Where Is My Friend's Home | |
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Also known as | Where Is My Friend's House My Friend's Home |
Genre | Reality television-travel show |
Written by | Choi Hye-jung, Jang Yoon-hee, Park Seo-jin, Lee Kyung-hee, Kim Jeong-won, Kim Ha-woon |
Directed by | Kim Hak-min, Kim Sol, Ahn Jeong-hyun |
Starring | See cast section |
Country of origin | South Korea |
Original language(s) | Korean |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 62 (list of episodes) |
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Executive producer(s) | Bang Hyun-young |
Location(s) |
South Korea China Belgium Nepal Italy Canada Australia France Germany New Zealand Thailand United States |
Running time | 70 minutes per episode |
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Original network | JTBC |
Original release | February 7, 2015 – April 29, 2016 (Season 1) |
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Website | home |
Korean name | |
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Revised Romanization | Nae Chin-guui Jibeun Eodi in-ga |
McCune–Reischauer | Nae Ch'in'guŭi Chibŭn Ŏdi in'ga |
Where Is My Friend's Home (Hangul: 내 친구의 집은 어디인가) is a television show on JTBC in South Korea which features the cast members of another JTBC show, Non-Summit, as they visit the home countries of the Non-Summit non-Korean members and their friends. The show is in a reality television-travel show format, in the Korean language, and first aired on February 7, 2015. Season 1 ended on April 29, 2016, after completing eleven trips to foreign countries and two trips within South Korea.
The show follows South Korean and foreign cast members of the South Korean television Non-Summit as they experience cultures of various countries through homestay, meeting the locals, and experiencing a better understanding of multiculturalism.
The show, a spin-off of Non-Summit, is less formal, with the cast from the original talkshow panel, now relaxing casually, as "friends", to visit one another's homes. The humor continues; the teaser video for the first episode, a trip to China, was entitled "Steal Things in Zhang Yuan’s House". The show's posters, entitled "Global friend’s house attack project", showed some of the cast's casual activities, like eating ice cream and jogging.
And although somewhat like a travel show, producers said Where is My Friend's Home trips would "not be typical." The show also candidly addresses common misperceptions and prejudices about the countries visited.
Through the fourth trip, the cast was made up entirely of Non-Summit cast members, current and past. After that, some new cast members were added, including South Korean television personalities and K-pop idols; who, in some cases, played host in their respective countries, augmenting the list of foreign cast members and countries visited. The first instance was the fifth trip to Canada which visited Henry Lau's home in Toronto, as well as Non-Summit cast member Guillaume Patry's home in Quebec.