Sunday, May 13, 2012

Introduction (geeking out):

This show was a South Korean variety/reality show that aired from October 2009 to December 2010. The concept was to take 7 members of the six hottest girl groups (G7) of the rising second generation Hallyu wave and bring them to the rural farming village of Yuchi-ri in Hongcheon to experience the basics of farming and agriculture.

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.