The love line between Kim Heechul and Im Yuju has begun.
On the afternoon of the 6th, the JTBC variety show 'Knowing Bros' (hereafter 'Ahyung') featured a 'Best Friends Special' with guests Kim Ho-young, Lee Seok-hoon, Heo Young-ji, and Im Yuju.
During the broadcast, Seo Jang-hoon looked at Lee Seok-hoon and asked, "Aren't you one of Kyunghoon's few close friends? Why didn't you come to Kyunghoon's wedding?" To this, Lee Seok-hoon replied, "I also have questions. He should have told me. Kyunghoon is not the type to talk much. But I was looking forward to the wedding. However, I didn't get any contact. Tei said he would go if he got a call. So I thought, 'I guess I'm not that close to him.' But it's a best friends special. The writer asked what kind of relationship I have with Kyunghoon, and I thought I should talk about it," expressing his disappointment.
In response, Min Kyunghoon said, "Seok-hoon is misunderstanding. I definitely called. But I didn't get a callback. I became friends with Seok-hoon because we were in the same agency. So everyone from my former agency came. My number is still the same," he retorted.
However, Seok-hoon dismissed it, saying, "With my personality, if I had received a call, I would have responded immediately." Seo Jang-hoon sided with Min Kyunghoon, saying, "If Kyunghoon's close friends are you and Tei, then you should have just gone whether you got a call or not."
Min Kyunghoon countered, "But I have something to say. When did Seok-hoon get married? He didn't invite me either." A flustered Lee Seok-hoon replied, "I did contact you about the wedding. But if I had contacted you regularly, it would have been less awkward to give you an invitation. I only contacted Kyunghoon once, when I said, 'Come into this server' while playing a game." To this, Min Kyunghoon quipped, "So, did you find the server well? You couldn't find the wedding," causing laughter.
Meanwhile, Heo Young-ji and Im Yuju, who are both born in 1994, also had a disagreement about how they became friends. They mentioned that they have a gathering of 94-born friends, including Red Velvet's Seulgi, Oh My Girl's Hyojung, and Jiyoung. Heo Young-ji recounted, "I went on a program called 'Yaman TV' hosted by Haha. At that time, Yuju came to me and said, 'Hello, senior! I'm such a fan, I'm so happy to be with you. Can we take a picture together?' but now she's climbing up," indicating that Yuju was very cute back then.
To this, Yuju retorted, "I didn't say that. I called you senior, but I didn't say it like that. I wouldn't say just once!"
However, when Heo Young-ji insisted, "No, you really did," Yuju exclaimed, "You crazy!" using profanity, surprising the older members. Shindong intervened, saying, "You really are close friends," and Yuju conceded, "I think I said, 'Just once!'"
Heo Young-ji mentioned, "The team had no exchanges while resting, but Yuju contacted me first after five years." Hearing this, Yuju said, "The reason I contacted you is that I felt sorry for not knowing the 94s separately. I feel like we would have so much fun together." Heo Young-ji suddenly raised her hand and said, "You said you felt sorry for meeting separately. You told me, 'It's a hassle to meet separately, can't we just meet all together?' Why are you distorting it on air?" expressing her anger, and the two even signaled to stop filming while arguing.
Afterward, the members played a bingo game where they wrote questions they wanted to ask the guests. Seo Jang-hoon asked Yuju, "What do you think of Heechul?" To which Yuju replied, "He's great. Our oppa. He treats me so well, hosts well, and takes good care of me," expressing her excitement. Following that, other questions continued, but Kim Heechul asked Yuju, "Your mom will be watching the broadcast, right? What does your mom think of me?"
Yuju responded, "I think this will make headlines... My mom said, 'I think Heechul is okay,'" heating up the studio.
The main characters of the love line, Kim Heechul and Im Yuju, bowed deeply to the camera, and the older members urged them, "Throw us some dates!" to connect the two.
The next questioner was Kim Young-chul. He asked, "Among the Ahyung members, who would you like to have a meal with?" Lee Seok-hoon, Kim Ho-young, and Im Yuju chose Lee Soo-geun, while Heo Young-ji chose Kim Heechul alone, prompting Shindong to ask, "Why do you want to steal him?" creating a love triangle.
At that moment, when Kim Heechul and Heo Young-ji stepped forward to bow together, Yuju pushed Heo Young-ji aside, saying, "Hey, get out of the way," causing the audience to burst into laughter.
Next was Lee Soo-geun's question. He asked, "Ho-young, do you also feel down sometimes?" Kim Ho-young replied, "There are times when the recording doesn't go well, and the sound during performances is different from when I was in my 20s, so I get a bit down, but I have a style of immediately changing my mindset to think good things will come," showing a positive outlook. Young-chul, who completed the bingo, won.
The next game was a friendship telepathy game where each person came out to draw a word on a board while trying to catch two mafias. The game proceeded without knowing who the mafias were, and Kang Ho-dong suspected Yuju without even drawing a picture. Kang Ho-dong started drawing the word.
As the 10 members completed their drawings, when Ho-dong requested to modify his drawing, Yuju questioned, "Ho-dong, why are you erasing this?" However, the members suspected Yuju, saying that if she didn't know this, she must be the mafia, and Yuju suddenly exclaimed, "Oh, I got it!" and changed her stance. The members pointed to Yuju as the mafia, but her identity was that of a citizen.
The citizen's word was 'broadcast station', while the mafia's word was 'karaoke', and after the members discussed, they successfully caught the mafias Kim Ho-young and Lee Sang-min.
'Knowing Bros' airs every Saturday at 8:50 PM on JTBC.
[Seo Yeo-ji, Star Today Guest Reporter]
