Park Bo-gum Returns to a Rural Hair Salon! “Bogum Magical 2” Featuring Go Kyung-pyo Joins the “Reply 1988” Best Friend Club for a November Debut

Actor Park Bo-gum is set to run a rural hair salon again.

“Return” of a rural-town hair salon and record-breaking box-office-style momentum tvN announced on the 13th that it has confirmed a November broadcast for its new variety program 〈Bogum Magical〉 Season 2. Capturing a special hair salon operation in a small rural town in Muju last winter—where it refines both hair and heart—〈Bogum Magical〉 won first place across all channels in the same time slot for seven straight weeks when Season 1 aired, based on the tvN target audience’s male-and-female 20s-and-40s viewership rate of 2049. Household viewership also took first place in the same time slot for six consecutive weeks among cable and comprehensive programming channels, and it even made a splash by moving into the top 10 for nine straight weeks in the TV non-drama topicality category announced by Gooddata Corporation’s Pendex. In particular, after being released in about 200 countries and regions worldwide and recording an IMDb rating of 9.5, the show received strong love at home and abroad, and production for Season 2 was swiftly confirmed.

Go Kyung-pyo joins as a new “variety-show gem” member In 〈Bogum Magical 2〉, set to premiere in November, Park Bo-gum—who holds a barber’s national qualification certificate and led operations across the beauty shop in the previous season—will appear again as will Lee Sang-yi, who earned a nail qualification. To fill the void left by Kwak Dong-yeon, Go Kyung-pyo has joined in an instant, bringing a fresh element. Viewers’ curiosity is growing about what kind of unpredictable performance Go Kyung-pyo, who has been dubbed a so-called “variety-show gem” for his pure and quirky banter and quick on-the-job skills, will show at the hair shop in the new season.

Healing synergy forged by a decade-long close-friend chemistry More than anything, Park Bo-gum and Go Kyung-pyo are representative entertainment-industry best friends who have sustained a tight friendship for more than 10 years since they first connected through the dramas 〈Tomorrow Cantabile〉 and 〈Reply 1988〉. The biggest thing to watch this season is what healing synergy their comfortable rapport, built over a long period, will create in a variety format. In addition, with Go Kyung-pyo joining and Lee Sang-yi becoming the “second-in-line” role after previously serving as the eldest in the previous season, attention is turning to the joyful and warm “real friend” chemistry the three people—each with a distinctive knack for talk—will generate within a new hierarchy, with fans around the world focusing on it.