SNL Korea
| Saturday Night Live Korea | |
|---|---|
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| Also known as | SNL Korea |
| Genre | |
| Created by | Lorne Michaels |
| Directed by | Yoo Sung-mo Baek Seung-ryong Kim Min Ha Byeong-hun |
| Creative director(s) | Song Chang-ui (Season 4) Jang Jin (Season 1,2,3) |
| Presented by | Shin Dong-yup (de facto) |
| Starring | (see 'Current cast members') |
| Narrated by |
(Season 3,4) (Season 1,2,3) |
| Opening theme | by |
| Ending theme | by |
| Country of origin | South Korea |
| Original language(s) | Korean |
| No. of seasons | 8 |
| No. of episodes | 140 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Jennifer Danielson |
| Producer(s) | Ahn Sang-hui |
| Location(s) | Multi-studio of CJ E&M Broadcasting Center, Digital Media City, Seoul, South Korea |
| Running time | 60 minutes, including adverts Saturdays at 23:00 (KST) |
| Production company(s) | CJ E&M |
| Release | |
| Original network | tvN |
| Picture format | 1080i (HDTV) |
| Original release | 3 December 2011 – 24 December 2016 |
| Chronology | |
| Related shows | Saturday Night Live |
| External links | |
| SNL Korea official tvN website | |
| Korean name | |
| Hangul | |
|---|---|
| Revised Romanization | Saeteode-i Na-iteu Ra-ibeu Gori-a |
| McCune–Reischauer | Saet'ŏtei Naitŭ Raibŭ Koria |
Saturday Night Live Korea (Hangul: 새터데이 나이트 라이브 코리아; abbreviated as SNL Korea or SNLK (Hangul: SNL코리아)) is a South Korean late-night live television sketch comedy and variety television program broadcast on general service cable channel tvN. It is adapted from the long-running American TV show Saturday Night Live on NBC. The weekly program premiered on December 3, 2011, and aired on Saturdays at 23:00. The series went on hiatus on 24 December 2016 due to a series of controversies.
Written and directed by filmmaker and playwright Jang Jin, the show was officially announced on November 24, 2011 at a roundtable press conference in Cheongdam-dong. The original cast was composed of 17 members: Jang Jin, Ahn Young-mi, Lee Han-wi, Jung Woong-in, Kim Bin-woo, Jang Young-nam, Kim Won-hae, Lee Hae-young, Lee Chul-min, Lee Sang-hoon, Park Joon-seo, Kim Ji-young, Kim Ji-kyung, Min Seo-hyun, Han Seo-jin, Go Kyung-pyo, and Kim Seul-gie. The premiere episode on December 3, 2011 was hosted by actor Kim Joo-hyuk.
Then-showrunner and head writer Jang Jin spoke about the difficulties in recruiting guests, saying "When you’re offering a film, you give them a script, ask them how it is and if they say no, say that's good and turn around, but to get people to appear in this show, I had to beg. I even asked them to appear on the show by giving them my next movie script." The first season ran from December 3, 2011 to January 21, 2012 for eight episodes.
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