Kim Jong-kook has become deeply immersed in ‘claw machines’.
On the 21st, the SBS variety show ‘Running Man’ featured a race called ‘Straightforward as Answered’ centered around Kim Jong-kook's wedding celebration party.
In this race, where the more everyone cooperated, the simpler the wedding celebration venue became, the ‘Running Man’ members aimed to remove party items for the newlywed Kim Jong-kook, who is averse to celebrations.
Among the challenges Kim Jong-kook faced was meeting someone with ‘15 or more keychains’. After using a chance to reduce it to ‘5 keychains’, they immediately entered an arcade with claw machines and became engrossed in claw machine games.
Kim Jong-kook suggested, “Let’s buy about 5 and give them as gifts,” but he, along with his ‘Dragon Year friend’ Cha Tae-hyun, Yoo Jae-suk, and Ji Suk-jin, repeatedly failed at the claw machine. After several failures, Yoo Jae-suk succeeded and shared his own tips, saying, “This is how you do it. Move it over by spending money.”
On the other hand, Cha Tae-hyun gave up on the claw machine, saying, “Not a single one is working,” while another Dragon Year friend, Kim Jong-kook, kept repeating, “I think I can do it one more time,” losing his self-control and focusing on the claw machine.
With Yoo Jae-suk successfully getting one and Ji Suk-jin getting two, they managed to acquire a total of 3 stuffed toys. They only needed to find a citizen with more than 2 keychains, but the dopamine-soaked newlywed Kim Jong-kook refused to give up on the claw machine and eventually insisted to Yoo Jae-suk and Ji Suk-jin, “Just give me 1,000 won; I need to get this.”
Seeing this, Ji Suk-jin asked, “I’ll do it with my card, how many rounds should I play?” When Kim Jong-kook seriously replied, “6 rounds,” he teased, “You must be thinking of your sister-in-law; this isn’t someone who plays six rounds.”
However, the usually serious Kim Jong-kook, despite saying “No, no, let’s just go,” miraculously succeeded in getting a toy while receiving Yoo Jae-suk’s tips. Holding the desired toy in his hands, Kim Jong-kook smiled brightly and exclaimed, “It’s so cute!”
Even while moving, Kim Jong-kook continued to boast, “It looks completely cute. Look at this. The tongue is pink,” signaling that he had returned from being ‘Dopamine Man’ to ‘Cute Man’. Seeing this side of Kim Jong-kook, Yoo Jae-suk and Ji Suk-jin shook their heads, saying, “But he has changed a lot” and “Jong-kook has changed. He’s not the type to find this cute.”
Fortunately, the members quickly met a citizen with 5 keychains, and they decided to gift the toys they had won to the citizen who helped them succeed in the mission. While Ji Suk-jin and Yoo Jae-suk showed their toys, Kim Jong-kook quietly hid the toy he had won in his hand. When people pointed it out, he beamed with a smile he had never shown before, saying, “Wow, I can take this!”
[Geum Bit-na, MK Sports Reporter]
