Burn life! South Korea stopped filming “daily sitcom” for a reason: no one day off for 8 consecutive months

The intensity is countless times higher than that of Western sitcoms. It really burns life!

Friends who have been following Korean dramas for many years should be deeply impressed by ancient sitcoms, such as “Funny Family”, “S.F. Obstetrics and Gynecology”, etc. However, in recent years, there have been no more impressive dramas of the same type. In fact, there were many daily sitcoms on the three major Korean channels in the 1990s, and they were still being produced in the early 2000s. However, SBS and MBC stopped the series in 2005 and 2012, and KBS has not produced any daily sitcoms since “A Trace of Innocence”was broadcast in 2017.

Recently, some Korean netizens posted a post discussing why this phenomenon occurs, quoting content from the documentary “Funny Family”. This documentary released in 2021 interviewed many of the leading actors of the year. Among them, Kim Hye Sung revealed the intensity of the filming at that time, which now seems quite amazing: he was filming 6 days a week, and the remaining 1 day was to complete all the lines for the next 5 days. Behind my back, I kept shooting like this intensively for 8 months, until “the second before I fainted.”

Xu Minzhen was so tired that she had a nosebleed on the set, so she could only retouch her makeup and continue filming:

TV drama columnist Lee Seung-han also said that the work intensity of Korean TV programs is very high. Many of them require staying up late to write and film a section of the script. Daily sitcoms are the hardest hit: “160 episodes is the equivalent of 8 years in foreign countries, but in South Korea It was broadcast in half a year.”

For example, “Friends”has a total of 236 episodes and has been aired for 9 years and 8 months. “Otaku”has a total of 279 episodes and has been aired for 11 years and 9 months. SBS’s “Big Brother”has a total of 279 episodes and has been aired for 11 years and 9 months. The 227 episodes of “Fa Family”were only aired for 1 year, the 293 episodes of “Juliet’s Boyfriend”were aired for 1 year and 2 months, and the 682 episodes of “SF Obstetrics and Gynecology”were only aired for 2 years and 9 months.

Many netizens expressed regret: “Xu Minzhen was in love with her husband at the time, and he flew from the United States to see her and often couldn’t see her.””When I was working on “Three Men and Three Women, I heard that it was to the extent of abusing the actors and staff”and “squeezing people dry. Is it some kind of national character?””Zheng Xinha was filming “Funny Family”and “Infinite Challenge”at the same time. How did she do it? “Can it be broadcast seasonally, maybe 2 episodes a week?””Now I can only look back at the old times. drama, I really want to watch a new sitcom.”