My Sibling's Romance () is an original South Korean dating reality show that aired every Friday on JTBC and Wavve, an OTT service in Korea. It premiered on March 1, 2024.
Format My Sibling's Romance is a story about several siblings hiding each other's identities and gathering in one house while looking for their respective lovers. The format of the program is the same as other romance-entertainment programs, where young men and women come together in one space. By filling the cast with siblings, it also deals with the friendship and family love between siblings. It also has the format of a mystery drama as the participants need to guess the identity of the other's blood relatives. The siblings who appear in My Sibling's Romance pretend not to know who their siblings are. This is the first dating reality show to feature siblings. The siblings variable was also highly involved in the romance process because the sibling could either help or hinder each other's romances. One of the panelists, BamBam, said that My Sibling's Romance has a sitcom-like feel because of the sibling chemistry.
Production Concept and development My Sibling's Romance was created by producer Lee Jin-ju (PD Lee) under JTBC. Lee had previously worked as an assistant director for various works with producer Na Yeong-seok at TvN, and created the TVING original series Transit Love after becoming independent. After moving from TVN to JTBC, she produced My Sibling's Romance, which is similar to her previous project, Transit Love. The investigation aspect of guessing whose sibling is whose is similar to Transit Love, but the contestants are family instead of ex-lovers.
In an interview, PD Lee shared that the team that worked on Transit Love gathered together and came up with several plans for their new show, but as they talked, they ended up coming back to the dating entertainment program style they excelled in. Lim Jeong-ah, the head of JTBC's entertainment production division, also agreed that My Sibling's Romance family concept could appeal to a wider audience. At the production presentation in January, PD Lee shared that she had the idea of making a dating program with siblings because her friend worried about their brother, who had appeared on a dating program. She thought the worrying feelings for family could become the fun interesting part of the show.
Filming The first half of My Sibling's Romance was filmed in South Korea; from episode 10, they filmed in Singapore. During an interview, PD Lee mentioned that staff placed more than 100 cameras around the house in order to film the show. The production staff members also hid behind a one-way mirror to shoot the participants. The staff rarely faced the participants except during interviews or when setting the microphone.
Casting PD Lee said that the casting of My Sibling's Romance required real relatives, but public auditions weren't able to be held because the new production idea was supposed to be secret. The staff contacted around 1500 people through Instagram direct messaging; after deciding that the person was attractive, they revealed the show's concept, but many of those contacted did not have an opposite-sex sibling. Difficulties also came with casting the parents, as they had to appear in the show as well. Because of that, the siblings were not recruited with representativeness of 'normal family fantasy' in mind, but more by finding attractive people to recruit.
Reception Critical reception Pop culture critic Jeong Deok-hyeon said, "Dating and siblings may feel disparate, but in fact, the drama genre has dealt with a lot of family love," and added, "It appears that a lot of effort was put into recruiting performers with relationships that viewers can empathize with." He continued, "However, I expect that things will not go smoothly in the future," adding, "The strong family love shown in the beginning may lead to deep emotional conflict in the second half."
Public reception After the first episode aired, according to Wavve viewing data on March 4, 2024, My Sibing's Romance ranked first on the weekend new paid subscription attraction index to Wavve's entertainment genre in the first week of March, and it continued maintain its rank at the top for four consecutive weeks.
My Sibling's Romance also ranked fourth in the TV-OTT integrated non-drama category popularity ranking for the first week of March announced by Good Data Corporation on March 12, 2024. It then peaked at number one on March 18 and maintained its top rank for three consecutive weeks, as announced on Fundex, the official platform of Good Data Corporation. In addition, My Sibling's Romance also ranked first in the overall TV-OTT non-drama category on March 18, and maintained its top rank for two consecutive weeks.
Cast Panelists List of the panelists: Han Hye-jin Code Kunst BamBam Miyeon Jonathan Yiombi
Participants + List of participants, showing birth year, MBTI, Occupations, and Notes Name Birth Year MBTI Occupation Siblings Notes Jae-hyung 1994 ENTJ Accountant financial advisory headquarters Park Se-seung's older brother Se-seung 1996 ENFJ Preparing for a job change and a Foreign management strategy consultant Park Jae-hyung's younger sister Yong-woo 1990 ENTJ, ENFJ Aspiring Pilot Lee Ju-yeon's older brother Has a pilot certificate to study in U.S. for 1 year after graduating. 2nd place on Mister International Korea 2022 and 4th place on Mister Supranational 2023 Ju-yeon 1999 ESFJ Enbrox product team Lee Yong-woo's younger sister Cheol-hyun 1991 ENTJ Advertisement model Park Cho-a's younger brother Active as a model since 2017. Appears in iHub, Samsung washing machine commercials, Jannabi music videos and more Cho-a 1989 INFJ Jubis diet consultantFormer yoga instructor Park Cheol-hyeon's older sister Jung-sub 1996 ENTJ Artificial intelligence researcher Lee Yun-ha's younger brother Graduated one year early from Sejong Science High School. Yun-ha 1989 ESTP Cellist Lee Jung-sub's older sister Yun-jae 1994 ENTJ Restaurant owner Kim Ji-won's older brother Ji-won 1995 ENFJ WAVY A&R team leader Kim Yun-jae's younger sister
Male participants Female participants No text messages were sent for the day Choose each other + Text Message HistoryParticipants Days 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Park Se-seung Jung-sub Jung-sub Jung-sub Jung-sub Jung-sub Yong-woo Jung-sub - Jung-sub Jung-sub Cheol-hyun Jung-sub Jung-sub Park Jae-hyung Ju-yeon Yun-ha Yun-ha Ji-won Ju-yeon Ju-yeon Ju-yeon - Ji-won Ji-won Ji-won Ji-won Ji-won Lee Ju-yeon Cheol-hyun Cheol-hyun Jae-hyung Cheol-hyun Jae-hyung Jae-hyung Jae-hyung Jae-hyung Jae-hyung Jae-hyung Yun-jae Jae-hyung Jae-hyung Lee Yong-woo Cho-a Cho-a Cho-a Cho-a Cho-a Cho-a Cho-a Cho-a Cho-a Cho-a Yun-ha Cho-a Ji-won Lee Yun-ha Yong-woo Jae-hyung Jae-hyung Jae-hyung Cheol-hyun Jae-hyung Yun-jae Yun-jae Yun-jae Yun-jae Yong-woo Yun-jae Yun-jae Lee Jung-sub Se-seung Se-seung Se-seung Se-seung Se-seung Cho-a Se-seung Ji-won Se-seung Se-seung Se-seung Se-seung Se-seung Park Cho-a Jung-sub Yong-woo Yong-woo Yong-woo Yong-woo Yong-woo Yong-woo Yong-woo Yong-woo Yong-woo Yong-woo Yong-woo Yong-woo Park Cheol-hyun Ju-yeon Ju-yeon Ju-yeon Se-seung Yun-ha Ji-won Ji-won Ji-won Yun-ha Ji-won Ji-won Ji-won Ji-won Kim Ji-won Not yet in the show Yong-woo Yong-woo Cheol-hyun Cheol-hyun - Jae-hyung Jae-hyung Jae-hyung Jae-hyung Yong-woo Kim Yun-jae Not yet in the show Yun-ha Yun-ha Yun-ha Yun-ha Yun-ha Yun-ha Yun-ha
+ Confession ResultParticipants Lee Jung-sub ↔ Park Se-seung Kim Yun-jae ↔ Lee Yun-ha Lee Yong-woo ↔ Kim Ji-won Park Cheol-hyun → Park Se-seung Park Cho-a → Lee Yong-woo Park Jae-hyung → Kim Ji-won Lee Ju-yeon → Park Jae-hyung
Episodes Episode list
Broadcast and release My Sibling's Romance aird every Friday at 8:50 PM KST on JTBC and is exclusively pre-released 50 minutes earlier on Wavve. The first episode premiered on March 1, 2024. My Sibling's Romance released the full-version episode on Wavve first and then an edited version of some scenes aired on JTBC, due to run-time limits. The television version has points that whether young or adult viewers would find interesting like the participant's home videos and photos of their childhood.
Ratings In the table below, the blue numbers represent the lowest ratings and the red numbers represent the highest ratings. Episode #Original broadcast dateAverage audience shareAGB NielsenNationwide"Select the week from drop down menu." Seoul National Capital Area 1 March 1, 2024 0.812% — 2 March 8, 2024 — 3 March 15, 2024 0.922% — 4 March 22, 2024 1.038% — 5 March 29, 2024 1.012% — 6 April 5, 2024 1.166% — 7 April 12, 2024 1.101% — 8 April 19, 2024 0.851% — 9 April 26, 2024 1.205% — 10 May 3, 2024 1.143% — 11 May 10, 2024 1.291% — 12 May 17, 2024 0.990% — 13 May 24, 2024 1.038% — 14 May 31, 2024 1.182% — 15 June 7, 2024 1.009% — 16 June 14, 2024 — Average "—" means unable to check the viewership ratings
Original Soundtracks + List of OST, showing date released and artist Title Release Date Artist Notes "Romantic Revolution" () Lee Bada Part 1 "You and I" Miyeon Part 2 "Invisible Goodbye" () Hen Part 3 "To us" () Park So-eun Part 4
Accolades + List of Awards and nominations, showing name of the award ceremony, year presented, category, nominee of the award, and the result of the nomination Award ceremony Year Category Nominee Result Blue Dragon Series Awards 2024 Best Entertainment Program My Sibling's Romance Best Male Entertainer Code Kunst Best New Female Entertainer Miyeon Patricia Yiombi
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References
External links
My Sibling's Romance on JTBC Official Website My Sibling's Romance on KakaoTV My Sibling's Romance on Naver TV*