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| Country: | South Korea | ||||||
| Language: | Korean | ||||||
| Starring: | (Various artistes) | ||||||
| Num Episodes: | 16 | ||||||
| Runtime: | 60–80 minutes | ||||||
| Camera: | Multi-camera | ||||||
| Company: | SBS | ||||||
| Channel: | SBS TV |
Little Forest is a South Korean television entertainment program broadcast by SBS every Monday and Tuesday from 12 August to 7 October 2019. The program starred Lee Seo-jin, Lee Seung-gi, Park Na-rae and Jung So-min.[1]
The program is a 16-episode series program to "Caring for Kids in the Nature" for children who have no place to play with and is a healing variety program designed as a home kids garden development project for children.[2] [3] The kids will spend 2 days and 1 night with the cast, away from their parents for the first time.[3]
Lee Seung-gi and Jung So-min are certified child psychology counselor and Lee Seo-jin is a certified chef who went through training for a cooking course to cater for young kids. Park Na-rae also took a cooking course.[3] Lee Seung-gi has some experience in woodworking and utilizes the wood workshop to build fun activities for the kids.
The filming location is at Jjigbaggol, Inje, Gangwon Province with the land area of about 33,000m2.[3] The place consists of a big open field with an open concept kitchen, front yard, workshop, living quarters (for kids and cast), garden, small animal farm and Pine forest.
| Airdate | Broadcast Start Time (KST) | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 August – 7 October 2019 | style=background:Lightgray | Part 1 | Mondays & Tuesdays at 10:00 pm |
| style=background:Lightgray | Part 2 | Mondays & Tuesdays at 10:40 pm | |
| style=width:175px | Name | style=width:100px | Episode | style=width:80px | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lee Seo-jin | 1 – 16 | [6] | |||
| Lee Seung-gi | |||||
| Park Na-rae | |||||
| Jung So-min | |||||
| style=width:175px | Name | Korean Age | Gender | style=width:110px | Episode |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ma Yi-hyeon | 4 | male | 1 – 8, 16 | ||
| Brooke | 5 | female | 1 – 16 | ||
| Grace | 5 | female | 1 – 16 | ||
| Kang Yi-han | 7 | male | 1 – 16 | ||
| Choi Yoo-jin | 4 | female | 1 – 16 | ||
| Lee Jeong-heon | 6 | male | 5 – 8, 12 – 14, 16 | ||
| Kim Ye-jun | 4 | male | 8 – 9, 16 | ||
| Kim Ga-on | 6 | female | 8 – 9, 16 | ||
| Kim Yoo-na | 5 | female | 12 – 14, 16 | ||
| Episode | Broadcast Date (2019) | AGB Nielsen (Nationwide) [7] | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Part 1 | Part 2 | |||
| 1 | 12 August | |||
| 2 | 13 August | 3.5% | 5.0% | |
| 3 | 19 August | 3.1% | 5.2% | |
| 4 | 20 August | 4.0% | 5.4% | |
| 5 | 26 August | 3.0% | ||
| 6 | 27 August | 3.1% | 4.5% | |
| 7 | 2 September | 3.9% | 4.7% | |
| 8 | 3 September | 3.6% | 4.2% | |
| 9 | 9 September | 2.9% | 4.1% | |
| 10 | 16 September | 3.5% | 3.9% | |
| 11 | 17 September | 3.4% | 4.5% | |
| 12 | 23 September | 3.2% | ||
| 13 | 24 September | 2.9% | 3.6% | |
| 14 | 30 September | |||
| 15 | 1 October | 3.1% | 3.6% | |
| 16 | 7 October | 3.0% | 3.8% | |
| Year | Award | Category | Recipient(s) | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 13th SBS Entertainment Awards | SNS Star Award | Park Na-rae | [8] | |
| Producer's Award | Lee Seung-gi | [9] |