1 Night 2 Days Kim Jong Min's special episode (Part 1)

It's all about Kim Jong Min for the recent 1 Night 2 Days episode. He has been with the show for nearly 9 years. It's been 17 years since he debut in the entertainment industry as he started off with the singing group Koyote. He specially thanked his fellow female vocalist Shinji who supported him and for what he is right now. The rest laughed when Jong Min drew a life graph of himself since he started. He suffered slump periods as well since he started singing.

He remembered clearly the best 3 episodes of 1 Night 2 Days were - season 1 where he ate the udon mission and the train left without him and crew member! He still recalls back how season 3 kicks off as everyone was feeling rather awkward and reckons it might be a failure since the original members are no longer with the program. But again it was Cha Tae Hyun who brought the show together and everyone went berserk and crazier as ever! Tae Hyun even named him the 'new fool' for the show.

The casts were brought to Gacheon where a spot called Darangyi village. Darangyi village

is situated at Namhae- around 6 hours drive out from Seoul. Darangyi Village most famous attraction are the friendly people and terraced rice paddies on the steep hills. The place is very picturesque and great for avid photographer fans. PD Yu informs them Jong Min has been to nearly 180 variety programs since in the late 1990's. He was in Love Letter, X-Men, Six Heroines, Ya Shim Shim Man, Happy Together...etc. However there is one program he was never in it which is the program aired simultaneous time as 1N2D on Sunday nights.That happens to be Running Man! The casts were excited after been told they are playing the name tag elimination game. Each member has 2 name tags and they are to pick 2 different kinds of drinks. Whoever rips off another person's name tag and drinks the penalty shot earns a point. The winner with most name tag wins the game and at least 3 winners will get to feast themselves to lovely big lunch.

Without wasting time, each member hiked up highest of the village to hide from each other. Everyone is afraid of Shi Yoon as he is a fast runner. Jun Ho tries to team up with Jong Min however he failed the mission terribly. His name tag was first ripped off by Defconn. It was a hide and seek game to test the fastest and ruthless of all. Defconn drank the cider vinegar drink and despite that he still lost out. Tae Hyun was 2nd best and it came down to Shi Yoon and Jong Min. Unfortunately Jong Min was too slow in ripping tags and he joined Jun Ho as the losing team. They get neither lunch nor dinner. Awww....He pouted with disappointment since it's a special episode on him yet he needs to starve. The staffs gave the two losers a chance- they pick a cup/glass and the get to eat 'cup rice'. However first the two need to peel off the head and guts of the dried anchovies filling up the cup/glass they picked. Jun Ho being greedy picked a medium size popcorn bucket struggles to fill it up while Jong Min easily filled up the beer mug. He gets a nice portion of rice, soup, fish and side dishes in the mug.

 After dinner, PD Yu advises Jong Min to get dressed up neatly and freshen up as he is having a 'blind date' with a mysterious woman. OOooo! The rest of the members were more excited than him. They are to sit in the Operations tent while communicating with Jong Min via ear piece instructing him how to flirt and court his blind date. First of all he was shocked when he saw a male staff dressed in a pigtail wig and dress as his partner. It was a mere test to see how well he reacts. The rest were laughing away in the room wondering how Jong Min will react when he sees the real woman. Indeed they introduced him to an English instructor Kim So Yeon who has two dimples and perfect smile. She was sleek and tall like any other ordinary idol girl group member. Jun Ho continues to crack Jong Min up by teaching him ridiculous ways of flirting with the girl. However the 'romance teacher' Shi Yoon softens up the atmosphere and instructed Jong Min to ask better and nicer questions.

Defconn's coaching certainly didn't help further- asking a green tea latte without green tea!

So Yeon continuously laughed seeing the weird antics by Jong Min only to realize later that he has been following instructions from the ear piece. He apologized for his rudeness and he wished to see her again. She just smiled and said she will reconsider. The staffs inform So Yeon that if she wishes to see Jong Min again, she can wait for him at the pavilion. There were two pavilions at the corner of the hill. The rest of members were feeling anxious for Jong Min as this might be his destiny or perhaps NOT. Hahah! They waited while Jong Min yells So Yeon's name. There was no answer and pitch black from the other pavilion. Tae Hyun felt bad for Jong Min thinking this was the end.

Stay tune for the 2nd part of Jong Min's special episode.