| Alt Name: | In the Soop: Friendship Trip | ||
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| Genre: | Reality series | ||
| Country: | South Korea | ||
| Language: | Korean | ||
| Num Seasons: | 1 | ||
| Num Episodes: | 4 | ||
| Related: | BTS In the Soop |
In the Soop: Friendcation is a South Korean reality show created by Hybe Corporation. A spin-off of the In the Soop series that originally featured BTS and then Seventeen, it stars Peakboy, Park Seo-joon, Choi Woo-shik, Park Hyung-sik, and V of BTS. Comprising four episodes, the show follows the fivesome as they embark on a four-day vacation trip together. It premiered on July 22, 2022, on the South Korean pay television network JTBC and global over-the-top streaming platform Disney+. Episodes aired first on JTBC, at 9PM KST, and were made available two hours later on Disney+. The final episode aired on August 12.[1]
The show depicts the travel story of actors Park Seo-joon, Choi Woo-shik and Park Hyung-sik, rapper Peakboy, and singer V of BTS, a group of five friends known as the "Wooga Squad" in the South Korean entertainment industry.[2] After one of them makes a surprise suggestion, they set out on a friendship trip lasting four days and three nights. The series documents their candid daily life while together.[3]
In the Soop: Friendcation ranked first in Disney+ Korea's 'Top 10 Overall' and 'Top 10 TV Shows' as well as 'Top Ranked TV Shows' for 10 consecutive days. The series was among the top three most-watched releases in Asia, additionally ranking at number one in Indonesia and Singapore.[4] Following the broadcast of its first episode in Japan, the series claimed first place in all genre rankings on Disney+ and consistently topped the TV show category, ranking first for 25 consecutive days as of August 18, 2022.[5] In an interview with Deadline Hollywood in January 2023, Carol Choi, the managing director of Disney+ Japan and executive vice president of Original Content Strategy for the Asia Pacific region, stated that the series had "become one of the most popular shows" on the platform.[6]
The series aired on cable channel/pay TV network JTBC, which normally has a relatively smaller audience compared to free-to-air TV/public broadcasters such as KBS, SBS, MBC, and EBS.
| Original broadcast date | Average audience share | ||
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| Nielsen Korea (Nationwide)[7] | |||
| 1 | July 22, 2022 | ||
| 2 | July 29, 2022 | 1.1% | |
| 3 | August 5, 2022 | 0.9% | |
| 4 | August 12, 2022 | ||