Non Summit

Non-Summit
Promotional poster with original cast, 2014
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 Niklas Klabunde Alex Mazzucchelli Zahid Hussain Aurélien Loubert Christian Burgos Ogi Hitoshi Wang Xinlin
Country of origin	South Korea
Original language(s)	Korean
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	170 (as of October 16, 2017) (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Lim Jung-ah, Season 1 Cho Seung-wook, Season 2
Running time	75-85 minutes per episode
Release
Original network	JTBC
Original release	July 7, 2014 (2014-07-07) – present
External links
Website	enter.jtbc.joins.com/nonsummit/

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."

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."