Running Man Postmodern Analysis
BY:
1. TSANIYATUL HALIYAH (121012104)
2. MUKHAMMAD ABDI (121012105)
3. MOH. ARIEF RADITYA PUTRA (121012130)
English Department
Faculty of Humanities
Universitas Airlangga
2013
Introduction
Nowadays, our life provides with all things that easily access in many ways, we can take from television, film, radio, newspapers and the internet. Those lists can be categorized into media tools, which useful to communicate messages to audiences in the world.
As we have known, in recent years Korean wave has drawn out our attention through the various of popular culture in its television programs. Korea apparently has succeeded spread its cultural products such as K-pop, K-drama, K-music, K-TV show etc. to be enjoyed by any age or particularly teenagers. And this finally happens to some people as well, the thing that we usually deny the most about Korean popular culture.
Here, we are going to discuss about one of Korean famous television program known as Running Man. We choose to analyze Running Man simply because we love it, it’s funny, entertaining, catchy and conceptually perfect. Running Man is a South Korean variety show; a part of SBS (Seoul Broadcast System).
This show is classified as an "urban action variety"; a never-before-seen new genre of variety shows. Variety show is an entertainment made up of a variety of acts and normally introduce by the MC in the beginning of the show. Here, the MC is included within seven casts and guests who are all famous Korean artists complete missions in a landmark to win the race. It first aired on July 11, 2010 with 166 episodes aired until present . It combines comedy and variety scenes including unscripted casts. The awesome thing is that Running Man has succeeded grab foreign interest outside Korea such as Thailand, Hongkong, Malaysia, Vietnam, and Indonesia. The show is aired every week in SBS but the fans can also download it freely
1. TSANIYATUL HALIYAH (121012104)
2. MUKHAMMAD ABDI (121012105)
3. MOH. ARIEF RADITYA PUTRA (121012130)
English Department
Faculty of Humanities
Universitas Airlangga
2013
Introduction
Nowadays, our life provides with all things that easily access in many ways, we can take from television, film, radio, newspapers and the internet. Those lists can be categorized into media tools, which useful to communicate messages to audiences in the world.
As we have known, in recent years Korean wave has drawn out our attention through the various of popular culture in its television programs. Korea apparently has succeeded spread its cultural products such as K-pop, K-drama, K-music, K-TV show etc. to be enjoyed by any age or particularly teenagers. And this finally happens to some people as well, the thing that we usually deny the most about Korean popular culture.
Here, we are going to discuss about one of Korean famous television program known as Running Man. We choose to analyze Running Man simply because we love it, it’s funny, entertaining, catchy and conceptually perfect. Running Man is a South Korean variety show; a part of SBS (Seoul Broadcast System).
This show is classified as an "urban action variety"; a never-before-seen new genre of variety shows. Variety show is an entertainment made up of a variety of acts and normally introduce by the MC in the beginning of the show. Here, the MC is included within seven casts and guests who are all famous Korean artists complete missions in a landmark to win the race. It first aired on July 11, 2010 with 166 episodes aired until present . It combines comedy and variety scenes including unscripted casts. The awesome thing is that Running Man has succeeded grab foreign interest outside Korea such as Thailand, Hongkong, Malaysia, Vietnam, and Indonesia. The show is aired every week in SBS but the fans can also download it freely
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