Flower Crew


Flower Crew is a South Korean travel-reality show that was formerly broadcast via SBS on Mondays at 23:10 from September 5 to November 21, 2016. Starting November 27, 2016, it aired every Sunday at 16:50, before Running Man, forming part of SBS's Good Sunday lineup and ended with its last episode on March 19, 2017.
Flower Crew was first broadcast through the Naver V App as a pilot episode. The regular show starred Seo Jang-hoon, Jo Se-ho, Ahn Jung-hwan, Yoo Byung-jae, Winner's Kang Seung-yoon and Lee Sung-jae. Flower Crew took the cast members on a three-day adventure in which all their decisions were made by viewers of the show. Viewers had the chance to participate in the show through Naver V live broadcast voting.
Flower Crew received a mixed response with its pilot episodes that first aired on Naver V App and later on SBS. After the live pilot show, viewers criticized members Jo Se-ho and Seo Jang-hoon for their rude behavior towards Jungkook and Kim Min-seok, such as rejecting the hamburgers Jungkook bought for the entire cast and saying that Jungkook prepared leftovers for them and criticizing Kim Min-seok for "stuffing his face" when he accepted the food. Jo Se-ho and Seo Jang-hoon later apologized and said the situation was a misunderstanding.
YG Entertainment decided to partner with broadcasting station SBS to begin airing the new show regularly. From episode 1 of the variety show, the show no longer included Jungkook and Kim Min-seok because of their hectic schedules. To replace them, the producers picked Sechs Kies's Lee Jaijin and Eun Jiwon. Eun Jiwon has been in other variety shows such as New Journey to the West and 2 Days & 1 Night.

Format

As of Episode 1, basically, all members will gathered and will create an activity to determine the Team Flowery Road and Team Muddy Road, followed by picking Golden Transfer Ticket, which is shaped like a golden coin with hole in the middle as written "Flowery Road", same as "Silver Transfer Ticket".
Usually a Guest only participated on the second day for a while to do activities with the members, and sometimes invited at the beginning of trip as Leader of Team Flowery Road for early trip and will participated with members until the end of the trip.
Team Flowery Road will enjoy the luxury and pleasure and comfort during trip, including accommodation, vehicles, food, and the best service provided by the crew. Different about the fate of Team Muddy Road, which will go through the hardship and discomfort as beds in dilapidated houses, lack of food and activities are less enjoyable.
After a situation of havoc created unintentionally by Lee Jaijin, in one of the latter episodes, the production team created a rule stating that the Transfer Ticket only can be used & only available in same day the Flower Crew members receive or get it from the lucky draw or the guest. It only can be used before midnight at any situation, for anyone & any place.

Transfer Ticket

As in early episode, there are several types of Transfer Ticket in this show as almost every new episode or trip, the staff production keep introduces a new kind of Transfer Ticket to the Flower Crew Member.
The most common one and as the powerful transfer ticket, Golden aka "Exchange", function as the user can swap or trade House Road with the other member from other house road. The user can switch place from Muddy road to Flower Road and must summon someone from other house to replace the user.
The second and the famous one, Silver aka "Transfer", function as the user can transfer someone from both House Road to the other house road but he/she cannot use it to him/herself.

Theme

As of pilot episode, Flower Crew consists of 2 theme, Flower Road & Muddy Road. The symbol for Flower Road is Gomusin, are shoes made of rubber in a form of Korean traditional shoes. And Jipsin is the symbol for Muddy Road, are Korean traditional sandals made of straw.

Cast member

The original Line-up for Flower Crew consist of 6 members. The original members of Flower Crew were Seo Jang-hoon, Ahn Jung-hwan, Jo Se-ho, Yoo Byung-jae, Kim Min-seok. Kim Min-seok & Jungkook left the show because of their hectic schedules and their position were replaced by Sechs Kies member, Eun Jiwon & Lee Jaijin from episode 1 that was broadcast on SBS Channel.
On the 4th Trip, Sechs Kies members Eun Jiwon & Lee Jaijin made last appearance and left the show for concentrating on group promotions & their spots was filled by the previous guest, WINNER's Kang Seung-yoon to be the 5th member of Flower Crew and latter episode, actor Lee Sung Jae had invited to be the 6th member of Flower Crew.

Current cast

Former cast

NameCharacter & TraitDurationNotes
Eun Jiwon
Sechs Kies
Food Terrorist
Mischievous
Spoiler
Troublemaker
Episodes 1–12Known as troublemaker during cook session with Ahn Jung Hwan
Lee Jaejin
Sechs Kies
Peculiar
Hard To Read
Artistic
Grumpy
Episodes 1–12The most unexpected member of Flower Crew because of his behavior

Guest

Ratings

In the ratings below, the highest rating for the show will be in, and the lowest rating for the show will be in each year.

2016

Episode #Broadcast DateTNMS RatingsAGB Ratings
1September 53.2%
2September 123.0%3.1%
3September 192.8%
4September 263.6%3.4%
5October 33.3%3.2%
6October 102.7%2.8%
7October 173.4%3.3%
8October 243.1%3.1%
9October 313.0%2.9%
10November 73.4%3.0%
11November 142.9%3.1%
12November 213.1%3.5%
13November 27
14December 44.2%3.5%
15December 114.1%4.0%
16December 184.2%3.8%
17December 253.9%4.0%

2017

Episode #Broadcast DateTNMS RatingsAGB Ratings
18January 14.3%3.8%
19January 84.6%4.3%
20January 154.3%
21January 224.4%4.9%
22January 294.4%4.5%
23February 54.7%
24February 124.1%4.7%
25February 194.6%
26February 264.0%4.1%
27March 54.1%3.8%
28March 12
29March 192.9%

Awards and nominations