashion show, New Year's wishes, Hara the fortune teller, bowing contest.
Shinyoung, Sunny, Hyuna pay respects to 104-year-old grandfather.
Narsha, Hyomin, Chief Noh pay respects to Narsha's adopted grandmother.
Rice cake (mochi) making (Taewoo, Yuri, Hara, Hyuna, Sunhwa), stress relief from pounding, Hara's silly puns, enunciation game.
Popped rice cracker making (Narsha, Sunny, Hyomin, Shinyoung), Hyomin starts hanging around Sunny for screen time, lying conversation.
Serving rice cakes and popped rice crackers to the villagers; Chief Noh has drinks with the elders; farewell message to host Nam Heeseok, who had to leave after episode 10.
G7 songs: Muzik (4minute), Bo Beep Bo Beep (T-ara), Abracadabra (Brown Eyed Girls), Mister (Kara), I Want You Back (Secret), Gee (SNSD).

updated KBS link: episode 11 complete.
part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part. 5.