Where Is My Friend's Home

Not to be confused with Where Is the Friend's Home?.
Where Is My Friend's Home
Logo for Where Is My Friend's Home
Also known as "Where Is My Friend's House"
"My Friend's Home"
Genre Reality television-travel show
Starring Yoo Se-yoon
Zhang Yuan
Guillaume Patry
Alberto Mondi
Julian Quintart
Tyler Rasch
Sujan Shakya
Daniel Lindemann
James Hooper
Mark Tetto
Country of origin South Korea
Original language(s) Korean
No. of episodes 12 (as of April 25, 2015)
Production
Location(s) various:
South Korea
China
Belgium
Nepal
Running time 70 minutes per episode
Broadcast
Original channel JTBC
Original run February 7, 2015 – present
External links
Website
Korean name
Hangul 내 친구의 집은 어디인가

Where Is My Friend's Home (aka Where Is My Friend's House, and My Friend's Home; Hangul: 내 친구의 집은 어디인가) is a show on JTBC in South Korea. The show features the cast members of another JTBC television show, Non-Summit, as they visit the home countries of the Non-Summit non-Korean members. The show is in a reality television-travel show format, in the Korean language, and aired on JTBC, starting on February 7, 2015.[1][2][3][4]

Background

The show follows South Korean and foreign cast members of the South Korean television Non-Summit as they experience cultures of various countries through homestay,[5] meeting the locals, and experiencing a better understanding of multiculturalism.[6][7]

The show, a spin-off of Non-Summit, is less formal, with the cast from the original talkshow panel, now relaxing casually, as "friends", to visit one another's homes. The humor continues; the teaser video for the first episode, a trip to China, was entitled "Steal Things in Zhang Yuan’s House".[1][8][9] The show's posters, entitled "Global friend’s house attack project", showed some of the cast's casual activities, like eating ice cream and jogging.[10]

And although somewhat like a travel show, producers said Where is My Friend's Home trips would "not be typical."[4][5] The show also candidly addresses common misperceptions and prejudices about the countries visited.[8][11]

Countries visited, cast, scenarios

Country[8] Country Host Visitors Episode # - Date
Scenario
 China Zhang Yuan
  • Ep. 1 - February 7, 2015
    Trip plans in Seoul, and travel to China.
  • Ep. 2 - February 14, 2015
    Settling in at Lijiang hotel, market visit.
  • Ep. 3 - February 21, 2015
    Leaving Lijiang, touring lake region, arrival at Zhang's Anshan home.
  • Ep. 4 - February 28, 2015
    Visiting with Zhang's family, dinner and karaoke; overnight stay.
  • Ep. 5 - March 7, 2015
    Final visits with Zhang's mother and family, Zhang's matchmaking date.
 Belgium Julian Quintart
  • Ep. 6 - March 14, 2015
    Make plans, travel to Brussels, tour Grand Place, meet Quintart sister.
  • Ep. 7 - March 21, 2015
    Breakfast/farewell to sister; tour Baarle-Hertog, Bruges, Binche, Brussels.
  • Ep. 8 - March 28, 2015
    Travel to Liège and Aywaille, visit Quintart grandmother, arrive at parent's home.
  • Ep. 9 - April 4, 2015
    Breakfast party, riding (horses, bicycles, motorcycle), visit teacher and friends.
  • Ep. 10 - April 11, 2015
    Last night at home with Quintart family and friends, parting after breakfast.
   Nepal Sujan Shakya

1st trip - China

List of episodes (1-5)

2nd trip - Belgium

List of episodes (6-10)

3rd trip - Nepal

The travel agenda announced added a surprise cast to the third trip in April 2015, to Sujan Shakya's home country of Nepal, to visit the "mysterious ancient ruins" and Shakya's large extended family. The cast will include Shakya as the country host, Yoo, Zhang and Mondi, as on the previous two trips, and adding current Non-Summit cast member, Germany's Daniel Lindemann and the United States intern, Mark Tetto, who appeared on Episode 24 of Non-Summit. The surprise revealed was British mountain climber and adventurer, United Kingdom's James Hooper, who appeared on the original cast of Non-Summit, Episodes 1-4.[45][46][47]

List of episodes (11-present)

Yoo, Mondi, Zhang, Lindemann and Tetto meet with Shakya, at the parachute products company where he works in Seoul, for an international style dinner and travel plans; Mondi brings lasagna and sannakji and Zhang brings chicken feet. Shakya goes over some Hindi phrases, like Namaste and thank you "dhanyavaad," and later, at the airport, describes the Nepalese knife, the Kukri.[48]

The flight to Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu encounters rough weather after the meal, and Zhang gets his sickness bag ready. They arrive during a thunderstorm, and as they get out their rain gear by the airport shuttle, Yoo notices their first monkeys running on top of the buildings. The domestic flight on to Pokhara by local airline Yeti Airlines is delayed. Waiting at the airport, they check their altimeter watches and find the elevation to be 1350 meters. Tetto is attracted to a pretty sales clerk and Mondi and Shakya join in the meeting. More time is spent playing a joke on Zhang with a note stuck to his back.[49][48]

Hooper's flight to meet the group encountered lightning and the bad weather and was diverted to Bangkok.[49]

After arriving in Pokhara, the group split up to see the town; Yoo and Tetto play ping-pong with locals who entice them to their cashmere shop, while Shakya takes Lindemann to the barber. The show ends with Mondi and Zhang wandering the town.[48]

(This episode was accompanied by televised announcements by JTBC and the show, in sympathy for victims of the April 25, 2015, 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck an area of Nepal between Kathmandu, and Pokhara, according to the United States Geological Survey, prior to the airing of the pre-recorded show.)[50][51][52]

The show resumes with the friends exploring the streets of Pokhara. Yoo and Tetto bargain with street vendors, visit a barber where Tetto gets a straight razor shave, and Yoo a hair wash and face massage. As they shop for headbands and pants, Shakya and Lindemann arrive in time for Shakya to discuss the rupees being charged. Mondi and Zhang get a view of Phewa Lake before meeting up with the others. Lindemann gets a "Nepali hero" style haircut, as described by a local, who says the cut makes him look like Bollywood actor Ajay Devgan; then shops for Nepalese clothing with Shakya. Shakya photographs the friends with three local women dressed in saris, who pick Yoo and Lindemann as their favorites, dressed in native clothing.[53] [54]

Shakya takes them to a local restaurant for a typical Nepalese meal, the dal-bhat-tarkari and a local beer, Gorkha. He shows them local dining etiquette, how to wash up before the meal and how to eat with fingers, instead of utensils. They learn to mash the hot rice first, burning their fingers. Shayka discusses the Annapurna range of the Himalayas that surrounds Pokhara and the lake.[55][54]

Hooper sends a video message that he is still in Thailand with a friend.[54]

After a night at a local hotel, they tour the city streets. They meet a friendly dog, and Shakya explains the special relationship of dogs with Nepalese people and honoring them at Tihar.[54]

They view the mountaintops, including Mount Machhapuchchhre, and arrive at Phewa Lake. They carry traditional baskets of coconut and flowers aboard two-person boats. Tetto shows his boating proficiency, while Yoo enjoys the ride, and Zhang gives up rowing the boat to his partner Lindemann. They arrive at the Tal Barahi Temple on an island in the lake, where they perform a Hindu worship ritual, receive the red bindi on their foreheads and ring the bells, along with other visitors.[54][56]

The show ends with them making plans to go parasailing.[54]

Soundtrack

Yoo wrote and produced a song, "At Your House", which was part of the show's original soundtrack (OST). It features vocal group Urban Zakapa and cast members Patry, Mondi, Zhang, Quintart and Rasch, speaking in their native languages. Yoo said he was inspired to write the song after the filming of the friends' bicycle outing (Episode 3) in China.[57][58][59]

Ratings

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.

2015

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