'Hangout with Yoo?', '95 MBC Seoul Music Festival' Preliminary Round Qualifiers: 18 Contestants Announced

In episode 351 of the MBC variety show ″Hangout with Yoo,″ the identities of the 18 finalists who passed the preliminary round of the ’95 MBC Seoul Music Festival’ were revealed. This music festival featured a dazzling lineup with participants from various fields, including singers, actors, comedians, and professors. In the broadcast, 10cm (Chungkyung Samrim), Kim Min-seok (Madison County Bridge), and YENA (Youngsimi) appeared on stage singing ″Fox.″ YENA kept their identity well hidden, but 10cm’s Kwon Jung-yeol and Kim Min-seok revealed that their voices and tones gave away their identities from the preliminaries. Kwon Jung-yeol said, ″Because I know it’s you so well, (I didn’t come),″ adding that he himself did not receive any contact. John Park (Love and Soul) also admitted that he couldn’t hide his identity because of his voice. He sang ″Very Old Lovers″ with Roy Kim (Moon of Seoul) and TWS Dohun (Jealousy), and said that during the preliminaries, the producer told them, ″Just do it.″ This music festival included various participants such as RESCENE Minami (M), Yoo Young-woo (Terminator 2), Kwak Beom (Love in Your Arms), Lee Sun-min (The Last Match), Go Kyung-pyo (Sleepless Night in Seattle), Apink Jeong Eunji (Leon), Sultan of the Disco Najam Soo (General Hospital), Lee Kyu-hyung (Men of the Bathhouse), and Jung Il-young (The Shawshank Escape). For the final stage, Lee So-ra (Our Paradise) and Gummy (Jurassic Park) appeared singing ″I Love You,″ receiving a standing ovation from the participants. Jung Seung-hwan (Adolescence) was absent due to reserve forces training, and their voice was replaced with a recording. Yoo Jae-suk commented on Lee So-ra’s appearance, saying, ″We are grateful that she joined our music festival, but during the preliminaries, the voice I heard was Lee So-ra’s, and I couldn’t believe it. I wondered if she would actually come out.″ Heo Kyung-hwan mentioned that viewers were curious about Lee So-ra’s participation through comments. Lee So-ra explained her reason for participating: ″I wanted to try something new in ’26, so I joined. I have never done a variety show before. Since Yoo Jae-suk is involved, I thought it would be comfortable and he would take good care of me, so I just decided to give it a try.″ Meanwhile, in the preview, following Kim Hee-ae from the ’80s MBC Seoul Music Festival,’ Kim Hee-sun appeared as the MC for this festival. Joo Woo-jae admired Kim Hee-sun’s beauty.