Episode 122:Guests: Kim Wan Sun, Park Nam Jung, Kang Susie (singers); Jung Won Gwan, Kim Tae Hyung, Lee Sang Won (Sobangcha (Fire Truck)); Goo Hara (Kara).
Location: Gyeonggi-do
Teams (Siheung Gymnasium*): Jong Kook, Kim Wan Sun, Park Nam Jung, Kang Susie, Jung Won Gwan, Kim Tae Hyung, Lee Sang Won (Legends team); Jae Suk, Goo Hara, Suk Jin, Gwang Soo, Haha, Gary, Ji Hyo (Running Man team).
Time machine episode race: "Travel back in time" to three different periods and compete in games to gain marbles to be used in a final game of marbles.
1982 obstacle course relay race: Wearing restrictive "munchkin"-like outfits, race in pairs through an obstacle course (hill; steeplechase; elastic band door; snack snatch).
1998 punch strength arcade game (Incheon Youth Center*): Four members from each team compete for the high score. The winner of each round keeps competing until defeated or ultimately wins.
2002 "tray noraebang (karaoke)" (Rock Camp Live Club*, Bucheon): Each team is given a song and members in turn (and back) must successfully sing a line of the song accurately and in general rhythm and pitch. Failure sends New York-style pizza trays suspended above them crashing down (I don't know if they're New York-style pizza trays, they look like New York-style pizza trays to me. Go to a New York pizzeria and tell me they don't look like New York-style pizza trays. Badda-bing.). Legends team get Kara's Pretty Girl, Running Man team get Sobangcha's On the Phone.
Final marble competition (Siheung Gymnasium): Using the marbles earned, get as many in the circle as possible.
Comments: Goo Hara's third appearance. Park Nam Jung was mentioned in the Charlie's Angels episode in a question regarding his famous dance ("Missing You", shown in his introduction). Both Gwang Soo and Suk Jin got the dance right. The legendary singer guests are from even before the first generation Hallyu wave and I won't even pretend to have any insight on them. Most current international K-pop fans are fans of the second generation Hallyu wave, which I think is marked by international attention thanks to YouTube. I don't know if this is historically or sociologically accurate, but my impression is that the first generation Hallyu wave started in the mid to late-90s (including Kim Jong Kook's group "Turbo") and rose to prominence domestically, heavily influenced by late 80s/early 90s African American hip hop and pop fashion and music. Before that, I was under the impression that popular music in Korea was still dominated by trot, but this exposure of Korean "legends" show that Western pop music was already having an influence on Korean society and music out of the political turmoil of the 80s (end of authoritarian and military rule and increased democratization and liberalization). It may be derivative and embryonic (and cheesy) to Westerners, but they're their legends. For the entertainment business, they may represent the start of what political and social freedoms started bringing.
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