Little Forest () is a South Korean television entertainment program broadcast by SBS every Monday and Tuesday from 12 August to 7 October 2019. The program starred Lee Seo-jin, Lee Seung-gi, Park Na-rae and Jung So-min.
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. The kids will spend 2 days and 1 night with the cast, away from their parents for the first time.
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. 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. 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. 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.
Airtime Airdate Broadcast Start Time (KST) 12 August – 7 October 2019Part 1Mondays & Tuesdays at 10:00 pmPart 2Mondays & Tuesdays at 10:40 pm
Cast Main cast Name Episode NotesLee Seo-jin1 – 16Lee Seung-giPark Na-raeJung So-min
Kids Listing of the kids are in the sequence of arrival at the Little Forest.
NameKoreanAgeGender EpisodeMa Yi-hyeon4male1 – 8, 16 Brooke5 female1 – 16 Grace5 female1 – 16Kang Yi-han7 male1 – 16Choi Yoo-jin4 female 1 – 16Lee Jeong-heon6 male 5 – 8, 12 – 14, 16Kim Ye-jun4 male 8 – 9, 16Kim Ga-on6 female 8 – 9, 16Kim Yoo-na5 female 12 – 14, 16
Ratings In the ratings below, the highest rating for the show will be in , and the lowest rating for the show will be in .
EpisodeBroadcast Date(2019)AGB Nielsen(Nationwide)Part 1Part 2112 August213 August3.5%5.0%319 August3.1%5.2%420 August4.0%5.4%526 August3.0%627 August3.1%4.5%72 September3.9%4.7%83 September3.6%4.2%99 September2.9%4.1%1016 September3.5%3.9%1117 September3.4%4.5%1223 September3.2%1324 September2.9%3.6%1430 September151 October3.1%3.6%167 October3.0%3.8%
Awards and nominations Year Award Category Recipient(s) Result Ref.201913th SBS Entertainment AwardsSNS Star AwardPark Na-raeProducer's AwardLee Seung-gi
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