Flower Crew

Flower Crew (Korean: 꽃놀이패) is a South Korean travel-reality show that was formerly broadcast via SBS on Mondays at 23:10 (KST) from September 5 to November 21, 2016. Starting November 27, 2016, it aired every Sunday at 16:50 (KST), before Running Man, forming part of SBS's Good Sunday lineup and ended with its last episode on March 19, 2017.

Flower Crew
Hangul꽃놀이패
GenreReality (live-voting), comedy, travel-variety show
Directed byPark Seung-min
Starring
Former:
Country of originSouth Korea
Original languageKorean
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes29
Production
Executive producersMin Eui-sik
Yang Min-suk
ProducerChoi Young-in
Production locationSouth Korea
Running time90 minutes
Production companiesYG Entertainment, SBS
DistributorSBS
Release
Original networkSBS
NAVER V App (Pilot Episode)
Original releaseJuly 15–16, 2016 (pilot)
September 5, 2016 (2016-09-05) 
March 19, 2017 (2017-03-19)
Chronology
Related showsRunning Man, SBS Good Sunday
External links
Website

Flower Crew was first broadcast through the Naver V App as a pilot episode. The regular show starred Seo Jang-hoon, Jo Se-ho, Ahn Jung-hwan, Yoo Byung-jae, Winner's Kang Seung-yoon and Lee Sung-jae. Flower Crew took the cast members on a three-day adventure in which all their decisions were made by viewers of the show. Viewers had the chance to participate in the show through Naver V live broadcast voting.

Flower Crew received a mixed response with its pilot episodes that first aired on Naver V App and later on SBS. After the live pilot show, viewers criticized members Jo Se-ho and Seo Jang-hoon for their rude behavior towards Jungkook and Kim Min-seok, such as rejecting the hamburgers Jungkook bought for the entire cast and saying that Jungkook prepared leftovers for them and criticizing Kim Min-seok for "stuffing his face" when he accepted the food. Jo Se-ho and Seo Jang-hoon later apologized and said the situation was a misunderstanding.

YG Entertainment decided to partner with broadcasting station SBS to begin airing the new show regularly. From episode 1 of the variety show, the show no longer included Jungkook and Kim Min-seok because of their hectic schedules. To replace them, the producers picked Sechs Kies's Lee Jaijin and Eun Jiwon. Eun Jiwon has been in other variety shows such as New Journey to the West and 2 Days & 1 Night.

Format

As of Episode 1, basically, all members will gathered and will create an activity to determine the Team Flowery Road and Team Muddy Road, followed by picking Golden Transfer Ticket , which is shaped like a golden coin with hole in the middle as written "Flowery Road", same as "Silver Transfer Ticket".

Usually a Guest(s) only participated on the second day for a while to do activities with the members, and sometimes invited at the beginning of trip as Leader of Team Flowery Road for early trip and will participated with members until the end of the trip.

Team Flowery Road will enjoy the luxury and pleasure and comfort during trip, including accommodation, vehicles, food, and the best service provided by the crew. Different about the fate of Team Muddy Road, which will go through the hardship and discomfort as beds in dilapidated houses, lack of food and activities are less enjoyable.

After a situation of havoc created unintentionally by Lee Jaijin, in one of the latter episodes, the production team created a rule stating that the Transfer Ticket only can be used & only available in same day the Flower Crew members receive or get it from the lucky draw or the guest. It only can be used before midnight at any situation, for anyone & any place.

Transfer Ticket

As in early episode, there are several types of Transfer Ticket in this show as almost every new episode or trip, the staff production keep introduces a new kind of Transfer Ticket to the Flower Crew Member.

The most common one and as the powerful transfer ticket, Golden aka "Exchange", function as the user can swap or trade House Road with the other member from other house road. The user can switch place from Muddy road to Flower Road and must summon someone from other house to replace the user.

The second and the famous one, Silver aka "Transfer", function as the user can transfer someone from both House Road to the other house road but he/she cannot use it to him/herself.

Theme

Gomusin
Jipsin

As of pilot episode, Flower Crew consists of 2 theme, Flower Road & Muddy Road. The symbol for Flower Road is Gomusin, are shoes made of rubber in a form of Korean traditional shoes. And Jipsin is the symbol for Muddy Road, are Korean traditional sandals made of straw.

Cast member

The original Line-up for Flower Crew consist of 6 members. The original members of Flower Crew were Seo Jang-hoon, Ahn Jung-hwan, Jo Se-ho, Yoo Byung-jae, Kim Min-seok. Kim Min-seok & Jungkook left the show because of their hectic schedules and their position were replaced by Sechs Kies member, Eun Jiwon & Lee Jaijin from episode 1 that was broadcast on SBS Channel.

On the 4th Trip (Episode 12), Sechs Kies members Eun Jiwon & Lee Jaijin made last appearance and left the show for concentrating on group promotions & their spots was filled by the previous guest, WINNER's Kang Seung-yoon to be the 5th member of Flower Crew and latter episode, actor Lee Sung Jae had invited to be the 6th member of Flower Crew.

Current cast

Name Character & Trait Duration Notes
Seo Jang-hoon Second Oldest Member
Tallest
Sport Guy
Grumbler
Unlucky
Episodes pilot–29 He has intense rivalry with Ahn Jung-hwan
Ahn Jung-hwan Responsible Guy
Sport Guy
Third Oldest Member
Cooking Master
Unlucky
Episodes pilot–29 Arguably one of the most unlucky member in show
(almost always end up in Muddy Road Team at the end of the day)
Jo Se-ho Gag Man
Talkative
Smooth Talker
Dumb & Dumber
Kimchi Dance
Episodes pilot–29 He has great chemistry with Yoo Byung-jae as The Stupid Duo
Yoo Byung-jae The Thinker
Trickster
Smart
Desperate
Girl's Choice
Shortest
Dumb & Dumber
Episodes pilot–29 In earlier episodes, he has found a trick to pick the Transfer Ticket 100% of the time. He has great chemistry with Jo Se-ho as The Stupid Duo
Kang Seung-yoon
(Winner)
New Member
Idol Group
Tolerate
Guitar Guy
Little Devil
Episodes 13–29 Came in episode 7 as the guest of the episode, later, he was invited to become a permanent member of Flower Crew as of episode 13.
Lee Sung-jae New Member
Oldest Member
Actor
Cute
Game Master
Unlucky
Episodes 17–29 Came in episode 13 as the guest of the episode, later, he was invited to become a permanent member of Flower Crew

Former cast

Name Character & Trait Duration Notes
Eun Jiwon
(Sechs Kies)
Sechs Kies
Food Terrorist
Mischievous
Spoiler
Troublemaker
Episodes 1–12 Known as troublemaker during cook session with Ahn Jung Hwan
Lee Jaejin
(Sechs Kies)
Sechs Kies
Peculiar
Hard To Read
Artistic
Grumpy
Episodes 1–12 The most unexpected member of Flower Crew because of his behavior

Guest

EpisodeGuest
Pilot (2 episodes) TWICE (Nayeon, Dahyun)
1 No guest
2–3 Hong Jin-young
4–6 Choo Sung-hoon
5–6 Apink (Jung Eun-ji, Oh Ha-young)
7–9 Kang Seung-yoon (WINNER)
8–9 Solji (EXID)
10–11 Heechul (Super Junior)
11 TWICE (Nayeon, Momo)
12 No guest
13–14 Lee Dae-ho, Lee Sung-jae, Jinyoung (B1A4)
14 IU
15–16 Seungri (Big Bang), Minah (Girl's Day), Nara (Hello Venus)
17–18 Kim Se-jeong (I.O.I/Gugudan), Lee Sang-min
18 Sol Bi
19 Chae Soo-bin
19–20 Rain
20 Yura (Girl's Day)
21 Seolhyun (AOA)
22–23 Im Soo-hyang
23–24 Song Min-ho (WINNER), Cao Lu (Fiestar)
25 No guest
26 Kim Jun-hyun
27-29 Lee Jaijin (Sechs Kies)
27 Hani (EXID)
28-29 Kyungri (Nine Muses)

Ratings

In the ratings below, the highest rating for the show will be in red, and the lowest rating for the show will be in blue each year.

2016

List of ratings in 2016 (Episode 1 - 17)
Episode # Broadcast Date TNMS Ratings[1] AGB Ratings[2]
1 September 5 3.2% 2.7%
2 September 12 3.0% 3.1%
3 September 19 2.4% 2.8%
4 September 26 3.6% 3.4%
5 October 3 3.3% 3.2%
6 October 10 2.7% 2.8%
7 October 17 3.4% 3.3%
8 October 24 3.1% 3.1%
9 October 31 3.0% 2.9%
10 November 7 3.4% 3.0%
11 November 14 2.9% 3.1%
12 November 21 3.1% 3.5%
13 November 27 4.5% 4.6%
14 December 4 4.2% 3.5%
15 December 11 4.1% 4.0%
16 December 18 4.2% 3.8%
17 December 25 3.9% 4.0%

2017

List of ratings in 2017 (Episode 18 - 29)
Episode # Broadcast Date TNMS Ratings [1] AGB Ratings [2]
18 January 1 4.3% 3.8%
19 January 8 4.6% 4.3%
20 January 15 4.3% 5.6%
21 January 22 4.4% 4.9%
22 January 29 4.4% 4.5%
23 February 5 4.7% 4.7%
24 February 12 4.1% 4.7%
25 February 19 4.7% 4.6%
26 February 26 4.0% 4.1%
27 March 5 4.1% 3.8%
28 March 12 2.5% 2.8%
29 March 19 2.9% 2.8%

Awards and nominations

YearAwardCategoryRecipientResult
201610th SBS Entertainment Awards[3]Entertainment Scene Stealer AwardJo Se-hoWon
Top Excellence Award in Variety ShowNominated
Excellence Award in Variety ShowSeo Jang-hoonWon
Ahn Jung-hwanNominated
Rookie Award, MaleYoo Byung-jaeWon
Best Friends AwardFlower Crew teamWon

References

  1. "AGB Nielsen Rating 1" (in Korean).
  2. "AGB Nielsen Rating 2" (in Korean).
  3. Jung Joon-hwa (December 26, 2016). "[2016 SBS 연예대상] 신동엽. 26년 만의 대상.."하늘에 계신 母의 선물" (종합)". OSEN (in Korean). Chosun. Retrieved December 27, 2016.
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