After the no-show of the Haru Haru MV parody in an edited version of the 2008 Infinity Challenge You & Me Concert on Christmas Day last year, the unedited version of the concert was finally shown yesterday after the media strike was called off earlier this week. And it was definitely well worth the wait.
The 6 members of MBC Infinity Challenge recently challenged themselves by imitating Big Bang’s Haru Haru MV and filming footage was shown last Saturday. The full MV will be revealed at their Christmas Day concert.
Infinity Challenge’s Chuseok Special will focus on the “Festival Syndrome” encountered by housewives during the celebrations.
MBC “Infinity Challenge” Olympics Special was finally unveiled on the afternoon of 16th August and was able to trumph KBS in the ratings war even though they showed the same women’s handball match between Korea and Hungary.
“Infinity Challenge” members Noh Hong Chul and Jung Hyung Don took turns as special commentators as they joined the regular commentators for play-by-play commentary during the game for Korean viewers. Jeon Jun Ha, Yoo Jae Suk and Park Myung Soo were in the stands cheering the Korean team on. JunJin was unable to make it but will meet up with them today for other games.
According to AGB Nielsen, the ratings for MBC’s broadcast was 17.1% and was noticeable higher than KBS which only got 8.8%, showing the influence that “Infinity Challenge” had. The “Infinity Challenge” effect also meant that this handball match became the highest rated match since the Beijing Olympics started showing on tv. The ratings for the previous handball matches hovered around 10% and even at it’s peak, wasn’t even able to reach even 15%.
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