Cool Kids (TV program)

For the American television series, see The Cool Kids (TV series).

Cool Kids (Korean: 요즘애들; RR: Yojeumaedeul) is a South Korean variety show program on JTBC starring Yoo Jae-suk, Kim Shin-young, Ahn Jung-hwan, Haon and Kwanghee.^[1][2][3]

Cool Kids
Promotional poster
Hangul	요즘애들
Lit.	Kids These Days
RR	Yojeumaedeul
MR	Yojŭmaedŭl
Genre	Talk show
Starring	Current: Yoo Jae-suk Kim Shin-young Ahn Jung-hwan Haon Kwanghee Former: Han Hyun-min Seulgi (Red Velvet)
Country of origin	South Korea
Original language	Korean
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	22
Production
Executive producers	Yoon Hyun-joon [ko] Lee Chang-woo
Production location	South Korea
Running time	90 minutes
Original release
Network	JTBC
Release	December 2, 2018 (2018-12-02) – May 12, 2019 (2019-05-12)

The show aired from December 2, 2018. It was broadcast by JTBC on Sundays at 23:20 (KST)^[1] and ended on May 12, 2019.

Synopsis

The show welcomes the kids to personally create their videos and submit to the show starting from November 19, 2018.^[4]

From episode 1 to 6, the 6 casts will split into three teams. Afterwards, all the team members will watch the selected 10 applicants' videos that kids personally created to review during the studio recording. Later on, each team will choose one kid team that they want to spend the day with and give them a call. The casts will meet the kids the week after the call.

Starting from episode 7 to 10, the grouping method changes and all the cast move in a group rather than splitting into 3 groups. In addition, the casts only watch 2 or 3 applicants' videos instead of the usual 10. From there, they will only choose 1 kid team instead of 3. They will also meet them right away after calling the chosen kids instead of meeting them the week after the call.

From episode 11 to 15, the casts will only watch 2 applicants' videos and vote. They will meet the chosen kid(s) a week later so that the kid(s) is/are prepared.

From episode 16, the production team will decide ahead of filming day on which kid(s) to visit.

Casts

Name	Episodes
Han Hyun-min	1 – 6
Red Velvet's Seulgi
Yoo Jae-suk	1 – 22
Kim Shin-young
Ahn Jung-hwan
Haon
Kwanghee	10 – 22

Changes in Casts

On episode 7, the 4 MCs announced that Hyun-min and Seulgi had officially left the show.

On episode 9, it was announced that Kwanghee will officially be joining the remaining cast.^[3]

Groups

Episode(s)	Groups
	A		B		C
	Cast(s)	Kid(s)	Cast(s)	Kid(s)	Cast(s)	Kid(s)
1 – 3	Haon Ahn Jung-hwan	Y.N.D. club	Kim Shin-young Seulgi	Im Siblings	Yoo Jae-suk Han Hyun-min	Jang Joon-young
4 – 6		Kwon Oh-joon	Yoo Jae-suk Seulgi	Live Together	Kim Shin-young Han Hyun-min	Mimi School
Episode(s)	Cast(s)	Kid(s)
7	Haon Ahn Jung-hwan Kim Shin-young Yoo Jae-suk	Moon Esther
8		Song Young-jin
9		Park Chan-hoo
10	Haon Ahn Jung-hwan Kim Shin-young Yoo Jae-suk Kwanghee	Seong Ho-seok, Lim Jong-wook & Ryu Min-woo (Medical students of Seoul National University (SNU) College of Medicine)
11		Han Yoo-ran
12		Yang Jin-soo
13	Haon Ahn Jung-hwan Kim Shin-young Yoo Jae-suk	Yun Hyun-bin & Yun Soo-bin
14	Haon Ahn Jung-hwan Kim Shin-young Yoo Jae-suk Kwanghee	Lee Sun-jin, Park Se-jin, Kim Jong-woo & Cho Chae-rin (Korea National University of Arts, School of Dance students)
15		Ahn Baek-rin, Park Yeon & Jun Bum-sun (Vegan)
16		Park Hong-sun (Military Maniac)		Kim Min-chan (Youngest Drone Racing Champion)
17	Haon Ahn Jung-hwan Kim Shin-young Yoo Jae-suk	Hong San (Funeral Portrait Photographer)
18	Haon Ahn Jung-hwan Kim Shin-young Yoo Jae-suk Kwanghee	Jung Gye-won (International Memory Master)
19		Kim Yong-wan, Ahn Dae-hyun & Yoo Sung-young
20	Haon Ahn Jung-hwan Kim Shin-young Yoo Jae-suk	Kim Min-ji, Kim Su-jin, Yang Tae-yi & Kim Hye-rin (Korean National Female Curling Team)
21	Ahn Jung-hwan Yoo Jae-suk Kwanghee	Ni Ju, Jeon Woo-young, Yoon Ji-a, Lee Hye-rim, Lee Gi-hyun & Jeon Ho-young (Vegetable Orchestra)			Lee Sol Bit Na, Kim Ye-ji, Kim Se-in, Kwon Hae-won & Kim Hyun-gi (Circus)
22	Ahn Jung-hwan Kim Shin-young Yoo Jae-suk Kwanghee	Cha Jun-hwan (National Figure Skater)

Guests

Episode(s)	Name	Note(s)
8	Kwanghee	[5]
9	Ahn Young-mi	[6]
	Jang Sung-kyu	[7]
10	Kim Hye-yoon	[8]
	Chani (SF9)
13	Shin Bong-sun	[9]
	Nam Chang-hee [ko]
15	Moon Se-yoon	[10]
17	Haha	[11]
19	Jo-bin [ko] (Norazo)	[12]
	Jang Sung-kyu	[13]
20	Yang Se-hyung	[14]
	Solbi
21	Lee Su-geun	[15]
22	Yunho (TVXQ)	[16]

Ratings

Season 1

List of ratings in 2018–2019 (Episodes 1–present)

• Ratings listed below are the individual corner ratings of Cool Kids. (Note: Individual corner ratings do not include commercial time, which regular ratings include.)
• 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.

Ep. #	Original Airdate	AGB Nielsen Ratings[17][18][19]
1	December 2, 2018	0.941%
2	December 9, 2018	1.117%
3	December 16, 2018	0.910%
4	December 23, 2018	1.462%
5	January 6, 2019[a]	1.515%
6	January 13, 2019	1.369%
7	January 20, 2019	1.646%
8	January 27, 2019	1.467%
9	February 10, 2019[b]	1.519%
10	February 17, 2019	2.296%
11	February 24, 2019	1.774%
12	March 3, 2019	0.921%
13	March 10, 2019	1.500%
14	March 17, 2019	0.954%
15	March 24, 2019	1.324%
16	March 31, 2019	0.838%
17	April 7, 2019	0.6%
18	April 14, 2019	1.253%
19	April 21, 2019	0.915%
20	April 28, 2019	1.011%
21	May 5, 2019	0.795%
22	May 12, 2019	1.099%

Notes

1. The episode was pushed back a week due to the New Year special programme.
2. The episode was pushed back a week due to the Lunar New Year special programme.