Little Forest (TV series)

Little Forest (Korean: 리틀 포레스트; Hanja: 小森林; RR: liteulpoleseuteu; MR: Rit'ŭl p'oresŭt'ŭ) is a South Korean television entertainment program, broadcast by SBS on every Monday and Tuesday between 12 August and 7 October 2019. The program starred Lee Seo-jin, Lee Seung-gi, Park Na-rae & Jung So-min.[1]

Little Forest
Hangul리틀 포레스트
Genre
Written by
  • Oh Yoo-seon
  • Lee Seong-jeong
  • Lim Jung-mi
  • Yang Ji-in
  • Lee Seon-hye
  • Park Hee-kyung
  • Kim Na-rin
  • Lee Seong-hee
  • Rose
  • Kim Hye-lim
Directed by
  • Kim Jung-wook
  • Cho Yong-jae
  • Park So-hyeon
  • Ahn Jung-hyun
  • Kwon Hyeong-gu
  • Yoo Sun-myeong
Starring(Various artist)
Country of originSouth Korea
Original language(s)Korean
No. of episodes16
Production
Production location(s)South Korea
Camera setupMulti-camera
Running time60 – 80 minutes
Production company(s)SBS
Release
Original networkSBS
Picture formatHDTV 1080i
Audio formatStereo
Original release12 August – 7 October 2019 (2019-08-12 – 2019-10-07)
External links
Official website
Korean name
Hangul
리틀 포레스트
Hanja
小森林
Revised RomanizationRiteul poreseuteu
McCune–ReischauerRit'ŭl p'oresŭt'ŭ

Overview

The program is a 16 episode series program to "Caring for Kids in the Nature" for children who have no place to play with and is a healing variety program designed as a home kids garden development project for children.[2][3] The kids will spend 2 days and 1 night with the cast, away from their parents for the first time.[3]

Lee Seung-Gi and Jung So-Min are certified child psychology counselor and Lee Seo-jin is a certified chef who went through training for a cooking course to cater for young kids. Park Na-Rae also took a cooking course.[3] Lee Seung-gi has some experience in woodworking and utilizes the wood workshop to build fun activities for the kids.

Location and facility

The filming location is at Jjigbaggol, Inje, Gangwon Province with the land area of about 33,000m2.[3] The place consists of a big open field with an open concept kitchen, front yard, workshop, living quarters (for kids and cast), garden, small animal farm and Pine forest.

Addition of facilities
  • Suspension bridge — Seung-gi, Seo-jin and So-min added a suspension bridge course in the Pine forest for the kids to play with. Further improvement is made in episode 3 to adapt to younger kids.[4]
  • Treehouse — Seung-gi designed and built a treehouse, in the Pine forest, under the supervision of a teacher in episode 5. Seo-jin and the workers help in the construction of the treehouse.[5]

Airtime
AirdateBroadcast Start Time (KST)
12 August – 7 October 2019 Part 1 Mondays & Tuesdays at 10:00 pm
Part 2 Mondays & Tuesdays at 10:40 pm

Cast

Main Cast
Name Episode Notes
Lee Seo-jin 1 – 16 [1][6]
Lee Seung-gi
Park Na-rae
Jung So-min

Kids
  • Listing of the kids are in the sequence of arrival at the Little Forest.
Name Korean
Age		 Gender Episode
Ma Yi-hyeon4male1 – 8, 16
Brooke5female1 – 16
Grace5female1 – 16
Kang Yi-han7male1 – 16
Choi Yoo-jin4female1 – 16
Lee Jeong-heon6male5 – 8, 12 – 14, 16
Kim Ye-jun4male8 – 9, 16
Kim Ga-on6female8 – 9, 16
Kim Yoo-na5female12 – 14, 16

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.
Episode Broadcast Date
(2019)		 AGB Nielsen
(Nationwide)
[7][8][9]
Part 1 Part 2
1 12 August5.1%6.8%
2 13 August3.5%5.0%
3 19 August3.1%5.2%
4 20 August4.0%5.4%
5 26 August3.0%3.5%
6 27 August3.1%4.5%
7 2 September3.9%4.7%
8 3 September3.6%4.2%
9 9 September2.9%4.1%
10 16 September3.5%3.9%
11 17 September3.4%4.5%
12 23 September3.2%3.5%
13 24 September2.9%3.6%
14 30 September2.8%3.5%
15 1 October3.1%3.6%
16 7 October3.0%3.8%

Awards and nominations
Year Award Category Recipient(s) Result Ref.
2019 13th SBS Entertainment Awards SNS Star Award Park Na-rae Won [10]
Producer's Award Lee Seung-gi Won [11]
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References
  1. "[TD포토] '리틀 포레스트' 찍박골의 여름 맞이". TV Daily (in Korean). 12 August 2019. Archived from the original on 12 September 2019. Retrieved 12 September 2019.
  2. "Program Introduction". SBS (in Korean).
  3. "흥행 삼박자 다 갖춘 '리틀 포레스트', 시청률 반토막 이유는". JoongAng Ilbo (in Korean). 9 September 2019. Archived from the original on 12 September 2019. Retrieved 12 September 2019.
  4. "'리틀 포레스트' 이승기, 야심작 '숲 속 흔들 다리' 넓은 간격에 좌절…즉각 보수 공사 실시". SBS (in Korean). 20 August 2019. Archived from the original on 12 September 2019. Retrieved 12 September 2019.
  5. "'리틀포레스트' 열정삼촌 이승기, 아이들 위해 동화 속 '트리하우스' 직접 제작". SBS (in Korean). 27 August 2019. Archived from the original on 12 September 2019. Retrieved 12 September 2019.
  6. "Cast Introduction". SBS (in Korean).
  7. "Nielsen Korea". www.nielsenkorea.co.kr.
  8. "AGB Ratings by Naver" (in Korean) – via naver.
  9. "AGB Ratings by Daum" (in Korean) – via Daum.
  10. NEWSIS (28 December 2019). "[2019 SBS 연예대상]강남·이상화·박나래·육성재·이광수 SNS스타상". newsis (in Korean). Archived from the original on 16 April 2020. Retrieved 29 December 2019.
  11. "[2019 SBS 연예대상] 이승기, 프로듀서상 수상…SBS예능으로 커와 기쁘다". mydaily.co.kr (in Korean). 29 December 2019. Archived from the original on 16 April 2020. Retrieved 29 December 2019.
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