Non-Summit
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| Also known as | Abnormal Summit |
| Genre | Talk-variety show |
| Written by | Hong Yun-kyung Shin Hye-rim Kim Na-young |
| Directed by | Kim Hee-jung, Season 1 Kim No-eun, Season 2 Kim Jae-won Jeong Jae-hoon Sung Han Kang Hong-joo |
| Presented by |
Jun Hyun-moo Sung Si-kyung Yoo Se-yoon |
| Starring |
Guillaume Patry Alberto Mondi Mark Tetto Abhishek Gupta Niklas Klabunde Alex Mazzucchelli Zahid Hussain Aurelien Loubert Christian Burgos Hitoshi Ogi Wang Xinlin |
| Country of origin | South Korea |
| Original language(s) | Korean |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 134 (as of January 30, 2016) (list of episodes) |
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| Executive producer(s) | Lim Jung-ah, Season 1 Cho Seung-wook, Season 2 |
| Running time | 75-85 minutes per episode |
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| Original network | JTBC |
| Original release | July 7, 2014 – present |
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| Revised Romanization | Bijeongsanghoedam |
| McCune–Reischauer | Pijŏngsanghoedam |
Non-Summit (Hangul: 비정상회담; RR: Bijeongsanghoedam), also known as Abnormal Summit, is a South Korean television program on JTBC which first aired on July 7, 2014. The show features a panel of non-Korean men, living in South Korea, who debate on various topics and "Korean culture, through the eyes of a foreigner," in a talk show format, in the Korean language.
The show started productions with veteran Lim Jung-ah, who produced Star Edition, and co-produced, with Yeo Woon-hyuk, variety shows MBC's Radio Star, and JTBC's Men's Stuff, after coming over to the cable company, from the major networks, in 2011.
The show's format, presented with humor, is meant to emulate a meeting of world leaders, like Doctors Without Borders, i.e. "Youth Without Borders"; or the United Nations, or G11, and is hosted by Jun Hyun-moo "Chairman", Yoo Se-yoon "Secretary General", and Sung Si-kyung "Chairman", with guest appearances by South Korean celebrities, guest "representatives", who announce the weekly topics. The stated mission: "The youth group, without borders, Non-Summit, is a variety show, that strives for peace and security, for the world's youth, by speaking on agendas, and debating with abnormals, who insist they're representatives." When heated discussions break out, the entire group has to stand, hold hands, and sing Koreana's song "Hand in Hand".
The show has been compared to KBS2's 2006 Global Talk Show (Misuda), which had female foreigners discussing global issues. Host Yoo Se-yoon said their new show would go a step further than getting to know one another's cultures, and would include problem solving, coming up with "what's better, together." Lim said the show's in-depth discussions made fluency in Korean the number one standard for casting the global guests. Lim said, "The cast of foreign people was because, although Korea is reinforcing its position on the global stage right now, it still is just one country among many others. And I thought perceiving the problems of Koreans who are in their 20s and 30s, in a universal perspective, was necessary."
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