Going Seventeen (Korean: 고잉 세븐틴; RR: Going sebeuntin, also known as GoSe) is a South Korean variety web series starring boy band Seventeen. The series has been offered for free viewing on YouTube and V Live (then later, on Weverse) since its premiere on June 12, 2017.[1] It features the band members participating in a variety of activities depending on an episode's main concept, ranging from games or completing challenges to skits, role playing and get-togethers.
The show started primarily with a video blog / behind-the-scenes format in its first seasons, featuring the band's various activities across their career with intermittent variety-type episodes. In 2019, it formally transitioned to the variety show format, and it aired weekly on Mondays at 10:10 p.m. (22:10) KST since January 2020. It began airing on Wednesdays at 21:00 KST since the start of its fifth season in April 2021. Throughout its broadcast history, the show garnered positive reviews for providing quality content that can be enjoyed by anyone in and outside the band's fandom, with cumulative views exceeding 270 million as of January 2022.[2][3][4]
Seventeen
Note: Special episodes are not counted towards the total.
All episodes in this season except for the final episode (Episode 29) are in video blog / behind-the-scenes format, featuring Seventeen's various activities across their career. Episode 29 is in a talk show format.
The episodes in this season are in video blog format unless noted otherwise.
This season marks Going Seventeen's change of format, transitioning from video blog (Episodes 1, 2, 5, 8, 9, 12 and 13) to variety show (Episodes 3, 4, 6, 7, 10, 11, 14 and onwards). It is also in this season when the show first used its opening and ending theme songs.
This season consists of episodes that are part of Seventeen's "Monthly Seventeen" project (from Going Seventeen 2019's Eps. 27-28: "The Secret Life of Going Sevong"), wherein each member contributes an episode concept that will be featured per month within the season's period.
S.Coups, Joshua [as Doctor], Jun, Wonwoo, Woozi, DK, Mingyu, Seungkwan [as Police], Vernon & Dino
Jeonghan, Hoshi & The8
Seventeen play a hybrid of the Mafia and treasure hunt games. The Citizens have to deduce the identities of and eliminate the three Mafias hiding amongst them while they hunt for a bundle of ₩500,000 cash that was concealed somewhere within the game area by the Mafias themselves. Before treasure hunting, they have to play a mini-game to determine the extra time added to the regular 5-minute searching time.
The Mafia wins.
Members of Seventeen form pairs by making themselves appealing to a fellow member of their choice. The pairs play various games and the members are later given a chance to change partners.
Vernon and Dino win.
Members of Seventeen take on the challenge of trying to fall asleep, or at least maintain a stable heart rate while lying down, within three minutes for three rounds. While a member tries to sleep, his fellow members shall try distracting him by teasing him (round 1), making jokes (round 2), and live recording absurd food ASMR and letting him listen to it through earphones (round 3). In each round, three members with the most stable heart rate can go home while losers proceed to the next round and repeat the challenge.
Woozi, who lost the challenge, has to try sleeping for the final time, leaving the set last.
Seventeen tries to determine who has the "best brain" in the group by playing different games.
Mingyu wins.
In 3 separate groups, Seventeen tries completing themed escape rooms. The members from the team that takes the longest time to escape will participate individually in the upcoming "The Tag" episode (Eps. 27-28). 10 minutes is added to a team's total escape time for each hint used.
Woozi, Seungkwan, Vernon & Dino finishes first and wins the challenge. Joshua, Jun, Hoshi & The8 took the longest time to escape and will participate individually in the upcoming "The Tag" episode (Eps. 27-28).
Seventeen plays a modified version of human chess, wherein a player on the chessboard shall play the secret game of the attacking player and the losing player is eliminated.
Team Wonwoo wins.
In Gimpo, Seventeen divides into two teams and compete in Kartrider-style go-kart racing.
S.Coups, Hoshi and Mingyu win 3rd, 2nd and 1st place, respectively. Joshua, The8 and Vernon face the penalty of washing Seventeen's minivan.
Forming three teams, members of Seventeen play video games within three hours inside rooms warmed up to 30°C while the members wear Santa suits.
The Super Bunny Man Team finishes first, while the Getting Over It Team remains unfinished by the end of the time limit.
Seventeen plays a modified hide-and-seek game wherein nine players called Mousebusters shall find and eliminate four Rats hiding within the game area.
The Rats win. After negotiations, it is decided that only one Mousebuster shall receive the penalty. DK, who lost the penalty mini-games, face the penalty of being smacked with a pillow showered with flour.
Members of Seventeen (except Seungkwan) play a role-playing game wherein the twelve players assume the roles of characters in a narrative about twelve guests attending a secret party hosted by Park Tae-san, the Chairman of bSK Group. The players have to deduce the secrets of the Park family as they run into shocking hints within the venue and guests start disappearing one by one.
As the game verges to a chilling end, Mingyu (as Chairman Park Tae-san's grandson Park Min-gyu) is the only one left within the venue until he himself disappears. In the epilogue, Seungkwan (as a TV anchor) reports about the "bSK Group massacre" and reveals that Park Min-gyu, who is afflicted with dissociative identity disorder and is believed to be both the incident's sole survivor and prime suspect, is missing.
In the post-credits scene, it is revealed that Park Min-gyu is indeed the culprit behind the party massacre, killing off each guest in his other personality, that of his father Park Joon-gi who, according to the game's narrative, committed suicide due to severe physical abuse from his father, Chairman Park Tae-san. During the final moments of the game, Min-gyu's original self is said to have succumbed to this other personality which then urged him to ultimately kill himself, thus player Mingyu's disappearance from the game area. To carry out the "killings" (i.e. elimination from the game), the production staff had all players "guess" the order of player eliminations by writing a list of the players' names on a sheet of paper before the game officially starts—the staff then followed Mingyu's list.
S.Coups, Jeonghan [as Broker], Joshua, Jun, Hoshi, Wonwoo [as Doctor], Woozi [as Police], DK, The8 & Seungkwan
Mingyu, Vernon & Dino
In the second installment of the "Don't Lie" episode series, an additional role called "Broker" is added to the game's participants. Determining the amount of time added to the regular searching time (5 minutes) is determined through a "liar game", i.e. a player should make a untruthful statement without the other players noticing the lie.
The surviving Citizens successfully eliminate all Mafiosi and decide to share the prize among them.
Seventeen engages in a friendly tournament against the Going Seventeen production team. The games to be played and the players from the two sides for each game are chosen through drawing lots, and a team should win three games out of a total of five in order to win the tournament. If Seventeen wins, the Going Seventeen production team's contract will be extended by a number of years (to be determined through Seventeen's discretion). If the Going Seventeen production team wins, Seventeen will edit the episode's post-credits scene and pay for the production team's dinner.
Seventeen wins (3-2) and secures their victory through an additional game which also resulted to their win.
Seventeen presents the top 13 episodes of Going Seventeen 2020 as ranked by their fans.
The Top 13 Episodes of Going Seventeen 2020
Since 2021, new seasons of Going Seventeen have continued sequentially from the previous year, although the title card is changed to mark the beginning of a new season.
12 members of Seventeen engage in a game of wits and loyalty against Jeonghan: the 12 members have to safekeep their ₩1,000,000 award money as Jeonghan talks privately to each of them to convince them to side with him by handing over their award money to him. Pressured by game conditions favorable to Jeonghan, the 12 members can either give to or steal money from Jeonghan by writing an amount (ranging from ₩0 to ₩1,000,000) on a blank check.
Seventeen divides into two teams that compete in a race through an inflatable obstacle course.
In an island, Seventeen engages in a treasure hunt game while finding the missing pieces of the map that will lead them to the prize.
All members of Seventeen [Doctor: Dino; Police: S.Coups; Brokers: Jeonghan & The8]
Going Seventeen production team
In the third installment of the "Don't Lie" episode series, an additional Broker is added to the game's participants, i.e. 3 Mafia and 10 Citizens (with 1 Doctor, 1 Police and 2 Brokers). Determining the amount of time added to the regular searching time (5 minutes) is determined through a lie detection test.
As the game verges to its end, the Citizens correctly deduce that there is actually no Mafia among the 13 players. It is revealed later that the Going Seventeen production team has taken the role of Mafia while the 2 Brokers were given the privilege to be aware of this set-up; thus, the game set-up has been Brokers versus the other Citizens. Mingyu, who found the ₩500,000 cash prize first, wins the game.
Members of Seventeen take on various challenges that they have to do in a specific place and in a specific manner. The "what" and "where" of each member's challenge is chosen by shooting sticky darts at two vertical roulette wheels. After grouping according to the place where they will do their challenges, each team shall choose the "how" of their challenges by shooting at a third roulette. The team who violates their chosen "how" condition the most number of times will face a penalty.
Seventeen divide into two teams and play a modified version of kickball that includes various advantageous and handicap items.
Seventeen are grouped into two teams and compete in various popular games from the 1984–2009 KBS variety show Family Entertainment.[z] The winning group will get a set of top-grade Hanu beef. During halftime, the Camel Team wins (450–430).
Seventeen are grouped into two teams and compete in various popular games from the 1984–2009 KBS variety show Family Entertainment.[z] The Tiger Team wins the entire competition (850–570).
Seventeen plays a modified game of tag wherein the offense team, acting like investors, search for and catch members of the defense team who are scattered within the game area, each of them representing a stock of certain value.
(cont'd from previous episode) The fourth and fifth pairs both fail to escape the building but are closer to their escape than the previous pairs. The last player Mingyu, who ventures out alone for the mission, correctly deduces that he and all of the previous players were clones, and he was able to escape from the building. But it is portrayed in the final seconds of the episode that he himself is eliminated from the game by the masked man who unmasks himself and is revealed to look exactly like Mingyu.
The narrative of the game is completed in the final seconds of the episode and in the post-credits. A group of eleven mad scientists immersed themselves in a research on human cloning, resorting to unethical human experimentations that mostly ended in failure and casualties. Later, they successfully made clones of themselves which inadvertently developed self-awareness. The scientists, by pairs (except for their leader Dr. Arthur Kim), tested each of their respective clones' capacity to retain memories and consciousness in an experiment that allowed them to gather clues towards their escape out of the building (the "Ego" escape game). As the experiment progressed, they captured and shot down their clones as they get closer and closer to their escape, including the one who successfully broke out of the building (Dr. Kim's clone).
(cont'd from previous episode) For the next rounds, the members of Seventeen try distracting the playing co-member and staff member by live recording "stream of consciousness" jokes (round 2) and freestyle recording (round 3) while letting them listen to it through earphones.
The members of Seventeen compete in making what each of them think is the "perfect way" to consume rice. Scored based on the members and the production team's votes, the winner of the competition will be given the privilege for the whole 2022 to choose the kind of food/snacks that the staff shall prepare during the filming of Going Seventeen.
The members of Seventeen divide into pairs to compete in a very difficult challenge: each pair shall push a large motor vehicle running in neutral gear and race to a 50-meter finish line against another vehicle of exactly the same type but is in driving mode. Before the official start of the competition, the members undergo various physical and mental trainings.
The members of Seventeen are divided into four teams and compete for the most points in an esports "triathlon" in order to win ₩3,000,000. Each game is played as a tournament, with the ability to have Seungkwan (the host) play in place of one of the team members for a game if needed. In the first stage, all teams play Crazy Arcade.
Team "SVT T1" wins 1st place.
(cont'd from previous episode) In the second stage, all teams play Sudden Attack.
Team "You Mad?" wins 1st place.
(cont'd from previous episode) In the third and final stage, all teams play KartRider.
Once again, Team "You Mad?" wins 1st place. Overall, Team "You Mad?" comes in 1st place and wins ₩3,000,000, while Team "Shinbangbboongbang" finishes 2nd, Team "SVT T1" 3rd and Team "ENFJ" last.
Members of Seventeen play various games but should only aim for second place; the player/s who finishes second will get the most points while those who finish first will get zero points. In reality, the members and the production staff play a prank on Jun: the members should furtively play the games in a way that it will lead to Jun's victory. If Jun wins the games (by finishing second place in the overall tally) without noticing their ruse, every member will receive a gift for Children's Day whereas only Jun will receive a gift if he wins and realizes he is being pranked. If Jun loses (by finishing either first place or third, fourth, etc. overall), no one receives a gift.
The members of Seventeen play a skit that tells the story of the people in a fictional village of Sebong 2-ri preparing for the National Singing Contest. Wonwoo plays the titular character Jeon Won-woo, a high school student who documents the various scenes in the village prior the event.
Cast
(cont'd from previous episode)
Additional Cast
Forming four teams, the members of Seventeen play horror-themed video games within three hours while wearing Santa suits.
Joshua, Wonwoo, The8 and Mingyu finish first, while Jun, Vernon and Dino cannot finish the game by the end of the time limit.
The members of Seventeen participate in an auction with an entrance fee. The member with the highest total assets wins.
Jeonghan wins.
Jeonghan [as Doctor], Joshua, Jun, Hoshi [as Thief], Wonwoo, The8, DK, Seungkwan [as Police], Vernon & Dino
S.Coups, Woozi, Mingyu
S.Coups, Jeonghan, Joshua, Jun, Hoshi, Woozi, The8, Mingyu [as Doctor], DK [as Police] & Seungkwan
Wonwoo, Vernon, Dino [as Murderer]
S.Coups, Jeonghan, Joshua [as Police], Jun, Hoshi, Woozi, Mingyu, Seungkwan [as Doctor], Vernon & Dino
Wonwoo, The8, DK
After Wonwoo won the latest Don't Lie series, he held a company dinner for the members and staff to thank their hard work.
This episode is made up of a collection of shorter video clips, including the following:
Wonwoo lost. He would go skydiving, as suggested by The8.
This episode is made up of another collection of shorter video clips, including the following:
Vernon succeeded in 4 guesses. The culprit was The8.
The members played various hilarious games to avoid being included in the final lineup of Going Rangers.
The members participated in a special quiz show at which they had to deceive others to gain an advantage.
In the 3rd installment of "Insomnia-Zero", the members of Seventeen once again took on the challenge of maintaining a stable heart rate while lying down for three minutes. In each round, the three members with the most stable heart rate can go home while losers proceeded to the next round and repeated the challenge. While a member closed his eyes, his fellow members distracted him by gossiping (round 1), answering questions from carats (their fans) on his behalf (round 2), and letting him listen to their honest confessions through earphones (round 3).
An election was held to decide the class president of Going Seventeen.
The members played a modified version of the board game I'm the Boss!.
In the first part of the show, the host Seungkwan introduced the panelists and guests who were played by other members of Seventeen.
Panelists
Guests
(cont'd from previous episode) In the second part of the show, the panelists had to identify the guest who faked his identity.
Kim Dan-bi, who was played by The8, turned out to be the father of a producer of the show.
The members attempted to cross a wave pool using their self-made boats.
Team Dino succeeded but Team The8 failed.
The members split into two teams and competed against each other by answering questions related to Going Seventeen.
Team Wen Junhui Special Forces won.
A related show is Going BooSeokSoon. This show features DK, Hoshi and Seungkwan, the three members of the sub-unit BooSeokSoon. This show only has two episodes.
The soundtrack of Going Seventeen includes the show's opening and ending theme songs which are both composed by Seventeen band members Woozi, Jeonghan, Hoshi, DK and Seungkwan. Both are performed by the entire band and debuted on 17 June 2019 in the eighth episode of Going Seventeen 2019.
The production of the opening theme song (and its corresponding title sequence for the season) and the ending theme song were documented and featured in the sixth and seventh episodes of Going Seventeen 2019. In Episode 6: "Making the Going Seventeen Opening Song" (aired 20 May 2019), it was revealed that Woozi pre-produced four instrumentals and let his co-composers choose which among them will be fitting to be the opening and ending theme music. The composers then wrote the lyrics and recorded demo versions of the songs, with Woozi handling the production. Later, the entire band unanimously approved the songs and discussed the production of the songs' final versions and the filming of the show's title sequence. The behind-the-scenes of the recording of the songs and the filming of the title sequence are featured in Episode 7: "Making the Going Seventeen Opening Video" (aired 3 June 2019).
On April 1, 2021, South Korean cable television network JTBC announced a 10-week long Spring special programming block of content from Hybe Labels artists. Going Seventeen was included in the lineup for Seventeen. In addition, two new episodes from the series, 'Treasure Island: 13 Raiders', premiered on television first, and later on YouTube and Weverse.[6][7]
Going Seventeen has been praised for being content that can be enjoyed by anyone regardless of generation, nationality, and fandom.[2] It breaks the notion of 'K-pop content enjoyed only by fans' and is expanding the audience enough to build a fandom of its own.[3] The show has often been labeled 'National Web Variety Show' and even 'K-pop's Infinite Challenge' by various media outlets.[11][12]
As of January 2022, Going Seventeen surpassed 270 million cumulative views with just two seasons in 2020 and 2021, and averaged over 3.62 million and 2.44 million views per episode, respectively.[4]
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