'Hangout with Yoo?', 95 Seoul Music Festival First Preliminary Round... Nationwide 4.5% Saturday Variety Show No. 1

The MBC variety show ″Hangout with Yoo?″ resumed broadcasting on October 10th after a three-week hiatus, presenting the first preliminary listening session of the ″95 Seoul Music Festival″ project. The broadcast introduced beloved hit songs from the 1990s through 1995, featuring participants with diverse personalities and talents, capturing viewers’ attention. Yoo Jae-suk appeared as the PD and evaluated the participants’ singing skills through a blind audition. The participants took the stage using nicknames based on hit variety shows and movie titles from the 1990s. ″Chungking Express″ selected Kim Gun-mo’s ″First Impression,″ and ″M″ chose Kim Wan-sun’s ″The Clown Doesn’t Laugh at Us,″ both passing the audition. ″The Bridges of Madison County″ and ″Sleepless in Seattle″ also passed by singing ″You Reflected in My Smile″ and ″My Love by My Side,″ respectively. Yoo Jae-suk recalled his part-time job at Kim Tae-gyun’s pub during his college days and reminisced that ″My Love by My Side″ was a comforting song for him. ″Our Paradise″ passed with Kim Min-woo’s ″It’s Just Love,″ ″Moon of Seoul″ with Yoon Do-hyun’s ″Love Two,″ and ″Léon″ with Shin Sung-woo’s ″Prologue.″ ″Terminator″ passed by singing Park Mi-kyung’s ″A Reason That Doesn’t Seem Like a Reason,″ and ″Jurassic Park″ passed with Min Hae-kyung’s ″Face I Want to See.″ Yoo Jae-suk expressed curiosity about the identity of ″Jurassic Park.″ Additionally, ″Love in Your Arms″ and ″The Shawshank Redemption″ received a hold decision and advanced to the hold round. ″Walking to the Sky″ was eliminated after revealing a dialect that identified the participant as Yang Sang-guk, and ″Stop Moving″ was also held. Hwang Jae-gyun challenged with ″The Demon Master″ but was eliminated due to his choir-style singing. This broadcast recorded a nationwide viewership rating of 4.5%, ranking first among Saturday variety shows, with a 4.3% rating in the metropolitan area and 2.8% among viewers aged 20 to 54. Notably, the acceptance scene of ″Jurassic Park″ achieved the highest viewership rating of 5.7% in the metropolitan Bundang area, making it the best one-minute segment. ″Hangout with Yoo?″ successfully concluded the ″80s Seoul Music Festival″ special in the second half of last year and ranked first for two consecutive months in the October variety program brand reputation. The broadcast also previewed the second preliminary round and the face-to-face stage for the participants who were held.